With three weeks remaining in the Ivy League season, it's time to start talking title scenarios.
Yale is firmly in control as the only 4-0 team in conference play. But the Elis, after facing a much-improved Brown team this week, still have Princeton and Harvard left on the schedule.
The Crimson and the Tigers also control their own destiny for the league title with one loss.
And Brown and Penn are still in it at 2-2, but they need some help. For the Quakers to win a share of the title at 5-2, they would have to win out and have Yale lose at least two of its three remaining games.
Yale (4-0) at Brown (2-2)
At the beginning of the season, this wasn't supposed to be a big game. Yale was supposed to be the team that had just been routed at home by San Diego.
Brown was supposed to be the team that started the year 1-4 overall.
But Yale is 4-0 in the Ivy League for the first time since its 1989 championship season. And Brown is in perfect position to play spoiler and keep its slim hopes alive after a pair of wins over Cornell and Penn.
Yale standout back Mike McLeod meets a Brown rush defense that's in top form, having allowed just three yards per carry to the Quakers' Joe Sandberg last week.
One might think that the game being in Providence, R.I,, might give the Bears another advantage, but the road team has won eight of the last 10 meetings between the two.
Columbia (0-4) at
No. 18 Harvard (3-1)
Harvard has a 49-14-1 record in the series, and Columbia has shown no signs of the ability to stop the Crimson from picking up win No. 50.
The Lions have scored one touchdown in the last three weeks. Now, their offense, which ranks last in the conference, takes on a Harvard unit that ranks first.
By the end of the game, perhaps the only thing of interest will be whether Clifton Dawson can get the 174 rushing yards needed to break the Ivy League career rushing record in front of the home fans.
If not, it's on to Franklin Field.
Dartmouth (1-3) at
Cornell (1-3)
If anybody shows up to this one, there's even less to do in Ithaca, N.Y., than anyone ever thought.
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