Has a College Football game ever ended 8-6?
It has. 8-6 has been a College Football final 45 times in 84,433 games. The first was Wesleyan (CT) beat Amherst on October 22, 1890; the latest was Arizona State beat Wichita State on October 9, 1965.
That makes 8-6 the 431st most common final score out of 2,216 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 9-6 has happened 132 times and 8-7 has happened 42 times.
Every 8-6 in College Football history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965-10-09 | Arizona State over Wichita State | 1965 | |
| 1962-10-20 | Pittsburgh over UCLA | 1962 | |
| 1962-10-13 | Memphis over Southern Miss | 1962 | |
| 1962-09-22 | McMurry over Hardin-Simmons | 1962 | |
| 1961-10-14 | Air Force over Cincinnati | 1961 | |
| 1961-09-29 | VMI over Richmond | 1961 | |
| 1959-09-26 | Rutgers over Princeton | 1959 | |
| 1958-11-15 | Indiana over Michigan | 1958 | |
| 1958-10-04 | Davidson over The Citadel | 1958 | |
| 1958-09-27 | Yale over UConn | 1958 | |
| 1958-09-27 | Hawai'i over San José State | 1958 | |
| 1945-11-17 | Iowa State over Drake | 1945 | |
| 1944-11-30 | Maryland over VMI | 1944 | |
| 1942-10-31 | Santa Clara over San Francisco | 1942 | |
| 1942-10-31 | Richmond over Washington and Lee | 1942 | |
| 1935-11-28 | Furman over Clemson | 1935 | |
| 1933-10-14 | Gonzaga over West Seattle A.C. | 1933 | |
| 1932-11-19 | Fordham over Oregon State | 1932 | |
| 1932-10-15 | Sewanee over Rhodes College | 1932 | |
| 1930-10-18 | Mississippi State over LSU | 1930 | |
| 1929-10-17 | NC State over Wake Forest | 1929 | |
| 1923-11-10 | Lafayette over Pennsylvania | 1923 | |
| 1915-11-25 | Kansas over Missouri | 1915 | |
| 1914-11-14 | Washington and Lee over West Virginia | 1914 | |
| 1913-11-07 | Hendrix College over Ole Miss | 1913 | |
| 1912-10-05 | Austin over Baylor | 1912 | |
| 1911-11-04 | Princeton over Harvard | 1911 | |
| 1909-10-13 | Princeton over Virginia Tech | 1909 | |
| 1909-10-09 | Harvard over Williams | 1909 | |
| 1908-10-24 | Lafayette over Brown | 1908 | |
| 1907-10-19 | Penn State over Cornell | 1907 | |
| 1906-11-24 | Minnesota over Indiana | 1906 | |
| 1906-11-17 | Kansas over Nebraska | 1906 | |
| 1905-11-25 | Tufts over Massachusetts | 1905 | |
| 1905-10-21 | Pennsylvania over Brown | 1905 | |
| 1903-10-31 | Lafayette over New York University | 1903 | |
| 1901-11-02 | Princeton over Cornell | 1901 | |
| 1898-11-24 | MIT over Tufts | 1898 | |
| 1897-11-20 | Amherst over MIT | 1897 | |
| 1896-11-21 | Pennsylvania over Harvard | 1896 | |
| 1896-11-21 | Army over Brown | 1896 | |
| 1896-11-14 | Boston A.C. over Harvard | 1896 | |
| 1892-10-26 | Pennsylvania over Lafayette | 1892 | |
| 1891-11-14 | Dartmouth over MIT | 1891 | |
| 1890-10-22 | Wesleyan (CT) over Amherst | 1890 |