November
November 1 #1 Oklahoma won at #19 Oklahoma State, 27-7. #2 Ohio State defeated Indiana at home, 24-14. #3 Nebraska won at #12 Missouri, 30-7. Coach John McKay announced he would be leaving USC after the season to coach the NFL's expansion Tampa Bay Buccaneers and #4 USC went out and lost at California, 28-14, beginning a four game losing streak after a 7-0 start. #5 Texas A&M was idle. #6 Alabama beat Mississippi State in Jackson, 21-10. The poll was 1.Oklahoma 2.Ohio State 3.Nebraska 4.Texas A & M 5.Alabama
November 8 #1 Oklahoma were stunned by the visiting Kansas Jayhawks, led by quarterback Nolan Cromwell 23-3. #2 Ohio State won at Illinois, 40-3. #3 Nebraska won at Kansas State, 12-0. #4 Texas A&M beat SMU, 36-3. #5 Alabama won at LSU 23-10. #6 Michigan, which beat Purdue 28-0, rose to fourth. The poll was: 1.Ohio State 2.Nebraska 3.Texas A & M 4.Michigan 5.Alabama
November 15 #1 Ohio State beat Minnesota 38-6. #2 Nebraska beat Iowa 52-0. #3 Texas A&M won at Rice, 33-14. #4 Michigan won at Illinois, 21-15, to extend its record to 8-0-2. #5 Alabama beat Southern Mississippi at home, 27-6. The poll was unchanged: 1.Ohio State 2.Nebraska 3.Texas A & M 4.Michigan 5.Alabama
November 22 The game that determined the Big Ten championship took place in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as unbeaten (10-0-0) #1 Ohio State faced unbeaten, but twice tied (8-0-2) #4 Michigan. OSU won 21-14 and got the trip to the Rose Bowl, where it would have a rematch with 11th-ranked UCLA (The Bruins would beat out Cal for the Rose Bowl bid by beating USC, 25-22, the following Friday). In Norman, Oklahoma, a trip to the Orange Bowl was on the line as #2 Nebraska (10-0-0) closed its season against (9-1-0) #7 Oklahoma in a game that would determine the Big Eight title. Oklahoma handed the Cornhuskers their first loss, 35-10. Nebraska was invited instead to play in the Fiesta Bowl. #3 Texas A&M and #5 Alabama were both idle. #6 Texas (9-1-0) was also idle, but rose to fifth. The poll was: 1.Ohio State 2.Texas A & M 3.Oklahoma 4.Alabama 5.Texas
November 29 The #2 Texas A&M Aggies (9-0-0) hosted the #5 Texas Longhorns (9-1-0) at College Station, with the Aggies winning, 20-10. #4 Alabama closed its season with its 10th straight win after its opening loss, a 28-0 win over Auburn in Birmingham. In the final AP poll released on December 1, #1 Ohio State (11-0-0), #2 Texas A&M (10-0-0) and #7 Arizona State (11-0-0) were all undefeated. On December 6, however, the Aggies lost in Little Rock to #18 Arkansas, 31-6. The Southwest Conference race finished with a three way tie between Arkansas, Texas and Texas A&M, all 6-1 in conference play. Arkansas got the Cotton Bowl berth, while Texas went to the Bluebonnet Bowl and Texas A&M to the Liberty Bowl.
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