While catching practice before talking to Dartmouth coach Sammy McCorkle for the BGA Overtime preview of Saturday's Penn game I shot this photo of new signage being kept hidden in advance of the Buddy Teevens Stadium dedication this week. That's not the only new signage you'll see. . . .
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Penn's game notes for Saturday have been posted HERE and there's a YouTube video HERE where Quakers' coach Ray Priore talks both about the team's win over Colgate last week and the trip to Dartmouth this week.
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The Wise Guys at FanDuel have Dartmouth as a 3½-point favorite over Penn this morning.
Elsewhere (per FanDuel) . . .
• Princeton is a 3½-point favorite at home over Columbia.• Brown is favored at home over Bryant by 5½ points.• Harvard is a 1½- point favorite at home over New Hampshire.• Yale is a 21½ -point home favorite against Central Connecticut.
For some reason, the Cornell-Albany game is not listed. As someone who has never, and will never place a bet, I'm not sure what's up but there you have it. One "off-brand" site has Albany has a half-point favorite.
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Good news for those of us who value tradition.
After two weeks of the black pants that I'd venture to say a lot of folks – at least those who don't wear them – hoped would have disappeared, here's the Big Green's look this weekend:
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Down at his Roar Lions 2024 Columbia football blog Jake Novak has posted power rankings that look like this:
1 Penn2 Dartmouth3 Brown4 Yale5 Cornell6 Princeton7 Columbia8 Harvard
Green Alert Take: You can make the case that there's a whole lot of recency bias going on there but in Jake's defense, that's what a power poll is supposed to be. This isn't a prediction for the season. It's more of, What Have You Done For Me Lately, right?
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This will break your heart for the quarterback and make you wonder about his coach.
All a South Carolina high school quarterback had to do after taking a snap with a fraction of a second left was kneel down to seal a nice upset win. Instead he took the snap and thinking the game was over, straightened up and appeared to be ready to toss the ball to an official when it was knocked from his hands and run in for the touchdown that ended the game. Read the story and watch the video HERE.
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EXTRA POINT
Although I was tempted, I'm not going to bore you with a video so you'll have to take my word for it. There's something almost hypnotizing about watching Robo, our robotic vacuum cleaner, stop its Hoovering at a certain point and and then quietly make its way around our open-floor downstairs to get back to its home base. At the end it lines itself up, zooms toward the charger and then just before docking slams on the brakes and crawls the rest of the way to stop exactly where it needs to be. I wish my car could do the same thing when I spot a small parallel parking space that I don't dare challenge. ;-)
Although I was tempted, I'm not going to bore you with a video so you'll have to take my word for it. There's something almost hypnotizing about watching Robo, our robotic vacuum cleaner, stop its Hoovering at a certain point and and then quietly make its way around our open-floor downstairs to get back to its home base. At the end it lines itself up, zooms toward the charger and then just before docking slams on the brakes and crawls the rest of the way to stop exactly where it needs to be. I wish my car could do the same thing when I spot a small parallel parking space that I don't dare challenge. ;-)
