IRON COLLEGE FOOTBALL / On this day /March 20

March 20 in college football

Every March 20 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 VMI 38 Samford 37 10 ptsat a quarter
2020 Alabama State 35 Jackson State 28 7 ptsat a quarter
2020 Maine 35 Stony Brook 19 6 ptsat a quarter
2020 Rhode Island 17 UAlbany 10 5 ptsat a quarter
2020 Kennesaw St. 37 Utah Tech 27 4 ptsat a quarter

Highest-scoring games

Combined points, both teams.

SeasonWinnerLoserPoints
2020 UIW 56 Southeastern La. 45 101 pts
2020 UC Davis 73 Cal Poly 24 97 pts
2020 VMI 38 Samford 37 75 pts
2020 Southern 51 Texas Southern 23 74 pts
2020 Mercer 45 Western Caro. 28 73 pts

Biggest crowds

Announced attendance.