The 2017 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University during the 2017 NCAA Division I FCS football season.

They were led by 24th-year head coach Tim Murphy and played their home games at Harvard Stadium.

They finished the season 5–5 overall and 3–4 in Ivy League play to tie for fifth place.

The Crimson hosted Ivy League foes Brown, Princeton, Dartmouth, and Penn, and traveled to Cornell, Columbia, and Yale for the 134th edition of The Game.

Harvard's non-conference opponents were Rhode Island of the Colonial Athletic Association, and Georgetown and Lafayette of the Patriot League.