Has an AFL game ever ended 120-96?
It has. 120-96 has been a AFL final 3 times in 17,053 games. The first was Hawthorn beat Carlton on August 3, 1974; the latest was Collingwood beat Carlton on August 4, 2007.
That makes 120-96 the 1599th most common final score out of 6,649 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 121-96 has happened 1 times and 120-97 has happened 4 times. At one point the score disappeared for 26 years, between 1974 and 2000.