Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Getting Down To Business

Here are a few pictures shot Wednesday of the Memorial Field home stands project. Click the pictures to enlarge. (Mac people can click again to supersize. Not sure about those of you on the dark side ;-)




The final Gridiron Power Index is up and the unofficial BCS-like ranking of FCS teams has the Ivies and Dartmouth opponents ranked this way:

11. Harvard
31. Dartmouth
38. Yale
81. Brown
86. Princeton
100. Penn
114. Cornell
121. Columbia

 5. New Hampshire
 82. Holy Cross
 99. Central Connecticut

Perhaps saddled by the worst-ever showing by the Ivy League's bottom three teams, the Ivy League is the 10th-ranked FCS conference. Here's how the conferences stack up according to the GPI:

1. Missouri Valley Football Conference (16.17)
2. Big South Conference (36.72)
3. Colonial Athletic Association (40.85)
4. Big Sky Conference (41.22)
5. Ohio Valley Conference (46.03)
6. Southern Conference (46.15)
7. Southland Conference (46.57)
8. Patriot League (54.96) 
9. Northeast Conference (56.71) 
10. Ivy League (59.14) 
11. Independents (59.43)
12. Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (65.66)
13. Southwestern Athletic Conference (74.03)
14. Pioneer Football League (80.36)
Safe travels to all who are journeying to spend the holiday with relatives or special friends. We are expecting up to a foot of snow here on Moose Mountain with the first flakes expected around lunchtime. Fortunately the long trip to bring That Certain Nittany Lion back to State College isn't slated to begin until O-Dark-30 Friday morning.