Has a College Football game ever ended 56-41?
It has. 56-41 has been a College Football final 7 times in 84,433 games. The first was NC State beat Maryland on November 26, 2011; the latest was Navy beat Houston on December 1, 2019.
That makes 56-41 the 1154th most common final score out of 2,216 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 57-41 has happened never and 56-42 has happened 8 times. Nearly all of its occurrences fall between 2010 and 2039.