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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| Series | Trophy | Teams | First meeting | |
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| Beehive Boot | BYU, Utah, Utah State (previously Weber 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 | ||
| Northwest Championship | Oregon, Oregon State, Washington, Washington State | 1903 | ||
| Tri-State Big Three | Old Ironsides | Penn State, Pittsburgh, West Virginia | 1900 | |
| Sacred Cod Trophy | Boston College, Boston University, Holy Cross | 1954 | ||
| Tobacco Road | Duke, North Carolina, NC State, Wake Forest | 1924 |
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| Series | Trophy | Teams | First meeting | |
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| Big Three | Harvard, Princeton, Yale | 1877 | ||
| Tennessee State, Tennessee Tech, UT Martin (previously Austin Peay) | 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.
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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 | |
| Little Three | Amherst, Wesleyan, Williams | 1899 |
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 |
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| 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 | |
| Oklahoma–Oklahoma State[1] | 1910 | Bedlam Series | FBS | 1904 | Oklahoma | The 2023 game was the last for the foreseeable future, with Oklahoma joining the Southeastern Conference for 2024 and beyond.[2] |
| Kansas–Kansas State[3] | 1911 | Sunflower Showdown | FBS | 1902 | Kansas | |
| Iowa State–Kansas State | 1917 | Farmageddon | FBS | 1917 | Iowa State | Longest never interrupted series in FBS[4] |
| North Carolina–Virginia | 1919 | South's Oldest Rivalry | FBS | 1892 | North Carolina |
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). Other rivalries were also interrupted during war years, for example: Harvard–Yale (1897–1916, 1919–1943, 1945–present); Princeton–Yale (1876–1916, 1919–1943, 1945–present); Miami–Cincinnati (1909–1942, 1945–present); and Oregon-Oregon State (1912–1942, 1945–present). The NCAA does not explain how it selects only some interrupted rivalries to count as "continuous."
Following are the NCAA Division I and II series that continued for the most consecutive seasons before being interrupted. Seven of the seventeen 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 | |
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| 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; resuming 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[5] | 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. | |
| 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 |