Has a College Football game ever ended 17-12?
Yes. College Football has seen a final score of 17-12 70 times. It first happened on November 24, 1898, when Cincinnati beat Dartmouth, and most recently on October 7, 2023, when Clemson beat Wake Forest.
That makes 17-12 the 303rd most common final score out of 2,215 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 18-12 has happened 33 times and 17-13 has happened 224 times. At one point the score disappeared for 33 years, between 1925 and 1958.
Every 17-12 in College Football history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-10-07 | Clemson over Wake Forest | 2023 | |
| 2021-11-06 | Iowa over Northwestern | 2021 | |
| 2020-09-26 | Texas A&M over Vanderbilt | 2020 | |
| 2019-10-12 | Penn State over Iowa | 2019 | |
| 2019-09-21 | Miami over Central Michigan | 2019 | |
| 2016-12-28 | Minnesota over Washington State | 2016 | Playoff |
| 2015-10-09 | Washington over USC | 2015 | |
| 2014-10-02 | UCF over Houston | 2014 | |
| 2014-08-30 | Wyoming over Montana | 2014 | |
| 2011-11-12 | South Carolina over Florida | 2011 | |
| 2007-11-10 | Mississippi State over Alabama | 2007 | |
| 2006-11-25 | Tennessee over Kentucky | 2006 | |
| 2006-09-09 | UAB over East Carolina | 2006 | |
| 2003-09-04 | Southern Miss over UAB | 2003 | |
| 2002-10-19 | California over UCLA | 2002 | |
| 2001-10-27 | Louisiana over UL Monroe | 2001 | |
| 2001-09-08 | Illinois over Northern Illinois | 2001 | |
| 2000-10-14 | Utah State over North Texas | 2000 | |
| 1999-09-18 | Cincinnati over Wisconsin | 1999 | |
| 1998-09-12 | Idaho over San José State | 1998 | |
| 1996-11-29 | Nebraska over Colorado | 1996 | |
| 1995-11-18 | UTEP over New Mexico | 1995 | |
| 1995-11-18 | Miami over West Virginia | 1995 | |
| 1994-11-12 | Miami over Pittsburgh | 1994 | |
| 1994-09-10 | Rutgers over West Virginia | 1994 | |
| 1992-11-07 | Ole Miss over Memphis | 1992 | |
| 1992-09-19 | Duke over Rice | 1992 | |
| 1991-10-12 | Memphis over Southern Miss | 1991 | |
| 1988-09-10 | Eastern Michigan over Youngstown State | 1988 | |
| 1987-09-19 | Toledo over Ohio | 1987 | |
| 1986-10-11 | Colorado over Missouri | 1986 | |
| 1985-10-31 | UNLV over New Mexico State | 1985 | |
| 1984-11-24 | Kentucky over Tennessee | 1984 | |
| 1984-09-15 | Central Michigan over East Carolina | 1984 | |
| 1984-09-01 | Missouri State over Drake | 1984 | |
| 1982-11-20 | BYU over Utah | 1982 | |
| 1982-10-09 | Miami (OH) over Bowling Green | 1982 | |
| 1980-11-01 | Temple over Louisville | 1980 | |
| 1980-11-01 | Duke over Georgia Tech | 1980 | |
| 1980-10-11 | Long Beach State over Pacific | 1980 | |
| 1979-09-29 | USC over LSU | 1979 | |
| 1978-09-30 | Eastern Michigan over Toledo | 1978 | |
| 1975-10-25 | Dayton over McNeese | 1975 | |
| 1975-09-20 | Iowa State over Air Force | 1975 | |
| 1972-10-21 | New Mexico State over Texas-Arlington | 1972 | |
| 1971-10-23 | Air Force over Colorado State | 1971 | |
| 1971-01-01 | Nebraska over LSU | 1970 | Playoff |
| 1970-11-21 | Brown over Columbia | 1970 | |
| 1968-11-30 | California over Hawai'i | 1968 | |
| 1968-11-09 | Samford over Furman | 1968 | |
| 1968-09-28 | North Texas over Colorado State | 1968 | |
| 1967-09-30 | Iowa State over New Mexico | 1967 | |
| 1965-10-09 | Virginia Tech over George Washington | 1965 | |
| 1964-11-21 | Princeton over Cornell | 1964 | |
| 1964-09-12 | UCLA over Pittsburgh | 1964 | |
| 1963-12-07 | Alabama over Miami | 1963 | |
| 1963-11-02 | Texas over SMU | 1963 | |
| 1963-09-28 | Oklahoma over USC | 1963 | |
| 1961-10-07 | Xavier over Cincinnati | 1961 | |
| 1960-11-26 | Navy over Army | 1960 | |
| 1958-11-15 | New Mexico over Colorado State | 1958 | |
| 1925-11-28 | Washington State over USC | 1925 | |
| 1919-10-18 | Baylor over Austin | 1919 | |
| 1908-10-31 | North Carolina over Richmond | 1908 | |
| 1907-11-23 | Vanderbilt over Sewanee | 1907 | |
| 1907-11-09 | Arkansas over Tulane | 1907 | |
| 1907-11-06 | LSU over Arkansas | 1907 | |
| 1905-11-30 | Iowa State over Drake | 1905 | |
| 1903-11-14 | Columbia over Cornell | 1903 | |
| 1898-11-24 | Cincinnati over Dartmouth | 1898 |