Yawn Fests - Sixth Lowest Scoring Game in College Football in the last 20 Years (Factoid 642)

We have been writing a lot about Cupcake Games. This week we turn to Yawn Fests: extremely low scoring games. We concentrated on the last twenty years of college football, because low scoring games were often the norm throughout College Football history. College Football has most definitely changed to a higher scoring event than even twenty years ago.

There were six games in the last twenty years where only three points were scored. In one game the field goal was scored in overtime, so that is the lowest scoring game in points per minute. The other five games are tied in for 2nd in the lowest points score.

In 1996 the Kentucky Wildcats beat the Indiana Hosiers 3-0. This game almost ended in a tie, however, with 14 seconds remaining in regulation. The Wildcat’s Brian Johnson drilled a 26-yard field goal to give Big Blue its first win of the season.