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Leading into the big game, let’s see how Harvard and Yale stack up across the board. Objective metrics are everything when gauging which school truly is superior.

1. Number of U.S. Presidents (Harvard 5 vs. Yale 3)

Unsurprisingly, Harvard claims the most U.S. presidents as alumni. Technically, Harvard has existed longer than the presidential office (and this country). Five presidents went to Harvard: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy. Three others attended Harvard Law and the Business schools: Barack Obama, George Bush, and Rutherford Hayes.

Yale has had only three presidents: William Howard Taft, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush. Here's the plot twist, though: George W. was literally born and raised in New Haven (Yale's backyard), got his undergrad degree at Yale, and then... transferred to Harvard Business School. We don't make the rules, but actions speak louder than words, don't they? Two other presidents went to Yale Law School: Gerald Ford and Bill Clinton.

2. Books (Harvard 20 million vs. Yale 15 million)

With 20 million books and the oldest library system in the United States, Harvard easily sweeps this round. If Harvard students went to Yale, they would run out of things to read! It’s a good thing we go to a university that’s committed to the intellectual transformation of its students.

3. Nobel Laureates (Harvard 121 vs. Yale 48)

Harvard has produced 121 Nobel Prize Winners — the most in the entire world. The University of Cambridge, for comparison, comes in second with 104. We’re forced to keep scrolling down the list to find Yale. With only 48 Nobel Laureates, Yale is hanging out at number 11 on the global list.

4. Summit Altitudes (Mt. Harvard 14,421 feet vs. Mt. Yale 14,202 feet)

In Colorado’s Collegiate Peaks Wilderness area, Mount Harvard and Mount Yale sit right next to each other in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness, and guess what? As the higher and harder summit, it will forever look down on Mount Yale (both figuratively and geographically). Mother Nature has spoken.

5. Number of laundry poopetrators (Harvard 0 vs. Yale 1)

Okay, this is genuinely the only statistic where Yale wins, and honestly? They can have this one.

The numbers have spoken. Harvard really is superior across the board. We’ll see you at the game, Yalies — we can’t wait to storm the Bowl.