06/09/2026
Major League Baseball’s biggest rivalry hosted a preview of college football’s “biggest little game in the nation” as part of a 2026 Cortaca Jug promotion at Yankee Stadium on June 7, officially kicking off the countdown to the big game.
SUNY Cortland and Ithaca College were featured guests at the Sunday afternoon game between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox. The 67th Cortaca Jug game will take place Saturday, Nov. 14, at Yankee Stadium, providing an iconic backdrop for one of the most famous rivalries in Division III athletics.
Cortland’s Tom Blumenauer and Ithaca’s Brandon Maguire, the head coaches for both football programs, delivered strikes with the game’s ceremonial first pitch. They also joined multiple TV interviews on the YES Network highlighting the November game.
The 67th Cortaca Jug game’s official promo video also premiered on Yanke Stadium’s big screen prior to the first pitch.
With Cortland as this year’s home team, the video relied on the creative talents of several Red Dragons: Andy Fauvelle ’21, director of production and co-founder at Diam Media Group, and Eli Buck ’04, a highly regarded voiceover artist based in Los Angeles.
A photo gallery of Red Dragon fans and the first pitch from the June 7 Yankees-Red Sox game is available online.
Tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster for the 67th Cortaca Jug game in November, with additional weekend details available online.
The rivalry was hosted at Yankee Stadium in 2022 and MetLife Stadium in 2019, with each drawing more than 40,000 fans. Those games rank first and second all-time in NCAA Division III football game attendance.