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.
^The list only shows games that have an associated Wikipedia article for either the name of the game or the trophy. Other series have been played more times than games listed here that have no Wikipedia article. For example, in the FBS, Washington State and Oregon State have played more than 100 times, and in the FCS, Harvard and Brown have played over 100 times.
^Rivalry ended after the 2023 season, with West Georgia moving to Division I FCS in 2024.
^Rivalry ended after the 2008 season, when Western Washington cut its football program.
^Rivalry ended after the 2006 season, with Presbyterian moving to Division I FCS in 2007.
^Rivalry ended in 2019 due to Florida Tech cutting its football program.
^Rivalry ended when St. Cloud State cut its football program in fall of 2020.
^Rivalry ended when Mississippi College cut its football program after finishing 2024 season.[22]
^Rivalry ended after the 2017 season, with North Alabama moving to Division I FCS in 2018.
^Maine Maritime suspended its football program in 2020 due to financial impacts from COVID-19. In 2023, the football program was reinstated, due to play a full DIII schedule in 2025.[29]
^Rivalry ended when Mississippi College rejoined NCAA Division II in 2014.
^The rivalry began between Pomona and Occidental Colleges. Pomona now operates a joint athletic program with Pitzer College, both being among the five undergraduate Claremont Colleges, with the joint program known as Pomona–Pitzer.
^The rivalry began between Pomona and another Claremont College, Claremont McKenna. As noted previously, Pomona now operates a joint athletic program with another Claremont College, Pitzer College, as Pomona–Pitzer. Claremont McKenna is now part of the Claremont–Mudd–Scripps athletic program along with two other Claremont Colleges, Harvey Mudd and Scripps Colleges.
^Thomas More, which had left the NAIA for NCAA Division III in 1990, returned to the NAIA in 2019, and moved to NCAA Division II in 2023.
^This is the year the rivalry began. The Edmund Orgill Trophy was first competed for in 1954.[1]
^The 2020 game, which was intended to be the last in the rivalry, was not held due to COVID-19. St. Thomas involuntarily left the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) in spring 2021, joining the Division I Summit League for most non-football sports and the FCS Pioneer Football League.[46]
^Rivalry ended with Occidental's discontinuation of its football program amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, and Whittier's discontinuation of football following the 2022 season.
^Although King's had played Wilkes nine times before the establishment of the trophy, the first game for the Wilkes-Barre Mayor's Cup was in 1996, per King's College's preview of the 2009 game.
Most played series in college football.[66] 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.
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).[65] 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. Eight of the eighteen 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.
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
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.
