Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Honors And Recognition

A notes column went up on BGA Overtime last night and a final piece coming out of Week One will be posted tonight. Merrimack coverage begins Friday with a game preview. Another reminder that BGA Overtime is open to all.

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After the convincing win over Fordham, Dartmouth had one player win major honors and two others earn recognition in the Ivy League weekly football release. From the post (LINK):
SPECIAL TEAMS PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Jordan Washington, Dartmouth (Sr., DB – West Lake California)
Blocked a Fordham field goal attempted and returned it 60 yards to the house
Put Dartmouth ahead 31-0 in the third quarter

HONOR ROLL
Josiah Green, Dartmouth DL
Q Jones, Dartmouth RB

Columbia wide receiver Bryson Canty was the offensive player of the week, Harvard  linebacker Mitchell Gonser was the defensive player of the week and Columbia defensive lineman Keller Patterson was the rookie of the week. 

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Q Jones also earned Dartmouth's male athlete of the week award. This is from the write-up (LINK):
Jones enjoyed a stellar effort in Saturday's 45-13 season-opening win over Fordham, picking up more than 100 all-purpose yards. He began with a 40-yard touchdown run on just the fourth play of the game to set the tone. He added a 19-yard touchdown reception in the final seconds of the first to give Dartmouth a 14-0 lead after one quarter. Jones ended with 86 yards on 16 carries along with one reception for 19 yards. As a team, the Big Green scored their most points in a season opener since 1965.

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From the CodeFBClinic Xwitter account: "Our mission is to support defensive line development and instruction." Whatever, here's something it posted yesterday:

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Before I forget, Columbia was chosen FCS team of the week by The Analyst after it defeated No. 18 Lafayette by a 31-20 count. From the release (LINK):

Picked last in the Ivy League preseason poll, the Lions never trailed against the Patriot League favorite while successfully kicking off the Jon Poppe coaching era. Chase Goodwin passed for a pair of touchdowns in the first half and Cole Freeman did the same in the second half, with Bryson Canty hauling in one score from each quarterback. Defensive back Hayden McDonald had 10 tackles.

Green Alert Take: I've written this before but one of my favorite sayings is, "When you are sawing away on the fiddle and you happen to hit a couple of notes from a symphony, the trick is to not drop the fiddle." Columbia visits Georgetown this week and the Lions have to make sure they keep the sweet music going. ;-) 

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Here are this week's FCS polls with Dartmouth, Harvard and Yale in the "others receiving votes" section of the FCS Coaches poll and Harvard and Columbia among those receiving votes in the STATS Perform poll.

Stats Perform

W-L

Pts

Prev

1

South Dakota State (40)

3-1

1379

1

2

North Dakota State (5)

3-1

1308

2

3

Montana State (6)

4-0

1295

3

4

Idaho (5)

3-1

1272

4

5

South Dakota

2-1

1137

6

6

Villanova

3-1

1070

5

7

Central Arkansas

3-1

1008

8

8

Montana

3-1

993

9

9

North Dakota

3-1

959

10

10

Sacramento State

2-2

912

11

11

William & Mary

3-1

798

12

12

Mercer

4-0

699

14

13

Southeast Missouri

3-1

691

21

14

UC Davis

3-1

681

13

15

UIW

2-2

574

15

16

Tarleton State

3-1

568

16

17

Southern Illinois

2-2

549

7

18

Illinois State

3-1

524

17

19

Lamar

3-1

284

22

20

Abilene Christian

2-2

276

19

21

UAlbany

1-2

198

20

22

Rhode Island

3-1

128

NR

23

Wofford

2-1

103

NR

24

New Hampshire

3-1

101

NR

25

Weber State

2-2

94

20


Others Receiving Votes (schools listed on two or more ballots): Chattanooga (0-3, 0-1 SoCon) 80; ETSU (2-2, 0-0 SoCon) 75; Northern Iowa (2-2, 0-0 MVFC) 73; Richmond (2-2, 0-0 CAA) 72; Lafayette (2-2, 0-0 Patriot) 51; Western Carolina (1-3, 0-0 SoCon) 47; Florida A&M (2-2, 0-0 SWAC) 43; North Carolina Central (2-2, 0-0 MEAC) 28; COLUMBIA (1-0, 0-0 Ivy) 21; HARVARD (1-0, 0-0 Ivy) 19; McNeese (3-2, 1-0 Southland) 18; Duquesne (2-2, 0-0 NEC) 12; Nicholls (1-3, 0-0 Southland) 12; Lehigh (3-1, 0-0 Patriot) 10; Stony Brook (3-1, 1-0 CAA) 9; Monmouth (2-2, 1-0 CAA) 4; Yale (1-0, 0-0 Ivy) 3





FCS Coaches

W-L

Pts

Prev

1

South Dakota State (22)

3-1

644

1

2

North Dakota State (1)

3-1

612

2

3

Montana State (2)

4-0

598

3

4

Idaho (1)

3-1

578

4

5

South Dakota

2-1

515

6

6

Villanova

3-1

475

5

7

Central Arkansas

3-1

467

8

8

North Dakota

3-1

457

9

9

Montana

3-1

453

10

10

Sacramento State

2-2

408

11

11

UC Davis

3-1

366

12

12

William & Mary

3-1

355

13

13

Mercer

4-0

286

16

14

Southeast Missouri State

3-1

277

21

15

Illinois State

3-1

276

15

16

Tarleton State

3-1

263

17

17

Southern Illinois

2-2

248

7

18

UIW

2-2

194

18

19

Northern Iowa

2-2

105

19

20

New Hampshire

3-1

98

NR

21

Florida A&M

2-2

85

20

22

ACU

2-2

78

23

T23

UAlbany

1-2

73

22

T23

Richmond

2-2

73

NR

25

Lamar

3-1

68

NR


Others Receiving Votes: Rhode Island, 54; Lafayette, 49; Chattanooga, 46; Weber St., 28; McNeese, 23; Eastern Illinois, 20; Missouri St., 20; HARVARD, 19; Lehigh, 19; Stony Brook, 16; Wofford, 14; Monmouth (N.J.), 10; Youngstown St., 10; Duquesne, 9; North Carolina Central, 9; Stephen F. Austin, 9; Nicholls, 7; Butler, 6; East Tennessee St., 6; Indiana St., 5; Northern Arizona, 4; Southern, 4; DARTMOUTH, 3; YALE, 3; Central Connecticut St., 2; Jackson St., 1; Murray St., 1; Western Carolina, 1.





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And finally, here are the Ivy League standings after one week. Teams with identical records are listed alphabetically until Ivy League play, after which the tiebreaker will be overall records or head-to-head records.


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EXTRA POINT
As you may recall, I'm a huge fan of Robo, the remote vacuum cleaner that cleans our open floorplan downstairs every day. But I've got to tell you, my appreciation for the thing has only grown in the last few days.

Because it is relatively noisy and we have it running in the morning, I shut it down when we have overnight company so our visitors can sleep in, something I did last week. It wasn't until I switched it back on yesterday and emptied its chamber that I realized just how much work it actually saves us.

Now if only I could find a Robo lawn mower that can cut six acres of grass and seriously bumpy field.
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