November
November 7 #1 LSU traveled to Knoxville to face the University of Tennessee, and gave up a touchdown for the first time in the season. The Vols made it to the end zone twice, winning 14-13 over the Tigers. Losing also was #2 Northwestern, which fell to the visiting Wisconsin, 24-19, and dropped to 6th. #3 Texas won a close one over Baylor, 13-12, and rose to 2nd. #4 Syracuse, which had won at Penn State 20-18, was catapulted to the #1 spot. #5 Mississippi crushed UT-Chattanooga 58-0. #6 USC returned to the Top Five after a 36-0 win over West Virginia. The next poll was 1.Syracuse 2.Texas 3.LSU 4.USC 5.Mississippi
November 14 #1 Syracuse exercised its top status, brushing off Colgate 71-0. #2 Texas lost to Texas Christian, 14-9. #3 LSU returned to its winning ways, beating Mississippi State at home, 27-0. #4 USC beat Baylor 17-8. #5 Mississippi beat Tennessee in Memphis, 37-7. The poll changed slightly: 1.Syracuse 2.Mississippi 3.LSU 4.USC 5.Texas
November 21 #1 Syracuse won at Boston University, 46-0, for its fifth shutout as it reached the 9-0-0 mark. #3 LSU beat Tulane 14-6, then accepted an invitation to play in the Sugar Bowl. #4 USC lost to UCLA, 10-3 and fell to 7th. #9 Wisconsin, which closed its season with an 11-7 win at Minnesota, rose to 5th. #2 Mississippi and #5 Texas were idle, but stayed at the same place in the polls: 1.Syracuse 2.Mississippi 3.LSU 4.Texas 5.Wisconsin
On Thanksgiving Day, #4 Texas won at Texas A & M, 20-17. #1 Syracuse was idle as it prepared for its December 5 trip to Los Angeles to play UCLA. On November 28, #2 Mississippi played its season ender against Mississippi State, in Starkville, and won 42-0. Both LSU and Ole Miss were invited to a rematch in New Orleans at the Sugar Bowl. A third SEC team, the #6 Georgia Bulldogs, beat Georgia Tech 21-14 in Atlanta and accepted a spot in the Orange Bowl. Because Oklahoma had played in the Orange Bowl the year before, a "no repeat" rule gave the Big 7 (Oklahoma State would join later) berth to 6-4-0 Missouri. The Rose Bowl matched #6 Wisconsin against #8 Washington. The penultimate poll was 1.Syracuse 2.Mississippi 3.LSU 4.Texas 5.Georgia. On December 5, #1 Syracuse closed its season with trip to the Los Angeles Coliseum to face the upset-minded (but 5-3-1) UCLA Bruins In a nationally televised game, the Orangemen took a 14-0 lead and went on to win 36-8 to finish the season with a perfect 10-0-0 record. As the only unbeaten team among universities, the Syracuse Orangemen were voted #1 in the AP poll (with 134 of 201 first place votes) and in the UPI poll, and 31 of the 35 first place votes on the UPI's "Board of Coaches"
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