October
On October 6, #1 Ohio State was upset by the UCLA Bruins in Los Angeles, 9-7. #2 Alabama beat Vanderbilt in Birmingham, 17-7. #3 Texas hosted Tulane (fresh from a 44-6 loss to Alabama) and won 35-8. #4 Penn State beat Rice at Houston, 18-7. #5 Georgia Tech lost to LSU in Atlanta, 10-7, and dropped back out of the poll. The Crimson Tide regained first place, while 3-0 USC and Mississippi rose from 6th and 7th places to 4th and 5th. The next poll was 1.Alabama 2.Texas 3.Penn State 4.USC and 5.Mississippi
October 13 #1 Alabama beat Houston 14-3 at home. #2 Texas survived its Dallas encounter with Oklahoma, 9-6. #3 Penn State lost to Army at West Point by the same 9-6 margin. #4 USC and #5 Mississippi were both idle. Though Alabama got more first place votes than Texas in the poll (24 vs. 21) the Longhorns had more points overall, and were the new #1. SEC rivals Alabama, LSU and Mississippi were 2nd, 4th and 5th in the poll, while USC was third. LSU's record had improved to 3-0-1 after a 17-3 win against the visiting Miami Hurricanes. The results were 1.Texas 2.Alabama 3.USC 4.LSU and 5.Mississippi
On October 20, all five of the top teams remained unbeaten. #1 Texas beat Arkansas 7-3 at home. #2 Alabama defeated Tennessee at Knoxville, 27-7. The #3 USC Trojans hosted California and won 32-3. #4 LSU beat Kentucky at Lexington 7-0 and #5 Mississippi shut out Tulane in New Orleans, 21-0. Nevertheless, LSU and Mississippi dropped to 6th and 7th in the next poll, while Big Ten rivals Northwestern and Wisconsin reached the Top 5. Northwestern had beaten Ohio State 18-14 at Columbus, while Wisconsin thrashed Iowa 42-14. The rankings were 1.Texas 2.Alabama 3.Northwestern 4.USC 5.Wisconsin
In the first weekend after the resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis, week 7's games were played on October 27. #1 Texas was tied by the Rice Owls at Houston, 14-14. #2 Alabama beat Tulsa 35-6 and, #3 Northwestern defeated Notre Dame 35-6 at home. #4 USC won 28-16 over Illinois at Champaign, and #5 Wisconsin lost to Ohio State at Columbus, 14-7. The #6 LSU Tigers shut out Florida 23-0 at home. The Northwestern Wildcats were voted into first place, followed by 2.Alabama 3.USC 4.LSU and 5.Texas.
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“The autumnal change of our woods has not yet made a deep impression on our own literature yet. October has hardly tinged our poetry.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)