Has a College Football game ever ended 16-5?
It has. 16-5 has been a College Football final 28 times in 84,433 games. The first was Brown beat Newton A.C. on November 5, 1898; the latest was Syracuse beat Columbia on November 26, 1925.
That makes 16-5 the 593rd most common final score out of 2,216 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 17-5 has happened 39 times and 16-6 has happened 158 times. Nearly all of its occurrences fall between 1890 and 1919.
Every 16-5 in College Football history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1925-11-26 | Syracuse over Columbia | 1925 | |
| 1910-11-12 | Virginia Tech over George Washington | 1910 | |
| 1909-11-25 | Sewanee over Vanderbilt | 1909 | |
| 1909-11-25 | Haskell over Nebraska | 1909 | |
| 1905-11-04 | Haskell over Emporia College | 1905 | |
| 1905-10-14 | Chicago over Indiana | 1905 | |
| 1905-09-23 | Brown over New Hampshire | 1905 | |
| 1904-11-19 | University of Rochester (NY) over Tufts | 1904 | |
| 1904-11-05 | Alabama over Georgia | 1904 | |
| 1904-10-01 | Washington University (St. Louis) over Rose-Hulman | 1904 | |
| 1903-11-26 | Colorado State over Utah | 1903 | |
| 1903-11-26 | Colorado School Of Mines over Colorado College | 1903 | |
| 1902-11-08 | Williams over Colgate | 1902 | |
| 1902-11-08 | Vanderbilt over Transylvania | 1902 | |
| 1902-10-18 | Indiana over Depauw | 1902 | |
| 1901-11-09 | Navy over Carlisle | 1901 | |
| 1901-11-02 | Trinity (CT) over New York University | 1901 | |
| 1901-10-19 | Vermont over St. Lawrence | 1901 | |
| 1901-09-29 | Ottawa over Kansas | 1901 | |
| 1900-11-10 | Williams over Amherst | 1900 | |
| 1900-11-03 | Wesleyan (CT) over Dartmouth | 1900 | |
| 1900-10-13 | Cornell over Washington & Jefferson | 1900 | |
| 1899-11-25 | Brown over Dartmouth | 1899 | |
| 1899-10-21 | Trinity (CT) over Massachusetts | 1899 | |
| 1899-10-14 | Carlisle over Pennsylvania | 1899 | |
| 1899-09-30 | Dartmouth over Exeter | 1899 | |
| 1898-11-12 | Amherst over Williams | 1898 | |
| 1898-11-05 | Brown over Newton A.C. | 1898 |