Has a College Football game ever ended 5-5?
It has. 5-5 has been a College Football final 28 times in 84,433 games. The first was Princeton and Army drew on November 5, 1898; the latest was Washington and Lee and Tulane drew on November 30, 1911.
That makes 5-5 the 593rd most common final score out of 2,216 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 6-5 has happened 96 times and 5-6 has happened never. Nearly all of its occurrences fall between 1890 and 1919.