Has a College Football game ever ended 25-21?
It has. 25-21 has been a College Football final 51 times in 84,334 games. The first was Washburn beat Rockhurst on November 15, 1940; the latest was BYU beat Georgia Tech on December 27, 2025.
That makes 25-21 the 380th most common final score out of 2,215 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 26-21 has happened 90 times and 25-22 has happened 24 times.
Every 25-21 in College Football history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-27 | BYU over Georgia Tech | 2025 | Playoff |
| 2024-10-26 | Akron over Eastern Michigan | 2024 | |
| 2023-10-21 | Wisconsin over Illinois | 2023 | |
| 2022-10-29 | UCF over Cincinnati | 2022 | |
| 2022-10-15 | Ball State over UConn | 2022 | |
| 2018-09-22 | UTSA over Texas State | 2018 | |
| 2005-11-19 | Ohio State over Michigan | 2005 | |
| 1999-11-20 | Minnesota over Iowa | 1999 | |
| 1998-10-17 | Rutgers over Pittsburgh | 1998 | |
| 1995-10-07 | Southern Miss over Louisville | 1995 | |
| 1995-09-30 | Michigan State over Boston College | 1995 | |
| 1995-09-23 | Utah over Fresno State | 1995 | |
| 1994-11-19 | New Mexico over UTEP | 1994 | |
| 1994-09-24 | California over Arizona State | 1994 | |
| 1987-10-31 | Penn State over West Virginia | 1987 | |
| 1986-10-11 | Army over Tennessee | 1986 | |
| 1983-11-26 | Louisiana over San José State | 1983 | |
| 1983-09-10 | Ball State over Wichita State | 1983 | |
| 1980-09-06 | New Mexico over BYU | 1980 | |
| 1979-10-20 | Northwestern State over Louisiana Tech | 1979 | |
| 1978-10-21 | SE Louisiana over UL Monroe | 1978 | |
| 1978-09-23 | Kentucky over Baylor | 1978 | |
| 1978-09-16 | Villanova over Massachusetts | 1978 | |
| 1977-10-08 | Duke over South Carolina | 1977 | |
| 1977-10-08 | Central Michigan over Northern Illinois | 1977 | |
| 1975-10-18 | Duke over Clemson | 1975 | |
| 1972-11-25 | Rice over TCU | 1972 | |
| 1972-10-28 | Davidson over Bucknell | 1972 | |
| 1972-10-14 | Florida State over Mississippi State | 1972 | |
| 1971-11-13 | Western Michigan over Pacific | 1971 | |
| 1968-11-30 | San José State over BYU | 1968 | |
| 1968-09-28 | San José State over Fresno State | 1968 | |
| 1966-10-29 | Purdue over Illinois | 1966 | |
| 1966-09-17 | Stanford over San José State | 1966 | |
| 1966-09-17 | North Texas over New Mexico State | 1966 | |
| 1965-09-25 | Purdue over Notre Dame | 1965 | |
| 1964-10-31 | UCLA over California | 1964 | |
| 1963-10-05 | Kansas over Wyoming | 1963 | |
| 1962-11-03 | Columbia over Cornell | 1962 | |
| 1962-10-27 | Utah over Idaho | 1962 | |
| 1962-09-22 | New Mexico over Wyoming | 1962 | |
| 1960-11-12 | Oregon State over Stanford | 1960 | |
| 1959-10-31 | Nebraska over Oklahoma | 1959 | |
| 1959-10-03 | Pittsburgh over UCLA | 1959 | |
| 1959-09-26 | Presbyterian over Davidson | 1959 | |
| 1958-11-27 | Penn State over Pittsburgh | 1958 | |
| 1954-11-13 | Montana over Montana State | 1954 | |
| 1950-10-14 | St. Bonaventure over Boston University | 1950 | |
| 1949-10-15 | Iowa State over Kansas State | 1949 | |
| 1940-11-23 | Alabama over Vanderbilt | 1940 | |
| 1940-11-15 | Washburn over Rockhurst | 1940 |