Has a College Football game ever ended 42-24?
It has. 42-24 has been a College Football final 77 times in 84,334 games. The first was Arkansas beat Texas Tech on November 20, 1965; the latest was Arkansas State beat Southeast Missouri State on August 30, 2025.
That makes 42-24 the 280th most common final score out of 2,215 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 43-24 has happened 8 times and 42-25 has happened 23 times.
Every 42-24 in College Football history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-30 | Arkansas State over Southeast Missouri State | 2025 | |
| 2025-08-30 | Texas A&M over UTSA | 2025 | |
| 2024-08-30 | San José State over Sacramento State | 2024 | |
| 2023-11-25 | Maryland over Rutgers | 2023 | |
| 2023-09-30 | Western Michigan over Ball State | 2023 | |
| 2022-10-30 | North Carolina over Pittsburgh | 2022 | |
| 2022-10-29 | Oregon over California | 2022 | |
| 2022-10-08 | Liberty over Massachusetts | 2022 | |
| 2022-10-01 | Mississippi State over Texas A&M | 2022 | |
| 2019-09-07 | Purdue over Vanderbilt | 2019 | |
| 2018-11-10 | Air Force over New Mexico | 2018 | |
| 2018-09-30 | Oregon over California | 2018 | |
| 2017-11-25 | Vanderbilt over Tennessee | 2017 | |
| 2017-09-30 | Arkansas over New Mexico State | 2017 | |
| 2017-09-10 | USC over Stanford | 2017 | |
| 2017-09-03 | Iowa State over Northern Iowa | 2017 | |
| 2016-11-19 | Old Dominion over Florida Atlantic | 2016 | |
| 2016-10-02 | South Alabama over San Diego State | 2016 | |
| 2015-10-24 | USC over Utah | 2015 | |
| 2015-09-26 | Stanford over Oregon State | 2015 | |
| 2015-09-08 | Ohio State over Virginia Tech | 2015 | |
| 2014-10-25 | Nebraska over Rutgers | 2014 | |
| 2014-09-14 | UTEP over New Mexico State | 2014 | |
| 2013-11-10 | Virginia Tech over Miami | 2013 | |
| 2013-10-26 | Ball State over Akron | 2013 | |
| 2012-12-02 | Kansas State over Texas | 2012 | |
| 2012-11-24 | Memphis over Southern Miss | 2012 | |
| 2012-11-17 | Georgia Tech over Duke | 2012 | |
| 2012-10-13 | Oregon State over BYU | 2012 | |
| 2011-10-08 | Michigan over Northwestern | 2011 | |
| 2011-09-17 | San Diego State over Washington State | 2011 | |
| 2011-09-10 | Ole Miss over Southern Illinois | 2011 | |
| 2011-09-03 | Kansas over McNeese | 2011 | |
| 2009-10-31 | Iowa over Indiana | 2009 | |
| 2008-12-06 | Buffalo over Ball State | 2008 | |
| 2006-11-11 | West Virginia over Cincinnati | 2006 | |
| 2005-11-19 | Air Force over New Mexico | 2005 | |
| 2005-09-25 | Arizona State over Oregon State | 2005 | |
| 2005-09-10 | Penn State over Cincinnati | 2005 | |
| 2004-11-07 | Nevada over San José State | 2004 | |
| 2003-11-01 | Marshall over Akron | 2003 | |
| 2002-12-01 | Toledo over Bowling Green | 2002 | |
| 2002-10-26 | Wisconsin over Michigan State | 2002 | |
| 2001-11-17 | Iowa over Minnesota | 2001 | |
| 2001-11-04 | Oregon over Arizona State | 2001 | |
| 2000-11-18 | West Virginia over East Carolina | 2000 | |
| 2000-09-30 | Nebraska over Missouri | 2000 | |
| 1998-09-26 | Tulane over Navy | 1998 | |
| 1998-09-19 | UCLA over Houston | 1998 | |
| 1998-09-19 | Boise State over Portland State | 1998 | |
| 1997-11-15 | Missouri over Baylor | 1997 | |
| 1997-10-04 | Southern Miss over Louisville | 1997 | |
| 1997-10-04 | Rice over Tulsa | 1997 | |
| 1995-10-28 | Rutgers over Pittsburgh | 1995 | |
| 1993-11-27 | Arkansas over LSU | 1993 | |
| 1992-10-10 | Colorado State over UTEP | 1992 | |
| 1991-11-09 | Virginia Tech over Akron | 1991 | |
| 1991-10-19 | Eastern Michigan over Western Michigan | 1991 | |
| 1989-10-21 | Northern Illinois over UNLV | 1989 | |
| 1988-10-29 | Western Michigan over Central Michigan | 1988 | |
| 1988-10-08 | Wake Forest over North Carolina | 1988 | |
| 1987-11-21 | Texas A&M over TCU | 1987 | |
| 1985-10-19 | Indiana State over Western Illinois | 1985 | |
| 1985-10-12 | Bowling Green over Eastern Michigan | 1985 | |
| 1984-11-03 | Louisiana over East Carolina | 1984 | |
| 1982-10-02 | Illinois over Minnesota | 1982 | |
| 1979-11-03 | Indiana over Minnesota | 1979 | |
| 1977-10-15 | Furman over Marshall | 1977 | |
| 1975-11-22 | Kansas over Missouri | 1975 | |
| 1973-11-24 | Dartmouth over Princeton | 1973 | |
| 1973-09-08 | Northern Illinois over Indiana State | 1973 | |
| 1972-10-28 | NC State over South Carolina | 1972 | |
| 1969-11-22 | San Diego State over North Texas | 1969 | |
| 1969-11-01 | Memphis over Tulsa | 1969 | |
| 1968-11-28 | Louisiana Tech over New Mexico State | 1968 | |
| 1968-11-23 | Florida State over Wake Forest | 1968 | |
| 1965-11-20 | Arkansas over Texas Tech | 1965 |