Wednesday, November 01, 2023

The Wise Guys Chime In

The Wise Guys have Princeton at Dartmouth as a pick 'em, with the over-under at 34½ points. If I'm reading the page right, that's the lowest point total offered for any FCS game this week. Elsewhere per TWG:

• Harvard is a 13½ -point favorite at Columbia.

• Yale is a 7-point favorite at Brown.

• Penn  is a 10-point favorite at home against Cornell.

In non-conference action:

• Villanova is a one-point favorite at New Hampshire.

• Lafayette is a 16½ -point favorite over visiting Colgate.

• Holy Cross is a 23-point favorite at Lehigh.

Green Alert Take: I've never placed a bet in my life and this year more than any I can remember, I'm glad of that. 

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Thanks to a charter BGA subscriber for sharing video from an ESPN segment introduced this way:

'Bad Beats' goes to the Ivy League Scott Van Pelt and Stanford Steve look at the worst sports betting breaks in Week 9 of college football, including some Ivy League action.

Both the Dartmouth -Harvard and Yale-Columbia games are featured with Harvard Stadium catching some heat from the hosts for insufficient lighting for the TV cameras. Zoom ahead to the 4:46 mark of the video if all you want to see is the Dartmouth-Harvard stuff, which centers around Dartmouth's final drive which I'm led to believe might have ruined the day for some people dumb enough to bet on the game.


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Xwitter offers up a look at Sean Williams' two first-half interceptions at Harvard:

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EXTRA POINT
When you spend a lot of time tickling the ivories plastic on a wireless keyboard letters will fade away over time. This morning I found myself staring at the keyboard I use to save wear-and-tear on my laptop and I realized that for the life of me I could not tell you what letters are no longer visible. Apparently muscle memory is better than mind memory (or something like that ;-).


It turns out the missing letters are E - C - N - M - S - L - A -D. And yup, I discovered that by watching my fingers as I very slowly typed The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. I guess I could have just typed the alphabet but what fun is that?

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