1940 Big Ten Conference football season
Results and team statistics
Key PPG = Average of points scored per game PAG = Average of points allowed per game MVP = Most valuable player as voted by players on each team as part of the voting process to determine the winner of the Chicago Tribune Silver Football trophy

1940 Big Ten Conference football season

Section Title: Results and team statistics
Table Section Text: Key PPG = Average of points scored per game PAG = Average of points allowed per game MVP = Most valuable player as voted by players on each team as part of the voting process to determine the winner of the Chicago Tribune Silver Football trophy

Conf. Rank	Team	Head coach	AP final	AP high	Overall record	Conf. record	PPG	PAG	MVP

1	Minnesota	Bernie Bierman	#1	#1	8–0	6–0	19.3	8.9	Bob Paffrath

2	Michigan	Fritz Crisler	#3	#3	7–1	3–1	24.5	4.3	Tom Harmon

3	Northwestern	Pappy Waldorf	#8	#4	6–2	4–2	21.3	8.0	Paul Hiemenz

4 (tie)	Ohio State	Francis Schmidt	NR	#15	4–4	3–3	12.4	14.1	Claude White

4 (tie)	Wisconsin	Harry Stuhldreher	NR	NR	4–4	3–3	15.6	16.8	George Paskvan

6 (tie)	Iowa	Eddie Anderson	NR	#20	4–4	2–3	15.6	12.3	Mike Enich

6 (tie)	Indiana	Bo McMillin	NR	NR	3–5	2–3	8.6	12.5	Dwight Gahm

8	Purdue	Allen Elward	NR	NR	2–6	1–4	12.0	13.3	Dave Rankin

9	Illinois	Robert Zuppke	NR	NR	1–7	0–5	8.9	18.0	George Bernhardt

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Northwestern under head coach Pappy Waldorf, finished in third place in the Big Ten with a 6–2 record and was No. 8 in the final AP.

final_sentence: Northwestern under head coach Pappy Waldorf, finished in third place in the Big Ten with a 6–2 record and was No. 8 in the final AP.