7. Most Lopsided College Football Game: 222-0
In 1916, Cumberland College came to play at Georgia Tech. The previous year, Cumberland discontinued its football program, but no one told Georgia Tech. So they had to play or else they’d have to pay a fee of $3,000. The result of the game stays in the record books to this day.
Georgia Tech led 126-0 at halftime. As the Atlanta Journal wrote, “As a general rule, the only thing necessary for a touchdown was to give a Tech back the ball and holler, ‘Here he comes’ and ‘There he goes.’” Popular sportswriter at the time Grantland Rice said, “Cumberland’s greatest individual play of the game occurred when fullback Allen circled right end for a 6-yard loss.”
The coach of Georgia Tech knew that the game would be a blowout, but he remembered a nasty little blowout the Georgia Tech baseball team had against Cumberland earlier that year, losing 22-0. He smelled blood in the water. Since World War II, only a few college football teams have eclipsed 100 points in a single game.
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