List of NCAA college football rivalry games

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.

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.

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.

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. 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
North Carolina State–Wake Forest	1910	NC State–Wake Forest rivalry	FBS	1895	NC State
Kansas–Kansas State	1911	Sunflower Showdown	FBS	1902	Kansas
Iowa State–Kansas State	1917	Farmageddon	FBS	1917	Iowa State	Longest never interrupted series in FBS
North Carolina–Virginia	1919	South's Oldest Rivalry	FBS	1892	North Carolina	-

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	1910–2023	114 years	FBS	1910	Ended by Oklahoma's move to the Southeastern Conference.
Clemson–South Carolina	1909–2019	111 years	FBS	1896	Interrupted in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic
Wabash–DePauw	1911–2019	109 years	Div. III	1890	Interrupted in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic
Nebraska–Kansas	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	1915–2011	97 years	FBS	1894	Ended by Texas A&M's move to the SEC; resumed in 2024 with Texas' move to the 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, and ended again with Oklahoma's 2024 move to the SEC
Missouri–Kansas	1919–2011	93 years	FBS	1891	Ended by Missouri's move to the SEC
Missouri–Iowa State	1919–2011	93 years	FBS	1896	Ended by Missouri's move to the SEC
Nebraska–Iowa State	1921–2010	90 years	FBS	1896	Ended by Nebraska's move to the Big Ten
Duke–Georgia Tech	1933–2022	90 years	FBS	1933	Rivalry pre-dates Georgia Tech's admission into the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1983. Ended by changes to the ACC's scheduling format effective in 2023.
Nebraska–Kansas State	1922–2010	89 years	FBS	1911	Ended by Nebraska's move to the Big Ten
Nebraska–Missouri	1922–2010	89 years	FBS	1892	Ended by Nebraska's move to the 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