Elsewhere

3:30 p.m. editor's Note: Two new postings up on BGA Overtime.

A little more news on the grad transfer front:

Wide receiver Jamal Cooney '23, a return threat while at Dartmouth, had a 55-yarder among his three kickoff returns for 91 yards, and a 17-yard punt return while helping Albany open with a 27-21 win over LIU in his return to football after a year away from the game.

Former Dartmouth defensive end Charlie Looes '23 had four tackles and a team-high 1.5 tackles for a loss of eight yards in Rice's 34-14 loss to Sam Houston.

Shane Cokes '23, now in his second year at Colorado, had two tackles as a starter on the defensive line for the Buffaloes in their 31-26 escape against North Dakota State.

Stony Brook had just two tackles for loss while falling to FBS Marshall in its opener with Tyson McCloud '23 registering one for a loss of eight yards. McCloud finished with two tackles in the Seawolves' 45-3 loss.

Two games into the season at 1-1 McNeese State, former Dartmouth pass rusher Marques White is fifth on the team with nine tackles.

Defensive back Tyron Herring '23 tied for the team lead with five tackles in Delaware's season-opening win over Bryant. Herring is in his second year with the Blue Hens.

And . . .

While actual depth charts seem to be going the way of the Carrier Pigeon as coaches eschew them, the OurLads site does yeoman work recreating them. It has offensive lineman John Paul Flores '22 listed as the starting left guard this week in Liberty's game with New Mexico State and brother Michael Flores '23 listed as the starting center for Old Dominion against East Carolina.

Elsewhere, linebacker Macklin Ayers '14 is listed on the second line of the depth chart at UMass where Leonard St. Gourdin '24 is the backup at strong safety heading into this week's game with Toledo.

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Dartmouth preseason crosses the midway point today with Practice nine of 17, the first scrimmage of the camp.

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Never will so many teams with losing records populate the FCS Top-25 but that's the way it is when you open the season against FBS competition. Here's how the STATS Perform poll looks this week with Harvard the only Ivy receiving votes. The Crimson would be 39th if the poll assigned rankings to the ORV (Others Receiving Votes) category:

	Stats Perform Top 25	W-L	Pts	Prev
1	South Dakota State (36)	0-1	1,363	1
2	North Dakota State (11)	0-1	1,330	2
3	Montana State (8)	2-0	1,288	4
4	Montana (1)	1-0	1,239	3
5	Villanova	1-0	1,144	6
6	South Dakota	1-0	1,128	5
7	Idaho	0-1	1,098	7
8	Sacramento State	0-1	881	8
9	Central Arkansas	0-1	850	11
10	Southern Illinois	0-1	807	10
11	Chattanooga	0-1	738	9
12	UIW	1-0	698	14
13	William & Mary	1-0	666	15
14	Richmond	0-1	658	13
15	Furman	0-1	523	12
16	UAlbany	1-0	502	16
17	Western Carolina	0-1	459	20
18	UC Davis	0-1	437	18
19	Lafayette	0-1	332	17
20	Tarleton State	1-1	308	21
21	Illinois State	0-1	295	19
22	Nicholls	0-1	204	23
23	North Dakota	0-1	175	24
24	Weber State	0-1	171	22
25	Youngstown State	0-1	133	25
	Others Receiving Votes (schools listed on two or more ballots): Elon (0-1, 0-0 CAA) 120; Mercer (1-0, 0-0 SoCon) 117; Florida A&M (2-0, 0-0 SWAC) 99; UT Martin (0-1, 0-0 Big South-OVC) 98; Abilene Christian (0-1, 0-0 UAC) 74; North Carolina Central (1-0, 0-0 MEAC) 73; Eastern Illinois (0-1, 0-0 Big South-OVC) 59; Eastern Washington (1-0, 0-0 Big Sky) 41; Northern Iowa (1-0, 0-0 MVFC) 29; Austin Peay (0-1, 0-0 UAC) 19; Alabama State (0-1, 0-0 SWAC) 10; Rhode Island (1-0, 0-0 CAA) 9; Southeast Missouri (1-1, 0-0 Big South-OVC) 8; HARVARD (0-0, 0-0 Ivy) 4; Lamar (0-1, 0-0 Southland) 4; West Georgia (1-0, 0-0 UAC) 2

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EXTRA POINT
Morning fog off the Connecticut River obscures much of 4,802-foot Mt. Moosilauke as I look out the window of our guest room this crisp early fall morning. It won't be long before those trees turn from green to orange and red. Soon thereafter our views of the White Mountains will really open up.