List of NCAA college football rivalry games
This is a list of rivalry games in college football in the United States. The list also shows any trophy awarded to the winner.
NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision
Rivalries involving more than two teams
NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision
Rivalries involving more than two teams
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 division.In this list, the FCS team is in italics.
NCAA Division II
NCAA Division III
Rivalries involving more than two teams
Longest continuous NCAA college football rivalries
Following are the longest active continuously-played series in NCAA college football. 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 |
| Lehigh–Lafayette | 1897 | The Rivalry | FCS | 1884 | Lafayette | Most played series in college football |
| Minnesota–Wisconsin | 1907 | Paul Bunyan's Axe | FBS | 1890 | Wisconsin | Most played series in FBS |
| Clemson–South Carolina | 1909 | Palmetto Bowl | FBS | 1896 | Clemson | |
| North Carolina State–Wake Forest | 1910 | NC State-Wake Forest rivalry | FBS | 1895 | NC State | |
| Oklahoma–Oklahoma State | 1910 | Bedlam Series | FBS | 1904 | Oklahoma | |
| Kansas–Kansas State | 1911 | Sunflower Showdown | FBS | 1902 | Kansas | |
| Wabash–DePauw | 1911 | Monon Bell | Div. III | 1890 | Wabash | |
| Iowa State–Kansas State | 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 | 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 |
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. 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 |
| Nebraska–Kansas | 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 | 1915–2011 | 97 years | FBS | 1894 | Ended by A&M's move to SEC |
| Oklahoma–Kansas | 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 | 1919–2011 | 93 years | FBS | 1891 | Ended by MU's move to SEC |
| Missouri–Iowa State | 1919–2011 | 93 years | FBS | 1896 | Ended by MU's move to SEC |
| Nebraska–Iowa State | 1921–2010 | 90 years | FBS | 1896 | Ended by NU's move to Big Ten |
| Nebraska–Kansas State | 1922–2010 | 89 years | FBS | 1911 | Ended by NU's move to Big Ten |
| Nebraska–Missouri | 1922–2010 | 89 years | FBS | 1892 | Ended by NU's move to Big Ten |
| Ohio State–Illinois | 1914–2002 | 89 years | FBS | 1902 | Ended by Big Ten's change to non-round robin scheduling |
| Presbyterian–Newberry | 1919–2006 | 88 years | Div. II | 1913 | Ended by Presbyterian's move to Division I |