1940 Season

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Rule changes:
Time between plays was lessened from 30 seconds to 25 seconds.

Click the opponent name to see team information and all the games the Sooners played against them.
Click the conference link to see teams in that conference for the selected season.
Click the poll links to see the poll results for that week (prior to the game played).
Click the score link to see game information (some have more details than others - see icon legend below).

Ascending Descending	Opponent	Conf	Polls	QB	Score	Location/ Attend	Coach
10/5/1940	Oklahoma State (1-0-1)	MVC		Whited	29-27 (W)	Norman, OK	Lookabaugh
10/12/1940	vs Texas (2-0)	SWC		Whited	16-19 (L)	Dallas, TX	Bible
10/19/1940	Kansas State *	Big 6	AP: NR-NR	Whited	14-0 (W)	Norman, OK	Adams
10/26/1940	at Iowa State *	Big 6	AP: NR-NR	Whited	20-7 (W)	Ames, IA	Yaeger
11/2/1940	Nebraska * (3-1)	Big 6	AP: NR-12	Whited	0-13 (L)	Norman, OK 33,377	Jones
11/9/1940	at Kansas * (1-4)	Big 6	AP: NR-NR	Whited	13-0 (W)	Lawrence, KS	Henry
11/16/1940	Missouri *	Big 6	AP: NR-NR	Whited	7-0 (W)	Norman, OK	Faurot
11/23/1940	Temple (4-3-1)	Ind	AP: NR-NR	Whited	9-6 (W)	Norman, OK	Morrison
11/30/1940	at Santa Clara (5-1-1)	Ind	AP: NR-15	Whited	13-33 (L)	Santa Clara, CA 7,000	Shaw

Games

Conf Games

Home Games

Away Games

Neutral Games

Bowl Games

Scoring

121

Ave per Game

13.4

Conf Rank

Record

6-3 (66.7%)

Conf Record

4-1 (80.0%)

Home Record

4-1 (80.0%)

Away Record

2-1 (66.7%)

Neutral Record

0-1 (0.0%)

Bowl Record

0-0

Opp Scoring

105

Ave per Game

11.7

AP Rank

None

Most Scored

Fewest Scored

> Win Streak

> Win Margin

Most Allowed

Fewest Allowed

> Loss Streak

> Def Margin

* Conference Game
** poll rankings are displayed with OU's ranking first. Some polls do not rank the top 25 but all rank the top 10.
† indicates a ranking for a non-current poll (more than one week ahead)
Bowl games are always considered neutral sites.
All game times are in Sooner Time (Central Time).
"More" Icons:
- - Has some game details
- - Has an embedded video associated with the game (usually a full game video from YouTube)
- - Has Box Scores (at least partial)
- - Has game stats
- - Has a game scoring summary
- - Has OU player stats
- - Has opponent player stats
- - Has game notes from OU

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