Has a College Football game ever ended 38-35?
Yes. College Football has seen a final score of 38-35 106 times. It first happened on October 24, 1964, when Rutgers beat Columbia, and most recently on December 28, 2025, when Houston beat LSU.
That makes 38-35 the 204th most common final score out of 2,216 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 39-35 has happened 9 times and 38-36 has happened 14 times.
Every 38-35 in College Football history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-28 | Houston over LSU | 2025 | Playoff |
| 2025-11-30 | California over SMU | 2025 | |
| 2025-11-22 | Northwestern over Minnesota | 2025 | |
| 2025-11-01 | Mississippi State over Arkansas | 2025 | |
| 2025-10-10 | Southern Miss over Georgia Southern | 2025 | |
| 2025-08-30 | Kansas State over North Dakota | 2025 | |
| 2024-11-17 | New Mexico over Washington State | 2024 | |
| 2024-11-16 | Stanford over Louisville | 2024 | |
| 2024-10-19 | Iowa State over UCF | 2024 | |
| 2024-10-19 | BYU over Oklahoma State | 2024 | |
| 2023-12-29 | Clemson over Kentucky | 2023 | Playoff |
| 2023-12-18 | Western Kentucky over Old Dominion | 2023 | Playoff |
| 2023-11-04 | Ole Miss over Texas A&M | 2023 | |
| 2023-09-23 | Washington State over Oregon State | 2023 | |
| 2022-11-25 | Arizona over Arizona State | 2022 | |
| 2022-11-05 | Baylor over Oklahoma | 2022 | |
| 2022-10-16 | North Carolina over Duke | 2022 | |
| 2022-09-10 | Tulsa over Northern Illinois | 2022 | |
| 2021-11-20 | East Carolina over Navy | 2021 | |
| 2021-10-30 | Maryland over Indiana | 2021 | |
| 2021-09-11 | Army over Western Kentucky | 2021 | |
| 2020-11-21 | Oregon over UCLA | 2020 | |
| 2020-11-14 | Kentucky over Vanderbilt | 2020 | |
| 2020-11-07 | Liberty over Virginia Tech | 2020 | |
| 2020-09-26 | Kansas State over Oklahoma | 2020 | |
| 2019-11-23 | UNLV over San José State | 2019 | |
| 2019-09-08 | Minnesota over Fresno State | 2019 | |
| 2019-08-31 | Wake Forest over Utah State | 2019 | |
| 2018-10-28 | Oklahoma State over Texas | 2018 | |
| 2018-10-27 | Arizona State over USC | 2018 | |
| 2018-09-22 | North Carolina over Pittsburgh | 2018 | |
| 2017-12-28 | Purdue over Arizona | 2017 | Playoff |
| 2017-11-26 | Air Force over Utah State | 2017 | |
| 2017-11-18 | UNLV over New Mexico | 2017 | |
| 2017-08-26 | Hawai'i over Massachusetts | 2017 | |
| 2016-10-29 | Georgia Tech over Duke | 2016 | |
| 2016-09-24 | Duke over Notre Dame | 2016 | |
| 2015-11-21 | Kansas State over Iowa State | 2015 | |
| 2015-09-19 | Indiana over Western Kentucky | 2015 | |
| 2014-12-06 | Oklahoma State over Oklahoma | 2014 | |
| 2014-11-08 | Old Dominion over Florida International | 2014 | |
| 2014-09-21 | New Mexico over New Mexico State | 2014 | |
| 2014-09-13 | Abilene Christian over Troy | 2014 | |
| 2014-09-13 | South Carolina over Georgia | 2014 | |
| 2013-10-19 | UCF over Louisville | 2013 | |
| 2013-10-05 | Louisiana Tech over UTEP | 2013 | |
| 2013-09-01 | Clemson over Georgia | 2013 | |
