April 3 in college football

Every April 3 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.

26games on file
0unranked wins over ranked teams
0ranked vs ranked meetings
2020–2020seasons covered

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.

Season	Winner	Loser	Trailed by
2020	McNeese 43	Nicholls 31	11 ptsat a quarter
2020	The Citadel 28	Wofford 24	10 ptsat a quarter
2020	Western Ill. 27	Youngstown St. 24	8 ptsat a quarter
2020	Weber St. 19	Southern Utah 16	7 ptsat a quarter
2020	Ark.-Pine Bluff 24	Mississippi Val. 17	3 ptsat a quarter

Highest-scoring games

Combined points, both teams.

Season	Winner	Loser	Points
2020	McNeese 43	Nicholls 31	74 pts
2020	Jacksonville St. 44	Eastern Ill. 23	67 pts
2020	Monmouth 48	Gardner-Webb 19	67 pts
2020	Austin Peay 34	Murray St. 31	65 pts
2020	Delaware St. 37	Howard 28	65 pts

Biggest crowds

Announced attendance.

Season	Winner	Loser	Attendance
2020	Southern 34	Jackson State 14	22,000
2020	McNeese 43	Nicholls 31	5,289
2020	South Carolina State 14	Alabama State 7	4,387
2020	Mercer 26	Furman 14	3,627
2020	ETSU 24	VMI 20	3,000