The 2023 Harvard Crimson football team represented

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as a member of the

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during the 2023 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The team was led by 29th-year head coach

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and played home games at

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. With a win against the Penn on November 11, the Crimson clinched a share of the Ivy League title.

Preseason

Ivy League media poll

The Ivy League's preseason prediction poll was released on August 7, 2023. The Crimson were predicted to finish fourth in the conference.

Schedule

Rankings

Personnel

Game summaries

St. Thomas (MN)

Brown

At No. 6 Holy Cross

Cornell

Howard

At Princeton

Dartmouth

Starting quarterback Charles DePrima was benched in the second quarter after throwing his second interception of the game. Jade Craig would step in at quarterback for the rest of the game. With the win, head coach

broke the record for most Ivy League wins by a coach, with 136.

At Columbia

Penn

At Yale

References

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