Has a College Football game ever ended 26-23?
Yes. College Football has seen a final score of 26-23 59 times. It first happened on November 14, 1936, when Yale beat Princeton, and most recently on November 16, 2025, when Sam Houston beat Delaware.
That makes 26-23 the 342nd most common final score out of 2,216 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 27-23 has happened 76 times and 26-24 has happened 67 times. At one point the score disappeared for 27 years, between 1936 and 1963.
Every 26-23 in College Football history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-16 | Sam Houston over Delaware | 2025 | |
| 2024-09-21 | Rutgers over Virginia Tech | 2024 | |
| 2023-11-18 | App State over James Madison | 2023 | |
| 2023-09-30 | Central Michigan over Eastern Michigan | 2023 | |
| 2022-11-13 | Coastal Carolina over Southern Miss | 2022 | |
| 2021-11-20 | Florida State over Boston College | 2021 | |
| 2021-10-16 | Central Michigan over Toledo | 2021 | |
| 2021-09-05 | Utah State over Washington State | 2021 | |
| 2019-10-26 | Marshall over Western Kentucky | 2019 | |
| 2019-09-07 | Kent State over Kennesaw State | 2019 | |
| 2018-11-11 | UAB over Southern Miss | 2018 | |
| 2018-10-13 | Texas A&M over South Carolina | 2018 | |
| 2018-09-29 | Northern Illinois over Eastern Michigan | 2018 | |
| 2018-09-01 | Nicholls over Kansas | 2018 | |
| 2018-01-09 | Alabama over Georgia | 2017 | Playoff |
| 2017-10-07 | Central Michigan over Ohio | 2017 | |
| 2014-12-06 | Marshall over Louisiana Tech | 2014 | |
| 2014-09-05 | Arizona over UTSA | 2014 | |
| 2013-10-12 | Central Michigan over Ohio | 2013 | |
| 2013-09-14 | Buffalo over Stony Brook | 2013 | |
| 2011-11-12 | Purdue over Ohio State | 2011 | |
| 2011-11-05 | Cincinnati over Pittsburgh | 2011 | |
| 2010-12-04 | Idaho over San José State | 2010 | |
| 2009-11-28 | BYU over Utah | 2009 | |
| 2008-11-09 | Cincinnati over West Virginia | 2008 | |
| 2007-11-10 | New Mexico over Colorado State | 2007 | |
| 2007-09-22 | Georgia over Alabama | 2007 | |
| 2007-09-09 | South Florida over Auburn | 2007 | |
| 2006-11-25 | Cincinnati over UConn | 2006 | |
| 2006-10-28 | Arizona State over Washington | 2006 | |
| 2006-10-14 | Alabama over Ole Miss | 2006 | |
| 2006-10-14 | Arkansas State over Memphis | 2006 | |
| 2006-01-04 | Penn State over Florida State | 2005 | Playoff |
| 2005-11-12 | Florida Atlantic over North Texas | 2005 | |
| 2004-09-18 | Ole Miss over Vanderbilt | 2004 | |
| 2003-10-18 | Purdue over Wisconsin | 2003 | |
| 2000-11-04 | Iowa over Penn State | 2000 | |
| 1999-11-20 | Wake Forest over Georgia Tech | 1999 | |
| 1998-09-26 | Marshall over Eastern Michigan | 1998 | |
| 1996-09-14 | Minnesota over Ball State | 1996 | |
| 1995-10-14 | Penn State over Purdue | 1995 | |
| 1994-10-29 | Washington State over California | 1994 | |
| 1989-09-09 | Mississippi State over Southern Miss | 1989 | |
| 1987-10-10 | LSU over Georgia | 1987 | |
| 1985-09-21 | Wisconsin over UNLV | 1985 | |
| 1984-09-29 | Virginia over Virginia Tech | 1984 | |
| 1984-09-22 | Georgia over Clemson | 1984 | |
| 1984-09-01 | Murray State over Louisville | 1984 | |
| 1982-09-25 | San Diego State over UNLV | 1982 | |
| 1981-10-10 | Stanford over UCLA | 1981 | |
| 1981-09-26 | Arkansas State over Central Michigan | 1981 | |
| 1977-09-10 | Miami (OH) over Dayton | 1977 | |
| 1976-10-09 | Rice over TCU | 1976 | |
| 1972-11-11 | Oregon State over California | 1972 | |
| 1969-11-01 | Vanderbilt over Tulane | 1969 | |
| 1969-11-01 | Ole Miss over LSU | 1969 | |
| 1968-10-05 | Drake over Wichita State | 1968 | |
| 1963-10-26 | Wyoming over Utah | 1963 | |
| 1936-11-14 | Yale over Princeton | 1936 |