The team compiled an 8–2 record (5–0 against Big 6 opponents), won the Big 6 championship, lost to Georgia Tech in the 1940 Orange Bowl, outscored all opponents by a combined total of 155 to 79, and was ranked No.
[1][2] The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Columbia, Missouri.
The team's leading scorer was Paul Christman with 42 points.
[3] Christman was also selected as a first-team All-American by the All-America Board,[4] Collier's Weekly (chosen by Grantland Rice),[5] Newspaper Enterprise Association,[6] and The Sporting News.
[4] He finished third in the 1939 Heisman Trophy voting, was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1956, and had his jersey (No.