List of NCAA college football rivalry games

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Fisher Stadium's scoreboard in Easton, Pennsylvania following Lafayette College's victory over Lehigh University in the 142nd edition of "The Rivalry" in 2006. The series between the two colleges, which are Template:Convert away from each other in the Lehigh Valley, is the most played rivalry in college football history with 158 meetings since 1884.

Template:Use mdy dates This is a list of rivalry games in college football. The list also shows any trophy awarded to the winner of the rivalry between the teams.Template:Efn

NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision

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Rivalries involving more than two teams

Series Trophy Teams First meeting
Beehive Boot BYU, Utah, Utah State (previously Weber State) 1971
Commander-in-Chief's Trophy Air Force, Army, Navy 1972
Florida Cup Florida, Florida State, Miami (FL) 2002
Michigan MAC Trophy Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan, Western Michigan 2005
Northwest Championship Oregon, Oregon State, Washington, Washington State 1903
Tri-State Big Three Old Ironsides Penn State, Pittsburgh, West Virginia 1900
Sacred Cod Trophy Boston College, Boston University, Holy Cross 1954
Tobacco Road Duke, North Carolina, NC State, Wake Forest 1924

NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision

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Rivalries involving more than two teams

Series Trophy Teams First meeting
Big Three Harvard, Princeton, Yale 1877
Template:Sort Tennessee State, Tennessee Tech, UT Martin (previously Austin Peay) 2007

Rivalries involving FBS and FCS teams

This list is restricted to rivalries whose participants are currently in different Division I football subdivisions, and have played one another while in different subdivisions. Most of these began when both teams competed in the same (sub)division.

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NCAA Division II

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NCAA Division III

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Rivalries involving more than two teams

Series Trophy Teams First meeting
Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium C-B-B Trophy Bates, Bowdoin, Colby 1892
Little Three Amherst, Wesleyan, Williams 1899

Longest continuous NCAA college football rivalries

Template:Synthesis Following are the longest active continuously-played series in NCAA college football.<ref name=FBS>Template:Citation</ref><ref name=FCS>Template:Citation</ref><ref name=DivII>Template:Citation</ref><ref name=DivIII>Template:Citation</ref>Template:Obsolete source Many historic series were interrupted by World War I, the 1918 flu pandemic and World War II. More recently, other longstanding rivalries were terminated by the conference realignments of the early 2010s and early 2020s, or were interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Series Continuous
since 		Series nickname / Trophy NCAA Div. First meeting Series leader Notes
Lehigh–Lafayette 1897 The Rivalry FCS 1884 Lafayette Most played series in college football.<ref name=FCS/> No game played in calendar 2020 due to COVID-19, but played in April 2021 as part of the Patriot League's rescheduled spring 2021 season.
Minnesota–Wisconsin 1907 Paul Bunyan's Axe FBS 1890 Wisconsin Most played series in FBS<ref name=FBS/>
North Carolina State–Wake Forest 1910 NC State–Wake Forest rivalry FBS 1895 NC State
Kansas–Kansas State<ref name=1910x>Template:Cite news</ref> 1911 Sunflower Showdown FBS 1902 Kansas
Iowa State–Kansas State<ref>Template:Citation</ref> 1917 Farmageddon FBS 1917 Iowa State Longest never interrupted series in FBS<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
North Carolina–Virginia<ref>Template:Citation</ref> 1919 South's Oldest Rivalry FBS 1892 North Carolina
Note: The NCAA also lists as "continuous" the following rivalries interrupted by gaps during war years: North Carolina–Virginia (1910–1916, 1919–current); Mississippi–Mississippi State (1915–1942, 1944–current); Auburn–Georgia (1919–1942, 1944–current); Tennessee–Kentucky (1919–1942, 1944–current).<ref name=FBS/> Other rivalries were also interrupted during war years, for example: Harvard–Yale (1897–1916, 1919–1943, 1945–present); Princeton–Yale (1876–1916, 1919–1943, 1945–present); Miami–Cincinnati (1909–1942, 1945–present); and Oregon-Oregon State (1912–1942, 1945–present). The NCAA does not explain how it selects only some interrupted rivalries to count as "continuous."

Longest interrupted NCAA college football rivalries

Following are the NCAA Division I and II series that continued for the most consecutive seasons before being interrupted. Eight of the eighteen series on this list are defunct rivalries from the old Big Eight Conference. Six are rivalries interrupted in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Series Continuous
years 		Length NCAA Div. First meeting Notes / reason for interruption
Oklahoma–Oklahoma State<ref>Template:Citation</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 1910–2023 114 years FBS 1910 Ended by Oklahoma's move to the Southeastern Conference.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Clemson–South Carolina<ref name=FBS/> 1909–2019 111 years FBS 1896 Interrupted in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic
Wabash–DePauw<ref>Template:Citation</ref> 1911–2019 109 years Div. III 1890 Interrupted in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic
Nebraska–Kansas<ref name=FBS/> 1906–2010 105 years FBS 1892 Longest continuous series in FBS before interruption
Ended by Nebraska's move to the Big Ten
Michigan–Ohio State 1918–2019 102 years FBS 1897 Interrupted in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic
Dartmouth–Cornell 1919–2019 101 years FCS 1900 Interrupted in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic
Penn–Cornell 1919–2019 101 years FCS 1893 Interrupted in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic
Purdue–Indiana 1920–2019 100 years FBS 1891 Interrupted in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic
Texas–Texas A&M<ref name=FBS/> 1915–2011 97 years FBS 1894 Ended by Texas A&M's move to the SEC; resuming in 2024 with Texas' move to the SEC
Oklahoma–Kansas<ref name=FBS/> 1903–1997 95 years FBS 1903 Longest continuous series in FBS until annual play ended in 1997
Ended by advent of Big 12 divisional play
Annual play resumed in 2011 with end of Big 12 divisional play, and ended again with Oklahoma's 2024 move to the SEC
Missouri–Kansas<ref name=FBS/> 1919–2011 93 years FBS 1891 Ended by Missouri's move to the SEC
Missouri–Iowa State<ref name=FBS/> 1919–2011 93 years FBS 1896 Ended by Missouri's move to the SEC
Nebraska–Iowa State<ref>Template:Citation</ref> 1921–2010 90 years FBS 1896 Ended by Nebraska's move to the Big Ten
Duke–Georgia Tech<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 1933–2022 90 years FBS 1933 Rivalry pre-dates Georgia Tech's admission into the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) in 1983. Ended by changes to the ACC's scheduling format effective in 2023.
Nebraska–Kansas State<ref>Template:Citation</ref> 1922–2010 89 years FBS 1911 Ended by Nebraska's move to the Big Ten
Nebraska–Missouri<ref>Template:Citation</ref> 1922–2010 89 years FBS 1892 Ended by Nebraska's move to the Big Ten
Ohio State–Illinois<ref>Template:Citation</ref> 1914–2002 89 years FBS 1902 Ended by Big Ten's change to non-round robin scheduling
Presbyterian–Newberry<ref>Template:Citation</ref><ref>Template:Citation</ref> 1919–2006 88 years Div. II 1913 Ended by Presbyterian's move to Division I

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