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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4172445, member: 289"] 1960 [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.tiptop25.com/champ1960.html[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_NCAA_University_Division_football_rankings[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.tiptop25.com/fixing1960.html[/URL] If you love chaos, this is the year for you! Five different teams were ranked #1 and the position changed hands 7 times, ending up in the possession of Minnesota, a team that by modern standards, (which include bowl games), is clearly undeserving of it. Syracuse started out #1 and Mississippi #2, just as they were the previous season. They traded the #1 spot back and forth through the first four polls before being displaced, (without losing) by Iowa, who held onto it until defeated by Minnesota who promptly lost to the perennial upset champion, Purdue. That gave the spot to Missouri, who then lost to Kansas. Minnesota was then elevated to #1 again, apparently because they were going to the Rose Bowl. Syracuse had fallen off due to losses to Pittsburgh and Army, (we’ve never gotten back to #1 since in this sport). Mississippi had suffered an upset tie to LSU, an offensively challenged team that lost a series of close games to finish at 5-4-1 but won the rest of their games to finish at 9-0-1 and ranked #2. Missouri had bene upset by arch-rival Kansas, who used a player later determined to be ineligible, causing a forfeit to make the Tigers’ official record 10-0-0. Iowa, playing the nation’s toughest schedule, finished 8-1-0. Washington, for the second straight year, won the AAWU, (now the Pac12) with a 9-1 record, the only loss coming to 9-1 Navy by a single point. Navy had lost to 7-3 Duke, who beat Arkansas in the Cotton Bowl, basically the last time Duke was nationally relevant in this sport. The final poll had #1 Minnesota 8-1-0 (17 ½ first place votes – ne shared with Iowa), #2 Mississippi 9-0-1 (16), #3 Iowa 8-1-0 (12 ½), #4 Navy 8-1, (they beat Army the next week), #5 Missouri 9-1, #6 Washington 9-1-0 (2). The came the Bowls. For the second straight year Washington knocked off the Big Ten champs, this time the #1 ranked team, 17-7. Mississippi struggled to beat a 7-3 Rice team in the Sugar Bowl but did so 14-6. Missouri topped Navy, 21-14 in the Orange Bowl, in a game that wasn’t really as close as the score indicated. Iowa stayed home as Big Ten teams could only go to the Rose Bowl and Minnesota got that spot. The Rose Bowl: [MEDIA=youtube]8iidah9FIiU[/MEDIA] The Sugar Bowl: [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEqfbuQJN-k"]1961 Sugar Bowl - Ole Miss vs. Rice[/URL] The Orange Bowl: [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQrFU2M_Y04"]Missouri Beats Navy 21-14 American Football AKA Orange Bowl (1960)[/URL] That left the surviving contenders for the national championship, as rated by Vautravers in this ‘fixed’ AP poll: #1 Iowa 8-1-0 #2 Washington 10-1-0, #3 Minnesota 8-2-0, #4 Missouri 10-1-0 and #5 Mississippi 10-0-1. The Big Ten had a very strong year and both Iowa and Minnesota played and beat more ranked teams than the rest. But I’d have voted for Iowa and Washington to take on Missouri and Mississippi in a four-team playoff. Geography suggests that Iowa should play Missouri which leaves Mississippi playing Washington. Iowa beat Kansas 21-7 who beat Missouri 23-7 = +30 Iowa Iowa lost to Minnesota 10-27 who beat Kansas State 48-7 who lost to Iowa State 7-20 who lost to Missouri 8-34 = +15 for Missouri Iowa beat Ohio State 35-12 who beat Southern Methodist 24-0 who lost to Navy 7-26 who lost to Missouri 14-21 = +21 for Iowa Iowa beat Michigan State 27-15 who tied Pittsburgh 7-7 who lost to Penn State 3-14 who lost to Missouri 8-21 = +12 for Missouri Iowa beat Oregon State 22-12 who beat Southern California 14-0 who beat UCLA 17-6 who beat Air Force 22-0 who beat Colorado 16-6 who lost to Missouri 6-16 = +57 for Iowa Result: +81/5 = Iowa wins by 16. Mississippi beat Memphis 31-20 who beat Hardin-Simmons 42-7 who lost to Arizona State 0-28 who beat Washington State 24-21 who lost to Oregon 12-21 who lost to Washington 6-7 = +11 for Mississippi Mississippi beat Arkansas 10-7 who lost to Duke 6-7 who beat Navy 19-10 who beat Washington 15-14 = +12 for Mississippi Mississippi beat Tennessee 24-3 who beat Vanderbilt 35-0 who beat Marquette 23-6 who lost to Wisconsin 6-35 who lost to Minnesota 7-26 who lost to Washington 7-17 = +15 for Mississippi Mississippi beat Rice 14-6 who beat Texas Christian 23-0 who beat Southern California 7-6 who beat UCLA 17-6 who lost to Washington 8-10 = +41 for Mississippi Mississippi beat Houston 42-6 who lost to Oregon State 29-20 who lost to Washington 29-30 = +44 for Mississippi Result: +123/5 = Mississippi wins by 25 Mississippi beat Memphis 31-20 who lost to Mississippi State 0-21 who lost to Auburn 12-27 who beat U of Miami 20-7 who beat Notre Dame 28-21 who lost to Michigan State 0-12 who lost to Iowa 15-27 = +29 for Iowa Mississippi beat Arkansas 10-7 who beat Texas Christian 7-0 who lost to Kansas 7-21 who lost to Iowa 7-21 = +18 for Iowa Mississippi beat Tennessee 24-3 who beat Alabama 20-7 who tied Texas 3-3 who lost to Nebraska 13-14 who lost to Minnesota 14-26 who beat Iowa 27-10 = +38 for Mississippi Mississippi beat Rice 14-6 who beat Southern Methodist 47-0 who lost to Ohio State 0-24 who lost to Iowa 12-35 = +8 for Mississippi Mississippi beat Houston 42-6 who lost to Oregon State 20-29 who lost to Iowa 12-22 = +17 for Mississippi Result: +16/5 = Mississippi gets their national championship in 1960 by 3 points. (So we can keep ours from 1959) Vautravers often says that an inferior schedule doesn’t mean that you have an inferior team – and often forgets it. Also, the one thing that comparative scores does well is to factor out segregation. Even though they were an all-white team playing all-white teams those Johnny Vaught Mississippi teams were really good. [/QUOTE]

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