| Year: | 2018 |
| Team: | Cornell Big Red |
| Sport: | football |
| Conference: | Ivy League |
| Short Conf: | Ivy |
| Record: | 3–7 |
| Conf Record: | 2–5 |
| Head Coach: | David Archer |
| Hc Year: | 6th |
| Off Coach: | Joe Villapiano |
| Oc Year: | 2nd |
| Def Coach: | Jared Backus |
| Dc Year: | 6th |
| Captain: | J. Edward Keating, Reis Seggebruch |
| Stadium: | Schoellkopf Field |
The 2018 Cornell Big Red football team represented Cornell University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season as a member of the Ivy League. They were led by sixth-year head coach David Archer and played their home games at Schoellkopf Field. Cornell finished the season 3–7 overall 2–5 in Ivy League play to place seventh. Cornell averaged 6,601 fans per game.
The 2018 schedule consisted of five home and five away games. The Big Red hosted Ivy League foes Yale, Harvard, Penn, and Dartmouth, and traveled to Brown, Princeton, and Columbia.
In 2018, Cornell's non-conference opponents were Delaware of the Colonial Athletic Association, Sacred Heart of the Northeast Conference, and Colgate of the Patriot League. Homecoming coincided with the home opener against Yale on September 22.
Cornell's 66–0 loss to Princeton on October 27 was its worst defeat since a 77–0 defeat by Harvard in 1890, 128 years earlier.[1]
See also: 2018 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team.
See also: 2018 Yale Bulldogs football team.
See also: 2018 Sacred Heart Pioneers football team.
See also: 2018 Harvard Crimson football team.
See also: 2018 Colgate Raiders football team.
See also: 2018 Brown Bears football team.
See also: 2018 Princeton Tigers football team.
See also: 2018 Penn Quakers football team.
See also: 2018 Dartmouth Big Green football team.
See also: 2018 Columbia Lions football team.