Has a College Football game ever ended 40-3?
Yes. College Football has seen a final score of 40-3 20 times. It first happened on October 16, 1915, when Princeton beat Lafayette, and most recently on September 23, 2023, when Georgia Southern beat Ball State.
That makes 40-3 the 713th most common final score out of 2,215 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 41-3 has happened 70 times and 40-4 has happened never. At one point the score disappeared for 44 years, between 1916 and 1960.
Every 40-3 in College Football history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-23 | Georgia Southern over Ball State | 2023 | |
| 2022-09-02 | Arizona State over Northern Arizona | 2022 | |
| 2014-09-13 | Syracuse over Central Michigan | 2014 | |
| 2011-09-03 | Virginia over William & Mary | 2011 | |
| 2009-10-10 | Buffalo over Gardner-Webb | 2009 | |
| 2005-12-31 | LSU over Miami | 2005 | Playoff |
| 2005-09-17 | Penn State over Central Michigan | 2005 | |
| 2004-09-25 | UConn over Army | 2004 | |
| 2003-09-01 | Cincinnati over East Carolina | 2003 | |
| 2002-09-14 | USC over Colorado | 2002 | |
| 2002-09-07 | Louisville over Duke | 2002 | |
| 1992-11-14 | Stanford over Washington State | 1992 | |
| 1991-10-05 | Miami over Oklahoma State | 1991 | |
| 1984-10-13 | Iowa over Purdue | 1984 | |
| 1981-11-28 | Houston over Rice | 1981 | |
| 1978-11-04 | Louisiana Tech over Lamar | 1978 | |
| 1975-11-08 | Ohio State over Illinois | 1975 | |
| 1960-11-19 | New Mexico State over Hardin-Simmons | 1960 | |
| 1916-11-25 | West Virginia over Catholic | 1916 | |
| 1915-10-16 | Princeton over Lafayette | 1915 |