The 1940 Tennessee Volunteers represented the University of Tennessee in the 1940 season. Playing as a member of theSoutheastern Conference (SEC), the team was led by head coach Robert Neyland, in his fourteenth year, and played their home games at Shields-Watkins Field in Knoxville, Tennessee. They finished the season with a record of ten wins and one loss (10–1 overall, 5–0 in the SEC), as SEC Champions and with a loss against Boston College in the 1941 Sugar Bowl. This team won the school’s second national championship after being crowned champions by the Williamson and Dunkel polls.
