100 And Counting

I showed up at the locker room in Princeton just in time to shoot a quick video of the players presenting Coach Buddy Teevens with a football honoring his 100th win:

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The University of New Hampshire has earned the No. 1 seed in the FCS Playoffs. (LINK)

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From a story on The Sports Network site dealing with the NCAA playoff selection (LINK):

The (Simple Rating System) is similar to the popular RPI rating of teams used in college basketball, a ranking system used to gauge team quality, including strength- of-schedule measure and a win-loss differential.

The SRS had Harvard ranked fifth in the nation. 

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Speaking of Harvard, someone emailed me that in the background at ESPN's GameDay broadcast from Harvard someone was holding a sign that read:

Lose one for Dartmouth 

For a look at some of the other creative signs that people brought to the show, CLICK HERE.

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Here are the Sagarin Ratings for this week. The sequence of three numbers is preseason, last week, and this week in bold.

Ivy League
Harvard 149, 94, 99
Dartmouth 174, 153, 144
Yale 194, 160, 159
Princeton 137, 191, 197
Brown  195, 207, 200
Penn 184, 218, 218
Cornell 219, 235, 236
Columbia 241, 248, 249

(252 ranked)

Nonconference Opponents
New Hampshire 84, 82, 82
Holy Cross 213, 200, 204
Central Connecticut 225, 229, 228

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Look for the All-Ivy League football team to be announced tomorrow.

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Tonight on BGA Premium, the final Optimist-Pessimist – with a twist ;-)