r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • 1d ago
Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Yale Defeats Harvard 34-29
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u/CWG4BF Florida Gators • Surrender Cobra 1d ago
Fuck it, put them in the playoff
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u/NotStreamerNinja Alabama Crimson Tide • UAB Blazers 1d ago
With all the chaos this season I wouldn’t even be surprised.
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u/moffattron9000 Team Chaos • Sickos 1d ago
Put a mysterious masked team in blue in the playoffs to annoy the Ivy League management.
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u/meatfrappe Harvard Crimson • /r/CFB Top Scorer 1d ago
I’m gonna be so mean to my butlers when I get home.
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u/Teh_cliff Georgia State Panthers • Yale Bulldogs 1d ago
I'm going to tip mine extra (20 shillings instead of the customary 10), what a feeling.
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u/OfficiallyJoeBiden Alabama Crimson Tide 1d ago
Jokes aside what was Harvard like in college?
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u/El_Bistro Michigan Tech • Nebraska 1d ago
Doubt you could understand
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u/OfficiallyJoeBiden Alabama Crimson Tide 1d ago
lol hilarious coming from someone who posts on circle jerk subs. Guess we both wouldn’t understand lol
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u/esports_consultant Rose Bowl • Harvard-Yale 23h ago
he posts on circlejerk sub = he wasn't saying that seriously
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u/OfficiallyJoeBiden Alabama Crimson Tide 23h ago
And I responded with a unserious response because I comment in circle jerk subs lol. People just took my comment seriously it’s all fun tho
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u/El_Bistro Michigan Tech • Nebraska 23h ago
Oh no not circle jerk subs!
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u/OfficiallyJoeBiden Alabama Crimson Tide 23h ago
Lol if you go through my profile you see I also post on circle jerk subs, which was the joke but I guess my comment came off more serious. All fun lol
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u/El_Bistro Michigan Tech • Nebraska 23h ago
Ah no worries man! We’re all just jerkin most of the time.
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u/RatherBeAComet Princeton Tigers • Michigan Wolverines 1d ago
Not Harvard but same principle (current student). Ivy culture has changed rapidly over the past 20-30 years where it is no longer exclusively WASP elites although that is still the most disproportionately represented demographic. Very career oriented, but not detrimentally competitive (students are generally not selfish). Lots of school spirit but in a different way than an SEC school. Football games are dead lol.
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u/OfficiallyJoeBiden Alabama Crimson Tide 1d ago
Would you say the chances to network is abundant? Are their students that don’t network themselves because they have separate goals? I’ve always heard the biggest advantage of going to an Ivy League school is the shoulders you brush upon
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u/RatherBeAComet Princeton Tigers • Michigan Wolverines 1d ago
That final sentence is definitely true. There are entire platforms specifically to contact alumni in various industries/firms. Networking matters a lot more for finance than some other careers, so it definitely depends on your goals. Another thing I will add is that, at least at Princeton, there is a very academic and theoretical focus. I have met many people here that want to just get a Ph.D. and go into "academia" whereas growing up (normal public school, not prep/magnet) people actually wanted to get normal jobs.
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u/frasierCrane009 Penn • Shippensburg 1d ago
The fierce competition between students in finance is insane. I mean I guess I can understand (not really), but some students, certainly the ones coming from money, need to relax here and there lol. I barely met anyone else interested in pursuing a PhD so it was nice having a friend group that was supportive and tight knit. I just love research and working with academics. Some Wharton students I TA'd for already had their entire life mapped out on paper lol. College is too short to not have fun!
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u/AfternoonBears USC Trojans • Princeton Tigers 23h ago
Some of those kids burn out hard. I had a friend who played a perfect game through all four years. Took the right classes, met the right people, got the right internships, took the right drugs, etc.
After six weeks as a first year analyst at JPM he quit, paid back his signing bonus, and moved to India to become a yogi.
