1940 Tennessee Volunteers football team

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1940 Tennessee Volunteers football
National champion (Dunkel)
SEC champion
Sugar Bowl, L 13–19 vs. Boston College
ConferenceSoutheastern Conference
Ranking
APNo. 4
Record10–1 (5–0 SEC)
Head coach
Offensive schemeSingle-wing
Home stadiumShields–Watkins Field
Seasons
← 1939
1941 →
1940 Southeastern Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 4 Tennessee $ 5 – 0 – 0 10 – 1 – 0
No. 9 Mississippi State 4 – 0 – 1 10 – 0 – 1
Ole Miss 3 – 1 – 0 9 – 2 – 0
Alabama 4 – 2 – 0 7 – 2 – 0
Auburn 3 – 2 – 1 6 – 4 – 1
LSU 3 – 3 – 0 6 – 4 – 0
Georgia 2 – 3 – 1 5 – 4 – 1
Florida 2 – 3 – 0 5 – 5 – 0
Kentucky 1 – 2 – 2 5 – 3 – 2
Tulane 1 – 3 – 0 5 – 5 – 0
Vanderbilt 1 – 5 – 1 3 – 6 – 1
Georgia Tech 1 – 5 – 0 3 – 7 – 0
Sewanee 0 – 1 – 0 3 – 5 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from
AP Poll

The 1940 Tennessee Volunteers represented the University of Tennessee in the 1940 college football season. Playing as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the team was led by head coach Robert Neyland, in his 14th year, and played their home games at Shields–Watkins Field in Knoxville, Tennessee. They finished the season with a record of ten wins and one loss (10–1 overall, 5–0 in the SEC), as SEC champions and with a loss against Boston College in the 1941 Sugar Bowl.

This team won the school's second

national championship after being recognized as national champion under the Dunkel System, a power index system devised by Dick Dunkel Sr.[1]

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28Mercer*
W 49–020,000[2]
October 5Duke*
  • Shields–Watkins Field
  • Knoxville, TN
W 13–025,000[3]
October 12Chattanooga*
  • Shields–Watkins Field
  • Knoxville, TN
W 53–012,000[4]
October 19at AlabamaNo. 5
W 27–1224,500[5]
October 26FloridaNo. 5
  • Shields–Watkins Field
  • Knoxville, TN (rivalry)
W 14–015,000[6]
November 2LSUdaggerNo. 7
  • Shields–Watkins Field
  • Knoxville, TN
W 28–018,000[7]
November 9at Southwestern (TN)*No. 5
W 40–08,000[8]
November 16Virginia*No. 5
  • Shields–Watkins Field
  • Knoxville, TN
W 41–147,000[9]
November 23KentuckyNo. 6
  • Shields–Watkins Field
  • Knoxville, TN (rivalry)
W 33–025,000[10]
November 30at
Dudley Field
  • Nashville, TN (rivalry)
    		• W 20–025,000[11]
    January 1, 1941vs. No. 5 Boston College*No. 4
    		L 13–1973,181[12]
    • *Non-conference game
    • daggerHomecoming
    • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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