| 2012-10-27 | South Carolina over Tennessee | 2012 | |
| 2012-09-30 | Oregon State over Arizona | 2012 | |
| 2012-09-23 | UNLV over Air Force | 2012 | |
| 2011-11-26 | Florida Atlantic over UAB | 2011 | |
| 2011-11-20 | USC over Oregon | 2011 | |
| 2011-11-05 | Louisville over West Virginia | 2011 | |
| 2011-10-29 | UNLV over Colorado State | 2011 | |
| 2011-10-22 | East Carolina over Navy | 2011 | |
| 2011-10-08 | Virginia Tech over Miami | 2011 | |
| 2011-10-01 | Illinois over Northwestern | 2011 | |
| 2011-09-24 | Troy over Middle Tennessee | 2011 | |
| 2010-09-30 | Oklahoma State over Texas A&M | 2010 | |
| 2010-01-01 | Auburn over Northwestern | 2009 | Playoff |
| 2009-10-18 | Navy over SMU | 2009 | |
| 2009-09-12 | Maryland over James Madison | 2009 | |
| 2008-11-29 | Tulsa over Marshall | 2008 | |
| 2008-11-01 | Louisiana Tech over Fresno State | 2008 | |
| 2007-11-03 | Texas over Oklahoma State | 2007 | |
| 2007-10-20 | Memphis over Rice | 2007 | |
| 2007-09-22 | Syracuse over Louisville | 2007 | |
| 2007-01-01 | West Virginia over Georgia Tech | 2006 | Playoff |
| 2006-09-10 | Texas Tech over UTEP | 2006 | |
| 2006-01-03 | West Virginia over Georgia | 2005 | Playoff |
| 2005-11-27 | Nevada over Fresno State | 2005 | |
| 2005-11-19 | Florida International over Western Kentucky | 2005 | |
| 2005-09-22 | Utah over Air Force | 2005 | |
| 2004-11-20 | Memphis over East Carolina | 2004 | |
| 2004-10-30 | Oklahoma over Oklahoma State | 2004 | |
| 2003-10-12 | Louisiana Tech over UTEP | 2003 | |
| 2003-10-11 | Michigan over Minnesota | 2003 | |
| 2003-09-02 | TCU over Tulane | 2003 | |
| 2002-11-03 | Syracuse over UCF | 2002 | |
| 2002-10-20 | UTEP over Rice | 2002 | |
| 2002-10-06 | North Carolina over Arizona State | 2002 | |
| 2002-09-21 | San José State over Illinois | 2002 | |
| 2001-11-24 | Wake Forest over Northern Illinois | 2001 | |
| 2001-11-17 | Tennessee over Kentucky | 2001 | |
| 2001-10-20 | Penn State over Northwestern | 2001 | |
| 2000-11-18 | USC over UCLA | 2000 | |
| 2000-10-21 | UConn over Akron | 2000 | |
| 2000-09-02 | BYU over Virginia | 2000 | |
| 1997-10-04 | Cal Poly over New Mexico State | 1997 | |
| 1997-09-13 | Toledo over Eastern Michigan | 1997 | |
| 1993-10-16 | Auburn over Florida | 1993 | |
| 1992-11-21 | Utah State over Pacific | 1992 | |
| 1990-10-20 | The Citadel over South Carolina | 1990 | |
| 1988-10-22 | Louisville over Tulane | 1988 | |
| 1985-09-21 | Indiana over Navy | 1985 | |
| 1983-10-08 | Iowa State over Kansas | 1983 | |
| 1982-11-13 | UCLA over Stanford | 1982 | |
| 1976-10-30 | Arizona over Utah | 1976 | |
| 1975-11-08 | Clemson over North Carolina | 1975 | |
| 1974-10-19 | Drake over Louisville | 1974 | |
| 1971-09-18 | Washington over Purdue | 1971 | |
| 1971-09-18 | The Citadel over Bucknell | 1971 | |
| 1969-11-22 | Ohio over Marshall | 1969 | |
| 1968-11-23 | Purdue over Indiana | 1968 | |
| 1966-10-29 | Pacific over San José State | 1966 | |
| 1964-10-24 | Rutgers over Columbia | 1964 |