Has a College Football game ever ended 17-5?
Yes. College Football has seen a final score of 17-5 39 times. It first happened on October 8, 1898, when Worcester Polytechnic Institute beat Tufts, and most recently on September 22, 2018, when Central Michigan beat Maine.
That makes 17-5 the 485th most common final score out of 2,217 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 18-5 has happened 22 times and 17-6 has happened 149 times. Nearly all of its occurrences fall between 1890 and 1919. At one point the score disappeared for 65 years, between 1910 and 1975.
Every 17-5 in College Football history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-09-22 | Central Michigan over Maine | 2018 | |
| 2011-11-12 | Missouri over Texas | 2011 | |
| 2008-09-13 | Iowa over Iowa State | 2008 | |
| 1978-09-09 | Mississippi State over North Texas | 1978 | |
| 1975-09-13 | Tennessee Tech over Furman | 1975 | |
| 1910-10-29 | Pennsylvania over Carlisle | 1910 | |
| 1909-11-25 | Auburn over Georgia | 1909 | |
| 1909-11-20 | Parris Island Marines over The Citadel | 1909 | |
| 1909-10-09 | Clemson over Davidson | 1909 | |
| 1909-10-08 | Haskell over Barnes Medical | 1909 | |
| 1905-11-18 | Texas A&M over Baylor | 1905 | |
| 1904-11-24 | Virginia Tech over VMI | 1904 | |
| 1904-11-05 | Sewanee over Texas A&M | 1904 | |
| 1904-10-22 | Notre Dame over Ohio Medical | 1904 | |
| 1904-10-22 | Ole Miss over Mississippi State | 1904 | |
| 1904-09-24 | Beloit over Rockford High | 1904 | |
| 1903-11-07 | Kansas over Oklahoma | 1903 | |
| 1903-10-24 | Yale over Army | 1903 | |
| 1903-10-24 | Williams over Syracuse | 1903 | |
| 1902-11-27 | Kansas over Missouri | 1902 | |
| 1902-11-22 | Bucknell over Maryland-Baltimore | 1902 | |
| 1902-11-20 | Kansas over Emporia State University | 1902 | |
| 1902-11-08 | Texas A&M over Tulane | 1902 | |
| 1902-11-08 | Minnesota over Illinois | 1902 | |
| 1902-10-18 | Bates over Boston College | 1902 | |
| 1901-11-23 | Holy Cross over Tufts | 1901 | |
| 1900-11-03 | Illinois over Purdue | 1900 | |
| 1900-11-03 | Harvard over Pennsylvania | 1900 | |
| 1900-10-27 | Princeton over Brown | 1900 | |
| 1900-10-27 | Harvard over Carlisle | 1900 | |
| 1900-10-17 | Pennsylvania over Penn State | 1900 | |
| 1900-10-06 | Chicago over Purdue | 1900 | |
| 1899-12-02 | Army over Navy | 1899 | |
| 1899-11-30 | Wisconsin over Michigan | 1899 | |
| 1899-11-30 | Indiana over Purdue | 1899 | |
| 1899-11-04 | Wisconsin over Wisconsin Alumni | 1899 | |
| 1899-10-21 | Tufts over Bowdoin | 1899 | |
| 1898-11-12 | Chicago A.C. over Dartmouth | 1898 | |
| 1898-10-08 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute over Tufts | 1898 |
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