He called the game “a playoff of the academic powerhouses.”

ESPN will run a question and answer feature on the players toughest and easiest classes, a feature on World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) wrestler Chris “Harvard” Nowitski ’00 and a feature on star wide-out Carl Morris ’03.

ESPN crews will visit Harvard in the coming week to work on these pieces.

Assistant athletic director John Veneziano said Harvard’s athletic department is thrilled with the added attention.

“Everyone in the office is pumped,” he said. “It’s all we’ve been talking about for about a week now.”

Veneziano hopes that national exposure will “incite greater interest in the Crimson football.”

“We’re hopeful both students and alums will head down to Penn this weekend,” he said. “ESPN and the Ivy Championship, what more can you ask for?”