CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Harvard heads to The Granite State for a Saturday afternoon showdown at No. 22/22 Dartmouth. The Ivy League game has conference title implications as the Crimson is one of three teams sitting at 2-1, with the Big Green perched atop the table at 3-0. It is also a clash of two of the three teams that shared the 2023 Ivy League crown. Kickoff is slated for 1:30 p.m. ET, with ESPN+ airing the game live.

Quick Hits

- The Harvard-Dartmouth matchup is one of the top games in the country and the lone FCS contest featuring two teams with one loss or fewer on the season. Across Division I (FCS and FBS), only three games boast two squads with one loss or fewer -- Harvard (5-1) at Dartmouth (6-0), Ohio State (6-1) at Penn State (7-0), and Pittsburgh (7-0) at SMU (7-1).

- The Crimson is coming off a perfect month of October, something the program has not accomplished since 2015. Harvard went 4-0, which includes a 28-23 home win over then-No. 16-21 New Hampshire and its most recent victory, a 45-13 decision vs. Princeton last Saturday at Harvard Stadium.

- Harvard is in search of its fifth straight win, which would match the program's longest (2021, 2023) since the 2015 squad opened the campaign with eight consecutive victories. The Crimson will look to accomplish the feat at a place it is 13-1 at since the start of 1994, including a 28-13 decision in 2022.

- Despite the recent one-sided nature of games played in Hanover and Harvard's current two-game series winning streak, the advantage has tilted toward the Big Green in recent seasons. Dartmouth has taken three of the last five matchups, but all five have been extremely close, with four decided by a total of 21 points (average margin of victory - 5.3 points) and all five by 36 points (average margin of victory - 7.2 points). Dating to the 2013 game, covering 10 games, eight have been decided by eight points or less. The other two had margins of 11 points (2014) and 15 points (2022).

- In Harvard's convincing win over Princeton, quarterback Jaden Craig continued his stellar play. The junior completed a career-high 26 passes (26-33) for 345 yards and a personal-best-matching four touchdowns. Since Oct. 11, Craig leads all FCS signal callers (minimum three games) with a 77.6 completion percentage, 11 TDs (No. 1 in FCS and FBS), a touchdown percentage of 12.9 percent, and a QB rating of 208.7. He also ranks fourth in yards per game (306.0) and fifth in yardage (918) (minimum three games).

- Junior wide receiver Cooper Barkate caught a pair of touchdowns (14, 39 yards) and finished with a game-high 106 yards vs. Princeton. Since Oct. 11, Barkate ranks first among FCS players (minimum three games) in touchdowns (5), and fifth in yards per game (106.7) and yards (320), and tied for 14th in receptions (19). Senior Scott Woods II, who had a game- and career-high 10 catches for 81 yards vs. the Tigers, is tied for seventh nationally in receptions since Oct. 11, with 23.

- Barkate and sophomore tight end Seamus Gilmartin teamed up to post 100-yard receiving days vs. Princeton. Barkate had 106, with Gilmartin adding 101 with one touchdown. The duo became the first Harvard teammates to have at least 100 yards receiving in the same game since Nov. 3, 2018. That afternoon saw Jack Cook go for 107 yards on three catches (1 TD) and Henry Taylor rack up five receptions for 105 yards and two touchdowns against Columbia.

- Harvard recorded six sacks, including 2.5 from senior Jacob Psyk, 7.0 tackles for loss, one interception (Ty Bartrum) and five quarterback hurries against Princeton. The Crimson's defensive performance handed the Tigers their largest margin of defeat since a 51-14 loss to Yale on Nov. 16, 2019. Harvard was also able to snap a six-game skid to Princeton and record its largest margin of victory in the series since 2015 (42-7 Harvard win).

- Bartrum in the last two games alone has 22 tackles (14 solo), 1.0 sacks, 1.0 TFL, one fumble recovery that went for an 88-yard touchdown, one interception and one pass breakup. Psyk, meanwhile,  has been a menace on the defensive line, totaling a team-best 4.5 sacks and 7.5 tackles for loss. The senior's TFL total makes up half of his tackle count for the season (15). The two anchor a unit that ranks first in the Ivy League in third-down defense (.341), defensive TDs (2), passing yards allowed (206.0), rushing defense (108.3), and total defense (314.3).