Has a College Football game ever ended 51-48?
It has. 51-48 has been a College Football final 16 times in 84,334 games. The first was North Texas beat Utah State on November 22, 1997; the latest was UNLV beat Air Force on October 11, 2025.
That makes 51-48 the 812th most common final score out of 2,215 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 52-48 has happened 1 times and 51-49 has happened 3 times.
Every 51-48 in College Football history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-11 | UNLV over Air Force | 2025 | |
| 2024-11-13 | Buffalo over Ball State | 2024 | |
| 2022-11-27 | Texas Tech over Oklahoma | 2022 | |
| 2022-11-26 | Georgia Southern over App State | 2022 | |
| 2020-09-12 | UTSA over Texas State | 2020 | |
| 2017-09-02 | Louisiana over SE Louisiana | 2017 | |
| 2014-11-01 | Duke over Pittsburgh | 2014 | |
| 2013-09-15 | Oregon State over Utah | 2013 | |
| 2012-11-24 | Oklahoma over Oklahoma State | 2012 | |
| 2012-11-10 | Missouri over Tennessee | 2012 | |
| 2007-12-27 | Purdue over Central Michigan | 2007 | Playoff |
| 2005-10-08 | Northwestern over Wisconsin | 2005 | |
| 2002-10-26 | UL Monroe over Utah State | 2002 | |
| 2002-09-21 | NC State over Texas Tech | 2002 | |
| 1999-11-27 | Georgia Tech over Georgia | 1999 | |
| 1997-11-22 | North Texas over Utah State | 1997 |