Has a College Football game ever ended 10-9?
It has. 10-9 has been a College Football final 106 times in 84,433 games. The first was MIT beat Amherst on October 26, 1889; the latest was Wake Forest beat Kennesaw State on August 29, 2025.
That makes 10-9 the 204th most common final score out of 2,216 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 11-9 has happened 3 times and 10-10 has happened 78 times.
Every 10-9 in College Football history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-29 | Wake Forest over Kennesaw State | 2025 | |
| 2023-09-23 | Old Dominion over East Texas A&M | 2023 | |
| 2022-11-12 | Troy over Army | 2022 | |
| 2022-10-08 | Kansas State over Iowa State | 2022 | |
| 2014-11-08 | Michigan over Northwestern | 2014 | |
| 2014-10-04 | Florida over Tennessee | 2014 | |
| 2011-11-05 | Western Kentucky over Florida International | 2011 | |
| 2010-09-26 | Arizona over California | 2010 | |
| 2009-11-14 | Louisville over Syracuse | 2009 | |
| 2006-11-18 | Tulane over UCF | 2006 | |
| 2006-10-21 | Minnesota over North Dakota State | 2006 | |
| 2005-10-29 | Georgia Tech over Clemson | 2005 | |
| 2004-09-18 | Auburn over LSU | 2004 | |
| 1998-09-12 | Oklahoma over TCU | 1998 | |
| 1996-09-14 | West Virginia over East Carolina | 1996 | |
| 1995-11-04 | Boston College over Temple | 1995 | |
| 1994-10-29 | Oregon over Arizona | 1994 | |
| 1994-10-01 | Tennessee over Washington State | 1994 | |
| 1994-09-01 | Washington State over Illinois | 1994 | |
| 1993-10-09 | Kansas State over Kansas | 1993 | |
| 1992-11-07 | Toledo over Ball State | 1992 | |
| 1992-10-17 | Bowling Green over Toledo | 1992 | |
| 1992-09-05 | Louisiana Tech over Baylor | 1992 | |
| 1991-11-16 | Utah over UTEP | 1991 | |
| 1991-10-12 | West Virginia over Temple | 1991 | |
| 1991-10-05 | Southern Miss over Auburn | 1991 | |
| 1991-01-01 | Colorado over Notre Dame | 1990 | Playoff |
| 1989-11-18 | Delaware over Navy | 1989 | |
| 1988-10-22 | Northern Illinois over Southern Illinois | 1988 | |
| 1987-10-17 | Miami (OH) over Ohio | 1987 | |
| 1986-10-18 | Fresno State over Pacific | 1986 | |
| 1986-10-11 | Pittsburgh over Notre Dame | 1986 | |
| 1985-09-14 | Oklahoma State over North Texas | 1985 | |
| 1984-10-20 | Central Michigan over Miami (OH) | 1984 | |
| 1984-09-15 | Rutgers over Temple | 1984 | |
| 1984-01-02 | Georgia over Texas | 1983 | Playoff |
| 1983-11-05 | Georgia over Florida | 1983 | |
| 1983-10-15 | Toledo over Miami (OH) | 1983 | |
| 1983-09-03 | Indiana State over UL Monroe | 1983 | |
| 1981-10-24 | Long Beach State over Cal State Fullerton | 1981 | |
| 1980-09-27 | Miami over Florida State | 1980 | |
| 1979-11-17 | UConn over Rhode Island | 1979 | |
| 1979-09-29 | Pittsburgh over Temple | 1979 | |
| 1978-11-18 | Southern Illinois over Louisiana | 1978 | |
| 1977-09-17 | Yale over Brown | 1977 | |
| 1976-10-30 | Pennsylvania over Princeton | 1976 | |
| 1976-10-16 | Oregon State over California | 1976 | |
| 1975-09-13 | Delaware over VMI | 1975 | |
