Harvard Releases 2026 Football Schedule, Closing With Yale at Fenway Park
Harvard's 2026 schedule ends with the 142nd playing of The Game against Yale at Fenway Park on Nov. 21, capping a 10-game slate under coach Andrew Aurich.
Harvard Athletics dropped the Crimson's full 2026 football schedule this week, and the headline writes itself: the 153rd season of Harvard football closes November 21 at Fenway Park, where Andrew Aurich's squad will face Yale in the 142nd playing of The Game.
The schedule is Ivy League-heavy by design, featuring seven conference games against Brown, Cornell, Princeton, Dartmouth, Columbia, Penn, and Yale, with three nonconference FCS matchups filling the gaps. Harvard opens September 19 at New Hampshire, the program's first trip to Durham since the 2022 campaign. Ivy League play begins the following week with a road game at Brown on September 26.
The Crimson make their home debut at Harvard Stadium on October 3 against Colgate, then hit the road again for a conference matchup at Cornell on October 10. Holy Cross visits Cambridge on October 17 to close out nonconference play, a series the program describes as one of New England's longest-standing rivalries. Princeton comes to Harvard Stadium on October 24, followed by a Halloween road game at Dartmouth on October 31, a rivalry that has repeatedly shaped the final Ivy standings.
November brings Columbia to Harvard Stadium on the 7th for the Crimson's final home game of the regular season, then a road trip to Penn on November 14. That sets up the Fenway Park finale against Yale, which doubles as the conference championship conversation's last word.
Aurich enters his third year in Cambridge having built the program into a genuine Ivy contender. The 2025 season ended with Harvard making the FCS playoffs, a historic first for the program, with both the Crimson and Yale representing the Ivy League in the 24-team postseason field. The New England Football Journal noted that Harvard lost the Ivy title in The Game for the second straight year, though the playoff berth still marked new ground for the program.
Kickoff times and television information will be announced later and added to Harvard's official schedule page as they are confirmed.
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