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The 1940 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida during the 1940 college football season. The season was the first of four for Tom Lieb as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team. Lieb was the former coach of the Loyola Lions, and had previously served as Knute Rockne's primary assistant and on-the-field replacement while Rockne was in the hospital during most of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish's 1930 national championship season. The highlights of the Gators' 1940 season included victories over the Maryland Terrapins (19–0), the Georgia Bulldogs (18–13), the Miami Hurricanes (46–6) and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (16–7). Lieb's 1940 Florida Gators finished with a 5–5 overall record and a 2–3 record in the Southeastern Conference (SEC), placing eighth among thirteen SEC teams.[1]

Record5–5 (2–3 SEC)
Headcoach
CaptainBud Walton
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1940 Florida Gators football
ConferenceSoutheastern Conference
Record5–5 (2–3 SEC)
Head coach
CaptainBud Walton
Home stadiumFlorida Field
Seasons
← 1939
1941 →
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1940 Southeastern Conference football standings
Conf.Overall
Team W L  W L 
No. 4 Tennessee $5–0–010–1–0
No. 9 Mississippi State4–0–110–0–1
Ole Miss3–1–09–2–0
Alabama4–2–07–2–0
Auburn3–2–16–4–1
LSU3–3–06–4–0
Georgia2–3–15–4–1
Florida2–3–05–5–0
Kentucky1–2–25–3–2
Tulane1–3–05–5–0
Vanderbilt1–5–13–6–1
Georgia Tech1–5–03–7–0
Sewanee0–1–03–5–0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll
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Florida was ranked at No. 64 (out of 697 college football teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score system for 1940.[2]

Schedule

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DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28Mississippi StateL 7–2512,000[3]
October 5at Tampa*W 23–0[4]
October 11at Villanova*L 0–2822,000[5]
October 19Maryland*dagger
  • Florida Field
  • Gainesville, FL
W 19–010,000[6]
October 26at No. 5 TennesseeL 0–1415,000[7]
November 9vs. GeorgiaW 18–1319,000[8]
November 168:30 p.m.at Miami (FL)*W 46–617,365[9][10]
November 23at Georgia TechW 16–712,000[11]
November 30vs. AuburnL 7–207,500[12]
December 7Texas*
  • Florida Field
  • Gainesville, FL
L 0–2612,000[13]
  • *Non-conference game
  • daggerHomecoming
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
  • All times are in Eastern time
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