Has a College Football game ever ended 38-30?
It has. 38-30 has been a College Football final 31 times in 84,334 games. The first was Princeton beat Pennsylvania on October 31, 1981; the latest was Cincinnati beat Iowa State on October 4, 2025.
That makes 38-30 the 555th most common final score out of 2,215 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 39-30 has happened 4 times and 38-31 has happened 133 times.
Every 38-30 in College Football history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-04 | Cincinnati over Iowa State | 2025 | |
| 2024-12-01 | Hawai'i over New Mexico | 2024 | |
| 2023-09-09 | Oregon over Texas Tech | 2023 | |
| 2021-11-13 | Georgia Southern over Texas State | 2021 | |
| 2021-09-25 | Fresno State over UNLV | 2021 | |
| 2019-08-31 | Georgia State over Tennessee | 2019 | |
| 2018-10-20 | South Florida over UConn | 2018 | |
| 2016-09-03 | Florida Atlantic over Southern Illinois | 2016 | |
| 2015-11-08 | USC over Arizona | 2015 | |
| 2015-09-05 | Northern Illinois over UNLV | 2015 | |
| 2014-12-31 | Boise State over Arizona | 2014 | Playoff |
| 2014-11-14 | USC over California | 2014 | |
| 2014-10-18 | South Florida over Tulsa | 2014 | |
| 2014-09-07 | Oregon State over Hawai'i | 2014 | |
| 2013-10-26 | Oklahoma over Texas Tech | 2013 | |
| 2010-10-23 | South Florida over Cincinnati | 2010 | |
| 2009-09-26 | Wisconsin over Michigan State | 2009 | |
| 2009-09-19 | Texas A&M over Utah State | 2009 | |
| 2008-11-22 | Kansas State over Iowa State | 2008 | |
| 2007-11-23 | Texas A&M over Texas | 2007 | |
| 2007-11-11 | San Diego State over UNLV | 2007 | |
| 2007-09-29 | Tulsa over UAB | 2007 | |
| 2004-09-25 | Purdue over Illinois | 2004 | |
| 2003-10-25 | Miami (OH) over Kent State | 2003 | |
| 2003-01-01 | Michigan over Florida | 2002 | Playoff |
| 2002-11-17 | Fresno State over Nevada | 2002 | |
| 2000-12-28 | NC State over Minnesota | 2000 | Playoff |
| 1993-10-23 | Arizona State over Stanford | 1993 | |
| 1992-11-12 | Texas A&M over Houston | 1992 | |
| 1983-09-03 | Virginia over Duke | 1983 | |
| 1981-10-31 | Princeton over Pennsylvania | 1981 |