The nerds will finally go to the college football playoffs

It’s a football rivalry so old that it’s merely referred to as “The Game.”

It’s been going on for 150 years, which is longer than football powerhouses such as Alabama, Georgia and Notre Dame have even been playing the sport.

And yet, the last (and only) time either of these rivals appeared in a postseason football game was during Woodrow Wilson’s administration.

All that will come to an end this year: The winner of Saturday’s Harvard-Yale game will be going to the playoffs.

Turns out that arguably the eight most powerful schools in the country that make up the Ivy League – including Harvard and Yale – had been banning themselves from postseason play since World War II.

One big reason is that these schools didn’t want to take part in the increasing commercialization of the college football game – which is now in overdrive.

The self-imposed ban came to an end this past offseason. The culprit? The students. Students from these schools pushed for, and convinced, the league to allow them to take part in playoffs.