This is a list of named rivalry games in college football in the United States. The list also shows any trophy awarded to the winner.
Game | Trophy | Teams | First meeting | Final meeting |
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Beehive Boot | BYU, Utah, Utah 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 | ||
The Heartland Rivalry (The Quadrangle of Hate) | Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin | 1890 |
Game | Trophy | Teams | First meeting |
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Big Three | Harvard, Princeton, Yale | 1877 | |
Sgt. York Trophy | Austin Peay, Tennessee–Martin, Tennessee State, Tennessee Tech | 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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Battle for the Red Belt | Red Belt | Murray State | Western Kentucky | 1931 | 2008 | 67 |
Battle of the Bluegrass | Eastern Kentucky | Western Kentucky | 1914 | 2017 | 85 | |
Blue Key Victory Bell | Ball State | Indiana State | 1924 | 2014 | 63 | |
Boston College–Holy Cross | Boston College | Holy Cross | 1896 | 1986[9] | 82 | |
Cajun Crown | Louisiana–Lafayette | McNeese State | 1951 | 2016 | 38 | |
Colgate–Syracuse | Colgate | Syracuse | 1891 | 2016 | 67 | |
Connecticut–Rhode Island | Connecticut | Rhode Island | 1897 | 2009[10] | 93 | |
Cypress Mug | Louisiana–Lafayette | Southeastern Louisiana | 1930 | 2017 | 40 | |
Little Brown Stein | Idaho | Montana | 1903 | 2003[11] | 84 | |
Louisiana–Monroe–Northwestern State | Louisiana–Monroe | Northwestern State | 1952 | 2005 | 48 | |
Mayor's Cup | Temple | Villanova | 1928 | 2017 | 33 | |
Sabine Shoe | Lamar | Louisiana–Lafayette | 1923 | 2012 | 34 |
Game | Trophy | Team | Team | First Year | Latest Year | Meetings |
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Academic Bowl | Academic Bowl | Carnegie Mellon | Case Western Reserve | 1986 | ||
Admiral's Cup | Admiral's Cup | Maine Maritime | Mass Maritime | 1973 | ||
Backyard Brawl | Millsaps | Mississippi College | 1920 | 2013 | ||
Baird Brothers Trophy | Case Western Reserve | Wooster | 1984 | 2011 | ||
Battle For The Border Claw | Border Claw Trophy | East Texas Baptist | Louisiana College | 2000 | ||
Biggest Little Game In America | Amherst | Williams | 1884 | |||
The Book of Knowledge | Carleton | Macalester | 1998 | |||
The Bridge Bowl | Bridge Bowl Trophy | Mount St. Joseph | Thomas More (KY) | 1990 [2] | ||
Bronze Ball | Manchester (IN) | Anderson (IN) | 1945 | |||
The Bronze Turkey Game | The Bronze Turkey Trophy | Knox (IL) | Monmouth (IL) | 1888 | ||
CBB Trophy | Bates, Bowdoin, Colby | 1896 | ||||
Centennial Cup | Hobart | Rochester | 2007 | |||
Cereal Bowl | Goat Trophy | Carleton | St. Olaf | 1919[17] | ||
The Chowder Bowl | SUNY Maritime | Mass Maritime | 2007 | |||
Cortaca Jug | Ithaca | SUNY Cortland | 1942 | |||
Courage Bowl | Rochester | St. John Fisher | 2005 | |||
Battle for the Wagon | Conestoga Wagon | Dickinson | Franklin & Marshall | 1889 | ||
Cranberry Bowl | The Scoop | Bridgewater State | Mass Maritime | 1978 | ||
Doehling-Heselton Memorial Trophy | Lawrence | Ripon | 1893 | |||
The Drum | Pomona–Pitzer | Occidental | 1895[18] | |||
Dutchman's Shoes | RPI | Union (NY) | 1886 | |||
Edmund Orgill Trophy | Rhodes | Sewanee | 1899[19] | |||
Founders Trophy | Chicago | Washington (MO) | 1933 | |||
The Goal Post | Juniata | Susquehanna | 1952 | |||
The Hammer | Augsburg | Hamline | 2005 | |||
Hoffman Cup | Merchant Marine | St. Lawrence | 2003 | |||
I-94 Trophy | Wisconsin–Eau Claire | Wisconsin–Stout | 2008 | |||
Tommie-Johnnie Game | The Holy Grail | St. John's (MN) | St. Thomas (MN) | 1901 | ||
Johns Hopkins–McDaniel rivalry | Maryland Railroad Lantern | Johns Hopkins | McDaniel | 1894 | ||
Gettysburg–McDaniel rivalry | Gettysburg | McDaniel | 1891 | |||
The Game | Westminster (PA) | Geneva | 1891 | |||
Gate City Soup Bowl | Greensboro | Guilford | 1997[20] | |||
The Cuyahoga Gold Bowl | The Cuyahoga Gold Bowl Trophy | John Carroll | Baldwin-Wallace | 1921 | ||
Keystone Cup | Widener | Delaware Valley | 1981 | |||
