Has a College Football game ever ended 48-20?
It has. 48-20 has been a College Football final 44 times in 84,433 games. The first was Mississippi State beat San Francisco on October 19, 1946; the latest was Virginia beat Stanford on September 20, 2025.
That makes 48-20 the 440th most common final score out of 2,216 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 49-20 has happened 38 times and 48-21 has happened 55 times.
Every 48-20 in College Football history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-20 | Virginia over Stanford | 2025 | |
| 2025-09-13 | UTSA over Incarnate Word | 2025 | |
| 2024-10-19 | Florida over Kentucky | 2024 | |
| 2023-10-14 | Notre Dame over USC | 2023 | |
| 2022-09-24 | Air Force over Nevada | 2022 | |
| 2022-09-18 | Clemson over Louisiana Tech | 2022 | |
| 2018-10-06 | UCF over SMU | 2018 | |
| 2017-11-18 | East Carolina over Cincinnati | 2017 | |
| 2017-11-09 | Western Michigan over Kent State | 2017 | |
| 2016-11-05 | North Carolina over Georgia Tech | 2016 | |
| 2016-09-24 | Temple over Charlotte | 2016 | |
| 2016-01-02 | Ole Miss over Oklahoma State | 2015 | Playoff |
| 2015-10-24 | LSU over Western Kentucky | 2015 | |
| 2014-09-06 | Louisiana Tech over Louisiana | 2014 | |
| 2012-09-29 | Louisiana over Florida International | 2012 | |
| 2011-01-02 | Oklahoma over UConn | 2010 | Playoff |
| 2007-09-30 | Arizona over Washington State | 2007 | |
| 2007-09-29 | Hawai'i over Idaho | 2007 | |
| 2005-09-22 | Boise State over Bowling Green | 2005 | |
| 2005-09-17 | Southern Miss over McNeese | 2005 | |
| 2004-10-02 | Buffalo over UCF | 2004 | |
| 2003-11-15 | Arkansas over New Mexico State | 2003 | |
| 2003-09-06 | Iowa State over Ohio | 2003 | |
| 2000-10-12 | Virginia Tech over West Virginia | 2000 | |
| 1998-11-21 | Tulane over Houston | 1998 | |
| 1998-09-12 | Illinois over Middle Tennessee | 1998 | |
| 1997-09-27 | North Carolina over Virginia | 1997 | |
| 1995-10-07 | Auburn over Mississippi State | 1995 | |
| 1993-10-02 | Notre Dame over Stanford | 1993 | |
| 1991-11-09 | East Carolina over Southern Miss | 1991 | |
| 1988-09-24 | Hawai'i over Utah | 1988 | |
| 1985-09-21 | Iowa over Northern Illinois | 1985 | |
| 1985-09-14 | Miami over Rice | 1985 | |
| 1983-10-01 | Cincinnati over Cornell | 1983 | |
| 1974-11-23 | BYU over Utah | 1974 | |
| 1973-11-17 | Oklahoma over Kansas | 1973 | |
| 1969-11-01 | San Diego State over Fresno State | 1969 | |
| 1969-10-04 | Iowa State over Illinois | 1969 | |
| 1965-11-25 | Tulsa over Colorado State | 1965 | |
| 1962-11-17 | Penn State over Holy Cross | 1962 | |
| 1959-09-27 | Xavier over Villanova | 1959 | |
| 1949-09-24 | Minnesota over Washington | 1949 | |
| 1948-10-17 | Nevada over Saint Mary's (CA) | 1948 | |
| 1946-10-19 | Mississippi State over San Francisco | 1946 |