Trivia: The first college football game was played between teams from what state?
Alabama
Ohio
Texas
New Jersey
The correct answer is New Jersey
So why is this answer correct? : It may not be the first state you think of when you think about today’s college football landscape, New Jersey hosted the first college game on November 6, 1869, , when Rutgers defeated Princeton (then called the College of New Jersey) in front of about 100 fans in New Brunswick. College football’s first official matchup ended with the bizarre score of 6 to 4, with each scoring play counting for one point.