Has a College Football game ever ended 38-9?
It has. 38-9 has been a College Football final 31 times in 84,433 games. The first was Saint Mary's (CA) Pre-Flight beat Pacific on September 19, 1942; the latest was Toledo beat Ball State on November 22, 2025.
That makes 38-9 the 555th most common final score out of 2,216 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 39-9 has happened 5 times and 38-10 has happened 126 times. At one point the score disappeared for 28 years, between 1942 and 1970.
Every 38-9 in College Football history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-22 | Toledo over Ball State | 2025 | |
| 2024-10-26 | Oregon over Illinois | 2024 | |
| 2024-09-22 | BYU over Kansas State | 2024 | |
| 2021-10-21 | Florida Atlantic over Charlotte | 2021 | |
| 2017-11-04 | Baylor over Kansas | 2017 | |
| 2013-09-07 | Auburn over Arkansas State | 2013 | |
| 2009-09-12 | Nebraska over Arkansas State | 2009 | |
| 2006-09-23 | Vanderbilt over Tennessee State | 2006 | |
| 2003-11-15 | Kansas State over Nebraska | 2003 | |
| 2000-10-28 | Oregon State over Washington State | 2000 | |
| 1999-09-11 | NC State over William & Mary | 1999 | |
| 1998-09-05 | New Mexico over Idaho State | 1998 | |
| 1997-10-11 | Memphis over Arkansas State | 1997 | |
| 1996-10-19 | Arkansas State over Southeast Missouri State | 1996 | |
| 1996-09-28 | Michigan over UCLA | 1996 | |
| 1995-11-11 | LSU over Ole Miss | 1995 | |
| 1992-11-28 | Hawai'i over Tulsa | 1992 | |
| 1990-11-17 | Iowa over Purdue | 1990 | |
| 1989-09-16 | Washington over Purdue | 1989 | |
| 1988-11-12 | Michigan over Illinois | 1988 | |
| 1988-10-01 | Rutgers over Cincinnati | 1988 | |
| 1987-11-05 | Eastern Michigan over Toledo | 1987 | |
| 1980-10-04 | Pittsburgh over Maryland | 1980 | |
| 1979-10-27 | Oklahoma over Iowa State | 1979 | |
| 1978-10-07 | Texas A&M over Texas Tech | 1978 | |
| 1978-09-23 | East Carolina over Louisiana | 1978 | |
| 1978-09-16 | Stanford over San José State | 1978 | |
| 1975-10-11 | Texas A&M over Texas Tech | 1975 | |
| 1971-09-11 | UTEP over Texas-Arlington | 1971 | |
| 1970-09-19 | Arizona State over Colorado State | 1970 | |
| 1942-09-19 | Saint Mary's (CA) Pre-Flight over Pacific | 1942 |