D3 Scorigami

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

Spreadsheet and chart


I've taken all the scores involving a D3 team in the d3football era (since 1998) and compiled this spreadsheet and chart.

What is scorigami? It's when a score that has never occurred happens.

There have been over 2000 different final scores in the past 2+ decades from more than 30000 games. Somehow teams still find new combinations on a weekly basis.


Fun facts:
Highest single team score:               105 Rockford (105) vs Trinity Bible (0) 9/6/03

Highest combined score:                  152 Guilford (61) @ Davidson (91) 9/13/18
Highest combined score (D3 vs D3):       142 Hartwick (72) @ Utica (70) 4OT 11/10/07
                                         142 Illinois College (68) @ Rose-Hulman (74) 3OT 9/13/14
Highest combined score (D3 vs D3 no OT): 140 Alvernia (56) @ FDU-Florham (84) 11/9/19

Lowest combined score:                     3 (19 times) Most recently: RPI (0) @ St John FIsher (3) 9/24/22

Single team scores occurring once:         4 Hamilton (4) @ Trinity (CT) (29) 10/10/15
                                          88 Susquehanna (88) vs Wilkes (24) 11/23/19
                                          96 Illinois College (96) vs Beloit (14) 11/16/24
                                          97 St Thomas (97) @ St Olaf (0) 11/11/17
                                         105 Rockford (105) vs Trinity Bible (0) 9/6/03

Every individual score from 0 to 86 has been achieved multiple times except for 1 (never) and 4 (once).
Yes a team could finish with 1 point... but for that to happen, a team would need to turn the ball over on an extra point/2pt conversion, have the defense take it back almost all the way, fumble, have the offense recover outside the end zone, take it back into the end zone and be tackled for a 1pt safety.

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

Scorigamis in 2021

Week 1
69-20 Eureka (20) @ Nebraska Wesleyan (69)
80-58 Gustavus Adolphus (80) @ Buena Vista (58)
25-3 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (25) @ Pomona-Pitzer (3)

Week 2
66-33 Case Western Reserve (66) @ Waynesburg (33)
59-25 La Verne (25) @ Chapman (59)

Week 3
58-9 Buffalo St (9) @ Cortland (58)
58-57 Eureka (58) @ Rockford (57) OT
28-2 Dubuque (28) @ Luther (2)
71-13 UW-River Falls (71) @ Northwestern (13)

Week 4
84-16 Central (84) W Simpson (16)

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

Week 5 Scorigami (in progress)

70-29 Aurora (70) @ Wisconsin Lutheran (29)
69-28 Crown (28) @ Iowa Wesleyan (69)
73-30 Sul Ross St (30) @ Howard Payne (73)

[Pat Coleman]

Week 5 Scorigami (in progress)

70-29 Aurora (70) @ Wisconsin Lutheran (29)
69-28 Crown (28) @ Iowa Wesleyan (69)
73-30 Sul Ross St (30) @ Howard Payne (73)

Thank you for doing this!

[Captainred81]

That's the craziest thing I ever heard of, a 1 point safety... LOL

Also, good mathing...this is cool

[Inkblot]

That's the craziest thing I ever heard of, a 1 point safety... LOL

It's happened a few times, but only in favor of the kicking team... most recently by defending NAIA champion Lindsey Wilson last week.

EDIT: Video link https://twitter.com/LWC_Football/status/1444433046606958599

[WLCALUM83]

That's the craziest thing I ever heard of, a 1 point safety... LOL

It's happened a few times, but only in favor of the kicking team... most recently by defending NAIA champion Lindsey Wilson last week.

And I thought a 1-pointer other than an extra-point happened only in the Canadian Football League--

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

Regular season weeks without a Scorigami:
2006 Week 2
2012 Week 3
2014 Week 5
2019 Week 4
All of 2020/21 spring

There has been only one Stagg Scorigami which was in 1998 (the first year of scores) when Mount Union beat Rowan 44-24

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

Three scorigami so far in week 6

63-22 St Vincent (22) @ Washington & Jefferson (63)
68-34 Luther (34) @ Simpson (68)
54-40 Lakeland (40) @ Benedictine (54)

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

Unless there's one in the LA area in the next hour or so there won't be any scorigamis this week. Rarest scores are Heidelberg beating Otterbein 52-19 and Grove City beating St Vincent 41-29 both of which are the 3rd such occurrences.

Edit: First week this fall with no scorigami.

2006 Week 2
2012 Week 3
2014 Week 5
2019 Week 4
All of 2020/21 spring
2021 Week 7

[UfanBill]

I attended a Scorigami game, albeit a high school game, a few years ago where the final was 4-0 on two safeties. 

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

2nd week in a row with no scorigami... a few games were close being just the 2nd occurrence. Wheaton over Carthage 69-20, UW-Oshkosh over UW-Eau Claire 54-31, and Wisconsin Lutheran over Eureka 68-41.

No scorigami:
2006 Week 2
2012 Week 3
2014 Week 5
2019 Week 4
All of 2020/21 spring
2021 Week 7
2021 Week 8

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

We're back with a pair of scorigami this week.
76-13 Central (76) @ Luther (13)
78-3 Chicago (78) @ Grinnell (3)

Plenty of rare scores but not scorigami this week... here's a few interesting ones
2nd 28-2 WPI (28) @ Norwich (2)
2nd 84-14 Salisbury (84) @ Chris Newport (14)
3rd 81-0 St Scholastica (0) @ St John's (81)
3rd 10-2 Colby (10) @ Bates (2)

[WLCALUM83]

What about St. Norbert's 77-7 win over Rockford yesterday? Does that qualify?

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

What about St. Norbert's 77-7 win over Rockford yesterday? Does that qualify?

That was appropriately enough the 7th such 77-7 game. The last one was just 2 weeks ago when North Central beat Elmhurst.