Has a College Football game ever ended 38-5?
It has. 38-5 has been a College Football final 4 times in 84,433 games. The first was Lafayette beat Manhattan on October 18, 1902; the latest was Northwestern beat Duke on September 9, 2000.
That makes 38-5 the 1362nd most common final score out of 2,216 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 39-5 has happened 4 times and 38-6 has happened 102 times. Nearly all of its occurrences fall between 1890 and 1919. At one point the score disappeared for 94 years, between 1906 and 2000.