Cornell, as I’ve said all year, has tremendous upside. Quarterback Jeff Mathews is a serious threat in the air, and is probably the best passer in the Ivies who isn’t wearing a Harvard uniform.

I’ll go with Cornell, but who knows which Dartmouth team decides to show up.

Prediction: Cornell 35, Dartmouth 28

HARVARD (6-1, 4-0 Ivy) at COLUMBIA (0-4, 0-7)

Lions are often associated with prideful and noble imagery. Simba. Richard the Lionheart. Lionel Richie.

The Columbia Lions don’t conform. The team is playing a little bit like the lion with the thorn in its paw, except there’s no mouse there to take out that thorn. As a consequence, that paw has become infected, and it’s slowly spreading into the rest of the lion’s body.

Harvard is probably playing its best football since 2008, the last time the Crimson won the Ivy title. Barring another week of rough conditions, I expect Winters to pick up right where he left off.

Excluding last week’s game against Dartmouth, Harvard’s quarterbacks have thrown 14 touchdowns in a three-game stretch, a program record by a wide margin. Even without passing much last week, the team matched an 1890 mark of four straight 40-point games.

With the state of Columbia’s defense, the Crimson could very easily get to 40 again. And it would be the first time that the team has scored 40-plus in five straight since 1888, when it defeated a smattering local high schools and MIT, among other opponents.

This shouldn’t be close. But who knows—football is a strange game sometimes.

Prediction: Harvard 45, Columbia 9

RECORD LAST WEEK: 4-0 (To date: 20-6)

—Staff writer E. Benjamin Samuels can be reached at samuels@college.harvard.edu.