Has a College Football game ever ended 38-16?
It has. 38-16 has been a College Football final 57 times in 84,433 games. The first was Miami (OH) beat Cincinnati on November 17, 1962; the latest was Wake Forest beat Akron on September 3, 2026.
That makes 38-16 the 348th most common final score out of 2,216 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 39-16 has happened 3 times and 38-17 has happened 146 times.