November
On November 7, #5 Texas was tied by Houston 14-14 and was replaced by Penn State at #5. The rest of the top 5 was unchanged.
On November 14, #3 USC lost to Washington, 13-3 and #5 Penn State was knocked off by Alabama, 31-16. The new poll was 1. Pittsburgh, 2. Clemson, 3. Georgia, 4. Alabama, and 5. Nebraska.
The poll would remain unchanged until games of November 28, when Penn State beat #1 Pitt 48-14. The final regular season poll was 1. Clemson, 2. Georgia, 3. Alabama, 4. Nebraska, and 5. SMU.
Read more about this topic: 1981 NCAA Division I-A Football Season
Famous quotes containing the word november:
“Necessity makes women very weak or very strong, and pent-up rivers are sometimes dangerous. Look to it!”
—Mary Worthington, U.S. women’s magazine contributor. The Lily, p. 183 ( November 1856)
“It was always November there.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Not yesterday I learned to know
The love of bare November days
Before the coming of the snow....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)