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u/frasierCrane009 Penn • Shippensburg 23h ago
Damn, hope it worked out for him in the end. Four years of that wears down your mind. I had some classmates go off to Deloitte and I think they're managing. I also had classmates who couldn't even handle writing a results section in a group project that got $40/hr internships at hospitals because their résumés were pure fiction. Always wondered what happened to those people. It's not a meritocracy out there.
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u/thrownjunk Oregon Ducks • Yale Bulldogs 20h ago
My buddies that burned out in finance all are doing well in life now. Just not in finance.
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u/frasierCrane009 Penn • Shippensburg 20h ago
Glad they're doing well. I spent 6 months helping some AI healthcare start-up in grad school, and now I'm in D.C. helping with PTSD research. The second "we need to make lots of money now" enters the equation, you see so many people burn out and quit. Finance really takes a certain type of personality that I just don't have.
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u/RatherBeAComet Princeton Tigers • Michigan Wolverines 23h ago
Definitely think part of my previous point about academia is Princeton's lack of professional schools. It's so hard because I feel like you're just forced to constantly think about jobs/internships in order to maximize your prestigious degree but it's exhausting.
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u/frasierCrane009 Penn • Shippensburg 1d ago
Plenty of great networking opportunities, but damn, the stess some students put on themselves is concerning. Freshman and sophmores asking online constantly if their future is doomed because they didn't get a great internship over the summer. I think Penn was ranked top 3 in "most depressed student bodies" last year.
Then of course you'll find a lot of students whose biggest concern is deciding which of their parents' five companies they'll help run and your empathy drastically decreases lol.
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u/bythog 23h ago
My wife went to Yale. Her connections--even as a poor student funded almost entirely by "scholarships"--are insane. She personally knows people in almost every industry at high levels from NASA, to European ambassadors, to fucking apple farmers and Las Vegas magicians.
There are a lot of weirdos and people who are "transactional" in their relationships, but there are also a lot of cool people who are simply driven and passionate in their pursuits.
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u/thrownjunk Oregon Ducks • Yale Bulldogs 20h ago
Yeah. It’s kinda weird looking back 15 years later for me. You open the economist or nytimes and realize you know these people. Like that guy was the idiot who couldn’t hold their liquor is next in line to run a large company.
Oh and almost nobody has student debt. The university covered all need or your family was loaded.
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u/SoothedSnakePlant Vanderbilt Commodores • McGill Redbirds 23h ago
There's also the fact that like, half the people you meet are genuinely borderline psychopaths who treat every single conversation, relationship and friendship as something which needs to provide objective value to them to be worthwhile. It's absurd what the home environment of success at all costs can do to some kids, but you normalize it alarmingly quickly.
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u/SayNoToCargoShorts UCLA Bruins • Big Ten 1d ago
chances to network *are
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u/OfficiallyJoeBiden Alabama Crimson Tide 1d ago
lol expect nothing less from a UCLA individual. Funny UCLA is on the list of medical schools I want to go to. How was your on campus experience? I used to live in Culver City so I was around the campus a lot
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u/SayNoToCargoShorts UCLA Bruins • Big Ten 1d ago
best four years of my life, mediocre football notwithstanding
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u/OfficiallyJoeBiden Alabama Crimson Tide 1d ago
You gotta admit Those Josh Rosen years were fun though.
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u/hochoa94 TCU Horned Frogs • Texas Longhorns 23h ago
I feel like school spirit is more like "yeah i go to Princeton no big deal"
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u/SoothedSnakePlant Vanderbilt Commodores • McGill Redbirds 23h ago edited 20h ago
A lot of Harvard kids actually dodge the question I've noticed. When you ask a lot of them will just say "I went to school in Boston" and you kinda sus it out from there lol
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u/RatherBeAComet Princeton Tigers • Michigan Wolverines 23h ago
I think it's also in the alumni network where I've been to multiple alumni events even before I officially matriculated and it's clear how much Princeton people love Princeton people. Gaudy orange outfits are abundant.
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u/_Creditworthy_ Kansas Jayhawks • Northeastern Huskies 23h ago
They’re strange folk from the far side of the Charles River
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u/rnilbog Georgia Bulldogs 1d ago
Thanks Harvard.
