Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Numbers Crunching

Thanks to everyone who has already sent along questions for the latest installment of BGA Premium's Questions for Coach. I'll be sorting through the questions prior to practice. There have been some very good ones already, but there's still time if you've thought of something else.

 I'll be asking Coach Sammy McCorkle a representative sampling of the questions after practice today and posting the story tonight. If there's something you'd like to ask him, you can still 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.

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Harvard's game notes for Saturday have been posted HERE. From the notes:

Harvard has responded to its last four losses with a win and has not loss two straight games since 2021.  

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Saw a message board poster commenting that Northeast teams are not made to run the ball and that got me thinking and digging into the stats a bit. There are 122 FCS teams ranked by the NCAA and here's how the Ivy League stacks up nationally:

RUSHING YARDS PER GAME    
8 - Harvard 229.5
39 - Dartmouth  166.0
62 - Yale  143.8
76 - Columbia  125.2
83 - Cornell  116.3
101 - Princeton  103.2
107 - Brown  97.7
110 - Penn  95.7

RUSHING YARDS ALLOWED PER GAME
1 - Princeton  72.2
4 - Dartmouth  84.2
9 - Penn 93.2
15 - Columbia  103.8
21 - Harvard  109.2
57 - Yale  154.8
62 - Cornell 157.3
88 - Brown  177.7

PASSING YARDS PER GAME
2 - Brown 328.5
5 - Penn  303.5
24 - Cornell  254.7
49 - Princeton 218.0
76 - Yale 186.8
94 - Dartmouth  170.5
102 - Harvard 155.8
116 - Columbia 127.0

PASSING YARDS ALLOWED PER GAME
13 - Columbia 170.7
15 - Penn 171.5
19 - Cornell 178.3
25 - Princeton 185.3
65 - Yale  216.8
70 - Dartmouth  220.3
85 - Brown 227.2
107 - Harvard  254.8

TOTAL YARDS PER GAME
16 - Brown  426.2
31 - Penn  399.2
39 - Harvard  385.3
51 - Cornell  371.0
77 - Dartmouth  336.5
81 - Yale  330.7
88 - Princeton  321.2
115 - Columbia  252.2

TOTAL YARDS ALLOWED PER GAME
1 - Princeton  257.5
4 - Penn  264.7
6 - Columbia  274.5
16 - Dartmouth 304.5
32 - Cornell  335.7
55 - Harvard  364.0
65 - Yale  371.7
90 - Brown  404.8

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Watch the full interview with Flo Orimolade '17:

 

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EXTRA POINT
First visible snow of the year atop Moosilauke yesterday in this still from a video shot from the deck here at our Vermont hillside home:



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