Hopefully, when Tim Murphy and Buddy Teevens worked together at Maine almost 30 years ago, they listened to a lot of Beatles music together.

In particular, track two from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

You see, Teevens is now the head coach at Dartmouth, and this Saturday, Murphy, now the head coach of Harvard, will need a little help from his friend.

Teevens’s squad will be playing Princeton, which sits atop the Ivy League as the lone undefeated team, in the final game of the season. For Harvard, which is in sole possession of second place, a Big Green win coupled with a Crimson victory on Saturday will mean a share of the Ivy League championship.

If Tim Murphy has been checking Twitter update on the Tigers the last two weeks, I can’t blame him. After all, Harvard’s fate lies partially in the hands of Princeton coach Bob Surace.

While Harvard was trashing Columbia, 34-0, Penn was attempting to topple Princeton. But as he tends to do at the end of close games—just ask Coach Murphy—Princeton quarterback Quinn Epperly tossed for a score, and that was the game.

If Murphy needed another downer after watching his team nearly let a 38-0 advantage slip away, all he had to do was pull out his phone last weekend. For just as the Quakers began mounting their own comeback against Harvard, Princeton began pulling away from Yale. Final score: 59-23, Tigers.

Despite how dominant Surace’s team has looked all season, Murphy probably couldn’t ask for a better Ivy team to try to knock off the Tigers. Dartmouth’s only Ivy defeats have come to Harvard and Penn, two close losses to teams that nearly upset Princeton.

Of course, for any of this to matter, Harvard needs to take care of business in New Haven. Sure, the Crimson has won 11 of the last 12 meetings, but Tim Murphy’s boys seem to be a fan of the thriller endings.

In any event, Murphy should send his buddy Buddy a friendly plea for a favor in the form of a well-known Beatles tune. The Crimson will certainly hope that Teevens will recall some nostalgia for the good ol’ Maine days and have Ringo Starr’s voice in his head on Saturday.

But even if Teevens gives the song a listen, will it be enough to knock off the Tigers and give Harvard a share of the title? Read on…

HARVARD (8-1, 5-1 Ivy) at YALE (5-4, 3-3)

This may be the only weekend where the question “We have a football game this weekend?” is not asked at Harvard. Rejoice, Harvard and Yale students who wished they went to a “real” football school—this will be your opportunity to cram into a packed stadium and watch two marching bands do inexplicable things during halftime. Just don’t complain about having to stand—you only do it one game a year (those poor souls at Bama…).

Oh right, the football. Harvard is 8-1, but it hasn’t been playing like an 8-1 team (really? Only 34 points against Columbia?), so I’m going to say that Yale will keep it interesting for a while, but the Crimson will be victorious in the 130th rendition of the Game.

PICK: Harvard 34, Yale 21