Cornell's sports information office has kicked off game week in Hanover with a preliminary look at Dartmouth HERE.
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BGA Overtime had its weekly thoughts and observations go up last night and will have The Optimist and The Pessimist tonight.
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Dartmouth comes in at No. 29 in the FCS coaches poll with wins over three of the other teams in the "receiving votes" category, and a respectable loss to the No. 11 team in the country (or No. 7 per the STATS Perform poll).
FCS Coaches | W-L | Pts | Prev | |
1 | North Dakota State (23) | 10-0 | 599 | 1 |
2 | Montana (1) | 10-0 | 573 | 2 |
3 | Montana State | 8-2 | 527 | 3 |
4 | Lehigh | 10-0 | 514 | 4 |
5 | Tarleton State | 9-1 | 480 | 7 |
6 | Tennessee Tech | 10-0 | 473 | 5 |
7 | Villanova | 7-2 | 441 | 8 |
8 | Mercer | 8-1 | 423 | T10 |
9 | Rhode Island | 8-2 | 379 | T10 |
10 | UC Davis | 7-2 | 367 | 12 |
11 | HARVARD | 8-0 | 309 | 13 |
12 | Monmouth | 8-2 | 293 | 6 |
13 | Illinois State | 7-3 | 289 | 17 |
14 | Lamar | 8-2 | 280 | 18 |
15 | South Dakota State | 7-3 | 249 | 9 |
16 | Jackson State | 7-2 | 213 | 19 |
17 | Stephen F. Austin | 8-2 | 205 | 21 |
18 | North Dakota | 6-4 | 199 | 15 |
19 | Youngstown State | 6-4 | 178 | 22 |
20 | Abilene Christian | 6-4 | 176 | 20 |
21 | Southeastern Louisiana | 7-3 | 163 | 14 |
22 | South Dakota | 7-4 | 145 | 25 |
23 | Southern Illinois | 6-4 | 78 | 16 |
24 | West Georgia | 7-3 | 53 | NR |
25 | Lafayette | 7-3 | 46 | NR |
Dropped Out: None | ||||
Others Receiving Votes: Western Carolina, 33; Alabama State, 26; YALE, 18; DARTMOUTH, 11; Gardner-Webb, 11; Sacramento State, 11; Presbyterian, 9; UT Rio Grande Valley, 9; Northern Arizona, 8; Austin Peay, 4; Central Connecticut State, 3; New Hampshire, 2; South Carolina State, 2; North Carolina Central, 1. |
Stats Perform | W-L | Pts | Prev | |
1 | North Dakota State (55) | 10-0 | 1,399 | 1 |
2 | Montana | 10-0 | 1,327 | 2 |
3 | Montana State (1) | 8-2 | 1,300 | 3 |
4 | Lehigh | 10-0 | 1,196 | 4 |
5 | Tennessee Tech | 10-0 | 1,157 | 5 |
6 | Tarleton State | 9-1 | 1,130 | 6 |
7 | HARVARD | 8-0 | 956 | 9 |
8 | Mercer | 8-1 | 916 | 12 |
9 | UC Davis | 6-3 | 890 | 11 |
10 | Villanova | 7-2 | 888 | 10 |
11 | Rhode Island | 8-2 | 800 | 14 |
12 | Monmouth | 8-2 | 661 | 7 |
13 | North Dakota | 6-4 | 653 | 13 |
14 | Illinois State | 7-3 | 629 | 16 |
15 | Stephen F. Austin | 8-2 | 598 | 17 |
16 | South Dakota State | 7-3 | 544 | 8 |
17 | South Dakota | 7-4 | 530 | 22 |
18 | Abilene Christian | 6-4 | 506 | 18 |
19 | Lamar | 8-2 | 503 | 20 |
20 | Youngstown State | 6-4 | 445 | 21 |
21 | Southern Illinois | 6-4 | 242 | 15 |
22 | Jackson State | 7-2 | 226 | 23 |
23 | Southeastern Louisiana | 7-3 | 208 | 19 |
24 | Northern Arizona | 6-4 | 81 | NR |
25 | Western Carolina | 6-4 | 75 | 24 |
Dropped Out of Top 25: Presbyterian (25) | ||||
Others Receiving Votes (schools listed on two or more ballots): New Hampshire, 74; Alabama State, 69; Lafayette, 39; West Georgia, 36; Delaware State, 35; Austin Peay, 22; YALE, 18; Sacramento State, 11; DARTMOUTH, 10; Central Connecticut State, 9; South Carolina State, 7; Southern Utah, 3 |
At the Ivy League level, Harvard's No. 7 ranking is the conference's best ranking since at least 1986, when Penn appeared at No. 6 in the NCAA Division I-AA football rankings. Prior to today, the highest media-poll ranking enjoyed by an Ancient Eight member was Penn's No. 8 position in 2003.
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While they are celebrating in Cambridge, things are a lot less rosy in Providence where Dartmouth will travel next week to close out its season. From a story on the GoLocalProv site headlined Brown Football Was a Power in the Ivy League, Now It Is a Doormat (LINK):
The Bears, now 0-5 in the Ivy League with two games remaining, are on pace to finish last in the league for the 5th time in ten years.
And . . .
The best Brown has finished in the past ten seasons is fourth, and it did it twice — in 2015 and 2016. In the past eight seasons, the best the Bears have finished is 6th — remember there are only eight teams in the Ivy.
And . . .
Maybe no other football program in the country has had a more precipitous decline.
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And finally, Dartmouth alum Kyle Hendricks is hanging up his spikes after a dozen years in the big leagues:
HAT TIP TO THE PROFESSOR.
— Ivy League (@IvyLeague) November 11, 2025
Former @BigGreenBSB standout Kyle Hendricks announced his retirement from @MLB earlier today — capping a 12-year career. Hendricks led the league in ERA in 2016, on his way to winning a World Series title with the @Cubs. 🌿⚾️ pic.twitter.com/fsW3BZaKmi
Find a nice MLB story on Hendricks HERE.
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EXTRA POINT
Every single night, Griff the Wonder Dog waits until Mrs. BGA finishes her dinner and then stations himself where he can fix his big brown eyes on her baby blues until he gets his own desert of a medium-sized biscuit and several tiny biscuits. His late friend Nala taught him the trick years ago and not only has he perfected it, but he has taken it to another level. If we feed the old boy before we head out to dinner and a movie, he makes the calculated guess when we get home that we have already eaten. So if we sit down to watch the news before heading upstairs he'll immediately station himself in front of Mrs. BGA until she caves and gets him his nightly treat. I've said this many times, but he has Mrs. BGA really, really well-trained.
