Has a College Football game ever ended 49-20?
Yes. College Football has seen a final score of 49-20 38 times. It first happened on November 29, 1930, when Drake beat Temple, and most recently on November 30, 2025, when Notre Dame beat Stanford.
That makes 49-20 the 494th most common final score out of 2,216 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 50-20 has happened 7 times and 49-21 has happened 82 times.
Every 49-20 in College Football history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-30 | Notre Dame over Stanford | 2025 | |
| 2022-10-08 | Ohio State over Michigan State | 2022 | |
| 2022-09-17 | Duke over North Carolina A&T | 2022 | |
| 2018-10-20 | Purdue over Ohio State | 2018 | |
| 2018-10-20 | Wisconsin over Illinois | 2018 | |
| 2017-09-16 | Notre Dame over Boston College | 2017 | |
| 2016-11-19 | Wisconsin over Purdue | 2016 | |
| 2012-09-01 | Nebraska over Southern Miss | 2012 | |
| 2011-09-17 | Texas over UCLA | 2011 | |
| 2010-10-27 | Boise State over Louisiana Tech | 2010 | |
| 2008-11-01 | Louisiana over Florida International | 2008 | |
| 2007-11-17 | UCF over SMU | 2007 | |
| 2005-11-05 | Clemson over Duke | 2005 | |
| 2004-09-18 | Arkansas over UL Monroe | 2004 | |
| 2003-10-18 | Kansas State over Colorado | 2003 | |
| 2002-11-30 | New Mexico over Wyoming | 2002 | |
| 2001-09-08 | Marshall over Massachusetts | 2001 | |
| 2000-09-02 | Ole Miss over Tulane | 2000 | |
| 1997-09-13 | Miami (OH) over Akron | 1997 | |
| 1996-11-02 | San Diego State over San José State | 1996 | |
| 1995-10-21 | San Diego State over San José State | 1995 | |
| 1993-11-06 | Florida State over Maryland | 1993 | |
| 1992-09-05 | Virginia Tech over James Madison | 1992 | |
| 1992-09-05 | Kansas over Oregon State | 1992 | |
| 1991-10-19 | Houston over SMU | 1991 | |
| 1990-12-01 | Tennessee over Vanderbilt | 1990 | |
| 1977-10-29 | Michigan State over Illinois | 1977 | |
| 1976-11-06 | Oklahoma over Kansas State | 1976 | |
| 1975-11-15 | Louisiana Tech over Chattanooga | 1975 | |
| 1972-10-21 | Dartmouth over Brown | 1972 | |
| 1970-10-24 | Long Beach State over Cal Poly | 1970 | |
| 1968-11-16 | East Carolina over Marshall | 1968 | |
| 1952-10-11 | Oklahoma over Texas | 1952 | |
| 1952-10-04 | Oklahoma over Pittsburgh | 1952 | |
| 1950-09-30 | Wichita State over Utah State | 1950 | |
| 1948-11-13 | North Carolina over Maryland | 1948 | |
| 1944-10-14 | Mississippi State over Arkansas-Monticello | 1944 | |
| 1930-11-29 | Drake over Temple | 1930 |