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Per Wikipedia, "Pro Football Focus is a sports analytics company that focuses on thorough analysis of the National Football League (NFL) and NCAA Division-I football in the United States. PFF produces 0–100 Player Grades and a range of advanced statistics for teams and players by watching, charting, and grading every player on every play in every game both at the NFL and FBS level." (LINK)

Now that you know that, there's this from SI.com:

We utilized the Pro Football Focus (PFF) database and grading system to look at the top defensive players from across FCS football in the 2023 season.

With that in mind, two Dartmouth players made the cut in a listing of the top 10 players of their positions:

CORNER

1. Cedarius Doss (Austin Peay; 90.4 PFF Grade)
2. Patrick Jolly (Abilene Christian; 90.2 PFF Grade)
3. Isas Waxter (Villanova; 90.1 PFF Grade)
4. Jaidyn Denis (Elon; 90.0 PFF Grade)
5. Jordan Washington (Dartmouth; 88.3 PFF Grade)
6. Jai Roe (Long Island; 88.0 PFF Grade)
7. Ayden Garnes (Duquesne; 87.6 PFF Grade)
8. Robert McDaniel (Alcorn State; 86.8 PFF Grade)
9. Robert Javier (Towson; 86.5 PFF Grade)
10. Tre Richardson (Incarnate Word; 86.2 PFF Grade)

DEFENSIVE END/EDGE 

1. Finn Claypool (Drake; 91.1 PFF Grade)
2. Steven Parker (Incarnate Word; 91.0 PFF Grade)
3. AJ Simon (UAlbany; 90.8 PFF Grade)
4. Anton Juncaj (UAlbany; 90.5 PFF Grade)
T-5. Ckelby Givens (Southern; 90.3 PFF Grade)
T-5. Daniel Rickert (Tennessee Tech; 90.3 PFF Grade)
7. Elijah Ponder (Cal Poly; 89.9 PFF Grade)
8. Charles Looes (Dartmouth; 89.4 PFF Grade)
9. Matt Jaworski (Fordham; 88.2 PFF Grade)
10. Solomon Zubairu (Mercer; 87.5 PFF Grade)

Other Ivies who made the top 10:

Defensive tackle
1. Joey Slackman, Penn
2. Thor Griffith, Harvard
8. Kyle Philbin, Brown 

Linebacker
2. Ozzie Nicholas, Princeton 

Keep this from Wikipedia in mind when considering the listings:

 PFF has been criticized by the analytics community regarding the accuracy and veracity of its ratings. In contrast to the purely quantitative ratings released by sources such as Football Outsiders, TeamRankings, and numberFire, PFF uses qualitative and opinion-based grading as the root of its 0–100 Player Grades – not its advanced statistics. As such, the 0–100 Player Grades are not truly quantitative and could be seen as being prone to bias, poor sample sizing, or other issues.

Green Alert Take: Curious about PFF during the season, I asked coach Sammy McCorkle about their methodology. He told me they have people who watch and chart every position of play of every FCS game. I'm no expert by myself thinking they'd have a hard time finding qualified people do that and yikes, would that be time-consuming and boring

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FBSchedules has a look at the 15 games Army has had to cancel over the next decade as part of its move to the American Athletic Conference. Dartmouth is one of them. Find the story and the list HERE.

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EXTRA POINT
As a result of serious wind, our power just went out. I've switched to a Mifi hotspot and a Jackery battery but need to save the battery for other purposes in case this outage is extended so . . . goodbye. (And keep your fingers crossed we can catch NFL on the frozen tundra tonight.)