Pennsylvania football Coach Ed Zubrow has seen Yale. He's seen Harvard. He's been beaten by both--badly by Harvard, barely by Yale.

Yale scored a last-second touchdown to down the Quakers three weeks ago. Harvard scored four touchdowns and a field goal and held Penn to only 14 points Saturday.

Zubrow says Harvard is the best team in the league. Well, coach, does that mean Harvard will beat Yale in The Game? Does that mean Harvard will away from New Haven this weekend with its first outright Ivy League crown since 1975?

"I'm told that that's The Game," Zubrow said, "and you never pick The Game."

Okay. Zubrow won't pick The Game. How 'bout Joe Restic? The Harvard coach has been on the Crimson sidelines for 17 years. Surely he has some notion of who's better. If you were a betting man, coach, which team would you put your money on?

"There shouldn't be a favorite in this game," Restic said. "But on pre-season picks, Yale by a long shot."

Give the Elis the edge. After all, they're the home team.

Yo, Yohe: Okay, give Harvard the edge. After all, the Crimson has one of the best quarterbacks in the league in Tom Yohe.

He now owns or shares every major Harvard single-season passing record. He even holds some obscure, gosh-why-does anyone care? marks like most pass attempts in a game (52, against Holy Cross).

How good is Yohe. Coach Zubrow?

"He's a great athlete," Zubrow said. "He's at his best when things break down and it's a free-lance game. He was able to put us in that situation too frequently..."

Coach Restic?

"He has excellent field presence," Restic said. "He knows where those people are. When you break the pattern--this is the tough part for the quarterback--he starts to scramble. But Yohe knows where the people are going to go. It's instinct."

Ryan's Hope: But wait a second, Yale has a good quarterback, too. They've got Kelly Ryan. He's the front-runner for Ivy League Player of the Year. Barring a disaster in The Game (or a great Yohe showing), Ryan, a senior, will win the league's MVP trophy.

Going into last weekend, Ryan had played in five Ivy games and completed 83 of 132 attempts for 1059 yards and four touchdowns. Yohe, on the other hand, had played in five Ivy games and completed 74 of 144 attempts for 1053 yards.