Has a College Football game ever ended 40-8?
It has. 40-8 has been a College Football final 13 times in 84,857 games. The first was Carnegie Mellon beat Western Reserve on October 25, 1930; the latest was Notre Dame beat Oregon State on December 29, 2023.
That makes 40-8 the 901st most common final score out of 2,217 that have ever occurred in College Football. One point away, 41-8 has happened 9 times and 40-9 has happened 7 times. Nearly all of its occurrences fall between 1950 and 1979. At one point the score disappeared for 33 years, between 1990 and 2023.
Every 40-8 in College Football history
| Date | Result | Season | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-29 | Notre Dame over Oregon State | 2023 | Playoff |
| 1990-09-22 | Texas A&M over North Texas | 1990 | |
| 1969-10-18 | Georgia over Vanderbilt | 1969 | |
| 1967-09-23 | UCLA over Pittsburgh | 1967 | |
| 1963-11-09 | Miami (OH) over Toledo | 1963 | |
| 1963-10-12 | New Mexico State over Trinity (Texas) | 1963 | |
| 1961-09-30 | Montana over New Mexico | 1961 | |
| 1960-10-28 | Tulane over William & Mary | 1960 | |
| 1960-10-22 | New Mexico State over Wichita State | 1960 | |
| 1960-10-15 | Wyoming over Colorado State | 1960 | |
| 1959-10-09 | The Citadel over Wofford | 1959 | |
| 1958-10-11 | Penn State over Marquette | 1958 | |
| 1930-10-25 | Carnegie Mellon over Western Reserve | 1930 |
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