20 college football records that will never be broken

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1. Margin of victory: Georgia Tech, 222 points

The infamous Georgia Tech beatdown of Cumberland in 1916 stands out as the most unbreakable record in college football history, as no team is likely to even reach half of the Engineers’ margin of victory ever again.

Legendary head coach John Heisman guided the Engineers to an unblemished campaign in 1915, and the team won its first two games the next season entering the October matchup against the Bulldogs. Cumberland had previously discontinued its football team but was not allowed to back out of the Georgia Tech matchup, meaning the Bulldogs were force to assemble a team of fraternity brothers weeks before.

Adding context to Heisman’s motivation was the fact that Cumberland’s baseball team ran up the score in a 22-0 win over Georgia Tech earlier in the year. The Engineers scored 63 points in each of the first two quarters and only slowed down slightly in the second half, finishing with an unbelievable 222-0 victory.

Cumberland immediately punted on many of its possessions and was outgained 522 to -28, although it did have 14 passing yards to Georgia Tech’s zero. Michigan gained some national attention for its 78-0 win over Rutgers last season, but that isn’t even in the same ballpark as Heisman and Georgia Tech.

The Engineers would continue to assert their dominance over college football and did not lose a game until November of 1918.

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