Has a College Football game ever ended 40-21?
Yes. College Football has seen a final score of 40-21 41 times. It first happened on November 13, 1915, when Cornell beat Washington and Lee, and most recently on November 29, 2025, when Florida beat Florida State.
That makes 40-21 the 464th most common final score out of 2,215 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 41-21 has happened 95 times and 40-22 has happened 12 times.
Every 40-21 in College Football history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-29 | Florida over Florida State | 2025 | |
| 2025-11-08 | Florida Atlantic over Tulsa | 2025 | |
| 2024-09-07 | Coastal Carolina over William & Mary | 2024 | |
| 2021-11-13 | Michigan State over Maryland | 2021 | |
| 2021-09-11 | Arkansas over Texas | 2021 | |
| 2021-09-04 | Arkansas State over Central Arkansas | 2021 | |
| 2019-09-14 | Oklahoma State over Tulsa | 2019 | |
| 2019-08-31 | Michigan over Middle Tennessee | 2019 | |
| 2018-10-07 | Utah over Stanford | 2018 | |
| 2016-11-26 | Miami over Duke | 2016 | |
| 2015-11-28 | USC over UCLA | 2015 | |
| 2015-09-13 | Tulsa over New Mexico | 2015 | |
| 2014-12-26 | Rutgers over North Carolina | 2014 | Playoff |
| 2013-09-07 | BYU over Texas | 2013 | |
| 2010-10-02 | UConn over Vanderbilt | 2010 | |
| 2007-11-10 | Virginia Tech over Florida State | 2007 | |
| 2003-09-13 | Iowa over Iowa State | 2003 | |
| 2001-11-23 | Fresno State over San José State | 2001 | |
| 2001-10-13 | South Florida over UConn | 2001 | |
| 1996-09-07 | San Diego State over Idaho | 1996 | |
| 1990-10-20 | Penn State over Boston College | 1990 | |
| 1988-11-12 | Cincinnati over Indiana State | 1988 | |
| 1984-10-27 | Cincinnati over Louisville | 1984 | |
| 1982-10-16 | Indiana over Minnesota | 1982 | |
| 1980-11-15 | Oregon over Oregon State | 1980 | |
| 1978-11-25 | LSU over Tulane | 1978 | |
| 1974-09-28 | Cornell over Colgate | 1974 | |
| 1973-10-27 | Furman over East Tennessee State | 1973 | |
| 1969-10-04 | Yale over Colgate | 1969 | |
| 1969-10-04 | Pacific over Fresno State | 1969 | |
| 1968-09-20 | San Diego State over Northern Illinois | 1968 | |
| 1966-11-19 | Dartmouth over Pennsylvania | 1966 | |
| 1956-10-19 | Denver over Colorado College | 1956 | |
| 1954-11-13 | Cornell over Dartmouth | 1954 | |
| 1951-11-10 | Maryland over Navy | 1951 | |
| 1949-10-08 | Boston University over Colgate | 1949 | |
| 1949-10-01 | San José State over BYU | 1949 | |
| 1943-10-02 | Purdue over Illinois | 1943 | |
| 1941-11-08 | West Texas A&M over St. Mary's (Texas) | 1941 | |
| 1938-10-22 | Brown over Rhode Island | 1938 | |
| 1915-11-13 | Cornell over Washington and Lee | 1915 |