Brain Teaser: There Are Only Six Impossible Scores in College Football

John Coble
DataDrivenInvestor
Published in
4 min readSep 27, 2019

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There are some unusual ways to score in college football. One of the options has never happened before.

This is a picture of Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
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Since a tie should be impossible due to the overtime rules, I have excluded all ties from this calculation. This calculation depends on the game not being ‘called’ before completion, e.g., game called off in the third quarter due to bad…

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