College Football Firsts & Milestones

The first pass, night game, instant replay and overtime win—can you trace football's breakthroughs?

Questions

15s

Per question

Easy

Difficulty

💡 Tip: tap an answer or press keys 1–4. Beat the clock!

About College Football Firsts & Milestones

College Football Firsts & Milestones is a free college football trivia quiz: 10 multiple-choice questions with a 15-second clock on every one. The first pass, night game, instant replay and overtime win—can you trace football's breakthroughs?

Each correct answer scores a point, and your final tally maps to a rank that runs from Benched all the way up to GOAT for a perfect 10/10. This one is rated Easy, and the bar for bragging rights is real: master every milestone. Finish, grab your rank, and send it to the friend who thinks they know college football better than you.

Want a scouting report first? Every question topic is listed below with no answers spoiled, so you can size the quiz up before the clock starts.

How to play

Hit Start and read the first question. You have 15 seconds to answer.

Pick one of the four options. Correct picks score a point and build your streak.

After each answer the right option is revealed, usually with a bonus fact worth stealing.

Finish all 10 questions to get your rank, then share it or run it back.

What you'll be quizzed on

Rutgers defeated which school, 6–4, in the game recognized as the first intercollegiate football contest in 1869?

Which Saint Louis University player threw college football's first legal forward pass in 1906?

Fordham faced which opponent in the first televised college football game on Sept. 30, 1939?

Who received the first Downtown Athletic Club Trophy—later renamed the Heisman Trophy—in 1935?

Which school hosted Wyoming Seminary in the first night football game, played under experimental electric lights in 1892?

Whose touchdown run became the first play ever shown via television instant replay during the 1963 Army–Navy game?

Who became the first African-American varsity football player for an SEC school when he appeared for Kentucky in 1967?

Who became the first African-American head coach of a Division I-A football program at a predominantly white school when Wichita State hired him in 1979?

Which team won the first college football overtime game under the NCAA's new postseason overtime procedure in the 1995 Las Vegas Bowl?

Who became the first woman to score in an NCAA Division I-A football game by kicking two extra points for New Mexico in 2003?

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