Only three FBS games in Week 13 feature a pair of teams ranked in the top 25; two of those games are in the Pac-12 (Arizona-Utah and USC-UCLA), while Minnesota meets Nebraska in an elimination game for the Big Ten West. With most other schools preparing for their big rivalries on Thanksgiving weekend, the top college football pre-game show, ESPN’s College GameDay, will be in Cambridge on Saturday for the annual Harvard-Yale showdown.

This is not the first time GameDay has appeared at an Ivy League game; in 2002, Lee Corso memorably dressed up as Benjamin Franklin ahead of Harvard-Penn in Philadelphia. The authors of “Death to the BCS” mention the variety of locations in this passage…

“Whether it’s windy, rainy, snowy, freezing, scorching, or humid, GameDay shows up. It doesn’t discriminate where, either. The crew has traveled to an Ivy League game, another between historically black colleges, the Division III Amherst-Williams rivalry, and all three service academies…nowhere is too far away, no coach too obscure, no campus town anonymous.”

This is already the second FCS game this season featured on GameDay; Chris Fowler and company have been to North Dakota State each of the past two years, when the Bison were ranked atop the FCS Coaches’ poll. Awful Announcing has been keeping track of how much airtime the show spends on each conference, and with the Ivy League being mentioned during last week’s broadcast in Tuscaloosa, how much airtime will the conference get when one of its schools hosts “The Worldwide Leader” on Saturday?

As for the actual game, the conference championship is at stake, and because the Ivy League chooses not to allow teams to go to the FCS playoffs, it will also be the season finale for both Harvard and Yale. The Crimson are seeking an undefeated regular season, and a third league crown (tied or outright) in four seasons. The Bulldogs have not beaten their rivals since 2006, but can create a tie for first place if they win at Harvard Stadium; should that happen, and if Dartmouth wins against Princeton, there would actually be a three-way tie.

Will Corso dress up as John Harvard or any one of the school’s famous alumni? Saturday morning should provide a fun show!