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Has a College Football game ever ended 79-0?

It has. 79-0 has been a College Football final 16 times in 84,433 games. The first was Harvard beat Bowdoin on October 28, 1891; the latest was Maryland beat Howard on August 31, 2019.

Where 79-0 sits among nearby College Football scores. Deeper blue means a score has happened more often; the outlined cell is the new one.

That makes 79-0 the 814th most common final score out of 2,216 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 80-0 has happened 23 times and 79-1 has happened never. At one point the score disappeared for 67 years, between 1949 and 2016.

Every 79-0 in College Football history

DateResultSeason
2019-08-31Maryland over Howard2019
2016-09-24Missouri over Delaware State2016
1949-09-17Idaho over Willamette1949
1944-09-16Illinois over Illinois State1944
1940-09-21Wake Forest over William Jewell1940
1932-11-04Texas Tech over Trinity (Texas)1932
1930-09-27Dartmouth over Norwich1930
1923-10-13Utah over Wyoming1923
1920-10-02Tulane over Louisiana1920
1916-11-04Penn State over Geneva1916
1915-09-28Georgia over Newberry1915
1910-10-08Georgia over Gordon1910
1905-10-28Lafayette over Lebanon Valley1905
1903-10-10Michigan over Beloit1903
1895-10-19Illinois over Illinois College1895
1891-10-28Harvard over Bowdoin1891

Open the College Football grid at 79-0