Has a College Football game ever ended 45-3?
It has. 45-3 has been a College Football final 58 times in 84,334 games. The first was Penn State beat Bucknell on November 12, 1910; the latest was Northern Illinois beat Massachusetts on November 13, 2025.
That makes 45-3 the 345th most common final score out of 2,215 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 46-3 has happened 8 times and 45-4 has happened 2 times. At one point the score disappeared for 49 years, between 1922 and 1971.
Every 45-3 in College Football history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-13 | Northern Illinois over Massachusetts | 2025 | |
| 2025-09-27 | Toledo over Akron | 2025 | |
| 2025-09-06 | Miami over Bethune-Cookman | 2025 | |
| 2025-08-30 | West Virginia over Robert Morris | 2025 | |
| 2025-08-30 | Vanderbilt over Charleston Southern | 2025 | |
| 2024-10-12 | Missouri over Massachusetts | 2024 | |
| 2024-08-31 | Baylor over Tarleton State | 2024 | |
| 2024-08-31 | Marshall over Stony Brook | 2024 | |
| 2023-11-11 | UCF over Oklahoma State | 2023 | |
| 2023-09-09 | Georgia over Ball State | 2023 | |
| 2022-11-05 | Florida State over Miami | 2022 | |
| 2021-11-06 | East Carolina over Temple | 2021 | |
| 2021-10-23 | Arkansas over Arkansas-Pine Bluff | 2021 | |
| 2021-09-05 | TCU over Duquesne | 2021 | |
| 2020-10-24 | Notre Dame over Pittsburgh | 2020 | |
| 2019-10-12 | Oregon over Colorado | 2019 | |
| 2019-09-21 | North Texas over UTSA | 2019 | |
| 2018-11-03 | Mississippi State over Louisiana Tech | 2018 | |
| 2018-09-08 | Washington over North Dakota | 2018 | |
| 2016-09-10 | Toledo over Maine | 2016 | |
| 2015-09-26 | Louisville over Samford | 2015 | |
| 2014-11-22 | Michigan State over Rutgers | 2014 | |
| 2013-11-23 | Tulane over UTEP | 2013 | |
| 2013-11-06 | Bowling Green over Miami (OH) | 2013 | |
| 2013-10-05 | Alabama over Georgia State | 2013 | |
| 2013-09-07 | Virginia Tech over Western Carolina | 2013 | |
| 2012-10-20 | Mississippi State over Middle Tennessee | 2012 | |
| 2012-10-13 | Northern Illinois over Buffalo | 2012 | |
| 2010-10-09 | Cincinnati over Miami (OH) | 2010 | |
| 2008-09-20 | Penn State over Temple | 2008 | |
| 2008-09-06 | Indiana over Murray State | 2008 | |
| 2007-09-02 | Arizona State over San José State | 2007 | |
| 2006-09-30 | Pittsburgh over Toledo | 2006 | |
| 2006-09-09 | LSU over Arizona | 2006 | |
| 2006-09-03 | LSU over Louisiana | 2006 | |
| 2003-10-18 | Boise State over SMU | 2003 | |
| 2002-09-21 | Maryland over Eastern Michigan | 2002 | |
| 2002-08-31 | Iowa State over Kansas | 2002 | |
| 2002-08-31 | Georgia Tech over Vanderbilt | 2002 | |
| 2001-10-25 | Miami over West Virginia | 2001 | |
| 2001-10-20 | Syracuse over Temple | 2001 | |
| 1998-11-14 | Southern Miss over Memphis | 1998 | |
| 1995-11-25 | Iowa over Minnesota | 1995 | |
| 1995-10-21 | Louisiana over Pacific | 1995 | |
| 1993-10-09 | Memphis over Arkansas State | 1993 | |
| 1990-10-13 | Tennessee over Florida | 1990 | |
| 1988-11-05 | Hawai'i over New Mexico | 1988 | |
| 1988-09-10 | Colorado over Fresno State | 1988 | |
| 1987-11-07 | Michigan State over Purdue | 1987 | |
| 1986-09-13 | SMU over Rice | 1986 | |
| 1984-09-08 | Oklahoma State over Arizona State | 1984 | |
| 1981-10-31 | California over Oregon State | 1981 | |
| 1978-10-07 | Missouri over Illinois | 1978 | |
| 1971-12-04 | Nebraska over Hawai'i | 1971 | |
| 1922-11-11 | Yale over Maryland | 1922 | |
| 1915-10-23 | Drake over Simpson College (IA) | 1915 | |
| 1913-10-08 | Iowa over Northern Iowa | 1913 | |
| 1910-11-12 | Penn State over Bucknell | 1910 |