Has an AFL game ever ended 86-61?
Yes. AFL has seen a final score of 86-61 8 times. It first happened on July 6, 1918, when Sydney beat Fitzroy, and most recently on July 28, 2018, when GWS beat St Kilda.
That makes 86-61 the 87th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 87-61 has happened 8 times and 86-62 has happened 4 times. At one point the score disappeared for 54 years, between 1964 and 2018.