This is a list of

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games in

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in the United States. The list also shows any trophy awarded to the winner of the rivalry between the teams.

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 (sub)division. In this list, the FCS team is in ''italics''.

NCAA Division II

NCAA Division III

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Rivalries involving more than two teams

Longest continuous NCAA college football rivalries

Following are the longest active continuously-played series in NCAA

. Many historic series were interrupted by World War I, the

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and World War II. More recently, other longstanding rivalries were terminated by the

2010–2014 NCAA conference realignment 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...

or were interrupted by the

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. :''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."''

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 sixteen series on this list are defunct rivalries from the old

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. Six are rivalries interrupted in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

NCAA Division II

NCAA Division III

Rivalries involving more than two teams

Longest continuous NCAA college football rivalries

Longest interrupted NCAA college football rivalries

See also

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