Has a College Football game ever ended 38-27?
It has. 38-27 has been a College Football final 47 times in 84,334 games. The first was Dartmouth beat Princeton on November 24, 1962; the latest was Nebraska beat Michigan State on October 4, 2025.
That makes 38-27 the 417th most common final score out of 2,215 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 39-27 has happened 13 times and 38-28 has happened 116 times.
Every 38-27 in College Football history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-04 | Nebraska over Michigan State | 2025 | |
| 2024-09-28 | TCU over Kansas | 2024 | |
| 2023-10-29 | Arizona State over Washington State | 2023 | |
| 2023-09-30 | Bowling Green over Georgia Tech | 2023 | |
| 2023-09-23 | Kansas over BYU | 2023 | |
| 2022-11-27 | USC over Notre Dame | 2022 | |
| 2022-11-25 | Texas over Baylor | 2022 | |
| 2022-11-05 | South Carolina over Vanderbilt | 2022 | |
| 2022-09-17 | Arkansas over Missouri State | 2022 | |
| 2022-08-27 | Western Kentucky over Austin Peay | 2022 | |
| 2021-09-05 | UCLA over LSU | 2021 | |
| 2020-12-22 | Nevada over Tulane | 2020 | Playoff |
| 2020-10-24 | Rutgers over Michigan State | 2020 | |
| 2019-10-19 | Florida over South Carolina | 2019 | |
| 2019-10-12 | Missouri over Ole Miss | 2019 | |
| 2018-09-01 | Tulsa over Central Arkansas | 2018 | |
| 2016-11-05 | Charlotte over Southern Miss | 2016 | |
| 2015-11-29 | Ole Miss over Mississippi State | 2015 | |
| 2014-12-07 | Baylor over Kansas State | 2014 | |
| 2014-10-04 | Purdue over Illinois | 2014 | |
| 2012-08-30 | Central Michigan over Southeast Missouri State | 2012 | |
| 2008-09-13 | Miami (OH) over Charleston Southern | 2008 | |
| 2007-11-03 | Fresno State over Utah State | 2007 | |
| 2007-10-27 | Ohio over Bowling Green | 2007 | |
| 2007-09-22 | Houston over Colorado State | 2007 | |
| 2006-09-30 | Georgia Tech over Virginia Tech | 2006 | |
| 2005-10-05 | Northern Illinois over Miami (OH) | 2005 | |
| 2003-11-08 | Stanford over Arizona State | 2003 | |
| 2003-09-20 | Wisconsin over North Carolina | 2003 | |
| 2002-11-16 | North Texas over New Mexico State | 2002 | |
| 2001-12-01 | Ole Miss over Vanderbilt | 2001 | |
| 1998-11-07 | NC State over Wake Forest | 1998 | |
| 1995-11-04 | Purdue over Wisconsin | 1995 | |
| 1995-09-16 | Texas over Pittsburgh | 1995 | |
| 1989-09-30 | San Diego State over Utah | 1989 | |
| 1989-09-23 | Rutgers over Northwestern | 1989 | |
| 1985-11-23 | Cal State Fullerton over Long Beach State | 1985 | |
| 1982-09-25 | Texas A&M over Louisiana Tech | 1982 | |
| 1975-11-01 | Drake over Southern Illinois | 1975 | |
| 1974-10-19 | Toledo over Dayton | 1974 | |
| 1972-11-04 | Pennsylvania over Harvard | 1972 | |
| 1972-10-07 | BYU over Long Beach State | 1972 | |
| 1971-11-06 | Massachusetts over Holy Cross | 1971 | |
| 1970-10-10 | Florida over Florida State | 1970 | |
| 1966-10-15 | Virginia over VMI | 1966 | |
| 1964-11-14 | Xavier over Detroit Mercy | 1964 | |
| 1962-11-24 | Dartmouth over Princeton | 1962 |