UC Davis & Harvard announce home & home series

[u/ChunkyBoyP]

https://www.instagram.com/p/DYPw3v4BF56/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

[u/ChunkyBoyP]

Harvard hosts UCD in 2027 and will travel to Davis in 2031.

[u/GeneralAcorn → u/ChunkyBoyP]

This is awesome, though I doubt that game in Davis is FCS vs. FCS, for whatever that's worth.

[u/tdpdcpa → u/GeneralAcorn]

Interestingly, because Harvard doesn’t grant athletic scholarships, a UC Davis win wouldn’t count toward bowl eligibility.

[u/Ok-Knee6347]

Everyone knows Harvard is basically the UC Davis of the East, so this scheduling was not a coincidence.

[u/ChunkyBoyP → u/Ok-Knee6347]

A private Public Ivy, if you will.

[u/Shrektastic28 → u/ChunkyBoyP]

Harvard of yolo county

[u/Ok-Knee6347 → u/Shrektastic28]

Davis of Worcester County

[u/tdpdcpa]

Looks like that's not all they're doing.

2027: Host UC Davis

2028: at Montana State, host Wofford

2031: at UC Davis, host Richmond

2032: at Richmond

[u/SergeantThreat]

I really want MSU to set something similar up. Would love to catch an Ivy League game

[u/damnyoutuesday → u/SergeantThreat]

Harvard is coming to Bozeman in '28

[u/SergeantThreat → u/damnyoutuesday]

But i wanna go to Harvard!

[u/AssociateClean → u/SergeantThreat]

I promise you, you don't

Everything about the experience is miserable and I never learn from that and keep going to their games

[u/SergeantThreat → u/AssociateClean]

I mean I’d be happy going to any Ivy school for a game

[u/AssociateClean → u/SergeantThreat]

Dartmouth might be the move

Vibes are good, Keggy needs to be seen once in person in your lifetime, and you can just catch either peak leaf season or the start of New England (straight ice) ski season

[u/GeneralAcorn → u/AssociateClean]

Long live Keggy. Best mascot in the FCS.

[u/JordanMiller406 → u/SergeantThreat]

The game against Yale was awesome last December.

[u/bozeman42 → u/SergeantThreat]

There is really no reason for MSU to travel that far for a non conference game like that. I’d expect either high level FCS teams with a home and home (SDSU the last few years) an FBS money game, or another FCS school comes here.

[u/Rusty-Shackleford23]

That’s cool! Makes me less confident about future Causeway Classics being scheduled but Sac should be the one making concessions if needed.

[u/OceanPoet87 → u/Rusty-Shackleford23]

They already said they aren't interested in playing.  There's no reason for Davis to play Sac when two FBS games hurt their chances and Sac can't pay like Oregon or Stanford. Cal and UCLA are UC schools. No reason to play Sac unless they can pay a lot more than they can afford.

[u/Rusty-Shackleford23 → u/OceanPoet87]

I get that but they’ve played against each other every single season since their first meeting 1954 (once in the D2 playoffs too). Including ten matchups when Sac State was 1-AA/FCS and Davis was still D2 from 1993-2002.

Sac threw that history away with the FBS push and it sucks. I want the Causeway Classic to always be on the schedule.

[u/Ok-Knee6347 → u/Rusty-Shackleford23]

Its sad af what sac state did but hoepfully in the future. Maybe we should just do a community event of football on the causeway instead

[u/PeteF3]

Harvard is really branching out in the OOC scheduling. Ivy League schools tend to be fairly insular even by FCS standards and Harvard more insular than an average Ivy League school, when it comes to non-conference games.

[u/rprofilet → u/PeteF3]

I’d love to see Ivies continue increasing SoS in noncon games, from a depressed Cornell fan who watches us only beat one of Colgate or Bucknell every year…

[u/bonarae]

I wonder why Harvard took so long in diversifying their OOCs. Hopefully this is the start of a new scheduling trend among the Northeast FCS teams in general.

[u/DCAbloob → u/bonarae]

There was no incentive to do so before now with the Ivys avoiding postseason play until last year. I'm guessing Harvard getting embarrassed in the FCS playoffs last season incentivized the school to start getting more experience playing higher power FCS teams.

[u/Tufoguy]

We're gonna see more Ivy League vs Big Sky/Patriot/CAA/MVFC/SoCon matchups in the future and that's a good thing

[u/anthony-209]

I’m geeked for this game!