What are the 15 longest college football rivalries?

Answer 1

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As of the START of the 2007 Season, these are the most played (not necessarily longest) rivalries in football history...

In the Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Div IA):*

01. 116 games - Minnesota v Wisconsin (1890)
02. 115 games - Kansas v Missouri (1891)
03. 113 games - Nebraska v Kansas (1892)
04. 113 games - Texas v Texas A&M (1894)
05. 111 games - Miami (OH) v Cincinnati (1888)
06. 111 games - N. Carolina v Virginia (1892)
07. 110 games - Georgia v Auburn (1892)
08. 110 games - Oregon v Oregon St (1894)
09. 109 games - Purdue v Indiana (1891)
10. 109 games - Stanford v California (1892)
11. 107 games - Navy v Army (1890)
12. 106 games - Utah v Utah St (1892)
13. 104 games - Clemson v S. Carolina (1896)
14. 104 games - Baylor v TCU (1899)
15. 104 games - Kansas v Kansas St. (1902)

In the Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Div IAA):*

01. 142 games - Lafyette v Lehigh (1884)
02. 129 games - Yale v Princeton (1873)
03. 123 games - Yale v Harvard (1875)
04. 116 games - William & Mary v Ricmond (1898)
05. 113 games - Penn v Cornell (1893)
06. 111 games - Yale v Brown (1880)
07. 110 games - Harvard v Dartmouth (1882)

08. 109 games - Montana v Montana St (1897)
09. 106 games - Harvard v Brown (1893)
10. 99 games - Princeton v Harvard (1877)
11. 98 games - Princeton v Penn (1876)
12. 94 games - Cornell v Columbia (1889)
13. 94 games - Illinois St v Eastern Illinois (1901)
14. 94 games - New Hampshire v Maine (1903)
15. 90 games - Connecticut v Rhode Island (1897 - Uconn moved to Div IA in 2002)

In Division II Football:*

01. 110 games - N. Dakota v N. Dakota St. (1894)
02. 104 games - S. Dakota v S. Dakota St. (1889)
03. 103 games - Emporia St. v. Washburn (1899)
04. 97 games - Virginia St. v Virginia Union (1900)
05. 95 games - Tuskegee v Morehouse (1902)
06. 95 games - Presbyterian v Newberry (1913)
07. 92 games - N. Dakota St. v S. Dakota St. (1903 - Both teams moving to Div IAA)
08. 91 games - S. Dakota v Morningside (1898)
09. 90 games - Truman v Central Mo. (1905)
10. 88 games - Colorado Mines v Colorado College (1889)
11. 87 games - Pittsburgh St. v Emporia St. (1915)
12. 86 games - Catawba v Lenoir-Rhyne (1907)
13. 86 games - Truman v Northwest Mo. St. (1908)
14. 84 games - Central Arkansas v Arkansas Tech (1911)
15. 83 games - Virginia Union v Hampton (1906)

In Division III Football:*

01. 121 games - Williams v Amherst (1881)
02. 120 games - Albion v Kalamazoo (1896)
03. 118 games - Monmouth v Knox (1888)
04. 118 games - Bowdoin v Colby (1892)
05. 116 games - Coe v Cornell College (1891)
06. 113 games - Wabash v Depauw (1890)
07. 112 games - Williams v Wesleyan-Conn. (1881)
08. 112 games - Amherst v Wesleyan-Conn. (1882)
09. 112 games - Hampden-Sydney v Randolph-Macon (1893)
10. 109 games - Bowdoin v Bates (1889)
11. 109 games - Colby v Bates (1889)

12. 109 games - Montana State v Montana (1897)
13. 108 games - Occidental v Pomona-Pitzer (1895)
14. 107 games - Hamline v Macalester (1887)
15. 106 games - Trinity-Conn. v Wesleyan-Conn. (1885)
15. 106 games - Ripon v Lawrence (1893)

Interested in the longest High School Rivalries...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high_school_football_rivalries_(100_years+)

*Compiled from NCAA history books