Mississippi State at Alabama

Saturday, November 30, 1940

No. 11 Mississippi State beat No. 17 Alabama 13–⁠0. It was their 27th meeting; after it, Alabama led the series 17–⁠6–⁠2 in the games on file.

Away11Mississippi State10–⁠0–⁠1 in 1940
13
Home17Alabama7–⁠2 in 1940
0

FinalHigh 54°F, low 37°FAttendance 18,500

In the newspapers

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    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, December 2, 1940, page 5 (results column)

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    s||||l2{sf|| The following are final scores oi football games played last. Sat- urday: Army o; Navy IA. Holy Cross 0; Boston College T. Fordham 26; New York Univer- sity 0. Duquesne IA Carnegie Tech T. Georgia Tech 19; Georgia 21 Pittsburgh 2; Duke 12. Washington and Lee T; Maryland ‘, tie. Texas Christian 0; Southern Methodist 16. Mississippi State 13; Alabama 0. Kansas State 0; Nebraska 20 Tennessee 20; Vanderbilt 0. Rice 21; Baylor 12. Stanford 13; California T. Washington State 9; Washington 8. Marquette IA; Arizona IT. Oregon 20; Oregon State 0. UCLA 12; Southern California 28. Oakland 13; Santa Clara 33. The Daily Alaska Empire has the largest paid circulation of any AL aska newspaper.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Alabama 52% to win. Mississippi State won as Elo’s underdog.

Officially, Alabama leads 89–⁠17–⁠3 on the field, but two wins were vacated or forfeited.; as played, 87–⁠17–⁠3 in the 107 games on file; the official count covers all 109 meetings, counting the 82 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Alabama 56, Mississippi State 23
2023Alabama 40, Mississippi State 17
2022Alabama 30, Mississippi State 6
2021Alabama 49, Mississippi State 9
2020Alabama 41, Mississippi State 0
2019Alabama 38, Mississippi State 7

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