Has a College Football game ever ended 35-20?
It has. 35-20 has been a College Football final 76 times in 84,857 games. The first was California beat Wisconsin on October 8, 1949; the latest was Rutgers beat Maryland on November 8, 2025.
That makes 35-20 the 285th most common final score out of 2,217 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 36-20 has happened 18 times and 35-21 has happened 141 times.
Every 35-20 in College Football history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-08 | Rutgers over Maryland | 2025 | |
| 2025-11-01 | Pittsburgh over Stanford | 2025 | |
| 2025-10-11 | Georgia Tech over Virginia Tech | 2025 | |
| 2025-09-27 | Ohio over Bowling Green | 2025 | |
| 2024-10-17 | Marshall over Georgia State | 2024 | |
| 2024-09-07 | North Texas over Stephen F. Austin | 2024 | |
| 2023-09-16 | Syracuse over Purdue | 2023 | |
| 2021-12-04 | Cincinnati over Houston | 2021 | |
| 2021-10-09 | Akron over Bowling Green | 2021 | |
| 2020-09-12 | App State over Charlotte | 2020 | |
| 2019-12-30 | California over Illinois | 2019 | Playoff |
| 2019-10-05 | UAB over Rice | 2019 | |
| 2019-09-28 | Notre Dame over Virginia | 2019 | |
| 2018-09-01 | Kentucky over Central Michigan | 2018 | |
| 2016-11-20 | Tulsa over UCF | 2016 | |
| 2016-11-12 | NC State over Syracuse | 2016 | |
| 2016-10-08 | Toledo over Eastern Michigan | 2016 | |
| 2014-10-12 | Ole Miss over Texas A&M | 2014 | |
| 2014-10-04 | Utah State over BYU | 2014 | |
| 2014-09-14 | Tulane over SE Louisiana | 2014 | |
| 2012-11-03 | Oklahoma over Iowa State | 2012 | |
| 2011-10-27 | Pittsburgh over UConn | 2011 | |
| 2011-10-02 | North Carolina over East Carolina | 2011 | |
| 2011-10-02 | Arizona State over Oregon State | 2011 | |
| 2010-11-28 | Texas Tech over Houston | 2010 | |
| 2010-11-19 | Air Force over UNLV | 2010 | |
| 2010-09-25 | Indiana over Akron | 2010 | |
| 2009-10-11 | Memphis over UTEP | 2009 | |
| 2009-10-10 | Minnesota over Purdue | 2009 | |
| 2009-09-19 | Colorado State over Nevada | 2009 | |
| 2009-09-12 | West Virginia over East Carolina | 2009 | |
| 2008-10-11 | Virginia over East Carolina | 2008 | |
| 2006-10-28 | Toledo over Akron | 2006 | |
| 2006-09-16 | East Carolina over Memphis | 2006 | |
| 2006-09-16 | Georgia Tech over Troy | 2006 | |
| 2005-10-15 | Memphis over Houston | 2005 | |
| 2005-09-17 | California over Illinois | 2005 | |
| 2003-01-01 | Texas over LSU | 2002 | Playoff |
| 1998-09-12 | Tulsa over Oklahoma State | 1998 | |
| 1997-10-25 | Toledo over Bowling Green | 1997 | |
| 1996-11-23 | Kansas State over Iowa State | 1996 | |
| 1996-09-07 | Tennessee over UCLA | 1996 | |
| 1993-10-16 | Kansas over Iowa State | 1993 | |
| 1987-09-05 | Eastern Michigan over Youngstown State | 1987 | |
| 1986-11-29 | Tennessee over Vanderbilt | 1986 | |
| 1986-10-25 | Tulane over Southern Miss | 1986 | |
| 1986-09-13 | Wisconsin over Northern Illinois | 1986 | |
| 1980-12-20 | Florida over Maryland | 1980 | Playoff |
| 1980-10-25 | Indiana over Northwestern | 1980 | |
| 1978-11-11 | Hawai'i over New Mexico State | 1978 | |
| 1978-11-04 | Oklahoma State over Missouri | 1978 | |
| 1978-10-21 | New Mexico over New Mexico State | 1978 | |
| 1978-09-16 | Cal State Fullerton over Santa Clara | 1978 | |
| 1977-11-26 | Holy Cross over Boston College | 1977 | |
| 1974-11-23 | Cincinnati over Chattanooga | 1974 | |
| 1974-10-12 | Louisiana Tech over Louisiana | 1974 | |
| 1974-09-21 | Arizona over Indiana | 1974 | |
| 1974-09-14 | Georgia Tech over South Carolina | 1974 | |
| 1972-10-28 | UCLA over Washington State | 1972 | |
| 1972-10-21 | Pittsburgh over Boston College | 1972 | |
| 1971-11-13 | Auburn over Georgia | 1971 | |
| 1971-11-06 | Louisiana Tech over Chattanooga | 1971 | |
| 1968-11-09 | Stanford over Washington | 1968 | |
| 1968-11-02 | Oklahoma over Kansas State | 1968 | |
| 1968-10-05 | West Texas A&M over Montana State | 1968 | |
| 1963-11-28 | Virginia Tech over VMI | 1963 | |
| 1962-10-20 | Oregon over Air Force | 1962 | |
| 1962-10-13 | Utah over BYU | 1962 | |
| 1956-11-10 | Princeton over Harvard | 1956 | |
| 1956-10-06 | VMI over Richmond | 1956 | |
| 1953-11-28 | Duke over North Carolina | 1953 | |
| 1953-10-10 | Arizona State over San José State | 1953 | |
| 1952-01-01 | Stetson over Arkansas State | 1951 | Playoff |
| 1951-11-03 | Drake over Great Lakes Navy | 1951 | |
| 1950-10-07 | Rice over LSU | 1950 | |
| 1949-10-08 | California over Wisconsin | 1949 |
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