The 2017 Cornell Big Red football team represented Cornell University in the 2017 NCAA Division I FCS football season as a member of the Ivy League.

They were led by fifth-year head coach David Archer and played their home games at Schoellkopf Field.

Cornell finished the season 3–7 overall and 3–4 in Ivy League play to tie for fifth place.

The Big Red hosted Ivy League foes Harvard, Brown, and Columbia, and traveled to Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, and Penn.

In 2017, Cornell's non-conference opponents were Delaware of the Colonial Athletic Association, and Colgate and Bucknell of the Patriot League.