Has a College Football game ever ended 26-24?
It has. 26-24 has been a College Football final 67 times in 84,433 games. The first was Michigan beat Oberlin on November 19, 1892; the latest was App State beat Marshall on November 22, 2025.
That makes 26-24 the 316th most common final score out of 2,216 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 27-24 has happened 303 times and 26-25 has happened 14 times. At one point the score disappeared for 37 years, between 1892 and 1929.
Every 26-24 in College Football history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-22 | App State over Marshall | 2025 | |
| 2024-09-20 | Stanford over Syracuse | 2024 | |
| 2021-10-23 | Utah State over Colorado State | 2021 | |
| 2018-11-03 | Southern Miss over Marshall | 2018 | |
| 2016-12-29 | Utah over Indiana | 2016 | Playoff |
| 2016-11-26 | Indiana over Purdue | 2016 | |
| 2016-09-10 | Georgia over Nicholls | 2016 | |
| 2014-11-22 | Wisconsin over Iowa | 2014 | |
| 2014-10-04 | Rutgers over Michigan | 2014 | |
| 2014-08-30 | Penn State over UCF | 2014 | |
| 2013-09-28 | Idaho over Temple | 2013 | |
| 2011-10-21 | UAB over UCF | 2011 | |
| 2006-12-30 | Texas over Iowa | 2006 | Playoff |
| 2006-11-12 | UCF over Memphis | 2006 | |
| 2005-10-22 | Rutgers over UConn | 2005 | |
| 2003-11-22 | Maryland over NC State | 2003 | |
| 2003-10-16 | Louisiana over New Mexico State | 2003 | |
| 2003-09-20 | Oregon State over Boise State | 2003 | |
| 2001-12-01 | Miami over Virginia Tech | 2001 | |
| 2001-11-03 | Michigan State over Michigan | 2001 | |
| 2001-10-20 | Colorado State over UNLV | 2001 | |
| 2001-10-06 | Georgia over Tennessee | 2001 | |
| 2001-09-22 | Virginia over Clemson | 2001 | |
| 1998-11-27 | Texas over Texas A&M | 1998 | |
| 1998-11-21 | BYU over Utah | 1998 | |
| 1998-10-24 | Central Michigan over Western Michigan | 1998 | |
| 1998-10-10 | Iowa over Northwestern | 1998 | |
| 1996-10-12 | Northwestern over Minnesota | 1996 | |
| 1995-09-02 | Purdue over West Virginia | 1995 | |
| 1994-09-10 | Michigan over Notre Dame | 1994 | |
| 1992-11-07 | Cincinnati over Rutgers | 1992 | |
| 1992-10-31 | Florida over Georgia | 1992 | |
| 1992-10-03 | San José State over Wyoming | 1992 | |
| 1992-09-26 | Wyoming over Louisville | 1992 | |
| 1991-09-21 | Tennessee over Mississippi State | 1991 | |
| 1990-11-10 | Tulane over Syracuse | 1990 | |
| 1990-10-27 | Kentucky over Georgia | 1990 | |
| 1988-10-08 | South Carolina over Virginia Tech | 1988 | |
| 1987-11-07 | Wisconsin over Ohio State | 1987 | |
| 1986-11-22 | Michigan over Ohio State | 1986 | |
| 1985-09-21 | BYU over Temple | 1985 | |
| 1983-11-19 | New Mexico State over West Texas A&M | 1983 | |
| 1983-11-05 | California over Arizona State | 1983 | |
| 1981-10-10 | Brown over Pennsylvania | 1981 | |
| 1980-11-15 | Indiana over Illinois | 1980 | |
| 1980-09-27 | Tulane over Ole Miss | 1980 | |
| 1978-10-14 | Arkansas State over Southern Illinois | 1978 | |
| 1976-11-06 | Wyoming over Arizona | 1976 | |
| 1976-09-18 | Army over Holy Cross | 1976 | |
| 1975-11-15 | Long Beach State over Cal Poly | 1975 | |
| 1975-10-18 | Purdue over Illinois | 1975 | |
| 1975-10-11 | New Mexico State over Wichita State | 1975 | |
| 1974-12-28 | Mississippi State over North Carolina | 1974 | Playoff |
| 1974-11-02 | New Mexico over New Mexico State | 1974 | |
| 1973-10-13 | Iowa State over BYU | 1973 | |
| 1973-10-06 | Texas-Arlington over McNeese | 1973 | |
| 1971-10-02 | Wichita State over Southern Illinois | 1971 | |
| 1970-10-31 | Bowling Green over Marshall | 1970 | |
| 1969-10-11 | USC over Stanford | 1969 | |
| 1968-01-01 | Oklahoma over Tennessee | 1967 | Playoff |
| 1965-10-23 | Texas Tech over SMU | 1965 | |
| 1965-10-09 | Kentucky over Florida State | 1965 | |
| 1962-10-06 | Pittsburgh over California | 1962 | |
| 1954-10-02 | Yale over Brown | 1954 | |
| 1953-11-14 | Yale over Princeton | 1953 | |
| 1929-10-18 | Ole Miss over Loyola (LA) | 1929 | |
| 1892-11-19 | Michigan over Oberlin | 1892 |