What scores are impossible in football?

Among the non-viable outcomes are 1-1, 1-0, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, 5-1, and 7-1. Five to 1 is impossible because it can only occur after a field goal and a conventional safety while 7 to 1 is also impossible because a team can only get to 7 after scoring a touchdown by successfully kicking a PAT.
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Is a 1/0 score in football possible?

It is one of the oddities of American football that a team can score 2, 3, 4, 5 or even 222 points in a game, but never 1. As they are with poutine and toques, Canadians are ahead of the United States in 1-point plays.
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What is the rarest score in football?

The one-point safety is the NFL's rarest scoring play - SBNation.com.
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What is the least likely score in football?

The lowest possible score in which a team scores just one point is 6-1. That is because, for a one-point conversion to happen, at least one touchdown needs to be scored. In terms of more likely scores that could occur, the lowest score to have never happened is 14-8.
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Can a football score end in 1?

The one-point safety is so rare, it's NEVER happened in the NFL. According to the NFL's scoring rules under Section 11-3-2-C, the rare one-point safety is awarded when a safety occurs by either team during a “try,” or a point after try such as a two-point conversion or extra point attempt.
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Has there ever been a 0 to 0 NFL game?

Surprisingly the last 0-0 game was more than 70 years ago. It was played on 7 November 1943 between the Detroit Lions and New York Giants. The record of the game, though, was sparse. It said the Lions and Giants played before 16,992 in Detroit's Briggs Stadium generating just 214 yards between them.
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Has any football team scored 4 points?

A four-point quarter

On Sunday, November 6, 2011, the St. Louis Rams posted the first four-point quarter in NFL history.
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Can a football score end in 8?

In a sport that counts 3 for a field goal and 7 for a converted touchdown, a score with 2 or 8 as the final digit is infrequent.
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Can you score 30 points in football?

In 11 of the 15 games played in Week 4, the winning side scored 30 points or more. In two cases, 30 wasn't enough. Remember when purists used to snicker at the high scores in the old American Football League? According to the league, this is the highest-scoring season through Week 4 in NFL history.
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Can you have a negative score in football?

No, it's not possible for an NFL team to lose points during a game. There are no penalties or anything that can deduct from a team's score. However, due to the NFL's instant replay review system that requires all scoring plays to be reviewed, it might appear that a team can lose points.
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What was the last Scorigami?

On September 9, 2020, Major League Baseball (MLB) had its first Scorigami in 20 years, a 29–9 victory by the Atlanta Braves over the Miami Marlins—the previous most recent Scorigami for an MLB game had been a 24–12 win by the Cincinnati Reds over the Colorado Rockies on May 19, 1999.
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Has a NFL game ever ended 2 0?

There have also been five 2-0 games in NFL history where just a safety was scored. However, none have happened since the Chicago Bears beat the Green Bay Packers 2-0 in 1938.
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Can a Super Bowl end in a tie?

In one sentence, the Super Bowl, just like any other playoff game, cannot end in a tie. Should the game remain tied at the end of regulation, the big game will head into an overtime period similar to that of a regular season game. But the overtime itself has a slight difference in the duration.
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Has there ever been a 4 2 football game?

On Friday, Colonel Zaduk Magruder High (Rockville, Md.) faced off against Walter Johnson High (Bethesda, Md.). The final score was 4-2, in favor of Magruder.
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How many points is a safety?

In gridiron football, the safety (American football) or safety touch (Canadian football) is a scoring play that results in two points being awarded to the scoring team.
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What is a 1 point safety?

A 1 point safety is extremely rare, but it can happen. What is a 1 point safety in football? A 1 point safety is when a team trying a 2 point conversion or PAT turns the ball over, the defense takes the ball out of the end zone, then gets tackled in the end zone for a safety.
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What is a Scorigami in the NFL?

Scorigami is one of football's greatest nuances. Created by Jon Bois, Scorigami describes “the art of building final scores that have never happened before in NFL history,” according to its host website. Here, we'll track every instance of Scorigami throughout the 2021 NFL season.
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What are the worst numbers in a football pool?

The worst boxes to have at the end of the first include 1,7; 8,0; 9,0; 0,6 and 6,4. All have hit less than 1 percent of the time.
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Has there ever been a 5 4 football game?

There is still a long list of score possibilities up to 70-70 (considered to be the highest "possible" score) that have never happened before in NFL history. Some of the basic Scorigami results are 2–2, 4–0, 4–2, 4–3, 4–4, 5–2, 5–4, 5–5, 6–4, 6–5, 7–4, 8–2, 8–4, 9–4, 11–2, 11–4.
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What is the most common score in football?

Most common is 1-1, which has happened 23,611 times, accounting for 11.6 per cent of all matches. Next are 1-0, 2-1, 2-0 and 0-0, in that order. At the other end of the scale are the ten scorelines to have appeared just once: 0-10, 3-8, 3-9, 7-6, 10-4, 11-0, 11-3, 12-1, 12-2 and 13-4.
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Has a football team scored 100 points?

The most points scored by a single team, and the most lopsided final score in college football history, occurred on October 7, 1916 when Georgia Tech beat Cumberland 222–0.
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Has any NFL team scored 100 points?

101 points (Oakland Raiders vs.

Played on December 22, 1963, the game took place in the American Football League (AFL), but it was absorbed into official NFL records after the NFL–AFL merger. The Oakland Raiders defeated the Houston Oilers 52–49, combining for a total of 101 points.
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Did any NFL team score 33?

The Miami Dolphins had 33 points versus the Patriots on January 9.
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