Has a College Football game ever ended 35-16?
Yes. College Football has seen a final score of 35-16 49 times. It first happened on November 10, 1906, when Colgate beat Hamilton, and most recently on November 1, 2025, when Western Kentucky beat New Mexico State.
That makes 35-16 the 395th most common final score out of 2,216 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 36-16 has happened 7 times and 35-17 has happened 108 times. At one point the score disappeared for 54 years, between 1906 and 1960.
Every 35-16 in College Football history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-01 | Western Kentucky over New Mexico State | 2025 | |
| 2023-11-04 | Ohio State over Rutgers | 2023 | |
| 2023-09-16 | Rutgers over Virginia Tech | 2023 | |
| 2022-11-26 | Penn State over Michigan State | 2022 | |
| 2020-11-14 | Fresno State over Utah State | 2020 | |
| 2020-01-01 | Alabama over Michigan | 2019 | Playoff |
| 2019-09-22 | Hawai'i over Central Arkansas | 2019 | |
| 2018-11-10 | BYU over Massachusetts | 2018 | |
| 2014-11-22 | App State over Louisiana | 2014 | |
| 2014-10-25 | Marshall over Florida Atlantic | 2014 | |
| 2013-09-28 | Army over Louisiana Tech | 2013 | |
| 2011-11-19 | Auburn over Samford | 2011 | |
| 2011-09-03 | Pittsburgh over Buffalo | 2011 | |
| 2009-11-08 | UNLV over Colorado State | 2009 | |
| 2008-09-27 | Florida International over Toledo | 2008 | |
| 2007-11-03 | BYU over Colorado State | 2007 | |
| 2006-09-02 | UCF over Villanova | 2006 | |
| 2004-09-05 | Fresno State over Washington | 2004 | |
| 2003-10-25 | Tulsa over SMU | 2003 | |
| 2001-10-27 | Texas over Missouri | 2001 | |
| 1999-11-13 | Air Force over UNLV | 1999 | |
| 1999-09-18 | Marshall over Bowling Green | 1999 | |
| 1998-09-24 | Arizona over San Diego State | 1998 | |
| 1996-09-21 | Colorado State over UNLV | 1996 | |
| 1995-10-21 | Toledo over Bowling Green | 1995 | |
| 1992-10-10 | Washington over California | 1992 | |
| 1989-10-21 | Georgia over Vanderbilt | 1989 | |
| 1988-11-05 | Wake Forest over Duke | 1988 | |
| 1988-10-01 | Wyoming over Cal State Fullerton | 1988 | |
| 1987-10-03 | Arizona State over UTEP | 1987 | |
| 1985-11-09 | Michigan State over Indiana | 1985 | |
| 1979-09-08 | New Mexico over Oregon State | 1979 | |
| 1978-11-11 | Toledo over Northern Illinois | 1978 | |
| 1977-10-22 | Oklahoma over Iowa State | 1977 | |
| 1976-09-11 | Kansas over Washington State | 1976 | |
| 1974-11-23 | Oregon State over Oregon | 1974 | |
| 1974-11-16 | Penn State over Ohio | 1974 | |
| 1973-12-01 | Houston over Tulsa | 1973 | |
| 1973-10-20 | Texas A&M over TCU | 1973 | |
| 1973-09-22 | SMU over Oregon State | 1973 | |
| 1971-11-20 | Harvard over Yale | 1971 | |
| 1970-10-31 | New Mexico over UTEP | 1970 | |
| 1969-11-29 | Florida over Miami | 1969 | |
| 1968-11-02 | Kentucky over West Virginia | 1968 | |
| 1967-11-11 | Duke over Navy | 1967 | |
| 1961-11-25 | Rice over TCU | 1961 | |
| 1960-11-19 | Arizona over Kansas State | 1960 | |
| 1960-10-08 | Colorado over Arizona | 1960 | |
| 1906-11-10 | Colgate over Hamilton | 1906 |