Has a College Football game ever ended 28-22?
It has. 28-22 has been a College Football final 44 times in 84,334 games. The first was Purdue beat Notre Dame on November 14, 1896; the latest was Akron beat Central Michigan on October 4, 2025.
That makes 28-22 the 440th most common final score out of 2,215 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 29-22 has happened 28 times and 28-23 has happened 93 times. At one point the score disappeared for 63 years, between 1896 and 1959.
Every 28-22 in College Football history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-04 | Akron over Central Michigan | 2025 | |
| 2025-10-04 | Miami over Florida State | 2025 | |
| 2024-11-24 | Fresno State over Colorado State | 2024 | |
| 2024-10-06 | Texas Tech over Arizona | 2024 | |
| 2021-09-11 | Texas Tech over Stephen F. Austin | 2021 | |
| 2017-11-11 | Georgia Tech over Virginia Tech | 2017 | |
| 2015-10-03 | Bowling Green over Buffalo | 2015 | |
| 2013-10-24 | Mississippi State over Kentucky | 2013 | |
| 2012-11-09 | Florida State over Virginia Tech | 2012 | |
| 2011-11-19 | Kent State over Eastern Michigan | 2011 | |
| 2010-11-27 | Michigan State over Penn State | 2010 | |
| 2010-09-18 | Illinois over Northern Illinois | 2010 | |
| 2008-09-06 | Texas A&M over New Mexico | 2008 | |
| 2006-09-30 | USC over Washington State | 2006 | |
| 2001-11-22 | Nicholls over Arkansas State | 2001 | |
| 2001-09-22 | Vanderbilt over Richmond | 2001 | |
| 1998-10-17 | Tulane over Louisville | 1998 | |
| 1997-10-11 | Arizona over Stanford | 1997 | |
| 1992-11-07 | Bowling Green over Kent State | 1992 | |
| 1992-10-03 | Air Force over UTEP | 1992 | |
| 1988-11-19 | Wyoming over Hawai'i | 1988 | |
| 1982-12-31 | Iowa over Tennessee | 1982 | Playoff |
| 1982-10-09 | Oklahoma over Texas | 1982 | |
| 1982-09-25 | Louisville over Oklahoma State | 1982 | |
| 1980-10-25 | Drake over New Mexico State | 1980 | |
| 1980-10-04 | Southern Miss over Ole Miss | 1980 | |
| 1979-09-22 | Purdue over Notre Dame | 1979 | |
| 1977-10-29 | Western Michigan over Ohio | 1977 | |
| 1977-09-24 | Colgate over Cornell | 1977 | |
| 1975-11-01 | Stanford over Oregon State | 1975 | |
| 1975-10-04 | West Virginia over SMU | 1975 | |
| 1974-09-28 | NC State over Syracuse | 1974 | |
| 1974-09-28 | Kentucky over Indiana | 1974 | |
| 1973-10-27 | Texas A&M over Baylor | 1973 | |
| 1972-09-30 | Georgia over NC State | 1972 | |
| 1971-11-20 | California-Santa Barbara over Santa Clara | 1971 | |
| 1970-11-28 | Iowa State over San Diego State | 1970 | |
| 1969-11-22 | Fresno State over Portland State | 1969 | |
| 1969-11-08 | UConn over Rutgers | 1969 | |
| 1964-11-21 | Purdue over Indiana | 1964 | |
| 1963-11-16 | Oregon over Indiana | 1963 | |
| 1963-11-15 | USC over Oregon State | 1963 | |
| 1959-11-14 | Abilene Christian over UTEP | 1959 | |
| 1896-11-14 | Purdue over Notre Dame | 1896 |