Has a College Football game ever ended 10-8?
Yes. College Football has seen a final score of 10-8 36 times. It first happened on November 6, 1889, when Lafayette beat Pennsylvania, and most recently on October 12, 1991, when Ball State beat Eastern Michigan.
That makes 10-8 the 504th most common final score out of 2,216 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 11-8 has happened 10 times and 10-9 has happened 106 times. At one point the score disappeared for 32 years, between 1892 and 1924.
Every 10-8 in College Football history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991-10-12 | Ball State over Eastern Michigan | 1991 | |
| 1989-09-16 | Northern Iowa over Kansas State | 1989 | |
| 1983-09-24 | Northwestern over Indiana | 1983 | |
| 1981-11-07 | Clemson over North Carolina | 1981 | |
| 1981-11-07 | Brown over Rhode Island | 1981 | |
| 1981-09-26 | Massachusetts over Dartmouth | 1981 | |
| 1975-09-13 | West Texas A&M over Lamar | 1975 | |
| 1974-11-30 | Louisville over West Texas A&M | 1974 | |
| 1974-09-21 | Indiana State over Southern Illinois | 1974 | |
| 1973-11-24 | Illinois State over Southern Illinois | 1973 | |
| 1973-10-27 | Louisville over Cincinnati | 1973 | |
| 1970-11-14 | Miami (OH) over Kent State | 1970 | |
| 1970-10-10 | Pittsburgh over Navy | 1970 | |
| 1968-10-12 | Pennsylvania over Cornell | 1968 | |
| 1968-10-05 | Ole Miss over Alabama | 1968 | |
| 1967-10-14 | Air Force over North Carolina | 1967 | |
| 1966-10-01 | LSU over Miami | 1966 | |
| 1965-10-30 | Washington State over Oregon State | 1965 | |
| 1964-11-28 | Boston College over Holy Cross | 1964 | |
| 1964-10-31 | Stanford over Oregon | 1964 | |
| 1964-09-26 | Stanford over San José State | 1964 | |
| 1963-11-30 | Auburn over Alabama | 1963 | |
| 1963-10-12 | Marshall over Buffalo | 1963 | |
| 1961-10-14 | The Citadel over William & Mary | 1961 | |
| 1960-10-22 | Illinois over Penn State | 1960 | |
| 1960-10-15 | Washington over UCLA | 1960 | |
| 1959-10-02 | West Virginia over George Washington | 1959 | |
| 1958-11-01 | Georgia Tech over Duke | 1958 | |
| 1957-09-28 | Cal Poly over New Mexico State | 1957 | |
| 1954-09-25 | Princeton over Rutgers | 1954 | |
| 1946-10-26 | Purdue over Pittsburgh | 1946 | |
| 1932-10-01 | Rice over LSU | 1932 | |
| 1924-10-11 | Wake Forest over Washington and Lee | 1924 | |
| 1892-10-29 | Northwestern over Michigan | 1892 | |
| 1892-10-08 | Dartmouth over Springfield | 1892 | |
| 1889-11-06 | Lafayette over Pennsylvania | 1889 |