IRON COLLEGE FOOTBALL / On this day /February 21

February 21 in college football

Every February 21 in Iron's archive: the ranked teams that lost to unranked ones, the ranked matchups, and the games worth retelling. Every result links to its game card.

Biggest comebacks

Deficit the winner erased. Measured from in-game margins where play data exists, cross-checked against quarter scores; a row prints only when the quarter lines corroborate it, so this list starts in 2000.

SeasonWinnerLoserTrailed by
2020 Tennessee Tech 27 Austin Peay 21 4 ptsat a quarter

Highest-scoring games

Combined points, both teams.

Biggest crowds

Announced attendance.

SeasonWinnerLoserAttendance
2020 Jackson St. 53 Edward Waters 0 11,000
2020 North Dakota St. 25 Youngstown St. 7 6,578
2020 Tennessee Tech 27 Austin Peay 21 1,825