CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard Football is set to appear three times on the ESPN Family of Networks during the upcoming 2026 campaign, the Ivy League announced today. The Crimson's three appearances are tied for the most in the conference.
 
Harvard's first two games on national television will be featured on a Friday night. The Crimson will face Brown on Friday, Sept. 25, at 7 p.m. ET in a game to be played at Centreville Bank Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. ESPN2 will handle the broadcast duties. Harvard leads the all-time series vs. the Bears, 91-31-2, and last season defeated Brown, 41-7, in Cambridge.
 
The Crimson's second Friday night game will come at Dartmouth in Hanover, New Hampshire, on Oct. 30. Kickoff time is set for 7 p.m. ET and the contest will air live on ESPNU. Harvard has won four straight in a series it leads, 75-48-5. The last time the Crimson played at Dartmouth (2024), it scored with 27 seconds left in regulation to upset the nationally ranked Big Green, 31-27.
 
Harvard's final regular-season national TV appearance will take place on Saturday, Nov. 21, when the Crimson welcomes Yale to Fenway Park. The 142^nd edition of The Game will air live on ESPNU at 3:30 p.m. ET. The last time the Crimson went head-to-head with the Bulldogs at Fenway was in 2018, with Harvard emerging victorious, 45-27.
 
Harvard's nationally televised appearances are part of the Ivy League's six-game national television package on ESPN networks, one of the premier television packages in the FCS. The League's comprehensive media rights agreement with ESPN, launched in 2018, delivers more than 1,400 Ivy League events annually on ESPN+, including at least 24 events each year on ESPN's linear platforms.
 
Harvard, meanwhile, is coming off winning its third straight Ivy League title and earning an NCAA FCS Playoff at-large berth in 2025. The Crimson finished the year at 9-2 (6-1 Ivy) and appeared in both final top-25 polls (No. 20 – Stats Perform, No. 23 – AFCA Coaches) after rising to as high as No. 7 in the Stats Perform rankings.
 
The Crimson will be led in 2026 by team captain and running back Xaviah Bascon, along with four All-America candidates in Spencer Doan (OL), Damien Henderson (DB), Thomas O'Brien (OL) and Sean Line (LB). All five players were All-Ivy League selections in '25, with Doan, O'Brien and Line earning first-team accolades. Bascon and Henderson, meanwhile, were second-team picks.
 
Harvard will open the 2026 campaign on Sept. 19, when it faces 2025 NCAA Playoff participant New Hampshire on the road. After playing at Brown the following week (Sept. 25), the Crimson will make its home debut on Oct. 3, vs. Colgate. Season tickets for the 2026 home schedule are available at GoCrimson.com.