Has a College Football game ever ended 23-3?
It has. 23-3 has been a College Football final 67 times in 84,433 games. The first was Amherst beat Bowdoin on October 14, 1905; the latest was Hawai'i beat Portland State on September 14, 2025.
That makes 23-3 the 316th most common final score out of 2,216 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 24-3 has happened 152 times and 23-4 has happened 6 times. At one point the score disappeared for 27 years, between 1934 and 1961.
Every 23-3 in College Football history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-14 | Hawai'i over Portland State | 2025 | |
| 2025-08-30 | Tulane over Northwestern | 2025 | |
| 2024-10-19 | Wisconsin over Northwestern | 2024 | |
| 2023-11-04 | Army over Air Force | 2023 | |
| 2023-09-30 | Miami (OH) over Kent State | 2023 | |
| 2023-09-02 | Ohio State over Indiana | 2023 | |
| 2022-11-19 | Cincinnati over Temple | 2022 | |
| 2021-09-25 | Western Michigan over San José State | 2021 | |
| 2021-09-11 | Air Force over Navy | 2021 | |
| 2021-09-05 | East Tennessee State over Vanderbilt | 2021 | |
| 2015-10-24 | Ole Miss over Texas A&M | 2015 | |
| 2012-09-29 | Stony Brook over Army | 2012 | |
| 2011-10-01 | Clemson over Virginia Tech | 2011 | |
| 2010-11-24 | Miami (OH) over Temple | 2010 | |
| 2008-09-06 | Air Force over Wyoming | 2008 | |
| 2007-09-01 | Wyoming over Virginia | 2007 | |
| 2006-11-26 | UL Monroe over North Texas | 2006 | |
| 2005-09-24 | Miami over Colorado | 2005 | |
| 2005-09-10 | Iowa State over Iowa | 2005 | |
| 2005-09-08 | Oklahoma State over Florida Atlantic | 2005 | |
| 2003-10-04 | Bowling Green over Central Michigan | 2003 | |
| 2002-09-21 | Pittsburgh over Rutgers | 2002 | |
| 2002-09-01 | Utah over Utah State | 2002 | |
| 1999-12-25 | Wake Forest over Arizona State | 1999 | Playoff |
| 1996-08-31 | Arizona over UTEP | 1996 | |
| 1992-11-21 | West Virginia over Louisiana Tech | 1992 | |
| 1992-10-03 | Arizona over UCLA | 1992 | |
| 1989-01-02 | Miami over Nebraska | 1988 | Playoff |
| 1988-09-24 | Miami over Wisconsin | 1988 | |
| 1988-09-10 | Clemson over Furman | 1988 | |
| 1988-09-10 | Army over Holy Cross | 1988 | |
| 1987-09-26 | Temple over Akron | 1987 | |
| 1987-09-05 | West Virginia over Ohio | 1987 | |
| 1986-12-06 | BYU over Air Force | 1986 | |
| 1986-11-08 | Oklahoma State over Kansas State | 1986 | |
| 1986-10-25 | Penn State over Alabama | 1986 | |
| 1984-11-17 | Virginia Tech over Vanderbilt | 1984 | |
| 1984-09-29 | LSU over USC | 1984 | |
| 1983-10-01 | Maryland over Virginia | 1983 | |
| 1981-10-17 | The Citadel over Davidson | 1981 | |
| 1979-10-06 | Wyoming over UTEP | 1979 | |
| 1978-09-30 | Arizona over Iowa | 1978 | |
| 1975-11-08 | Kansas over Oklahoma | 1975 | |
| 1975-11-01 | New Mexico over UTEP | 1975 | |
| 1973-11-24 | San José State over Hawai'i | 1973 | |
| 1973-09-22 | Maryland over North Carolina | 1973 | |
| 1972-11-11 | North Carolina over Virginia | 1972 | |
| 1970-10-31 | BYU over Wyoming | 1970 | |
| 1970-10-03 | Western Michigan over Bowling Green | 1970 | |
| 1969-10-25 | North Carolina over Wake Forest | 1969 | |
| 1967-10-07 | Minnesota over SMU | 1967 | |
| 1966-10-01 | Tennessee over Rice | 1966 | |
| 1965-11-06 | Michigan over Illinois | 1965 | |
| 1962-11-17 | Rice over Texas A&M | 1962 | |
| 1961-10-07 | Duke over Wake Forest | 1961 | |
| 1934-09-29 | Iowa State over Luther | 1934 | |
| 1925-10-03 | Colorado over Montana State | 1925 | |
| 1923-11-10 | Furman over South Carolina | 1923 | |
| 1922-10-07 | Rice over Sam Houston | 1922 | |
| 1916-11-30 | Pennsylvania over Cornell | 1916 | |
| 1916-11-25 | Ohio State over Northwestern | 1916 | |
| 1916-10-14 | South Carolina over Wofford | 1916 | |
| 1915-10-30 | Georgia Tech over North Carolina | 1915 | |
| 1914-10-10 | Michigan over Vanderbilt | 1914 | |
| 1913-10-11 | Harvard over Williams | 1913 | |
| 1912-11-23 | Iowa State over Drake | 1912 | |
| 1905-10-14 | Amherst over Bowdoin | 1905 |