The 2018 Cornell Big Red football team represented

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in the

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as a member of the

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. They were led by sixth-year head coach David Archer and played their home games at

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. Cornell finished the season 3–7 overall 2–5 in Ivy League play to place seventh. Cornell averaged 6,601 fans per game.

Schedule

The 2018 schedule consisted of five home and five away games. The Big Red hosted Ivy League foes

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, Penn, and Dartmouth, and traveled to

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, and Columbia. In 2018, Cornell's non-conference opponents were

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of the

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of the

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, and Colgate of the

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coincided with the home opener against Yale on September 22. Cornell's 66–0 loss to

on October 27 was its worst defeat since a 77–0 defeat by Harvard in 1890, 128 years earlier.

Game summaries

At Delaware

Yale

Sacred Heart

Harvard

At Colgate

At Brown

At Princeton

Penn

Dartmouth

At Columbia

References

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