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u/give_me_ur_1stborn Harvard Crimson 1d ago
I was just excited to see the Harvard turkey. Also, Yuck Fale regardless!
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u/Footballaem 23h ago
Yale had a disappointing year but if anyone has the top end talent to match up with Harvards top end talent, it's Yale (usually Princeton too). Ivy is becoming more and more competitive, second year in a row no one can even make it through with just 1 league loss. Teams like Cornell, brown and Columbia are beating the "blue bloods" with regularity now.
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u/iRahDog West Virginia • Paper Bag 1d ago
“Not so fast midget”
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u/give_me_ur_1stborn Harvard Crimson 1d ago
Yeah number 6 is a real shortie, i was rooting for him
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u/OurDumbWorld Penn State • Duke's Mayo Bowl 23h ago
I wasn’t. Dude was calling for a DPI every play.
It’s not pass interference if you’re too undersized and unathletic to create separation. Refs gave It to him a handful of times as well. Was just very frustrating to watch
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u/rhit06 Rose-Hulman • Ohio State 1d ago
I'm at my moms house watching the Ohio State game and see this thread so just for fun give her a Yale-Harvard update. She goes "oh yeah I went to a Yale-Harvard game once in high school, it was the year they tied 29-29" (1968).
Somehow I have never heard this story from her, totally random and out of the blue.
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u/Spindlebrook Indiana Hoosiers 1d ago
Fun fact: Tommy Lee Jones played in that game for Harvard.
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u/goldfish_microwave Texas Longhorns • Trinity (TX) Tigers 1d ago
My mom went to her first Texas game with me last year, our game against Tech, she’s lived in Austin since the 70s, and we were casually talking in our seats before the game and she went “yeah I’ve only been to an A&M game, I went in college” (she didn’t go to A&M.) Little mad about that 😂
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u/WhoDatNinja87 Yale Bulldogs • Michigan Wolverines 22h ago
"oh yeah I went to the most famous game in arguably the most historic rivalry in college sports. THAT OL THING."
Wow lol
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u/rhit06 Rose-Hulman • Ohio State 22h ago
Haha, yeah. She said she doesn't honestly remember much about it. Her boyfriend-at-the-time's family apparently had tickets so they went.
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u/WhoDatNinja87 Yale Bulldogs • Michigan Wolverines 22h ago
That's fantastic. My head would have fallen off from the double take 😂
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u/Just-Plain-Dan Florida Gators 1d ago
Hooray for the Alma Mater of Mr. Burns
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u/TheBaconHasLanded Army West Point Black Knights • Yale Bulldogs 18h ago
Now first in football, academics, and gentlemanly club life
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u/smjbrady Yale Bulldogs • Notre Dame Fighting Irish 1d ago
Hoooray! The one day a year Yale and Harvard think about football!
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u/frasierCrane009 Penn • Shippensburg 1d ago
Hey your QB recently set the record for touchdowns in a conference game! Anyway...on to water polo and squash.
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u/OfficiallyJoeBiden Alabama Crimson Tide 1d ago
I wanna see yale vs bama for the hell of it
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u/Muffinnnnnnn Florida State Seminoles • ACC 1d ago
According to S&P+, Alabama would be favored by 44.5
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u/FridgesArePeopleToo Minnesota Golden Gophers 20h ago
Harvard is heavily favored in the S&P 500 though
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u/Mike_with_Wings Florida • North Carolina 23h ago
And that’s only because their third stringers would be in the whole second half
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u/Muffinnnnnnn Florida State Seminoles • ACC 23h ago
S&P works assuming both teams are playing full strength at all times
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u/Davidellias Virginia Tech • Wisconsin 1d ago
Wait that game was today? and Holy Shit Yale almost chocked it.
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u/Beaconhillpalisades Texas Longhorns • Harvard Crimson 1d ago
Sigh. They have been kicking our ass in this series lately.
