How the league changed

Football keeps inventing scores

Holds upThe record backs this up, season after season.

This one is in the FanIQ library with the full rule, the reason it works, and every season we checked.

Held in 26 of 26 seasons, from 6,719 records measured.

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Football's Magic NumbersOne game in seven ends with a margin of exactly three. The most common final score is 23-20. Nobody in this record has played a 0-0 game. And every season still invents a score no one has seen before.

FanIQ carries this one in full: the rule itself, why it works, the season-by-season record, and the related laws.