Thursday, November 09, 2023

Heading For The Home Stretch

The Wise Guys have spoken and they have installed Dartmouth as a 10½ -point favorite over visiting Cornell. Elsewhere:

Harvard is a 9½ -point favorite over visiting Penn

Yale  is a 2½ -point favorite at Princeton 

Columbia is a 3-point home favorite over Brown 

New Hampshire is a 2½ -point underdog at Monmouth

Lehigh is a 3½ -point underdog at Colgate  

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Find Cornell's game notes for Saturday HERE.

I'm not sure who started the now popular "with a win" entry that a lot of schools are starting to use in the notes. This is from Cornell – and I have to think I would have left out the curious next-to-last one. ;-)

• improve the conference mark to three wins for the first time since the 2019 season.
• be the 85th Ivy League road win in program history.
• up Cornell’s record in the all-time series to 43-62-1.
• give Cornell a 236-229-15 (.553) record all-time in the month of November.
• mark the fourth win in the past seven matchups, and be the second road win in the series since 2005.
• prevent the start of a three-game skid.
• be the 657th in program history (15th-most in the Football Championship Subdivision).

Cornell also has a "Know Your Foe" that has some Dartmouth info HERE. 

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Jake Novak has posted his weekly Power Rankings down at Roar Lions and they look like this (LINK:

1 - Harvard
2 - Dartmouth
3 - Yale
4 - Penn
5 - Princeton
6 - Brown
7 - Cornell
8 - Columbia 

 Jake writes of his top two:

1) Harvard
Two tough tests remain for the Crimson, but they're poised for a strong run to the finish.

2) Dartmouth
The Big Green have the clearest path to a 5-2 final conference record. If they can win these last two, they'll finish a strong second. 

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For The Analyst Craig Haley takes a look at some of the top games in the FCS and Harvard-Penn makes the cut. He writes (LINK):

With a win, Harvard will clinch at least a share of the Ivy League title. Jaden Craig made his first career start behind center (298 yards of total offense, two total TDs) as the Crimson topped Columbia for their 900th all-time win. They’ve committed only eight turnovers, but six have come in their last three games. Penn’s Malachi Hosley rushed for 261 yards against Cornell – the third-most in program history – while earning Week 10 FedEx Ground FCS National Freshman Player of the Week.    

The Pick: Harvard

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For what it's worth:

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New Hampshire's Dylan Laube, a player Dartmouth is intimately familiar with, has earned an invitation to the East-West Shrine Bowl. Per this Xweet, he "is averaging about 68 more all-purpose yards per game (rushes/receptions/returns) than any other FCS player this season."

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EXTRA POINT
There's one Golden Retriever who seemed pretty excited this morning when he looked up our driveway.

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