November
November 7 #1 Northwestern beat Wisconsin 26-18. #2 Minnesota beat Iowa 52-0 #3 Fordham defeated visiting Purdue 15-0. #4 Marquette narrowly won in Omaha against Creighton, 7-6. #5 Pittsburgh beat Penn State 34-7.
#14 Alabama and #10 Tulane, both 5-0-1, met at Tuscaloosa. Alabama's 34-7 win was followed by its rise to 4th place in the poll.
November 14 #1 Northwestern won 9-0 at Michigan to clinch the Big Ten title, while #2 Minnesota beat Texas 47-19. #3 Fordham was idle. #4 Alabama beat Georgia Tech in Atlanta, 20-16. #5 Pittsburgh won at Nebraska 19-6 In Birmingham, #7 LSU beat Auburn 19-6 to extend its record to 7-0-1.
November 21 #1 Northwestern lost at #11 Notre Dame, 26-6, while #2 Minnesota won at Wisconsin 24-0 #3 Fordham and visiting Georgia played to a 7-7 tie. #4 Pittsburgh was idle. #5 LSU beat Lafayette College of Louisiana 93-0. #9 Santa Clara won in San Francisco at St. Mary's, 19-0. In the poll that followed, Northwestern—which had been one game away from a perfect season—fell to seventh place and Minnesota regained the top spot: 1.Minnesota 2.LSU 3.Alabama 4.Pitt 5.Santa Clara.
On November 26, Thanksgiving Day, #3 Alabama beat Vanderbilt 14-6 in Birmingham. #4 Pittsburgh beat its other crosstown rival, Carnegie Tech, 31-14. #6 Washington beat #20 Washington State 40-0. At Yankee Stadium Fordham, which had fallen to 8th, (5-0-2) lost to NYU, 7-6.
November 28 #2 LSU clinched the SEC title with a 33-0 win over #19 Tulane. #5 Santa Clara lost to #18 TCU, 9-0.
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