Has an AFL game ever ended 88-40?
It has. 88-40 has been a AFL final 3 times in 16,622 games. The first was Geelong beat Fitzroy on August 9, 1952; the latest was Hawthorn beat North Melbourne on July 16, 2023.
That makes 88-40 the 1534th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 89-40 has happened 2 times and 88-41 has happened 1 times. At one point the score disappeared for 53 years, between 1970 and 2023.