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Comeback Index

7,697 FBS college football comebacks since 2006, ranked by the deepest hole the eventual winner climbed out of.

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Data: CollegeFootballData play-by-play, 2006-2025. The headline metric is the largest score deficit the eventual winner faced at any point in the game. Roughly 5% of historical games were excluded — corrupted intra-game score feeds upstream of CFBD; the ranking is exact for everything shown.

Built by Torch Football. Sibling project: Homegrown — every 2025 FBS player by hometown.

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