2024 Cornell Big Red football team

The team was led by first-year head coach Dan Swanstrom and played its home games at Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, New York.

After opening the Ivy League portion of the schedule with an upset win against pre-season Ivy League favorite Yale on September 28 and a Friday night loss against Harvard on October 11, the Big Red alternated wins and losses for the remainder of the season, including a second upset victory against first place Dartmouth.

[1] On December 7, 2023, Cornell University Athletics announced the hiring of Dan Swanstrom as head coach to succeed Archer.

Cornell will host Ivy League opponents Yale, Harvard, Penn, and Dartmouth, and will travel to Brown, Princeton, and Columbia.

Colgate again tied the game, concluding first quarter scoring with a 27-yard touchdown pass from Jake Stearney to Brady Hutchison.

The Big Red's final points of the game resulted from a 1-yard touchdown pass from Wang to Johntu Reed with 2:36 remaining.

[10] Cornell returned home to Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, New York on Saturday, September 28, for its Ivy League opener and homecoming game against Yale University.

Yale tied the score with an 8-yard touchdown pass of its own later in the first before the Big Red added two field goals to take a 13–7 lead into the second.

Yale did not score again in the first half, however, and Cornell recorded two additional touchdowns on long plays—a 39-yard pass, again from Wang to Lee, and a 37-yard Ean Pope rush—to take a 27–14 lead into halftime.

On its next possession, Cornell scored on a 68-yard touchdown pass from Wang to Ryder Kurtz concluding a three-play, 75-yard drive to expand the lead to seventeen (the point after attempt was unsuccessful).

[12] In the second game of a three-game homestand, on Saturday, October 5, Cornell hosted the University at Albany, SUNY of the CAA.

Cornell took a one-point lead late in the second quarter, scoring a touchdown on a four-yard pass from Jameson Wang to Parker Woodring at the conclusion of an 8-play, 75-yard drive.

[14][15] Cornell hosted Ivy League opponent Harvard University in the final match of its initial three game homestand.

Harvard scored the first points of the second half, a two-yard touchdown pass after the Big Red and Crimson exchanged scoreless possessions to begin the third quarter.

Cornell recorded the final points of the game, a 5-yard touchdown pass from Wang to Samuel Musungu late in the third quarter, followed by an unsuccessful two-point conversion attempt.

[16] Returning to the road, the Cornell Big Red travelled to Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania on Saturday, October 19.

[18][19] To begin the second half and final stretch of the Ivy League season, the Cornell Big Red travelled to Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island on Saturday, October 26.

[24][25] For their final home game of the season, the Cornell Big Red played League-leading Dartmouth College on Saturday, November 16.

[26][27] To conclude the 2024 season, the Cornell Big Red traveled to rival Columbia University for the Empire State Bowl on Saturday, November 23.

Cornell lost to Columbia , 9–17
Columbia vs. Cornell