This will be the 150th season of Harvard football, and the Crimson, who in 2023 were 8-2 overall and 5-2 in Ivy League play, enter as defending Ivy tri-champions with Dartmouth and Yale. As a preface, we note that the Ivy League neither gained nor lost any members, making it something of an outlier in today’s college-sports landscape. His replacement as the Stephenson Family coach for Harvard football is Andrew Aurich, class of ’06 at Princeton, where he was an offensive lineman. He appears to be the first bearded head coach in Crimson football annals. College football has joined the National Football League by instituting a two-minute timeout at the end of each half.