October
October 3 #1 LSU and Baylor met at a game in Shreveport, with LSU winning 22-0. #2 Northwestern won at #5 Iowa, 14-10. #3 Mississippi registered a third shutout, beating Memphis State 43-0, but fell to fifth. #4 Army lost at Illinois, 20-14, and fell out of the Top 20 completely. #7 Georgia Tech which went to 3-0 after a 16-6 win over #6 Clemson, rose to 3rd in the poll. #10 Texas rose to 4th after its third shutout in a row, a 33-0 walloping of California. The poll was: 1.LSU 2.Northwestern 3.Georgia Tech 4.Texas 5.Mississippi
October 10 #1 LSU beat the visiting Miami Hurricanes 27-3. #2 Northwestern beat Minnesota 6-0. #3 Georgia Tech won at Tennessee, 14-7. In Dallas, #4 Texas defeated Oklahoma 19-12. #5 Mississippi won at Vanderbilt, 33-0. In four games, Ole Miss was 4-0-0 and had outscored its opponents 108-0. The next poll was: 1.LSU 2.Northwestern 3.Texas 4.Georgia Tech 5.Mississippi
On October 17, #1 LSU won at Kentucky, 9-0. #2 Northwestern won at Michigan 20-7. #3 Texas narrowly beat Arkansas 13-12 in Little Rock. #4 Georgia Tech lost to Auburn, 7-6. #5 Mississippi yielded some points for the first time in the season, but beat Tulane 53-7. The #7 USC Trojans rose to 5th after beating Washington in Seattle, 22-15. The poll was: 1.LSU 2.Northwestern 3.Texas 4.Mississippi 5.USC
October 24 #1 LSU recorded its fourth shutout, winning 9-0 in Florida. #2 Northwestern killed another giant on the road, beating Notre Dame 30-24. #3 Texas defeated Rice 28-6. #4 Mississippi shut out Arkansas 28-0 at Memphis. #5 USC Trojans got past Stanford 30-28 and fell to 6th. Taking USC's place was #6 Syracuse, which had beaten West Virginia 44-0 to reach the 5-0-0 mark. The next poll was: 1.LSU 2.Northwestern 3.Mississippi 4.Texas 5.Syracuse
October 31 LSU and #3 Mississippi, both 6-0-0, met in Baton Rouge. Both schools had great defenses. LSU had outscored its opposition 103-6, while Ole Miss had a 189-7 point differential over all comers. Someone had to lose, and Ole Miss fell to LSU 7-3. Billy Cannon returned a Jake Gibbs punt 89 yards for the game's only touchdown, but the Rebels had a chance to win the game when it drove to the LSU 1-yard line in the closing seconds, only to see third-string quarterback Doug Elmore stopped cold on fourth and goal by Cannon. #2 Northwestern beat visiting Indiana 30-13. #4 Texas beat SMU in Dallas, 21-0. #5 Syracuse won at Pittsburgh, 35-0, and rose to fourth. The next poll was: 1.LSU 2.Northwestern 3.Texas 4.Syracuse 5.Mississippi
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