| 1973-11-24 | UConn over Holy Cross | 1973 | |
| 1973-11-17 | Michigan State over Indiana | 1973 | |
| 1973-11-10 | Dayton over Louisville | 1973 | |
| 1973-10-20 | Nebraska over Kansas | 1973 | |
| 1973-09-29 | New Hampshire over Dartmouth | 1973 | |
| 1972-09-16 | Tulsa over Wichita State | 1972 | |
| 1971-10-30 | Clemson over Wake Forest | 1971 | |
| 1971-10-23 | Texas A&M over Baylor | 1971 | |
| 1971-09-25 | Auburn over Tennessee | 1971 | |
| 1969-11-29 | Southern Miss over West Texas A&M | 1969 | |
| 1969-09-27 | Kentucky over Ole Miss | 1969 | |
| 1968-10-26 | Buffalo over Holy Cross | 1968 | |
| 1968-10-26 | Baylor over Texas A&M | 1968 | |
| 1968-10-19 | Tennessee over Alabama | 1968 | |
| 1968-09-28 | Brown over Rhode Island | 1968 | |
| 1967-10-28 | Dayton over Ohio | 1967 | |
| 1967-09-30 | New Mexico State over Utah State | 1967 | |
| 1967-09-30 | California over Michigan | 1967 | |
| 1966-11-24 | Oklahoma over Nebraska | 1966 | |
| 1966-11-19 | Colorado over Air Force | 1966 | |
| 1966-10-08 | Mississippi State over Southern Miss | 1966 | |
| 1966-10-08 | Illinois over Ohio State | 1966 | |
| 1965-11-20 | New Mexico over Iowa State | 1965 | |
| 1965-10-09 | Marshall over Quantico Marines | 1965 | |
| 1964-10-17 | Maryland over North Carolina | 1964 | |
| 1963-10-19 | The Citadel over Arkansas State | 1963 | |
| 1963-10-05 | UCLA over Stanford | 1963 | |
| 1963-10-05 | Illinois over Northwestern | 1963 | |
| 1963-09-28 | Idaho over Utah | 1963 | |
| 1961-11-18 | Pittsburgh over USC | 1961 | |
| 1961-11-11 | Montana State over Montana | 1961 | |
| 1958-01-01 | East Texas A&M over Southern Miss | 1957 | Playoff |
| 1942-09-26 | Saint Mary's (CA) Pre-Flight over Oregon | 1942 | |
| 1941-10-11 | Rice over Tulane | 1941 | |
| 1939-11-11 | Auburn over Villanova | 1939 | |
| 1937-11-13 | Clemson over Florida | 1937 | |
| 1937-11-06 | Centenary (LA) over TCU | 1937 | |
| 1930-11-27 | Kansas State over Nebraska | 1930 | |
| 1928-11-03 | Northwestern over Minnesota | 1928 | |
| 1926-11-13 | VMI over Kentucky | 1926 | |
| 1926-11-11 | Kansas over Oklahoma | 1926 | |
| 1925-11-14 | Auburn over Vanderbilt | 1925 | |
| 1925-11-07 | Sewanee over Ole Miss | 1925 | |
| 1925-10-31 | Haskell over Gonzaga | 1925 | |
| 1919-11-29 | Boston College over Georgetown | 1919 | |
| 1918-11-30 | Cleveland Naval Reserves over Pittsburgh | 1918 | |
| 1917-11-29 | Syracuse over Nebraska | 1917 | |
| 1916-10-14 | Susquehanna over Bucknell | 1916 | |
| 1915-11-06 | Ohio State over Indiana | 1915 | |
| 1914-10-24 | North Carolina over Vanderbilt | 1914 | |
| 1914-10-10 | Harvard over Washington & Jefferson | 1914 | |
| 1914-10-03 | Southwestern University over TCU | 1914 | |
| 1912-11-09 | Alabama over Ole Miss | 1912 | |
| 1907-11-02 | Nebraska over Iowa State | 1907 | |
| 1906-11-02 | Texas over Oklahoma | 1906 | |
| 1904-10-15 | Navy over Princeton | 1904 | |
| 1890-11-01 | Franklin & Marshall over Dickinson (PA) | 1890 | |
| 1889-10-26 | MIT over Amherst | 1889 |