Has a College Football game ever ended 20-8?
It has. 20-8 has been a College Football final 19 times in 84,433 games. The first was Dartmouth beat Wesleyan (CT) on October 26, 1892; the latest was Michigan beat Illinois on August 31, 1996.
That makes 20-8 the 743rd most common final score out of 2,216 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 21-8 has happened 23 times and 20-9 has happened 68 times. At one point the score disappeared for 29 years, between 1897 and 1926.
Every 20-8 in College Football history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996-08-31 | Michigan over Illinois | 1996 | |
| 1985-11-16 | Arizona over Oregon | 1985 | |
| 1977-09-17 | McNeese over West Texas A&M | 1977 | |
| 1976-11-06 | Harvard over Pennsylvania | 1976 | |
| 1976-10-09 | Northwestern State over Nicholls | 1976 | |
| 1975-09-06 | Akron over Marshall | 1975 | |
| 1971-10-09 | Davidson over Bucknell | 1971 | |
| 1961-11-18 | New Mexico over Colorado State | 1961 | |
| 1961-10-07 | Holy Cross over Buffalo | 1961 | |
| 1959-10-09 | Utah over BYU | 1959 | |
| 1959-10-03 | Rutgers over UConn | 1959 | |
| 1958-10-18 | Illinois over Minnesota | 1958 | |
| 1958-09-26 | Denver over Utah State | 1958 | |
| 1936-09-26 | Denver over Colorado School Of Mines | 1936 | |
| 1934-10-06 | William & Mary over Emory & Henry College | 1934 | |
| 1927-11-19 | Creighton over Saint Louis | 1927 | |
| 1926-10-02 | Grinnell over Simpson College (IA) | 1926 | |
| 1897-10-16 | Tufts over Bowdoin | 1897 | |
| 1892-10-26 | Dartmouth over Wesleyan (CT) | 1892 |