2009 Cornell Big Red football team

	2009 Ivy League football standings
	† – Conference champion ; The Ivy League does not participate in the FCS Playoffs ; Rankings from The Sports Network FCS Poll;

The 2009 Cornell Big Red football team represented Cornell University in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by sixth-year head coach Jim Knowles and played their home games at Schoellkopf Field. They are a member of the Ivy League. They finished the season 2–8, 1–6 in Ivy League play to finish in eighth place.

Schedule[]

Cornell's non-conference opponents were Bucknell, Colgate and Fordham. Homecoming took place against Fordham on October 17.^[1]

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
September 19	12:30 PM	Bucknell*	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	W 33–9	9,889
September 26	12:00 PM	at Yale	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	W 14–12	17,654
October 3	1:00 PM	at Colgate*	Andy Kerr Stadium Hamilton, NY	L 23–45	7,123
October 10	12:30 PM	Harvard	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	L 10–28	8,053
October 17	12:30 PM	Fordham*	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	L 27–39	8,231
October 24	12:30 PM	Brown	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	L 14–34	5,117
October 31	1:00 PM	at Princeton	Princeton University Stadium Princeton, NJ	L 13–17	7,100
November 7	12:30 PM	at Dartmouth	Memorial Field Hanover, NH	L 17–20 ^OT	3,706
November 14	12:30 PM	Columbia	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	L 20–30	4,593
November 21	1:00 PM	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 0–34	9,018
*Non-conference game Homecoming All times are in Eastern time

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2009 Ivy League football standings
Team	W		L	W		L
#20 Penn †	7	–	0	8	–	2
Harvard	6	–	1	7	–	3
Brown	4	–	3	6	–	4
Columbia	3	–	4	4	–	6
Princeton	3	–	4	4	–	6
Yale	2	–	5	4	–	6
Dartmouth	2	–	5	2	–	8
Cornell	1	–	6	2	–	8

† – Conference champion The Ivy League does not participate in the FCS Playoffs Rankings from The Sports Network FCS Poll