Saturday In Review

The weekly What They Did & What They Said After Lehigh story when up on BGA Overtime last night HERE. Come back tonight for Your Mileage May Vary – Week One.

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Given broadcast rights, it's an open question how long this video will be available, but someone has posted extended Dartmouth-Lehigh highlights:

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From a game story posted by The Dartmouth (LINK):

Ultimately, the Big Green gave Lehigh a bigger scare than any other team they’ve faced this year. Heading into the season after several key starters across the roster graduated last spring, promising threads to follow indicate that Dartmouth will not be any less of a threat in the Ivy League this upcoming season.

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Like The D, the local Valley News covered the game remotely HERE.

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The game story from Dartmouth sports information is available HERE.

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The new Substack from "Paul Justafan" covering the Ivies has interesting synopses of Saturday's Ivy League openers. From PJ's Dartmouth-Lehigh capsule (LINK):

There are no moral victories, but do not take Dartmouth lightly this season.

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The Ivy League has bullet-point capsules from all eight conference games HERE. 

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For what it's worth, the AI driven Sting site takes a look ahead to Dartmouth-Monmouth HERE.

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The Analyst has a piece headlined Unbeaten FCS Football Teams and Their Chances to Win Out that gives Lehigh  a healthy 47.1 percent chance of finishing the regular season without a loss. Looking at the Ivy League, it offers this (LINK):

Ivy League teams began their 10-game season on Saturday. Five of them opened with non-league wins, but only one can finish with a perfect regular season due to their upcoming round-robin league schedule. 

Those five win-out probabilities in descending order: the No. 25 Harvard Crimson (1.9%), No. 19 Yale Bulldogs (1.2%), Penn Quakers (0.2%), Brown Bears (0.1%) and Columbia Lions (<0.1%). 

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EXTRA POINT
A couple of weeks ago the fancy kitchen range we inherited with this house started misbehaving. We brought in an appliance repair guy who took it apart and then told us the "mother board" – or some such thing – was fried. Literally.

He did a little research and confirmed what he suspected: The company that made the range had been sold and the replacement part was no longer available. Our only choice would be to replace the range. Not an expense we needed while we have a construction crew working on our house, but there you go.

It turns out most ranges are 30 inches wide, so after looking around, that's what we ordered. The delivery guys showed up late last week and were in for a surprise when they tried sliding the new range into the space left by the one they had just wheeled out.

It turns out the old range was actually shy of the 30-inch standard, so when the granite countertop was cut to fit around it, they left a 29½-inch opening. That means until we find someone able to somehow trim a granite countertop that is already cemented in place, our new range is standing akimbo in the kitchen. Home ownership is so much fun.