2008 Cornell Big Red football team

2008 Cornell Big Red football
Conference	Ivy League
Record	4–6 (2–5 Ivy)
Head coach	Jim Knowles (5th season)
Offensive coordinator	Bruce Barnum (2nd season)
Defensive coordinator	Clayton Carlin (2nd season)
Captain	Tommy Bleymaier, Nathan Ford, Graham Rihn
Home stadium	Schoellkopf Field (Capacity: 25,597)

2008 Ivy League football standings

	Conf							Overall
Team		W		L					W		L
No. 15 Harvard +		6	–	1					9	–	1
Brown +		6	–	1					7	–	3
Penn		5	–	2					6	–	4
Yale		4	–	3					6	–	4
Princeton		3	–	4					4	–	6
Cornell		2	–	5					4	–	6
Columbia		2	–	5					2	–	8
Dartmouth		0	–	7					0	–	10
+ – Conference co-champions Rankings from The Sports Network poll

The 2008 Cornell Big Red football team represented Cornell University in the 2008 NCAA Division I FCS football season as a member of the Ivy League. They were led by fifth-year head coach Jim Knowles and played their home games at Schoellkopf Field. Cornell finished the season 4–6, 2–5 in Ivy League play to finish in sixth place.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 20	6:00 p.m.	at Bucknell*	Christy Mathewson–Memorial Stadium Lewisburg, PA		W 21–20	5,173
September 27	1:00 p.m.	Yale	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY		W 17–14	13,142
October 4	12:30 p.m.	at Lehigh*	Goodman Stadium Bethlehem, PA		W 25–24	10,460
October 11	Noon	at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	Versus	L 17–38	11,263
October 18	1:00 p.m.	Colgate*	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY (rivalry)		L 22–38	8,542
October 25	12:30 p.m.	at Brown	Brown Stadium Providence, RI		L 7–27	9,298
November 1	1:00 p.m.	Princeton	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY		L 26–31	7,122
November 8	1:00 p.m.	Dartmouth	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY (rivalry)		W 37–14	4,132
November 15	12:30 p.m.	at Columbia	Wien Stadium New York, NY (rivalry)		L 7–17	3,811
November 22	1:00 p.m.	Penn	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY (rivalry)		L 6–23	2,437
*Non-conference game Homecoming All times are in Eastern time