Has a College Football game ever ended 8-4?
It has. 8-4 has been a College Football final 10 times in 84,334 games. The first was Amherst beat Tufts on November 17, 1877; the latest was Carlisle beat Denver on December 5, 1908.
That makes 8-4 the 1006th most common final score out of 2,215 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 9-4 has happened 2 times and 8-5 has happened 10 times. Nearly all of its occurrences fall between 1890 and 1919.
Every 8-4 in College Football history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1908-12-05 | Carlisle over Denver | 1908 | |
| 1908-10-17 | Dickinson (PA) over Ursinus | 1908 | |
| 1905-11-15 | Massilon A.C. over Carlisle | 1905 | |
| 1894-10-27 | MIT over Brown | 1894 | |
| 1894-10-06 | Tufts over Trinity (CT) | 1894 | |
| 1893-10-18 | Princeton over Lawrenceville | 1893 | |
| 1892-10-12 | Orange A.C. over Lehigh | 1892 | |
| 1892-10-01 | Brown over Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 1892 | |
| 1888-11-17 | Trinity (CT) over Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 1888 | |
| 1877-11-17 | Amherst over Tufts | 1877 |