A reminder that I’ll be at practice today and have a BGA Overtime story out of this afternoon’s session either tonight or tomorrow morning.
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Craig Haley, who is more familiar with the Ivy League than any national writer, has his Ivy League preview up on the Stats site. He sees the Ancient Eight finishing this way (LINK):
1. Harvard
2. Dartmouth
3. Yale
4. Columbia
5. Penn
6. Princeton
7. Cornell
8. Brown
The onetime Princeton beat writer has capsules on each team. Here’s what he has to say about Dartmouth:
Make it two years, two Ivy titles for coach Sammy McCorkle. The Big Green (along with Yale) are one of six programs to have a pair of first-team selections on the Stats Perform FCS Preseason All-America Team: OL Delby Lemieux and TE Chris Corbo. Quarterback Grayson Saunier impressed in a midseason stretch, accounting for five TDs in a rally past Yale, and he also will target WR Daniel Haughton. The defense loses four All-Ivy first-teamers, but cornerback Sean Williams (129 tackles, seven interceptions) will be a fourth-year starter. Owen Zalc has delivered clutch kicks while making 30 of 38 field goal attempts.
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In another Haley piece that features a full first-round FCS playoff bracket, he has his Ivy League champion Harvard facing off against Villanova in the Ancient Eight's postseason debut, with the winner continuing on to play at Montana. Find the full bracket HERE.
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Dartmouth sports publicity takes a look at the first two days of the preseason HERE.
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There are too many former Dartmouth players completing their careers as grad students around the country to keep up with all of them, but a couple who have moved on to the FBS level were in the news in recent days.
Defensive back Jordan Washington was listed as a potential starter for Stanford in its opener at Hawaii, and while the former Big Green standout was not credited with the start, he did finish with three tackles in the Cardinal’s 23-20 loss at Hawaii.
And Jace Henry, recruited out of Alaska as a quarterback before making the full-time transition to tight end at Dartmouth, is listed as the sixth-most important player on the Nevada roster ahead of the team’s intimidating opener Saturday at national championship contender Penn State. Read about Henry’s return to Nevada for a second year after a broken foot in the fourth game last fall derailed a promising season HERE.
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Tyron Herring, the former Dartmouth defensive back who spent the past two years playing for Delaware before signing with Green Bay as an undrafted free agent, was let go by the Packers in the final round of cuts. No news as of this morning on fellow DB Isaiah Johnson, who played two seasons at Syracuse as a grad transfer after picking up his Dartmouth degree, and spent last year on the Dolphins' practice squad.
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Jon DiBiaso’s career as a Dartmouth quarterback never got going before he transferred to Tufts, but he’s making a name for himself as the quarterback coach for Bill O’Brien at Boston College. Find a story HERE.
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Thanks to a good friend and supporter of BGA for this interesting note:
Truly incredible to think that Dartmouth and Princeton will each have a top 50 recruit from the State of Michigan and the University of Michigan will not have a single one!
It’s true. Headed Dartmouth way in another year is senior linebacker George Duggins. Princeton will welcome linebacker Anthony Bitonti. Find the Michigan top-50 recruits list HERE.
From the story, which is behind the paywell (LINK):
Of the 22 players in the Wolverines’ 2026 class, not a single one hails from the state of Michigan. As far as anyone knows, a freshman class without an in-state player would be a first in the 146-year history of Michigan football.
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EXTRA POINT
The final tally for our summer road trip on Route 66 (and more): 6,512 miles. The final tally for the cost of charging our EV almost exclusively on Electrify America: $0.00. Two years of free charging with EA came with the car, and we made the most of it. ;-)
This is an extremely rough look at our travels, with Route 66 in red. Unfortunately, because of time constraints we picked up 66 in St. Louis instead of at the start in Chicago, and left the Mother Road in Needles, Calif., rather than at Santa Monica, where it ends.
