September
In the preseason poll released on September 12, 1960, the defending champion Syracuse Orangemen and 1959's second place finisher, the Mississippi Rebels were #1 and #2, with 26 and 21 first place votes respectively. They were followed by the #3 Washington Huskies from Seattle, the #4 Texas Longhorns and the #5 Illinois Fighting Illini. As the regular season progressed, a new poll would be issued on the Monday following the weekend's games.
The Big Ten schools would not kick off until September 24. On September 17, #2 Mississippi beat the Houston Cougars in Houston, 42–0. #3 Washington crushed the visiting College of the Pacific, 55–6 (the school became the University of the Pacific in 1961). #4 Texas opened its season with a loss at home to Nebraska, falling 14–13.
Ole Miss was voted #1, followed by Syracuse, Washington, Illinois, and previously unranked Alabama, which had beaten #13 Georgia 21–6 in Birmingham.
September 24 #1 Mississippi beat Kentucky in Memphis, 21–6. #2 Syracuse opened its season with a 55–7 win over Boston University. #3 Washington won at home again, beating the University of Idaho Vandals 41–12. #4 Illinois beat Indiana 17–6. In Lincoln, Minnesota beat #12 Nebraska 26–14. #5 Alabama was tied 6–6 by Tulane in New Orleans.
The poll remained 1. Mississippi, 2. Syracuse, 3. Washington, 4. Illinois, but 5. Kansas, which had crushed Kansas State 41–0 on the road, rose from 7th to 5th. Minnesota entered the poll at the #18 spot.
Read more about this topic: 1960 College Football Season
Famous quotes containing the word september:
“April is in my mistress’ face,
And July in her eyes hath place,
Within her bosom is September,
But in her heart a cold December.”
—Unknown. Subject #4: July Subject #5: September Subject #6: December. All Seasons in One. . .
Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, The. E. K. Chambers, comp. (1932)
“On September 16, 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
“Like other cities created overnight in the Outlet, Woodward acquired between noon and sunset of September 16, 1893, a population of five thousand; and that night a voluntary committee on law and order sent around the warning, “if you must shoot, shoot straight up!””
—State of Oklahoma, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)