Questions, Anyone?

With Dartmouth now tied at the top of the Ivy League standings and with his first win in the books since having the "interim" label removed from his title, Big Green coach Sammy McCorkle is prepping the Big Green for Saturday's showdown at Harvard.

Coming out of an eventful week with huge game on the horizon, it's time for another installment of BGA Premium's Questions for Coach.

If you'd like to send along a question for me to ask Coach McCorkle, email BGA by clicking HERE. That will address an email to me with the subject line, QuestionsForCoach. (That subject line with no spaces is important.)

If you are not a BGA Subscriber but have a question, send it along anyway. If your question makes the cut I'll send along a link where you can access the story and see how Coach McCorkle answers it.

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For a few thoughts on Saturday's game from the Columbia perspective, check out the Roar Lions blog HERE.

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TigerBlog has a piece headlined Ivy Football Chaos in which he writes that this is "an Ivy League that is completely wide open, unpredictable and very likely headed to its most dramatic November in a long, long time." From the column (LINK):

"If you go back to the very beginning of the Ivy League, only twice has a team with two league losses gotten a share of the championship. It hasn't happened since 1982. This year? It seems almost certain to be the case."

Green Alert Take: We'll see. ;-)

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Editor's Note: In case you are wondering, and I'm going to guess you are, here's why the five teams with 2-1 Ivy League records are listed the way they are. After the Ivy record, they are ordered by best overall record. In case of a tie there, it's the best current streak. And if they are still tied after that, it's alphabetical order.

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Here is the latest from the Sagarin Ratings with (last week's rating in parentheses):

152 Harvard (139)
162 Yale (159)
176 Princeton (184)
178 Penn (185)
185 Dartmouth (187)
196 Columbia (194)
206 Brown (198)
209 Cornell (219)

142 New Hampshire (154)
214 Colgate (220)
234 Lehigh (240)

Green Alert Take: Sometimes Sagarin really has me shaking my head.

Sagarin has Harvard as a 9-point home favorite over Dartmouth. Elsewhere this week:

Penn is a 12-point home favorite over Brown
Yale is a 12-point home favorite over Columbia
Princeton is a 6-point favorite at Cornell 

Stayed tuned to see what the Wise Guys think later in the week. 

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Did you see that Lafayette ended the 18-game winning streak Holy Cross had against Patriot League opponents by dealing the Crusaders a 38-35 loss? Matthew Sluka, the Holy Cross quarterback set an all-time DI record for a QB by rushing for 330 yards. Jamar Curtis, a 5-foot-8, 164-pound sophomore many recruiters thought was too small, carried 30 times for 229 yards and two touchdowns for 6-1 Lafayette. He's averaging 132.4 yards per game and 6.7 yards per carry for the surprising Leopards.

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EXTRA POINT
After spending some time removing burrs from Griffin the Wonder Dog yesterday I found myself trying to understand how it took until 1941 for someone to invent velcro. When you think about it, the concept is so simple. Interestingly, per Wikipedia, it actually was a Swiss engineer who came up with the idea after a hunting trip with his dog. I wonder if the pooch was a Golden Retriever?