Penn State victory was a collegiate 'scorigami'; What does that mean?

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (WHTM) -- Saturday's game between Penn State and Nevada made history, sort of.

It may have seemed like your garden variety, early-season power conference beatdown of a smaller school, but it was a first.

The 46-11 Nittany Lion victory was a "scorigami." In other words, it was the first time in collegiate football that a game ended with that final score.

Sportswriter Jon Bois coined the term and it was popularized by an X account tracking the phenomenon in the National Football League.

With 32 teams in the NFL versus hundreds playing college football, it's a much more rare occurrence in the collegiate ranks.

But, according to a website tracking collegiate scores, no game in any collegiate division had ended with a 46-11 score until Saturday.

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