December 21, 2007

High Scoring College Football Teams: A composite listing of every team, so far, that has scored 500 or more points in a season.

College football fans enjoy it when their respective teams light up the scoreboard. During the 2007 season, a record of 30 teams have scored over 500 points (counting post-season scoring), through Navy's appearance in the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl, Thursday night. The first team to score over 500+ Points in a Season was Princeton, 1885, when it scored 539 points. This past season, Mount Union OH registered 778 points, which is now the second highest all-time, surpassing Harvard's 765 scored in 1886--which was the highest single-season mark till 2004. In 2004, NCAA II team Pittsburg KS really light-up scoreboard lights with 837 points. The current listing of 500+ Teams show: Mount Union, 778 [c] Mary Hardin-Baylor, 707 [c] Appalachian State, 641 [c] Abilene Christian, 639 [1-c] Ohio Dominican, 621 [1-c] Sioux Falls SD, 602 [c] Catawba 578, [1-c] Bethel TN, 571 [1-c] Oklahoma, 564 [b]* Hawaii, 554 [b]* Tuskegee, 562 [1-c] Virginia-Wise, 544 [1-c] Delaware, 543 [c] West Texas A&M, 541 [c] Valdosta State, 540 [c] Carson-Newman, 537 [c] Kansas, 532 [1-b]* Southern Illinois, 530 [c] Tulsa, 523 [b]* St. Francis IN, 522 [c] Missouri, 520 [1-b]* Florida, 517 [b]* Boise State, 513 [b]* Northwest Missouri State, 513 [c] Navy, 511 [1-c] Southern Connecticut State, 509 [c] Washington & Jefferson, 508 [c] LSU, 503 [1-b]* California PA, 502 [1-c] Texas Tech, 501 [b]* Key: [1-b]*= 1st 500+ season-bowl game left to play [1-c]= 1st 500+ season and season completed [b]*= bowl game left to play [c]= season completed

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