1939 Detroit Titans football team

1939 Detroit Titans football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–3–1
Head coach
Home stadiumUniversity of Detroit Stadium
1939 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Central Michigan    8 1 0
No. 13 Notre Dame    7 2 0
Michigan Tech    3 1 1
Ohio    6 3 0
Detroit    5 3 1
Akron    5 4 0
Cincinnati    4 3 2
Ohio Wesleyan    5 4 1
Marquette    4 4 0
Michigan State    4 4 1
Dayton    4 4 1
Michigan State Normal    3 3 1
Wayne    4 5 0
Xavier    3 5 1
Western State Teachers    2 6 1
Miami (OH)    1 7 1
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1939 Detroit Titans football team represented the University of Detroit in the 1939 college football season. Detroit outscored its opponents by a combined total of 149 to 90 and finished with a 5–3–1 record in its 15th year under head coach and College Football Hall of Fame inductee, Gus Dorais.

Detroit was not ranked in the final AP poll, but it was ranked at No. 41 in the Williamson System ratings, and at No. 44 in the final Litkenhous Ratings.