Has a College Football game ever ended 27-23?
It has. 27-23 has been a College Football final 76 times in 84,334 games. The first was Clemson beat VMI on November 14, 1914; the latest was App State beat Oregon State on October 4, 2025.
That makes 27-23 the 285th most common final score out of 2,215 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 28-23 has happened 93 times and 27-24 has happened 302 times. At one point the score disappeared for 33 years, between 1914 and 1947.
Every 27-23 in College Football history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-04 | App State over Oregon State | 2025 | |
| 2023-11-11 | South Florida over Temple | 2023 | |
| 2020-11-04 | Kent State over Eastern Michigan | 2020 | |
| 2020-10-17 | Navy over East Carolina | 2020 | |
| 2019-10-12 | South Florida over BYU | 2019 | |
| 2018-11-09 | Wake Forest over NC State | 2018 | |
| 2018-11-04 | Washington over Stanford | 2018 | |
| 2018-10-20 | SMU over Tulane | 2018 | |
| 2018-09-29 | Clemson over Syracuse | 2018 | |
| 2017-11-25 | Texas Tech over Texas | 2017 | |
| 2017-10-14 | LSU over Auburn | 2017 | |
| 2017-10-01 | UCLA over Colorado | 2017 | |
| 2015-10-17 | Michigan State over Michigan | 2015 | |
| 2013-10-17 | Miami over North Carolina | 2013 | |
| 2013-09-07 | Nicholls over Western Michigan | 2013 | |
| 2012-11-10 | Stanford over Oregon State | 2012 | |
| 2010-09-11 | Liberty over Ball State | 2010 | |
| 2007-11-18 | Louisiana Tech over San José State | 2007 | |
| 2007-10-20 | Ball State over Western Michigan | 2007 | |
| 2006-10-07 | Georgia Tech over Maryland | 2006 | |
| 2005-09-02 | Northwestern State over UL Monroe | 2005 | |
| 2004-12-31 | Arizona State over Purdue | 2004 | Playoff |
| 2004-11-13 | Texas over Kansas | 2004 | |
| 2002-12-27 | Ole Miss over Nebraska | 2002 | Playoff |
| 2000-09-16 | Florida over Tennessee | 2000 | |
| 2000-09-09 | Wisconsin over Oregon | 2000 | |
| 1999-09-25 | East Carolina over Miami | 1999 | |
| 1999-09-18 | Penn State over Miami | 1999 | |
| 1998-11-14 | Arizona over California | 1998 | |
| 1995-09-30 | Louisiana Tech over Tulsa | 1995 | |
| 1993-11-06 | Iowa State over Kansas State | 1993 | |
| 1993-10-23 | New Mexico State over Pacific | 1993 | |
| 1993-09-11 | Notre Dame over Michigan | 1993 | |
| 1992-09-24 | California over Kansas | 1992 | |
| 1991-09-07 | UCLA over BYU | 1991 | |
| 1990-12-29 | Auburn over Indiana | 1990 | Playoff |
| 1990-11-10 | Mississippi State over Memphis | 1990 | |
| 1989-10-14 | Bowling Green over Toledo | 1989 | |
| 1988-10-01 | Colorado over Colorado State | 1988 | |
| 1987-09-12 | Kent State over Akron | 1987 | |
| 1986-09-13 | Tulsa over Oklahoma State | 1986 | |
| 1986-09-13 | Mississippi State over Tennessee | 1986 | |
| 1986-01-01 | Michigan over Nebraska | 1985 | Playoff |
| 1985-11-02 | New Mexico over UTEP | 1985 | |
| 1985-09-14 | Northwestern over Missouri | 1985 | |
| 1984-10-06 | Tulane over Vanderbilt | 1984 | |
| 1984-09-15 | Youngstown State over Cincinnati | 1984 | |
| 1983-09-10 | Tulane over Ole Miss | 1983 | |
| 1983-01-01 | Penn State over Georgia | 1982 | Playoff |
| 1981-10-24 | Vanderbilt over Ole Miss | 1981 | |
| 1980-10-18 | Louisiana Tech over Northwestern State | 1980 | |
| 1980-10-11 | Michigan over Michigan State | 1980 | |
| 1979-09-08 | Utah over Hawai'i | 1979 | |
| 1978-11-18 | Tennessee State over Chattanooga | 1978 | |
| 1978-09-30 | BYU over New Mexico | 1978 | |
| 1978-09-23 | Chattanooga over Marshall | 1978 | |
| 1976-11-06 | North Carolina over Clemson | 1976 | |
| 1975-11-22 | Michigan State over Iowa | 1975 | |
| 1975-11-15 | Drake over Wichita State | 1975 | |
| 1975-10-18 | New Mexico over Utah | 1975 | |
| 1974-10-12 | Illinois over Purdue | 1974 | |
| 1974-09-21 | Oregon over Air Force | 1974 | |
| 1973-10-06 | New Mexico State over UTEP | 1973 | |
| 1972-09-16 | Indiana over Minnesota | 1972 | |
| 1971-10-23 | Florida over Maryland | 1971 | |
| 1971-10-16 | San Diego State over California-Santa Barbara | 1971 | |
| 1971-10-02 | Virginia over Vanderbilt | 1971 | |
| 1969-10-04 | Drake over North Texas | 1969 | |
| 1968-11-09 | Oklahoma over Kansas | 1968 | |
| 1966-09-17 | Buffalo over Kent State | 1966 | |
| 1962-09-22 | Buffalo over Boston University | 1962 | |
| 1961-10-28 | West Texas A&M over Arizona | 1961 | |
| 1958-11-08 | Virginia Tech over Richmond | 1958 | |
| 1950-10-21 | Fordham over West Virginia | 1950 | |
| 1947-10-03 | Marquette over Saint Louis | 1947 | |
| 1914-11-14 | Clemson over VMI | 1914 |