Has there ever been a Super Bowl with no touchdowns? (2024)

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Has there ever been a Super Bowl with no touchdowns? ›

There has never been a Super Bowl game without a touchdown scored by either team. There has, however, been a title game where one team failed to score a touchdown: the 1971 Dolphins, who lost 24–3 to the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl VI at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, La.

There have only been three instances ever of a team failing to score a touchdown after making it to the big game: the 1971 Dolphins, the 2018 Rams and the 2020 Chiefs.

The lowest-scoring Super Bowl of all time was Super Bowl LIII in 2019. Just 16 total points were scored between the Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams. The Patriots won, 13-3. The previous record, set in 1973 at Super Bowl VII, was 21 points.

Even in recent years, three of the last nine Super Bowl first quarters have been scoreless and 0-0 has hit four times in that span thanks to a 10-0 Denver lead after a quarter in Super Bowl 50. The final score, however, has never ended in 0-0.

But the NFL credits points to the player who catches a TD pass not the thrower. Joe Namath won MVP for the Jets in Super Bowl 3 against the Colts without scoring or throwing for a TD. Stabler had one TD pass in his win for Oakland against Minnesota.

Only one Super Bowl has featured a team who failed to score a touchdown, but no title game has ever had no touchdowns from either team. There has never been a Super Bowl game without a touchdown scored by either team.

For the first time under quarterback Patrick Mahomes, the Chiefs failed to score a touchdown and lost by double-digits, making them the third Super Bowl team not to score a touchdown.

There has never been a shutout in a Super Bowl. The fewest points ever scored by a team is three (Dolphins in Super Bowl VI and Rams in Super Bowl LIII). The biggest blowout was Super Bowl XXIV back in 1990: The San Francisco 49ers beat the Denver Broncos 55-10, a 45-point victory.

Los Angeles could not get the ball past midfield, so they punted it back to New England to end the half. The two teams went into their locker rooms with the Patriots leading, 3–0, the second lowest halftime score in Super Bowl history and the lowest since the 2–0 halftime score in Super Bowl IX after the 1974 season.

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As a result, Visa came up with an advertising campaign to feature four men who have attended every Super Bowl since the first one in 1967. The four men were New England Patriots fan Don Crisman, San Francisco 49ers fan Larry Jacobson, Pittsburgh Steelers fan Thomas Henschel, and Green Bay Packers fan Robert Cook.

Yet there are still a dozen franchises in pursuit of that elusive Vince Lombardi Trophy. Four of them -- the Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Houston Texans and Jacksonville Jaguars-- have never reached the big game, while five others have fallen short despite multiple title appearances.

The last team to win without a touchdown was the Dolphins in Week 18 of last season, when they beat the Jets 11-6 thanks to three field goals and a safety. That was a battle of Dolphins quarterback Skylar Thompson and Jets quarterback Joe Flacco in which neither passer played well.

Jerick McKinnon: Chiefs had practiced scenario of sliding down in lieu of scoring TD. Kansas City Chiefs running back Jerick McKinnon says that Chiefs head coach Andy Reid had the Chiefs prepared for the scenario at the end of the game in which McKinnon slid down at the 1-yard line in lieu of scoring a touchdown.

Could the Super Bowl be decided by a field goal as time expires? It's far from impossible, considering that multiple playoff games this year have already been decided by late missed field goals. And it's happened before: a field goal at the end of the game has won the Super Bowl three times in the event's history.

We've seen a dramatic shift from that in recent years after yet another early touchback in Super Bowl 58. Just as he did last year, Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker boomed one into the end zone for a touchback, extending that streak to three consecutive Super Bowls - the longest run in Super Bowl history.