Has a College Football game ever ended 5-3?
It has. 5-3 has been a College Football final 13 times in 84,334 games. The first was Stevens beat Columbia on November 4, 1876; the latest was Arizona beat Iowa on October 4, 1980.
That makes 5-3 the 895th most common final score out of 2,215 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 6-3 has happened 126 times and 5-4 has happened 8 times. At one point the score disappeared for 47 years, between 1926 and 1973.
Every 5-3 in College Football history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980-10-04 | Arizona over Iowa | 1980 | |
| 1973-11-10 | Syracuse over Holy Cross | 1973 | |
| 1926-09-25 | TCU over Daniel Baker | 1926 | |
| 1919-10-18 | Boston College over Yale | 1919 | |
| 1911-11-18 | Harvard over Dartmouth | 1911 | |
| 1911-09-30 | Pennsylvania over Gettysburg | 1911 | |
| 1910-11-24 | NC State over Virginia Tech | 1910 | |
| 1910-11-19 | Alabama over Tulane | 1910 | |
| 1910-11-12 | Yale over Princeton | 1910 | |
| 1909-11-20 | Mercer over South Carolina | 1909 | |
| 1909-10-30 | Princeton over Navy | 1909 | |
| 1909-10-16 | Kansas over Kansas State | 1909 | |
| 1876-11-04 | Stevens over Columbia | 1876 |