Has an AFL game ever ended 68-57?
It has. 68-57 has been a AFL final 3 times in 16,622 games. The first was Collingwood beat Carlton on August 1, 1959; the latest was Melbourne beat Essendon on June 26, 2021.
That makes 68-57 the 1534th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 69-57 has happened 4 times and 68-58 has happened 2 times. At one point the score disappeared for 56 years, between 1959 and 2015.