Little Brass Bell | North Central | Wheaton (IL) | 1946 | |||
Little Brown Bucket | Dickinson | Gettysburg | 1938 | |||
Little Three | Amherst, Wesleyan, Williams | 1899 | ||||
Maple Sap Bucket | Castleton | Norwich | 2009 | |||
Mercer County Cup | Mercer County Cup | Grove City | Thiel | 1983 | ||
Monon Bell Classic | Monon Bell | DePauw | Wabash | 1890 | ||
Occidental–Whittier | Myron Claxton's Shoes | Occidental | Whittier | 1901 | ||
Old Paint Bucket | Hamline | Macalester | 1887 | |||
Old Red Lantern | Denison | Wooster | 1989[21] | |||
Peace Pipe | Pomona–Pitzer | Claremont–Mudd–Scripps | 1959[22] | |||
Pynchon Saw Game | Pynchon Saw Trophy | Springfield College (MA) | Western New England University (MA) | 2013 | 2017 | 5 |
Rocking Chair Classic | Mac-Jack Rocking Chair | Hamilton | Middlebury | 1980 | ||
Oldest College Rivalry West of the Mississippi | Coe | Cornell (IA) | 1891 | |||
The Game (Hampden–Sydney vs. Randolph–Macon) | The Game Ball | Hampden–Sydney | Randolph–Macon | 1893 | ||
The Regents Cup | Salisbury | Frostburg State | 1973 | |||
Seafaring Scuffle | SUNY Maritime | Merchant Marine | 2008 | |||
Secretaries Cup | Coast Guard | Merchant Marine | 1949 | |||
The Stagg Hat | Lycoming | Susquehanna | 1993 | |||
Steven Dean Memorial Trophy | Catholic | Georgetown | 1976 | 1993 | ||
Transit Trophy Game | The Transit Trophy | RPI | WPI | 1894 | 111 | |
Lefse Bowl | The Troll (since 1974)[23] | Concordia (Moorhead) | St. Olaf | 1921[24] | ||
Victory Bell Classic | Victory Bell | Franklin (IN) | Hanover | 1896 | ||
Wagon Wheel | Lewis & Clark | Willamette | 1949 | |||
Wilkes-Barre Mayor's Cup | King's (PA) | Wilkes | 1996[25] | |||
Wooden Shoes Rivalry Trophy | Hope College (MI) | Kalamazoo College (MI) | 1910 |
Following are the longest active continuously-played series in NCAA college football.[26][27][28][29] 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.
Series | Continuous since |
Series nickname / Trophy | NCAA Div. | First meeting | Series leader | Notes |
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Lafayette–Lehigh | 1897 | The Rivalry | FCS | 1884 | Lafayette | Most played series in college football[27] |
Minnesota–Wisconsin | 1907 | Paul Bunyan's Axe | FBS | 1890 | Wisconsin | Most played series in FBS[26] |
Clemson–South Carolina | 1909 | Palmetto Bowl | FBS | 1896 | Clemson | |
North Carolina State–Wake Forest | 1910 | FBS | 1895 | NC State | ||
Oklahoma–Oklahoma State[30][31] | 1910 | Bedlam Series | FBS | 1904 | Oklahoma | |
Kansas–Kansas State[32] | 1911 | Sunflower Showdown | FBS | 1902 | Kansas | |
Wabash–DePauw[33] | 1911 | Monon Bell | Div. III | 1890 | Wabash | |
Iowa State–Kansas State[34] | 1917 | Farmageddon | FBS | 1917 | Iowa State | |
Michigan–Ohio State | 1918 | The Game | FBS | 1897 | Michigan | |
Dartmouth–Cornell | 1919 | Cornell–Dartmouth football rivalry | FCS | 1900 | Dartmouth | |
North Carolina–Virginia[35] | 1919 | South's Oldest Rivalry | FBS | 1892 | North Carolina | |
Penn–Cornell | 1919 | Trustees' Cup | FCS | 1893 | Penn | |
Purdue–Indiana | 1920 | Old Oaken Bucket | FBS | 1891 | Purdue |
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[26] | 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[26] | 1915–2011 | 97 years | FBS | 1894 | Ended by A&M's move to SEC |
Oklahoma–Kansas[26] | 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[26] | 1919–2011 | 93 years | FBS | 1891 | Ended by MU's move to SEC |
Missouri–Iowa State[26] | 1919–2011 | 93 years | FBS | 1896 | Ended by MU's move to SEC |
Nebraska–Iowa State[36] | 1921–2010 | 90 years | FBS | 1896 | Ended by NU's move to Big Ten |
Nebraska–Kansas State[37] | 1922–2010 | 89 years | FBS | 1911 | Ended by NU's move to Big Ten |
Nebraska–Missouri[38] | 1922–2010 | 89 years | FBS | 1892 | Ended by NU's move to Big Ten |
Ohio State–Illinois[39] | 1914–2002 | 89 years | FBS | 1902 | Ended by Big Ten's change to non-round robin scheduling |
Presbyterian–Newberry[40][41] | 1919–2006 | 88 years | Div. II | 1913 | Ended by Presbyterian's move to Division I |