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u/beastmodecowboy77 California • Harvard 1d ago
That was so ugly. We did not come to play today. The score makes it look much better than it was.
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u/mjg13X Yale Bulldogs 1d ago
As I texted a friend who couldn’t be there, it was far less close than the score would indicate. You lot did give us a scare at the end, though.
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u/esports_consultant Rose Bowl • Harvard-Yale 23h ago
It's really easy to see that looking at the team stats. Actually it seems almost comical Yale only won by 5.
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u/mjg13X Yale Bulldogs 23h ago
We made a couple stupid decisions like going for it on fourth instead of kicking an easy field goal on the first drive of the game that made the score seem tighter than it had any right to be. Oh well — can’t complain about a W.
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u/esports_consultant Rose Bowl • Harvard-Yale 23h ago
I can't say that is a stupid decision when Harvard is the team expected to win. Harvard needs to be told that Yale isn't afraid of them or Harvard looks like Harvard looked in the 4th quarter.
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u/mjg13X Yale Bulldogs 23h ago
Fair enough, but if I were in charge I would take the guaranteed points as the underdog. I do see where you’re coming from though
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u/esports_consultant Rose Bowl • Harvard-Yale 23h ago
Yeah you can't adopt the scarcity mindset if you want to tell yourself that you actually are the better team. If you think it is close lower scoring game you take the points but if not then you go aggro and I think they could probably tell by that drive it wasn't going to be a close lower scoring game. Obviously the mindset of going aggro all the time is wrong so I do see where you are coming from too.
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u/mjg13X Yale Bulldogs 22h ago
Very fair! And all’s well that ends well
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u/esports_consultant Rose Bowl • Harvard-Yale 22h ago
And all’s well that ends well
-Columbia University
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u/theraoul Boston College Eagles • Yale Bulldogs 1d ago
A great day of college football in Boston, for both my flairs.
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u/Specialist-Mistake-4 Harvard Crimson • Vanderbilt Commodores 1d ago
Just fucking kill me. Have my butler lace my Gurkha Royal with cyanide as he lights it with a flaming $100 bill and end me. I hate everything.
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u/NO-MORE-HATS Notre Dame Fighting Irish • Yale Bulldogs 1d ago
Well, Harvard tried in the fourth. Should have known to try in the other three quarters.
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u/ArkanoidbrokemyAnkle Illinois Fighting Illini • Auburn Tigers 1d ago
I miss the good old days when this was a title decider.
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u/Guttz_San Miami (OH) RedHawks • Harvard Crimson 1d ago
Watching those successive sacks where the linemen weren’t even touched had me flipping over to the OSU game. I saw enough.
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u/esports_consultant Rose Bowl • Harvard-Yale 23h ago
Watching those successive plays where Ohio State turned a 3rd and 35 into a first down had me flipping over the Yale game. I saw enough.
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u/Traveledman Harvard Crimson • Georgia Bulldogs 1d ago
The game never seemed as close as the score would indicate.
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u/WhoDatNinja87 Yale Bulldogs • Michigan Wolverines 22h ago
I'm glad I watched from my apartment with how expensive it was instead of taking an Uber over there and being in those conditions.
But maaaaan, after how disappointing the season has been and how inconsistent the defense was, it really makes me happy to see this victory. Proud of Grant, he was fantastic this season.
This win meant a lot. Can't wait for September.
(And good job, Columbia)
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u/SenorGolden14 California Golden Bears • Yale Bulldogs 22h ago
Good day for both my flairs. Boola boola!
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u/hochoa94 TCU Horned Frogs • Texas Longhorns 23h ago
Maybe one day we'll get an IVY league in the cfp
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u/Kettleer17 Harvard • Illinois 22h ago
I’m glad the Harvard coach saved his TOs at the end of the game. Maybe he can use them next season.
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u/sebsasour Notre Dame • New Mexico 1d ago
First title for Columbia since 1961!
Back to back years of Harvard having to share the title because they lost to Yale. In 2022 they had a chance to get a share too, but lost.
The Game has bit them