Has a College Football game ever ended 40-20?
It has. 40-20 has been a College Football final 32 times in 84,433 games. The first was Texas Tech beat TCU on November 6, 1943; the latest was Boise State beat Fresno State on October 9, 2022.
That makes 40-20 the 544th most common final score out of 2,216 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 41-20 has happened 90 times and 40-21 has happened 41 times.
Every 40-20 in College Football history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-10-09 | Boise State over Fresno State | 2022 | |
| 2015-11-21 | Iowa over Purdue | 2015 | |
| 2014-11-23 | Fresno State over Nevada | 2014 | |
| 2014-11-01 | Memphis over Tulsa | 2014 | |
| 2014-09-07 | Utah State over Idaho State | 2014 | |
| 2013-09-07 | North Carolina over Middle Tennessee | 2013 | |
| 2013-08-31 | Ohio State over Buffalo | 2013 | |
| 2012-10-05 | UCF over East Carolina | 2012 | |
| 2012-09-16 | San José State over Colorado State | 2012 | |
| 2011-09-18 | UNLV over Hawai'i | 2011 | |
| 2009-11-07 | Troy over Western Kentucky | 2009 | |
| 2007-10-06 | Indiana over Minnesota | 2007 | |
| 2004-09-18 | Kansas State over Louisiana | 2004 | |
| 2004-09-18 | Miami (OH) over Ohio | 2004 | |
| 2003-08-29 | Utah over Utah State | 2003 | |
| 2000-10-07 | Northern Illinois over UCF | 2000 | |
| 1998-09-19 | USC over Oregon State | 1998 | |
| 1995-10-28 | Utah over Utah State | 1995 | |
| 1994-10-08 | Michigan over Michigan State | 1994 | |
| 1991-10-26 | Texas Tech over Rice | 1991 | |
| 1985-09-28 | Alabama over Vanderbilt | 1985 | |
| 1970-10-03 | Missouri over Oklahoma State | 1970 | |
| 1968-11-30 | Boston College over Holy Cross | 1968 | |
| 1968-11-29 | Florida State over Houston | 1968 | |
| 1968-09-14 | Northern Illinois over Ball State | 1968 | |
| 1958-11-01 | Notre Dame over Navy | 1958 | |
| 1956-10-13 | Stanford over San José State | 1956 | |
| 1955-11-26 | Clemson over Furman | 1955 | |
| 1951-10-20 | Baylor over Texas Tech | 1951 | |
| 1950-12-09 | Texas A&M over Georgia | 1950 | Playoff |
| 1946-11-22 | Miami over Washington and Lee | 1946 | |
| 1943-11-06 | Texas Tech over TCU | 1943 |