October
October 2 #1 Michigan beat Wake Forest, 31-0. #2 Pittsburgh won at Duke, 44-31. #3 Oklahoma won at Iowa State, 24-10. #4 UCLA traveled to Columbus and played #6 Ohio State to a 10-10 tie. #5 Nebraska beat the Miami Hurricanes, 17-9, but dropped to 6th. #6 Georgia shut out #10 Alabama, 21-0 and moved up to 4th. the Top Five was: 1.Michigan 2.Pittsburgh 3.Oklahoma 4.Georgia 5.UCLA
October 9 #1 Michigan defeated Michigan State 42-10. #2 Pittsburgh beat Louisville, 27-6. #3 Oklahoma played its annual game against (#16) Texas in Dallas, to a 6-6 tie. #4 Georgia was upset by Mississippi in Oxford, MS, 21-17. #5 UCLA beat Stanford, 38-20 #6 Nebraska won at Colorado, 24-12, and rose to third. #7 Maryland, which beat NC State 16-6, rose to fifth the Top Five was: 1.Michigan 2.Pittsburgh 3.Nebraska 4.UCLA 5.Maryland
October 16 After playing its first five games at home, #1 Michigan traveled to Evanston and defeated Northwestern, 38-7. The #2 Pittsburgh Panthers beat visit the visiting Miami Hurricanes, 36-19. #3 Nebraska shut out Kansas State, 51-0. #4 UCLA beat Washington State 62-3 #5 Maryland narrowly beat Wake Forest, 17-15, and fell to 6th. #6 Oklahoma returned to the Top Five after a 28-10 win at #15 Kansas. the Top Five was: 1.Michigan 2.Pittsburgh 3.Nebraska 4.UCLA 5.Oklahoma
October 23 #1 Michigan won at Indiana, 35-0, while #2 Pittsburgh won at Navy, 45-0. #3 Nebraska lost to #17 Missouri, 34-24. Though the Missouri Tigers would finish the 1976 season with a 6-5-0 record, they had upset USC and Ohio State as well. #4 UCLA won at California 35-19 #5 Oklahoma lost at home to Oklahoma State, 31-24. #6 Maryland won at Duke, 30-3, to reach 7-0-0. #7 USC (which had lost its opener to Missouri, then won four, beat Oregon State 56-0, and crashed the Top 5: 1.Michigan 2.Pittsburgh 3.UCLA 4.USC 5.Maryland
October 30' #1 Michigan beat Minnesota, 45-0 and #2 Pittsburgh beat Syracuse, 23-13, as both teams reached 8-0-0. #3 UCLA won at Washington, 30-21 #4 USC beat California 20-6. #5 Maryland beat Kentucky, 24-14, but fell back to 6th place in the polls, trading places with #6 Texas Tech, which had beaten #15 Texas 31-28. The Top Five was: 1.Michigan 2.Pittsburgh 3.UCLA 4.USC 5.Texas Tech
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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)