This is a list of rivalry games in college football in the United States of America. The list also shows any trophy awarded to the winner of the rivalry between the teams.[a]
Game | Trophy | Teams | First meeting |
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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 | |
Tobacco Road | Duke, UNC, NC State, Wake Forest | 1888 |
Game | Trophy | Teams | First meeting |
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Big Three | Harvard, Princeton, Yale | 1877 | |
Sgt. York Trophy | Austin Peay, Tennessee State, Tennessee Tech, UT Martin | 2007 |
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.
In this list, the FCS team is in italics.
Game | Trophy | Team | Team | First Year | Latest Year | Meetings |
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Academic Bowl | Academic Bowl | Carnegie Mellon | Case Western Reserve | 1986 | 2019 | 34 |
Admiral's Cup | Admiral's Cup | Maine Maritime | Mass Maritime | 1973 | 2019 | 47 |
Backyard Brawl | Millsaps | Mississippi College | 1920 | 2013[21] | 52 | |
Baird Brothers Trophy | Case Western Reserve | Wooster | 1984 | 2012[22] | 25 | |
Battle for the Border Claw | Border Claw Trophy | East Texas Baptist | Louisiana College | 1947[23] | 2019 | 22 |
Battle for the Drum | The Drum[24] | Occidental | Pomona-Pitzer | 1895[25] | 2019 | 112 |
Battle for the Wagon | Conestoga Wagon[26] | Dickinson | Franklin & Marshall | 1889 | 2019 | 111 |
Battle of Sixth Street | Battle of Sixth Street Trophy[27][28] | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | Pomona-Pitzer | 1959[29] | 2019 | |
Biggest Little Game In America | Amherst | Williams | 1884 | 2019 | 134 | |
The Book of Knowledge[30] | Carleton | Macalester | 1898 | 2019 | 67 | |
The Bridge Bowl | Bridge Bowl Trophy | Mount St. Joseph | Thomas More (KY)NAIA | 1990 | 2013[31][32] | 18 |
Bronze Ball | Anderson (IN) | Manchester (IN) | 1945 | 2019 | ||
The Bronze Turkey Game | The Bronze Turkey Trophy[33] | Knox (IL) | Monmouth (IL) | 1888 | 2019 | 131 |
Centennial Cup[34] | Hobart | Rochester | 1892 | 2019 | 112 | |
Cereal Bowl | Goat Trophy | Carleton | St. Olaf | 1919[35] | 2019 | 100 |
The Chowder Bowl | Mass Maritime | SUNY Maritime | 2007 | 2019 | 12 | |
Cortaca Jug | Ithaca | SUNY Cortland | 1930 | 2019 | 77 | |
Cranberry Bowl | The Scoop[36] | Bridgewater State | Mass Maritime | 1974 | 2019 | 46 |
Cuyahoga Gold Bowl Game | Cuyahoga Gold Bowl Trophy | Baldwin Wallace | John Carroll | 1923[37] | 2019 | 59 |
Doehling-Heselton Memorial Trophy | Lawrence | Ripon | 1893 | 2019 | 119 | |
Dutchman's Shoes | RPI | Union (NY) | 1886 | 2019 | 117 | |
Edmund Orgill Trophy | Rhodes | Sewanee | 1899[38] | 2019 | 87 | |
Founders Trophy | Chicago | Washington (MO) | 1933 | 2019 | 38 | |
Gate City Soup Bowl | Greensboro | Guilford | 1997[39] | 2016 | 20 | |
Gettysburg-McDaniel | Gettysburg | McDaniel | 1891 | 2019 | 73 | |
Goal Post Trophy[40] | Juniata | Susquehanna | 1923 | 2019 | 74 | |
The Hammer[41] | Augsburg | Hamline | 1926 | 2019 | 79 | |
Helmet Trophy | Anna Maria | Castleton | 2009 | 2019 | 11 | |
Tommie-Johnnie Game[43] | The Holy Grail | St. John's (MN) | St. Thomas (MN) | 1901 | 2019 | 89 |
Johns Hopkins-McDaniel | Maryland Railroad Lantern | Johns Hopkins | McDaniel | 1894 | 2019 | 98 |
Keystone Cup[44] | Delaware Valley | Widener | 1977 | 2019 | 42 | |
Lefse Bowl | The Troll Trophy[45] | Concordia (Moorhead) | St. Olaf | 1921 | 2019 | 70 |
Lincoln Football Trophy[46] | Franklin & Marshall | Gettysburg | 1890 | 2019 | 105 | |
Little Brass Bell[47] | North Central (IL) | Wheaton (IL) | 1900 | 2019 | 101 | |
Little Brown Bucket[48] | Dickinson | Gettysburg | 1892 | 2019 | 85 | |
Maple Sap Bucket | Castleton | Norwich | 2009 | 2019 | 11 | |
Mercer County Cup | Grove City | Thiel | 1892[49] | 2019 | 106 | |
Monon Bell Classic | Monon Bell | DePauw | Wabash | 1890 | 2019 | 126 |
Occidental-Whittier | Myron Claxton's Shoes | Occidental | Whittier | 1901 | 2019 | 111 |
Old Red Lantern[50] | Denison | Wooster | 1889 | 2019 | 88 | |
Old Rocking Chair Classic | Mac-Jack Rocking Chair[51] | Hamilton | Middlebury | 1911 | 2019 | |
Oldest College Rivalry West of the Mississippi[52] | Coe | Cornell (IA) | 1891 | 2019 | 129 | |
Paint Bucket[53] | Hamline | Macalester | 1887 | 2019 | 120 | |
Pynchon Saw Game | Pynchon Saw Trophy | Springfield College (MA) | Western New England University (MA) | 2013 | 2019 | 7 |
Seafaring Scuffle | Merchant Marine | SUNY Maritime | 2009 | 2019 | 11 | |
Secretaries Cup | Coast Guard | Merchant Marine | 1949 | 2020 | 49 | |
Steven Dean Memorial Trophy | Catholic | GeorgetownFCS | 1976 | 2019 | 19 | |
