| Nov 16, 1940 | 14Alabama 14, Georgia Tech 13 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | Baylor 20, Tulsa 6 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | 8Boston College 19, 9Georgetown 18 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | California 14, Oregon 6 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | Colgate 7, Syracuse 6 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | Colorado 25, BYU 2 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | Dartmouth 3, 2Cornell 0upset | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | Davidson 26, Hampden Sydney 0 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | Denver 34, Utah State 6 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | Drake 20, Washington St. Louis 14upset | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | George Washington 6, Kansas 0 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | Gonzaga 13, Detroit Mercy 7 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | Harvard 14, Brown 0 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | Iowa 7, 7Notre Dame 0upset | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | Iowa State 12, Kansas State 0 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | LSU 21, Auburn 13upset | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | Marquette 7, Michigan State 6 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | 6Michigan 20, 10Northwestern 13 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | 1Minnesota 33, Purdue 6 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | Columbia 0, Navy 0 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | 11Nebraska 9, Pittsburgh 7 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | North Carolina 6, 12Duke 3upset | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | NC State 20, The Citadel 14 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | Ohio State 14, Illinois 6 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | Oklahoma 7, Missouri 0 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | Oklahoma State 14, Saint Louis 7 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | 20Penn State 25, New York University 0 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | Pennsylvania 48, Army 0 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | Princeton 10, Yale 7 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | Saint Mary’s (CA) 13, San Francisco 7 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | 16Santa Clara 27, Loyola Marymount 0 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | Sewanee 25, Washington and Lee 13 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | 20SMU 28, Arkansas 0 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | 4Stanford 28, 19Oregon State 14 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | Holy Cross 6, Temple 6 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | 5Tennessee 41, Virginia 14 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | Texas 21, TCU 14 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | 3Texas A&M 25, Rice 0 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | Texas Tech 12, Wake Forest 7 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | Tulane 21, Georgia 13 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | UCLA 34, Washington State 26 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | Utah 27, Colorado State 0 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | Villanova 13, Manhattan 6 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | VMI 20, Maryland 0 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | 17Washington 14, USC 0 | Box score |
| Nov 16, 1940 | Wisconsin 27, Indiana 10 | Box score |
| Nov 17, 1940 | West Virginia 9, Kentucky 7 | Box score |