2018 Cornell Big Red football team

	2018 Ivy League football standings
	† – Conference champion ; The Ivy League does not participate in the FCS Playoffs. ; Rankings from STATS FCS Poll;

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. They finished the season 3–7, 2–5 in Ivy League play to finish in seventh place.

Previous season[]

The Big Red finished the 2017 season 3–7, 3–4 in Ivy League play, to finish tied for fifth place.

Cornell vs Columbia at Wien Stadium, November 17, 2018

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.^[1] Homecoming coincided with the home opener against Yale on September 22.^[2]

Cornell's 0–66 loss to Princeton on October 27 was its worst defeat since a 0–77 defeat by Harvard in 1890, 128 years earlier.^[3]

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 15	3:30 p.m.	at Delaware*	Delaware Stadium Newark, DE	BHAA	L 10–27	14,511
September 22	3:00 p.m.	Yale	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	ESPN+	L 24–30	12,801
September 29	1:30 p.m.	Sacred Heart*	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	ESPN+	W 43–24	3,620
October 6	1:30 p.m.	Harvard	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	ESPN+	W 28–24	8,040
October 13	12:00 p.m.	at No. 20 Colgate*	Andy Kerr Stadium Hamilton, NY (rivalry)	PL Net	L 0–31	3,112
October 20	1:00 p.m.	at Brown	Brown Stadium Providence, RI	ESPN+	W 34–16	3,886
October 27	1:00 p.m.	at No. 19 Princeton	Princeton University Stadium Princeton, NJ	ESPN+	L 0–66	4,200
November 2	6:00 p.m.	Penn	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY (Trustees' Cup)	ESPNU	L 7–20	1,056
November 10	1:30 p.m.	No. 25 Dartmouth	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY (rivalry)	ESPN+	L 24–35	3,604
November 17	1:00 p.m.	at Columbia	Wien Stadium New York, NY (Empire State Bowl)	ESPN+	L 21–24	4,651
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from STATS Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern time

	1	2	3	4	OT
Big Red	3	0	0	7	10
Fightin' Blue Hens	7	7	0	13	27

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
0–1	September 16, 2017	L, 14–41

	1	2	3	4	OT
Bulldogs	14	3	6	7	30
Big Red	14	0	0	10	24

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
30–48–2	September 23, 2017	L, 24–49

	1	2	3	4	OT
Pioneers	3	7	7	7	24
Big Red	16	20	7	0	43

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
0–2	October 15, 2016	L, 24–31

	1	2	3	4	OT
Crimson	7	0	10	7	24
Big Red	0	7	7	14	28

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
33–47–2	October 7, 2017	W, 17–14

	1	2	3	4	OT
Big Red	0	0	0	0	0
No. 20 Raiders	7	3	14	7	31

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
49–47–3	September 30, 2017	L, 7–21

	1	2	3	4	OT
Big Red	0	14	7	13	34
Bears	0	10	0	6	16

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
27–37–1	October 21, 2017	W, 34–7

	1	2	3	4	OT
Big Red	0	0	0	0	0
No. 19 Tigers	21	24	7	14	66

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
37–61–2	October 28, 2017	W, 29–28

	1	2	3	4	OT
Quakers	0	3	7	10	20
Big Red	0	7	0	0	7

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
46–73–5	November 18, 2017	L, 22–29

	1	2	3	4	OT
No. 25 Big Green	21	0	14	0	35
Big Red	0	17	0	7	24

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
40–60–1	November 4, 2017	L, 0–10

	1	2	3	4	OT
Big Red	0	7	0	14	21
Lions	10	0	0	14	24

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
65–37–3	November 11, 2017	L, 8–18