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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.

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NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision

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Rivalries involving more than two teams

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!Series

!Trophy

!Teams

!First meeting

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|Beehive Boot

|BYU, Utah, Utah State (previously Weber State)

|1971

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|Commander-in-Chief's Trophy

|Air Force, Army, Navy

|1972

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|Florida Cup

|Florida, Florida State, Miami (FL)

|2002

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|Battle for the Michigan MAC

|Michigan MAC Trophy

|Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan, Western Michigan

|2005

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|Northwest Championship

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|Oregon, Oregon State, Washington, Washington State

|1903

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|Tri-State Big Three

|Old Ironsides

|Penn State, Pittsburgh, West Virginia

|1900

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|Sacred Cod Trophy

|Boston College, Boston University, Holy Cross

|1954

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|Tobacco Road

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|Duke, North Carolina, NC State, Wake Forest

|1924

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NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision

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Rivalries involving more than two teams

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!Series

!Trophy

!Teams

!First meeting

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| Big Three

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| Harvard, Princeton, Yale

| 1877

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| Tennessee State, Tennessee Tech, UT Martin (previously Austin Peay)

| 2007

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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.

In this list, the FCS team is in italics.

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NCAA Division II

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NCAA Division III

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Rivalries involving more than two teams

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!Series

!Trophy

!Teams

!First meeting

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| Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium

| C-B-B Trophy

| Bates, Bowdoin, Colby

| 1892

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| Little Three

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| Amherst, Wesleyan, Williams

| 1899

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Longest continuous NCAA college football rivalries

Following are the longest active continuously-played series in NCAA college football. 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.

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! class="unsortable"| Series

!Continuous<br />since

!class="unsortable"| Series nickname / Trophy

!NCAA Div.

!First meeting

!class="unsortable"| Series leader

!class="unsortable"| Notes

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| Lehigh–Lafayette

| 1897

| The Rivalry

| FCS

| 1884

| Lafayette

| Most played series in college football.

| 1911

| Sunflower Showdown

| FBS

| 1902

| Kansas

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| Iowa State–Kansas State

| 1917

| Farmageddon

| FBS

| 1917

| Iowa State

| Longest never interrupted series in FBS

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| North Carolina–Virginia

| 1919

| South's Oldest Rivalry

| FBS

| 1892

| North Carolina

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:<small>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).

| 1910–2023

| 114 years

| FBS

| 1910

| Ended by Oklahoma's move to the Southeastern Conference.

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| Clemson–South Carolina

| 1911–2019

| 109 years

| Div. III

| 1890

| Interrupted in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic

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| Nebraska–Kansas

| 1921–2010

| 90 years

| FBS

| 1896

| Ended by Nebraska's move to the Big Ten

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| Duke–Georgia Tech

| 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.

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| Nebraska–Kansas State

| 1922–2010

| 89 years

| FBS

| 1911

| Ended by Nebraska's move to the Big Ten

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| Nebraska–Missouri

| 1922–2010

| 89 years

| FBS

| 1892

| Ended by Nebraska's move to the Big Ten

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| Ohio State–Illinois

| 1914–2002

| 89 years

| FBS

| 1902

| Ended by Big Ten's change to non-round robin scheduling

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| Presbyterian–Newberry

| 1919–2006

| 88 years

| Div. II

| 1913

| Ended by Presbyterian's move to Division I

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See also

  • Lambert-Meadowlands Trophy (top team in the Northeast)
  • College rivalry#United States
  • List of black college football classics

Notes

References

Further reading