HANOVER – You would think with nothing but Ivy-Ivy games the rest of the way the picking would get easier. I’m here to tell you that’s not true.
Harvard is a strong favorite against Princeton and ran over the Tigers last year, but the Tigers have been a surprise team this fall. Do they have another surprise in them?
Penn is off to a little better start than Yale, but the Bulldogs are home and last week demolished a Stonehill team the Quakers were lucky to survive. And Brown is 3-2 – that’s not a typo – but Cornell is at home, and coming off its first win. You get the idea.
Out-of-conference, William & Mary-New Hampshire feels like a tossup but there is one out-of-conference game that should go according to Hoyle. Lehigh is in the top-10, and if there were a bottom 10, Fordham might be in it.
But then you think back to Brown beating a top-10 Rhode Island team earlier this year and, well, all bets are off.
Here we go:
Harvard (5-0, 2-0 Ivy) at Princeton (3-2, 2-0 Ivy)
Harvard may not be a good as we think but Princeton may not be as good as they think. Harvard 24-10
Penn (4-1, 2-0 Ivy) at Yale (3-2, 1-1 Ivy)
Penn’s success has been a surprise. Yale’s stumbles have not, but the Bulldogs are home. Yale 28-24
Brown (3-2, 0-2 Ivy) at Cornell (1-4, 0-2 Ivy)
Easy pick a couple of weeks ago. Feels tricky now. Can Brown win on the road? Yes. Brown 35-28
William & Mary (4-3, 3-1) at UNH (4-3, 2-1)
Not going to pick against old friend Brian Mann, the former Dartmouth quarterback who is now the AD at William & Mary. William & Mary 21-17
Lehigh (7-0, 2-0 Patriot) at Fordham (1-6, 1-2)
Slam dunk of the week although Fordham actually looked a little better last week. It won’t help. Lehigh 35-14
Central Connecticut Bye
LAST WEEK
This BGA Guy Is A Genius
Predicted: Penn 28, Columbia 7
Actual: Penn 35, Columbia 21
Comment: Lions offense wakes up with healthy QB.
Predicted: Harvard 24, Merrimack 14
Actual: Harvard 31, Merrimack 7
Comment: Crimson’s Dunkin tour continues.
Predicted: Yale 42, Stonehill 10
Actual: Yale 47, Stonehill 7
Comment: How did Stonehill have Penn on the ropes?
Predicted: New Hampshire 24, Campbell 21
Actual: New Hampshire 24, Campbell 10
Comment: Nailed the UNH total.
Predicted: Central Connecticut 31, Wagner 14
Actual: Central Connecticut 24, Wagner 17
Comment: Easy peasee.
This BGA Guy is a Dolt
Predicted: Brown 28, Princeton 21
Actual: Princeton 40, Brown 21
Comment: Brown regressing to the mean.
Predicted: Bucknell 21, Cornell 14
Actual: Cornell 30, Bucknell 20
Comment: Bottom Ivy is better than bottom Patriot.
Last Week: 5-2
Season to Date: 28-10 (.737)