| 2023 Cornell Big Red football | |
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| Conference | Ivy League |
| Record | 3–7 (2–5 Ivy) |
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| Offensive coordinator | Joe Villapiano (6th season) |
| Defensive coordinator | Jared Backus (10th season) |
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| Home stadium | Schoellkopf Field |
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| Team | W | L | W | L | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Harvard + | 5 | – | 2 | 8 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yale + | 5 | – | 2 | 7 | – | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dartmouth + | 5 | – | 2 | 6 | – | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Princeton | 4 | – | 3 | 5 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brown | 3 | – | 4 | 5 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Penn | 3 | – | 4 | 6 | – | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cornell | 2 | – | 5 | 3 | – | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Columbia | 1 | – | 6 | 3 | – | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2023 Cornell Big Red football team represented Cornell University as a member of the Ivy League during the 2023 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The team was led by tenth-year head coach David Archer and played its home games at Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, New York.
The Cornell Big Red failed to improve on a 5–5 overall, and 2–5 Ivy League, finish during the 2022 season, concluding the 2023 season 3–7 overall, and again 2–5 in Ivy League competition, to place seventh of eight in the conference. Though the Big Red began the season with wins on the road against Lehigh and preseason Ivy League favorite Yale, Cornell was 1–7 thereafter, its sole remaining win a 36–14 victory over Brown. After the conclusion of the season, Cornell athletic director Nicki Moore announced the removal of David Archer from the head coaching position and the appointment of defensive coordinator Jared Backus as his interim replacement.[1]
Six Cornell players won a total of seven all-Ivy League selections, with Cornell leading the League in representation on the all-Ivy second team. Defensive back Paul Lewis won first-team defensive all-Ivy League honors. On offense, lineman and team co-captain Micah Sahakian, quarterback Jameson Wang, and receiver Nicholas Laboy won second-team honors. On defense, linebacker Holt Fletcher also won second-team honors. Jackson Kennedy won second-team honors on special teams, as both placekicker and punter.[2]
- ^ "Cornell Announces Change in Football Leadership". Cornell University Athletics. November 19, 2023. Retrieved November 20, 2023.
- ^ "Ivy League Announces Football All-Ivy, Rookie of the Year & Coach of the Year". Ivy League Athletics. November 21, 2023. Retrieved November 24, 2023.