October
In a Friday game, #4 UCLA beat #6 Maryland 12-7. The next day, October 2, #1 Notre Dame was upset by #19 Purdue, 27-14. #2 Oklahoma which was idle, moved to the top as Notre Dame dropped out. #3 Iowa defeated visiting Montana, 48-6, and #5 Wisconsin beat #13 Michigan State 6-0. In Columbia, the #15 South Carolina Gamecocks fell 26-6 against unranked West Virginia. The poll: 1.Oklahoma 2.UCLA 3.Wisconsin 4.Iowa 5.Purdue
October 9 #1 Oklahoma won its annual game in Dallas against #15 Texas, 14-7. #2 UCLA edged Washington 21-20. #3 Wisconsin beat #11 Rice 13-7. #4 Iowa lost to unranked Michigan, 14-13, and #5 Purdue was tied by #6 Duke, 13-13 (in the next poll, they stayed at #5 and #6). #10 Ohio State, which had won at Illinois 40-7, entered the Top Five: 1.Oklahoma 2.Wisconsin 3.UCLA 4.Ohio State 5.Purdue.
October 16 #2 Wisconsin hosted #5 Purdue and won 20-6. #1 Oklahoma visited Kansas and annihilated it, 65-0, while #3 UCLA went one better in beating Stanford 72-0. #4 Ohio State beat #13 Iowa 20-14. #14 West Virginia Mountaineers knocked off the #9 Penn State Nittany Lions 19-14 at Beaver Stadium. #7 Ole Miss, which had beaten Tulane 34-7, entered the Top Five: 1.Oklahoma 2.Wisconsin 3.UCLA 4.Ohio State 5.Mississippi.
October 23 #2 Wisconsin faced its second top-ranked opponent in a week, visiting Big Ten rival and #4 Ohio State. OSU won, 31-14, to take the #1 spot. #1 Oklahoma beat Kansas State 21-0, and #3 UCLA beat Oregon State 61-0. #5 Mississippi lost to #7 Arkansas at Little Rock, 6-0. #9 Army, which had won 67-12 at Columbia, moved up. The poll: 1.Ohio State 2.Oklahoma 3.UCLA 4.Arkansas 5.Army
October 30 #1 Ohio State won at Northwestern, 14-7. #2 Oklahoma won 13-6 at Colorado. #3 UCLA won at California 27-6 and was given top billing in the next poll. #4 Arkansas won 14-7 at Texas A & M. #5 Army, which got to stay home, edged Virginia 21-20. #6 Notre Dame, which beat #15 Navy 6-0 in Baltimore, moved up. The poll: 1.UCLA 2.Ohio State 3.Oklahoma 4.Arkansas 5.Notre Dame.
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