Today's bizarre high school football score

I'm still looking for the Holy Grail: A 5-4 football score.

 

It's college, but Mississippi State and Auburn played a 3-2 game not that long ago.

 

Did that box score include the scoring summary, 'cuz damn

 

The holy grail in lower-level Scottish soccer is East Fife beating Forfar by that same score.

 

http://www.hutchnews.com/sports/justpreps/prep_schools/fairfield/board-defying-score-adds-to-signs-of-season/article_48ac33bf-dc42-5b76-8c71-3e67e0f0ecdc.html?mode=image&photo=1

 

Still waiting for a 4-2 final.

 

A few years ago I watched Pittsburgh and San Diego play to an 11-10 final, which was the first time that final score had ever been recorded in an NFL game.

 

Years and years ago, in a driving sleetstorm, I covered an 8-4 prep football game which featured three safeties -- the winning team took an intentional safety with an 8-2 lead with about 30 seconds left to avoid having to punt from their own 20.

The only TD of the game came after a fumble on about the 25. The PAT kick was blocked after a bad snap.

I think between them the two teams won about three games that season.

 

Iowa beat Penn State 6-4 in 2004, taking an intentional safety on a punt to account for the final score -- but not with anything like 20 seconds to go. As I recall, there were maybe 6 minutes still left.

 

Florida 11-man second-round playoff game wound up 74-73 in regulation last year.

 

Five years ago in our area, we had a muddy game finish with a 4-0 score. The field conditions were a pretty big embarrassment for the home team (which lost).

I too am strongly in favor of the running clock. It's mandatory in my home state of Illinois at 40 points. In Indiana, it can be used when both teams agree, but is not mandatory. So you get situations where the losing team declines the running clock, then cries foul when the other team's freshmen don't fall on the ball and punt on second down.

 

Ferentz must have been eating his retard sandwiches that day (take an intentional safety to cut your lead from 4 to 2?!??!), but he has always been a guy who seems to be itching for a chance to take intentional safeties.