Columbia vs Cornell

The Columbia–Cornell football rivalry is the American college football rivalry between the Columbia Lions and Cornell Big Red, the two Ivy League teams in New York State. In 2010, the game was named the Empire State Bowl, and the teams began competing for the Empire Cup. Since 2018, it has been the final game on each team's schedule. Stats wise, Cornell leads 66–39–3.

The men's tennis team at Columbia is the only one with more than five Ivy titles in the last decade. This team has unquestionably been the league's powerhouse in its sport, finishing in the top two every year except for a strange sixth-place result in 2011. The Lions' domination, however, is not limited to the Ancient Eight. Columbia has won seven of the conference's 12 NCAA Tournament games in the last ten years, including multiple games in three different postseasons.

In wrestling, the majority of the other teams on this list have won nearly every recent league championship and have consistently finished towards the top of the league each season. There is no such thing as "nearly" or "near" in Cornell wrestling. The Big Red are the only Ivy team in any sport to have won all ten conference championships in the last decade. In fact, Cornell has won 16 straight outright Ivy championships and 83 consecutive Ivy dual meets dating back to 2003. The fact that the Big Red have averaged one individual national champion per season over the last decade is perhaps the most astonishing aspect of their supremacy. Despite the fact that Cornell has yet to win a national championship as a team, the Big Red finished second in the national championship race.

When it comes to different rivalries, especially in ice hockey, Cornell takes the lead with Harvard and Yale.These figures appear to illustrate Yale's dominance at first glance. In the last five years, though, Cornell has made this rivalry significantly more competitive. Yale was 10-2 all-time against Cornell between 2009 and 2013, winning the 2013 national title, four Ivy titles to Cornell's one, and an 11-0 aggregate scoring advantage in the 2009 and 2011 ECAC Championship games. The Big Red, on the other hand, have stopped being the Bulldogs' little brothers in the decades since. Each club has won two Ivy League championships since 2014, and Cornell leads the overall head-to-head series, 5-2-3. Half of the clubs' ten matches over the last five seasons have gone to overtime, probably the most telling indicator of the rivalry's newfound evenness.This rivalry even extends to the international stage; at the 2018 Winter Olympics, Cornell alum Ben Scrivens represented Canada, while Team USA featured three Yale alumni.

Clearly, the importance of regular season games between both rivals can be seen in the Ivy League crowns; neither team has won the championship in the last ten years. When it comes to facing off in the postseason, however, this rivalry reaches new heights. Harvard and Cornell have met in the NCAA quarterfinals five times in the last decade, including the NCAA quarterfinals in 2010, when the Big Red blew out the Crimson 6-2. Each team has reached the national championship game once, with Cornell losing in 2010 and Harvard winning in 2015. Although the teams are well matched, the Big Red have a significant advantage in creating high-level individual talent: five Cornell grads appeared for the Big Red.