For long stretches of Super Bowl 60, the same uneasy thought kept hovering over the broadcast: could the NFL’s biggest night actually drift toward a shutout? It felt plausible because Seattle was piling up points without touchdowns, while New England stayed stuck on zero until the fourth quarter.

Seattle opened the scoring with a 33-yard field goal to finish its first drive, then added another field goal to build a 6–0 lead. Right before halftime, the Seahawks tacked on a third field goal to make it 9–0, and they struck again with another kick in the third quarter to extend the margin to 12–0.

The end zone finally entered the story in the fourth quarter, when Seattle scored the game’s first touchdown. Not long after, the Patriots answered with their first touchdown as well, ensuring Super Bowl 60 would not create the kind of history no team wants attached to its name.

So has there ever been a Super Bowl shutout? The answer is still no. There has never been a shutout in Super Bowl history, and the fewest points ever scored by a team is three, achieved by the Dolphins in Super Bowl VI and the Rams in Super Bowl LIII.

Another question that often follows is whether any Super Bowl has ever been played without a touchdown. That has never happened either. Each of the first 59 Super Bowls featured at least one touchdown, and Super Bowl 60 joined them once Seattle reached the end zone in the fourth quarter.

Historically, there has been only one championship game with just a single touchdown, and that came in Super Bowl 53, a matchup remembered for how quickly it turned into a defensive grind and how slowly points arrived.

The lowest-scoring Super Bowl on record remains the 2019 game between the Patriots and the Rams, when only 16 total points were scored and New England won 13–3. Before that, the previous low was 21 points in Super Bowl VII, when Miami beat Washington 14–7. The third-lowest total came in 1975, when Pittsburgh beat Minnesota 16–6 for 22 combined points.

At the other extreme sits Super Bowl 29 in 1995, the highest-scoring Super Bowl ever, when San Francisco beat San Diego 49–26 for a record 75 total points. Super Bowl 52 in 2018 came close, with Philadelphia defeating New England 41–33 for 74 total points, one short of the record.

If you want to double-check the milestones and record-holders, the NFL’s official Super Bowl history and records hub keeps the league’s definitive archive in one place.

For Super Bowl 60 viewers, the takeaway was simple: even when the scoreboard crawls and the tension builds, the Super Bowl has a stubborn habit of refusing a shutout. New England’s fourth-quarter breakthrough kept that tradition alive once again.