The Highest Scoring College Football Game, Ever

 

by Justin Vink

Staff Writer

146 points later, and this became the craziest college football game in recent history. 7 overtimes, 10 overtime touchdowns, a failed 2-point conversion by LSU in overtime number 7, and a game-winning touchdown and 2-point conversion by Texas A&M the drive after. Because of the overtime rule that you have to go for a two-point conversion after the third overtime, so that games don’t go on forever, LSU scored but missed the 2-point conversion on the first drive of the 7th overtime, giving A&M an opportunity to score and clinch the win with a pass from Kellen Mond to Kendrick Rogers for the game-winning two-point conversion. Earlier in the game, real late in the fourth quarter, on 4th and 18, the Aggies of Texas A&M seemingly were short of the first down, but the refs called it a first down, angering a lot of the LSU Tigers fans at home. It was later known that the TV crew had accidentally made the infamous yellow first down line two yards ahead of where it was supposed to be, and that is why it seemed the refs blatantly missed the call. Then, a few plays later, on the definite last play of the game, Aggies quarterback Kellen Mond converted another great play, hitting receiver Quartney Davis for a 19-yard touchdown, sending this game into overtime. From that point on, the teams traded scores, seemingly copying each other. Twice the first team to go out, one time LSU and the other time A&M, kicked a field goal, having to sit on their sidelines and hope the second team didn’t score. Both times, the other team kicked a field goal to match the score. Then, 4 other times, both teams either scored and converted the PAT, or a two-point conversion, or scored and missed a two-point conversion. Then finally, the game ended in the 7th overtime when LSU scored and missed the two-point conversion, and A&M later both scored and hit the two-point conversion. This game was extraordinary, never has a modern football game looked like this before. Usually, if a team has scored 70 points, it’s because they’ve blown out the other team. Only five days earlier, on national television in Los Angeles, California, the NFL had a game of its own like this, where the LA Rams beat the Kansas City Chiefs 54-51, an almost unheard of score, one that almost broke its own record as the highest scoring NFL game ever, being the only game ever in the NFL where the losing team had over 50 points. It seems that defense is dying in modern football, and passing offenses and scoring quickly is becoming a new phenomenon. Can the defense make a comeback, or will it be lost forever?