Has a College Football game ever ended 17-8?
It has. 17-8 has been a College Football final 31 times in 84,433 games. The first was Yale beat Harvard on November 24, 1887; the latest was Western Kentucky beat Army on October 12, 2019.
That makes 17-8 the 555th most common final score out of 2,216 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 18-8 has happened 8 times and 17-9 has happened 63 times. Nearly all of its occurrences fall between 1950 and 1979. At one point the score disappeared for 47 years, between 1909 and 1956.
Every 17-8 in College Football history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-10-12 | Western Kentucky over Army | 2019 | |
| 1990-11-03 | Colorado State over Wyoming | 1990 | |
| 1990-09-29 | LSU over Texas A&M | 1990 | |
| 1983-11-05 | Kentucky over Vanderbilt | 1983 | |
| 1980-09-27 | Georgia Tech over Memphis | 1980 | |
| 1977-10-08 | Virginia Tech over William & Mary | 1977 | |
| 1975-10-25 | Central Michigan over Kent State | 1975 | |
| 1975-10-11 | Colorado State over Oregon State | 1975 | |
| 1975-10-04 | Brown over Pennsylvania | 1975 | |
| 1975-09-20 | Florida State over Utah State | 1975 | |
| 1974-10-19 | Texas Tech over Arizona | 1974 | |
| 1972-10-21 | Northern Illinois over West Texas A&M | 1972 | |
| 1972-09-08 | San Diego State over Oregon State | 1972 | |
| 1971-11-20 | Southern Miss over Virginia Tech | 1971 | |
| 1970-11-14 | Colorado State over Pacific | 1970 | |
| 1969-10-04 | Kent State over Buffalo | 1969 | |
| 1967-09-29 | Penn State over Miami | 1967 | |
| 1966-09-17 | New Mexico over Utah State | 1966 | |
| 1965-11-13 | Harvard over Brown | 1965 | |
| 1965-10-23 | Tennessee over Houston | 1965 | |
| 1965-10-02 | Rutgers over UConn | 1965 | |
| 1963-11-28 | Cornell over Pennsylvania | 1963 | |
| 1963-11-16 | Northwestern over Ohio State | 1963 | |
| 1962-10-13 | Wisconsin over Notre Dame | 1962 | |
| 1959-11-14 | USC over Baylor | 1959 | |
| 1959-11-07 | Holy Cross over Boston University | 1959 | |
| 1958-11-15 | Alabama over Georgia Tech | 1958 | |
| 1956-10-06 | Kentucky over Florida | 1956 | |
| 1909-11-20 | Illinois over Syracuse | 1909 | |
| 1909-11-13 | Virginia Tech over George Washington | 1909 | |
| 1887-11-24 | Yale over Harvard | 1887 |