# 2018 Cornell Big Red football team

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. Cornell finished the season 3–7 overall 2–5 in Ivy League play to place seventh. Cornell averaged 6,601 fans per game.

## Schedule

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. Homecoming coincided with the home opener against Yale on September 22.
Cornell's 66–0 loss to Princeton on October 27 was its worst defeat since a 77–0 defeat by Harvard in 1890, 128 years earlier.
| Date | Time | Opponent | Site | TV | Result | Attendance |
| September 15 | 3:30 p.m. | at Delaware* | Delaware StadiumNewark, DE | BHAA | L 10–27 | 14,511 |
| September 22 | 3:00 p.m. | Yale | Schoellkopf FieldIthaca, NY | ESPN+ | L 24–30 | 12,801 |
| September 29 | 1:30 p.m. | Sacred Heart* | Schoellkopf FieldIthaca, NY | ESPN+ | W 43–24 | 3,620 |
| October 6 | 1:30 p.m. | Harvard | Schoellkopf FieldIthaca, NY | ESPN+ | W 28–24 | 8,040 |
| October 13 | 12:00 p.m. | at No. 20 Colgate* | Crown Field at Andy Kerr StadiumHamilton, NY (rivalry) | PL Net | L 0–31 | 3,112 |
| October 20 | 1:00 p.m. | at Brown | Brown StadiumProvidence, RI | ESPN+ | W 34–16 | 3,886 |
| October 27 | 1:00 p.m. | at No. 19 Princeton | Powers Field at Princeton StadiumPrinceton, NJ | ESPN+ | L 0–66 | 4,200 |
| November 2 | 6:00 p.m. | Penn | Schoellkopf FieldIthaca, NY (rivalry) | ESPNU | L 7–20 | 1,056 |
| November 10 | 1:30 p.m. | No. 25 Dartmouth | Schoellkopf FieldIthaca, NY (rivalry) | ESPN+ | L 24–35 | 3,604 |
| November 17 | 1:00 p.m. | at Columbia | Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien StadiumNew York, NY (rivalry) | ESPN+ | L 21–24 | 4,651 |
| *Non-conference gameHomecomingRankings from STATS Poll released prior to the gameAll times are in Eastern time |||||||

## Game summaries
### At Delaware

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

### Yale

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

### Sacred Heart

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

### Harvard

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

### At Colgate

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

### At Brown

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

### At Princeton

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

### Penn

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Quakers | 0 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 20 |
| Big Red | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 |

### Dartmouth

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

### At Columbia

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