October
October 7 #1 Notre Dame lost to Purdue, 28-14, and eventually finished with a 4-4-1 record. #2 Michigan State lost to Maryland, 34-7. #3 SMU won at Missouri 21-0. #4 Army beat Penn State 41-7. #5 Oklahoma beat Texas A&M 34-28. #6 Kentucky registered a fourth shutout and a 4-0 record, with a 40-0 win against Dayton. #7 Texas, which was idle, rose to 4th place.
October 14 #1 Army beat #18 Michigan 27-6 at Yankee Stadium. #2 SMU beat Oklahoma State 56-0. #3 Oklahoma and #4 Texas met in Dallas, with Oklahoma winning narrowly, 14-13. #5 Kentucky beat Cincinnati 41-7. #7 California, which had beaten USC 13-7, rose to 5th in the next poll.
October 21 #1 Army won at Harvard 49-0. #2 Oklahoma beat Kansas State 58-0. In Houston, #3 SMU beat #15 Rice 42-21. In Philadelphia, #4 Kentucky beat Villanova 34-7. #5 California beat Oregon State in Portland 27-0
October 28 #1 SMU was idle. #2 Army won at Columbia 34-0. #3 Oklahoma won at Iowa State 20-7. In Atlanta, #4 Kentucky beat Georgia Tech 28-14. #5 California beat St. Mary’s 40-25 and dropped in the polls. #6 Ohio State beat Iowa 83-21
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“The autumnal change of our woods has not yet made a deep impression on our own literature yet. October has hardly tinged our poetry.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)