CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - No. 10/8 (coaches/media) Harvard travels to No. 25/rv Yale for the 141st edition of The Game, which is set for noon ET on Saturday, with ESPNU airing the contest live. The Crimson, having already clinched a share of its third straight Ivy League title, will look to claim the outright crown and secure the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA FCS Playoffs.

Quick Hits

- The Crimson's regular-season finale features the top two teams in the Ivy League standings, with the winner guaranteeing themselves a spot in the FCS playoff bracket. This season marks the first time the league will send its champion to the postseason. 

- Harvard sports a top-10 ranking in both major polls for the first time in program history. The Crimson fell one spot to No. 8 in the Stats Perform FCS Top 25 Poll despite defeating Penn, 45-43, on Saturday. The AFCA coaches, however, rewarded Harvard by sliding it one spot to No. 10. The Crimson's coaches-poll ranking is the highest in school history.

- Harvard finds itself at 9-0 (6-0 Ivy League) thanks in part to Kieran Corr's 53-yard field goal as time expired against the Quakers. Corr's bomb was the longest in school history, surpassing 51-yarders from Tom Wynne (1967) and Mark Hall (1993). The sophomore, who was also 6-for-6 in PATs and handled kickoff duties, was named the Stats Perform FCS National Special Teams Player of the Week and the Ivy League Special Teams Player of the Week.

- Quarterback Jaden Craig helped put Corr in position to make the game-winner after going 40 yards in just 17 seconds. After Penn took a 43-42 lead with 22 seconds left in regulation, Craig engineered a five-play drive that put the Crimson at the Penn 35, leaving five seconds for Corr to produce his first clincher at the collegiate level. The 40 passing yards were a small part of Craig's career-high 390-yard afternoon, which also included three passing TDs and one on the ground. The senior's performance through the air was Harvard's first 350-yard passing game since Tom Stewart in 2018 (393 yards vs. Columbia). For his effort vs. the Quakers, Craig garnered his third Ivy League Offensive Player-of-the-Week award this season.

- Other standouts that helped Harvard win its third straight Ivy League title for the first time since 2013-15 and its 20th overall were Xaviah Bascon (20 carries, 103 yards, 2 TDs; 4 receptions, 29 yards, 1 TD), Ryan Osborne (2 receptions, 90 yards, 1 TD), Brady Blackburn (6 receptions, 87 yards, 1 TD), Ty Bartrum (14 tackles), Jack Donahoe (11 tackles), Austin-Jake Guillory (10 tackles, 2 PBU) and Sean Line (10 tackles).

- It has been Championship Week for the Crimson the last four weekends and this week is no different. Ever since defeating Merrimack to close out the first half of its season, Harvard has faced high-pressured Ivy situations, beginning with a win at Princeton, a team that was tied with the Crimson atop the Ivy standings. The next week was a home victory over Dartmouth, which entered the tilt trailing Harvard by one game in the standings and a team the Crimson shared the 2024 conference title with. Two weeks ago, Harvard faced 2024 Ivy tri-champion Columbia on the road, on short rest, and emerged with its eighth straight double-digit win. And then last week, the Crimson faced a Penn team that was still mathematically in the Ivy League title hunt and a squad that took Harvard down to the wire the previous two seasons (3OT in 2023; Rallied from 21-7 deficit in the third to win, 31-28, on 21-yard FG as time expired).

- After sharing the last two Ivy League titles and being the first team to clinch each time, Harvard is looking to not be so generous this go-around. The Crimson is in search of its first outright championship since 2014, and is trying to become the Ivy's first outright champ since Yale in 2022. Harvard has been the sole Ivy champion in 1975, 1987, 1997, 2001, 2004, 2007, and 2011.

- Harvard is 9-0 overall and 6-0 in the Ivy League for the first time since 2014. A win over Yale would produce the Crimson's first 10-0 (7-0) campaign since that 2014 squad. The Ryan Fitzpatrick-led 2004 team is the only other Harvard team to have gone 10-0 (7-0) in modern times. A victory on Saturday would also make Harvard the first 10-0 (7-0) Ivy League team since Princeton in 2018, which is the only group since the '14 Crimson outfit to go undefeated.

- The Crimson comes into The Game as one of four undefeated teams in the FCS. In addition to Harvard, No. 1/1 North Dakota State, No. 2/2 Montana and No. 4/4 Lehigh are all 11-0. There are only seven teams, meanwhile, in all of Division I that have a zero in the loss column. Joining the FCS teams are FBS members No. 1/1 Ohio State (10-0), No. 2/2 Indiana (11-0) and No. 3/3 Texas A&M (10-0).

- Harvard is facing a Yale team that entered the AFCA FCS Coaches Poll on Monday, checking in at No. 25. The Crimson has won its last three games vs. nationally ranked teams. The last time Harvard faced a team ranked the same as Yale is this week -- No. 25 in the coaches and receiving votes in the media poll -- it won at Holy Cross, 38-13, in 2021.

- Harvard's offense is a top-10 unit nationally, ranking seventh in scoring offense (40.7) and total offense (466.7). It also ranks in the top 15 in tackles for loss allowed (1st; 2.89), sacks allowed (5th; 0.78), passing yards per completion (5th; 14.51), passing offense (8th; 288.6), and team passing efficiency (12th; 161.75).

- The Crimson defense comes into the Yale game ranked first in the FCS in first downs defense (154), second in red zone defense (0.654), third in scoring defense (15.1), fifth in team passing efficiency defense (109.16), sixth in rushing defense (98.1), sixth in total defense (282.7), eighth in defensive TDs (3), and 11th in interceptions (12).

- Harvard also ranks first in the country in other categories, such as blocked kicks allowed (0), blocked punts allowed (0), fewest penalties (34), and the always-important winning percentage (1.000). The Crimson also ranks second nationally in fewest penalties per game (3.78) and fewest penalty yards (333), both of which lead the Ivy League.

- Harvard is 25-4 (.862) over the last three seasons (8-2 in 2023, 8-2 in 2024, 9-0 in 2025). The Crimson is first in the FCS for fewest losses during this time period, with North Dakota State following behind with six Ls. In Division I altogether (FBS and FCS), Harvard is tied for first for fewest losses (Harvard, Oregon, Ohio State - 4).

- The Crimson has been one of the best road teams in the FCS the last two-decades-plus. Since 1996, Harvard sits behind only North Dakota State in road winning percentage. NDSU has won at a .746 clip (88-30), while the Crimson has emerged victorious 96 times in 134 tries (.716; 96-38). Among all Division I teams, Harvard is behind only Ohio State (.801; 109-27), Georgia (.772; 98-29) and North Dakota State in road winning percentage since '96.

- Harvard has won seven straight away from home, which is the longest streak in the country. North Dakota State is second with six. Yale, meanwhile, has won eight straight home games, which is the 11th-longest active streak in the country.