Three Football Games in 2026 to Air on ESPN Family of Networks

Football
6/10/2026 1:00:00 PM

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard Football is ready to look thrice on the ESPN Family of Networks in the course of the upcoming 2026 marketing campaign, the Ivy League introduced at this time. The Crimson’s three appearances are tied for essentially the most within the convention.
 
Harvard’s first two video games on nationwide tv will likely be featured on a Friday night time. The Crimson will face Brown on Friday, Sept. 25, at 7 p.m. ET in a recreation to be performed at Centreville Bank Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. ESPN2 will deal with the printed duties. Harvard leads the all-time collection vs. the Bears, 91-31-2, and final season defeated Brown, 41-7, in Cambridge.
 
The Crimson’s second Friday night time recreation will come at Dartmouth in Hanover, New Hampshire, on Oct. 30. Kickoff time is ready for 7 p.m. ET and the competition will air stay on ESPNU. Harvard has received 4 straight in a collection it leads, 75-48-5. The final time the Crimson performed at Dartmouth (2024), it scored with 27 seconds left in regulation to upset the nationally ranked Big Green, 31-27.
 
Harvard’s ultimate regular-season nationwide TV look will happen on Saturday, Nov. 21, when the Crimson welcomes Yale to Fenway Park. The 142^nd version of The Game will air stay on ESPNU at 3:30 p.m. ET. The final time the Crimson went head-to-head with the Bulldogs at Fenway was in 2018, with Harvard rising victorious, 45-27.
 
Harvard’s nationally televised appearances are a part of the Ivy League’s six-game nationwide tv bundle on ESPN networks, one of many premier tv packages within the FCS. The League’s complete media rights settlement with ESPN, launched in 2018, delivers greater than 1,400 Ivy League occasions yearly on ESPN+, together with at the least 24 occasions annually on ESPN’s linear platforms.
 
Harvard, in the meantime, is coming off profitable its third straight Ivy League title and incomes an NCAA FCS Playoff at-large berth in 2025. The Crimson completed the yr at 9-2 (6-1 Ivy) and appeared in each ultimate top-25 polls (No. 20 – Stats Perform, No. 23 – AFCA Coaches) after rising to as excessive as No. 7 within the Stats Perform rankings.
 
The Crimson will likely be led in 2026 by crew captain and working again Xaviah Bascon, together with 4 All-America candidates in Spencer Doan (OL), Damien Henderson (DB), Thomas O’Brien (OL) and Sean Line (LB). All 5 gamers have been All-Ivy League choices in ’25, with Doan, O’Brien and Line incomes first-team accolades. Bascon and Henderson, in the meantime, have been second-team picks.
 
Harvard will open the 2026 marketing campaign on Sept. 19, when it faces 2025 NCAA Playoff participant New Hampshire on the street. After taking part in at Brown the next week (Sept. 25), the Crimson will make its residence debut on Oct. 3, vs. Colgate. Season tickets for the 2026 residence schedule can be found at GoCrimson.com.