Has a College Football game ever ended 40-27?
Yes. College Football has seen a final score of 40-27 23 times. It first happened on January 1, 1946, when Texas beat Missouri, and most recently on November 8, 2025, when Coastal Carolina beat Georgia State.
That makes 40-27 the 661st most common final score out of 2,216 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 41-27 has happened 46 times and 40-28 has happened 21 times.
Every 40-27 in College Football history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-08 | Coastal Carolina over Georgia State | 2025 | |
| 2020-11-07 | Fresno State over UNLV | 2020 | |
| 2018-09-15 | Duke over Baylor | 2018 | |
| 2015-11-06 | Arkansas State over App State | 2015 | |
| 2013-10-26 | Clemson over Maryland | 2013 | |
| 2011-09-04 | LSU over Oregon | 2011 | |
| 2005-11-26 | SMU over UTEP | 2005 | |
| 2001-11-11 | Colorado over Iowa State | 2001 | |
| 2000-12-27 | East Carolina over Texas Tech | 2000 | Playoff |
| 2000-09-09 | San José State over Stanford | 2000 | |
| 1997-09-27 | UCLA over Arizona | 1997 | |
| 1993-11-06 | UCLA over Washington State | 1993 | |
| 1991-11-09 | Washington State over Arizona | 1991 | |
| 1976-11-20 | Notre Dame over Miami | 1976 | |
| 1976-11-06 | BYU over UTEP | 1976 | |
| 1976-09-11 | Michigan over Wisconsin | 1976 | |
| 1970-11-07 | Louisville over Memphis | 1970 | |
| 1969-11-29 | Tennessee over Vanderbilt | 1969 | |
| 1968-10-19 | Cincinnati over Wichita State | 1968 | |
| 1966-09-24 | Brown over Rhode Island | 1966 | |
| 1949-11-05 | Boston College over Clemson | 1949 | |
| 1949-10-08 | Rutgers over Lehigh | 1949 | |
| 1946-01-01 | Texas over Missouri | 1945 | Playoff |