Has a College Football game ever ended 40-37?
It has. 40-37 has been a College Football final 24 times in 84,433 games. The first was Northwestern beat Indiana on September 22, 1984; the latest was Marshall beat Texas State on October 18, 2025.
That makes 40-37 the 645th most common final score out of 2,216 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 41-37 has happened 11 times and 40-38 has happened 6 times.
Every 40-37 in College Football history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-18 | Marshall over Texas State | 2025 | |
| 2023-09-16 | UNLV over Vanderbilt | 2023 | |
| 2023-09-16 | North Texas over Louisiana Tech | 2023 | |
| 2023-09-09 | Fordham over Buffalo | 2023 | |
| 2022-09-03 | Wyoming over Tulsa | 2022 | |
| 2021-10-09 | Wake Forest over Syracuse | 2021 | |
| 2021-09-19 | Fresno State over UCLA | 2021 | |
| 2018-10-20 | Syracuse over North Carolina | 2018 | |
| 2018-09-15 | Missouri over Purdue | 2018 | |
| 2016-11-26 | Tulsa over Cincinnati | 2016 | |
| 2014-10-25 | UCLA over Colorado | 2014 | |
| 2014-09-13 | West Virginia over Maryland | 2014 | |
| 2012-09-22 | Wyoming over Idaho | 2012 | |
| 2009-11-14 | Michigan State over Purdue | 2009 | |
| 2009-10-24 | Clemson over Miami | 2009 | |
| 2008-11-29 | Kansas over Missouri | 2008 | |
| 2008-10-04 | UTEP over Southern Miss | 2008 | |
| 2006-09-24 | Notre Dame over Michigan State | 2006 | |
| 1999-11-27 | Stanford over Notre Dame | 1999 | |
| 1999-10-09 | Western Michigan over Eastern Michigan | 1999 | |
| 1995-12-14 | Toledo over Nevada | 1995 | Playoff |
| 1994-11-19 | Eastern Michigan over Toledo | 1994 | |
| 1989-10-21 | Louisiana Tech over Arkansas State | 1989 | |
| 1984-09-22 | Northwestern over Indiana | 1984 |