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YTD 2010 (for Chado, my neighbor to the north)
NCAAB: 6-3
NDAAF(bowl season): 5-1
NFL: 0-1
Coast to coast victory for a 10.5 point underdog yesterday, so why not take the points again?
Tonight Yale hosts UPenn, and I have the game capped as a pick-em. The actual spread: Yale -8.5. I'll gladly take the points.
Yale is 7-12, UPenn 1-13, and that 1-13 mark is clearly a big factor here. But to me, the list of Yale wins and UPenn losses tells a completely different story.
Yale has beaten:
Colgate (6-14)
Elon (4-16)
Hartford (6-15)
Bryant (0-21)
Albertus Magnus N/A .. no other D1 opponents
NJIT (6-13)
Brown (7-12)
This means that Yale's 7 victories have come against teams with a combined record of 29-86, plus one glorified junior college program.
UPenn's ugly record has come against opponents which include: Penn St, Villanova, Delaware, Drexel, Davidson, Duke, Temple, LaSalle, and St Joseph's. This sort of schedule not only excuses some of the ugliness in record, but also indicates a team that has faced a LOT stronger challenges than Yale at home. UPenn is a perennial Ivy power, and they are not afraid to take on stiff competition in the preseason, knowing that they can always be a contender in conference play.
I am well aware that Penn lost last year's leading scorer, Tyler Bernardini, for the season with a foot injury, and this has significantly lowered expectations at Penn, but preseason polls showed Penn as the 4th strongest team in the Ivy, and Yale as 7th, and I really don't think that Yale's unimpressive victories and Penn's multiple losses to major conference powers should have changed that projection.
Bottom line: I think this game will be close, and this is a load of points to be getting against a team without a single impressive victory.
PENN +8.5 large
Good luck all.
NCAAB: 6-3
NDAAF(bowl season): 5-1
NFL: 0-1
Coast to coast victory for a 10.5 point underdog yesterday, so why not take the points again?
Tonight Yale hosts UPenn, and I have the game capped as a pick-em. The actual spread: Yale -8.5. I'll gladly take the points.
Yale is 7-12, UPenn 1-13, and that 1-13 mark is clearly a big factor here. But to me, the list of Yale wins and UPenn losses tells a completely different story.
Yale has beaten:
Colgate (6-14)
Elon (4-16)
Hartford (6-15)
Bryant (0-21)
Albertus Magnus N/A .. no other D1 opponents
NJIT (6-13)
Brown (7-12)
This means that Yale's 7 victories have come against teams with a combined record of 29-86, plus one glorified junior college program.
UPenn's ugly record has come against opponents which include: Penn St, Villanova, Delaware, Drexel, Davidson, Duke, Temple, LaSalle, and St Joseph's. This sort of schedule not only excuses some of the ugliness in record, but also indicates a team that has faced a LOT stronger challenges than Yale at home. UPenn is a perennial Ivy power, and they are not afraid to take on stiff competition in the preseason, knowing that they can always be a contender in conference play.
I am well aware that Penn lost last year's leading scorer, Tyler Bernardini, for the season with a foot injury, and this has significantly lowered expectations at Penn, but preseason polls showed Penn as the 4th strongest team in the Ivy, and Yale as 7th, and I really don't think that Yale's unimpressive victories and Penn's multiple losses to major conference powers should have changed that projection.
Bottom line: I think this game will be close, and this is a load of points to be getting against a team without a single impressive victory.
PENN +8.5 large
Good luck all.
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