1960 College Football Season - October

October

October 1 #1 Mississippi played its second straight game in Memphis, Tennessee, beating Memphis State 31-20. #2 Syracuse defeated #5 Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, 14-7, to reclaim the top spot. #3 Washington narrowly lost 15-14 at home to the #17 Navy Midshipmen. #4 Illinois beat West Virginia 33-0. #18 Minnesota beat Indiana 42-0. In the following poll, Syracuse and Ole Miss were #1 and #2, followed at 3, 4 and 5 by Big Ten teams Iowa, Illinois and Ohio State. Purdue was 7th, Michigan State 13th, and Minnesota 14th. Iowa had beaten Northwestern 42-0 on the road, while Ohio State had shut out visiting USC.

October 8 #1 Syracuse struggled to beat Holy Cross 15-6 in Worcestor, Mass. #14 Minnesota beat Northwestern 7-0. #2 Mississippi won in their third consecutive trip to Tennessee, beating Vanderbilt 26-0 in Nashville. #3 Iowa beat #13 Michigan State in East Lansing, 27-15. #4 Illinois lost in Champaign, Ill., to #5 Ohio State, 34-7. #6 Navy, which had beaten SMU 26-7 at a game in the naval port of Norfolk, Virginia, came in at fifth. The next poll was: 1.Mississippi 2.Iowa 3.Ohio State 4.Syracuse 5.Navy. Minnesota reached the Top Ten at #10

On October 15, #1 Mississippi beat Tulane in New Orleans 26-13, and #2 Iowa beat #12 Wisconsin at home, 28-21. #4 Syracuse beat #20 Penn State 21-15, and #5 Navy beat the Air Force Academy 35-3 in Baltimore. #3 Ohio State lost a close one at Purdue 24-21. #10 Minnesota beat Illinois 21-10. The Iowa Hawkeyes narrowly topped the next poll, with 23 first place votes to 22 for Ole Miss, and only two points to separate #1 and #2 (442-440) They were followed by 3.Syracuse 4.Navy and newcomer 5.Missouri, which was 5-0 after a 45-0 win over Kansas State at Manhattan, KS. Minnesota rose from 10th to 6th.

October 22 #1 Iowa beat #10 Purdue 21-14 and #2 Mississippi edged #14 Arkansas 10-7 in Little Rock. #3 Syracuse won at West Virginia 45-0, while #4 Navy beat the Ivy League's Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, 27-0. #5 Missouri, which had held its opponents to single digits, continued winning with a 34-8 thrashing of Iowa State. In Ann Arbor, Michigan, #6 Minnesota beat Michigan 10-0. Iowa tightened its hold on #1 in the next poll, with 34 of the 48 votes for first place. The next week's Top 20 had only nineteen teams, with Kansas at #19 with 2 points. The top five remained the same with 1.Iowa 2.Mississippi 3.Syracuse 4.Navy and 5.Missouri.

October 29 #1 Iowa beat #19 Kansas 21-7. #2 Mississippi played its 7th game of the season, but its first at home in Oxford, and were tied 6-6 by the LSU Tigers. #3 Syracuse lost to Pitt 10-0. In Philadelphia, #4 Navy beat Notre Dame 14-7. #6 Minnesota beat Kansas State 48-7. #5 Missouri crushed Nebraska in Lincoln, 28-0, to go 7-0-0. At this time, they had outscored their opponents 210-31.

Iowa stayed #1, Missouri rose to #2. #6 Minnesota rose to #3 after posting its sixth win, a 48-7 routing of Kansas State, and Ohio State returned to the top five at #5 after beating Michigan State in East Lansing, 21-10. With three Big Ten teams, the top five was 1.Iowa 2.Missouri 3.Minnesota 4.Navy and 5.Ohio State.