November
November 1 #1 LSU beat Ole Miss 14-0 #2 Iowa won at Michigan, 37-14. #3 Army crushed Colgate, 68-6. #4 Auburn won 6-5 at Florida. In Columbus, #5 Ohio State was upset by visiting#11 Northwestern, 21-0. The next poll was: 1.LSU 2.Iowa 3.Army 4.Northwestern 5.Auburn
November 8 #1 LSU beat Duke 50-18. #2 Iowa won at Minnesota 28-6. #3 Army beat the Rice Owls in Houston, 14-7. #4 Northwestern lost at Madison to #7 Wisconsin, 17-13. #5 Auburn beat Mississippi State 33-14 at home. The next poll was: 1.LSU 2.Iowa 3.Army 4.Auburn 5.Wisconsin
November 15 #1 LSU beat Mississippi State at Jackson 7-6. #2 Iowa lost at home to Ohio State 38-28. #3 Army beat Villanova 26-0. #4 Auburn met the Georgia Bulldogs halfway in Columbus, Georgia, and won 21-6. #5 Wisconsin. #6 Oklahoma, which beat Missouri 39-0, rose to 4th. The poll was: 1.LSU 2.Auburn 3.Army 4.Oklahoma 5.Wisconsin
November 22 In New Orleans, the #1 LSU Tigers crushed Tulane 62-0, to close their season with a 10-0-0 record. They would face the Clemson Tigers in the Sugar Bowl. Behind them, were the #2 Auburn Tigers, who beat Wake Forest at home 21-7. #3 Army was idle as it prepared for the annual Army-Navy game. #4 Oklahoma crushed Nebraska 40-7. #5 Wisconsin beat Minnesota to close its season at 6-1-1. #6 Iowa, which beat Notre Dame 31-21, returned to the Top 5. 1.LSU 2.Auburn 3.Oklahoma 4.Iowa 5.Army
On November 29 #2 Auburn defeated Alabama 14-8 in Birmingham to finish its season at 9-0-1. #3 Oklahoma won at Oklahoma State 7-0. In Philadelphia, #5 Army beat Navy, 22-6, to finish its season 8-0-1.
The final AP Poll was released on December 1, and the #1 LSU Tigers, at 10-0-0, won the AP Trophy with 130 of the first place votes. The other 73 votes were spread among 12 schools, including Rose Bowl bound #2 Iowa (17), #3 Army (13), #4 Auburn (9), #5 Oklahoma (10), #6 Air Force (2), #7 Wisconsin (13), #8 Ohio State (3), and #9 Syracuse Orangemen. The United States Air Force Academy football team, nicknamed the Falcons, had a 9-0-1 record in only their second year of playing college football, and accepted a bid to face Texas Christian University in the Cotton Bowl.
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