PRINCETON, N.J. – As part of its long-term partnership with ESPN, the Ivy League has announced a Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) leading six-game football package set to air on ESPN linear networks this season.
The full schedule includes:
Friday, September 24 - Brown at Harvard
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Friday, October 1 - Dartmouth at Penn
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Friday, October 22 - Columbia at Dartmouth
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Friday, October 29 - Princeton at Cornell
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Friday, November 5 - Princeton at Dartmouth
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Saturday, November 20 - Harvard at Yale
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This is the 13rd consecutive year that the league will feature a national football television package. For the third-straight year, each program will make at least one appearance in the schedule. The slate consists of five Friday night games before the 137th playing of The Game takes place on Saturday, November 20. All Friday night games will be available live on ESPNU.
The schedule begins on Sept. 24 with Brown visiting Harvard before moving to Philadelphia for a matchup between Dartmouth and Penn on Oct. 1.
Dartmouth makes its second appearance in the package when it hosts Columbia on Oct. 22. October wraps up with Princeton visiting Cornell on Oct. 29 followed by the Tigers kicking off November with a battle in Hanover vs. Dartmouth on Nov. 5.
All kickoff times will be released in the coming weeks. All other Ivy League home football games outside of this six-game package will air on ESPN+, while select games will also be available through a variety of regional sports networks.
The schedule is one of several parts to the league’s comprehensive agreement with ESPN that was launched in 2018. The partnership airs over 1,400 events annually on ESPN+ and includes at least 24 events on ESPN linear networks.
Twenty-one Ivy League alumni were on 53-man NFL rosters last season, including two
Super Bowl champions with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers — Penn’s Justin Watson and Harvard’s Cameron Brate. It is the third-straight year an Ivy League alum has hoisted the Vince Lombardi Trophy.
The 2021 Ivy League football season kicks off Saturday, Sept. 18.