The Game | Geneva | Westminster (PA) | 1891 | 2019 | 122 | |
The Game (Hampden-Sydney vs. Randolph-Macon) | The Game Ball | Hampden-Sydney | Randolph-Macon | 1893 | 2019 | 123 |
The Regents Cup | Frostburg StateD-II | Salisbury | 1973 | 2018[54] | 46 | |
The Stagg Hat[55] | Lycoming | Susquehanna | 1949 | 2019 | 55 | |
Transit Trophy Game | The Transit Trophy | RPI | WPI | 1894 | 2019 | 113 |
Trinity-Wesleyan football rivalry | Trinity | Wesleyan | 1885 | 2019 | 119 | |
Victory Bell Classic | Victory Bell[56] | Franklin (IN) | Hanover | 1898 | 2019 | 89 |
Wagon Wheel | Lewis & Clark | Willamette | 1949 | 2019 | ||
War on I-94 Trophy[57] | Wisconsin-Eau Claire | Wisconsin-Stout | 1917 | 2019 | 97 | |
Wilkes-Barre Mayor's Cup | King's (PA) | Wilkes | 1996[58] | 2019 | ||
Wooden Shoes Rivalry Trophy | Hope College (MI) | Kalamazoo College (MI) | 1910 | 2019 | 95 |
Game | Trophy | Teams | First meeting |
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Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium | C-B-B Trophy | Bates, Bowdoin, Colby | 1892 |
Little Three | Amherst, Wesleyan, Williams | 1899 |
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Following are the longest active continuously-played series in NCAA college football.[59][60][61][62][obsolete source] Many historic series were interrupted by the 1918 flu pandemic and World War II. More recently, other longstanding rivalries were terminated by the 2010-2014 NCAA conference realignment and have been (or will be) interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Series | Continuous since |
Series nickname / Trophy | NCAA Div. | First meeting | Series leader | Notes |
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Lehigh-Lafayette | 1897 | The Rivalry | FCS | 1884 | Lafayette | Most played series in college football[60] Ended in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
Minnesota-Wisconsin | 1907 | Paul Bunyan's Axe | FBS | 1890 | Wisconsin | Most played series in FBS[59] |
Clemson-South Carolina | 1909 | Palmetto Bowl | FBS | 1896 | Clemson | Ended in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic |
North Carolina State-Wake Forest | 1910 | NC State-Wake Forest rivalry | FBS | 1895 | NC State | |
Oklahoma-Oklahoma State[63][64] | 1910 | Bedlam Series | FBS | 1904 | Oklahoma | |
Kansas-Kansas State[65] | 1911 | Sunflower Showdown | FBS | 1902 | Kansas | |
Wabash-DePauw[66] | 1911 | Monon Bell | Div. III | 1890 | Wabash | Ended in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic |
Iowa State-Kansas State[67] | 1917 | Farmageddon | FBS | 1917 | Iowa State | |
Michigan-Ohio State | 1918 | The Game | FBS | 1897 | Michigan | Ended in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic |
Dartmouth-Cornell | 1919 | Cornell-Dartmouth football rivalry | FCS | 1900 | Dartmouth | Ended in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic |
North Carolina-Virginia[68] | 1919 | South's Oldest Rivalry | FBS | 1892 | North Carolina | |
Penn-Cornell | 1919 | Trustees' Cup | FCS | 1893 | Penn | Ended in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic |
Purdue-Indiana | 1920 | Old Oaken Bucket | FBS | 1891 | Purdue | Ended in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic |
Following are the NCAA Division I and II series that continued for the most consecutive seasons before being interrupted. Seven of the ten series on this list are interrupted rivalries from the old Big Eight Conference.
Series | Continuous years |
Length | NCAA Div. | First meeting | Notes / reason for interruption |
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Nebraska-Kansas[59] | 1906-2010 | 105 years | FBS | 1892 | Longest continuous series in FBS until ended in 2010 Ended by NU's move to Big Ten |
Texas-Texas A&M[59] | 1915-2011 | 97 years | FBS | 1894 | Ended by A&M's move to SEC |
Oklahoma-Kansas[59] | 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 |
Missouri-Kansas[59] | 1919-2011 | 93 years | FBS | 1891 | Ended by MU's move to SEC |
Missouri-Iowa State[59] | 1919-2011 | 93 years | FBS | 1896 | Ended by MU's move to SEC |
Nebraska-Iowa State[69] | 1921-2010 | 90 years | FBS | 1896 | Ended by NU's move to Big Ten |
Nebraska-Kansas State[70] | 1922-2010 | 89 years | FBS | 1911 | Ended by NU's move to Big Ten |
Nebraska-Missouri[71] | 1922-2010 | 89 years | FBS | 1892 | Ended by NU's move to Big Ten |
Ohio State-Illinois[72] | 1914-2002 | 89 years | FBS | 1902 | Ended by Big Ten's change to non-round robin scheduling |
Presbyterian-Newberry[73][74] | 1919-2006 | 88 years | Div. II | 1913 | Ended by Presbyterian's move to Division I |