1940 Big 6 football standings
	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
#7 Nebraska $	5	–	0	–	0	8	–	2	–	0
Oklahoma	4	–	1	–	0	6	–	3	–	0
Missouri	3	–	2	–	0	6	–	3	–	0
Iowa State	2	–	3	–	0	4	–	5	–	0
Kansas State	1	–	4	–	0	2	–	7	–	0
Kansas	0	–	5	–	0	2	–	7	–	0

$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

Nebraska at Minnesota

	1	2	3	4	Total
Nebraska	0	0	7	0	7
• Minnesota	0	7	6	0	13

Date: October 5
Location: Memorial Stadium • Minneapolis, Minnesota

Indiana at Nebraska

	1	2	Total
Indiana			7
• Nebraska			13

Date: October 12
Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska

Nebraska at Kansas

	1	2	Total
• Nebraska			53
Kansas			2

Date: October 19
Location: Memorial Stadium • Lawrence, Kansas

Missouri at #18 Nebraska

	1	2	Total
Missouri			7
• #18 Nebraska			20

Date: October 26
Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska

#12 Nebraska at Oklahoma

	1	2	Total
• #12 Nebraska			13
Oklahoma			0

Date: November 2
Location: Oklahoma Memorial Stadium • Norman, Oklahoma

Iowa at #12 Nebraska

	1	2	3	4	Total
Iowa	0	6	0	0	6
• #12 Nebraska	7	7	0	0	14

Date: November 9
Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska

#11 Nebraska at Pittsburgh

	1	2	3	4	Total
• #11 Nebraska	6	0	3	0	9
Pittsburgh	7	0	0	0	7

Date: November 16
Location: Pitt Stadium • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Iowa State at #8 Nebraska

	1	2	Total
Iowa State			12
• #8 Nebraska			21

Date: November 23
Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska
Game attendance: 17,541

The 1940 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska in the 1940 college football season. The team was coached by Biff Jones and played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska. That year, both Warren Alfson and Forrest Behm were both on the All-American team.

Coach Jones returned to add another chapter to the up and down story of his Nebraska head coaching career. After a promising conference championship first year, a record-setting second year of losses and disappointments, and then a strong return last year which included wins over Minnesota and Pittsburgh in the same year for the first time ever, sights were set on once again taking aim at the conference title and returning to the top of the league.

The Cornhuskers faced the ultimate test to start their season, going up against the #1 Minnesota Golden Gophers in Minneapolis. The Gophers already had played one game to tune up. The scoreless draw was broken open when Minnesota put one touchdown in before the half. It wasn't until the third quarter that Nebraska scored a touchdown to tie it up, but the Gophers quickly responded to keep their lead. When the Cornhuskers answered later in the third on a long reverse play, the tying score was called back on an offsides penalty and Nebraska was unable to put the ball over again as they fell to 4-16-2 in the series.

Indiana arrived in Lincoln to open Nebraska's home schedule, and quickly found themselves scrambling to keep up as the Cornhuskers jumped out to a 13-0 lead by halftime. The Hoosiers did manage one third quarter score, but were unable to come up with enough to get the win. Indiana remained winless against Nebraska all time, at 0-3-2.

Nebraska absolutely unloaded on Kansas in Lawrence, seemingly running into the end zone at will and rolling up 53 points. It was the most points scored and tied the record largest margin of victory since Grinnell fell to Nebraska 58-0 in 1927. Kansas managed to avoid the shutout only by the grace of a Cornhusker kicker slipping in the end zone to give up a safety. Nebraska was now 35-9-3 in the series, and had kept Kansas winless in 24 straight tries. Nebraska appeared at #18 in the AP Poll.

Nebraska took back the Missouri-Nebraska Bell with their defeat of defending Big 6 champion Missouri in Lincoln. If not for a successful play in the last sixty seconds of the game, the Tigers would have been forced to suffer the additional indignity of a shutout. As it was, they still had to live with their 8-23-3 record against Nebraska all-time. The win boosted Nebraska to #12 in the AP Poll.

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