YOUNGSTOWN - The Youngstown State football team hosts Yale for the first round of the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision tournament after it was selected Sunday, Nov. 23. Yale joins Harvard this year as the first Ivy League team to receive an auto-bid to the FCS playoffs.

Associate Director of Athletic Communications Trevor Parks says the team was excited to play the Ivy League in the playoffs for the first time.

"When it came up, it's kinda historic," he said.

The YSU athletics ticket office reports over 2,800 tickets sold for Saturday's game.

Yale was selected for the playoff bracket after defeating Harvard 45-28 on Saturday, Nov. 22, to earn a share of the Ivy League title with the Crimson.

YSU earned a postseason bid for the first time since 2023. It was selected

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