Ole Miss at Houston

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, September 20, 1960, page 11 (results column)

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  Orange Edged mississippi For Poll Lead Mississippi, long tagged as a potential 1860 powerhouSe, used a 42–⁠0 opening-game victory as a springboard to reach the top of the Nations college football teams in the first weekly As sociated Press poll of the season by the narrowest of mar gins over Syracuse’s defending champions. The shutout of Houston last Saturday while Syracuse waited a week before opening its season, was enough to give Ole Miss a margin of 80 points in the opinion of the ASSociated Press panel of 48 experts. In the preseason poll, Syracuse topped the Southeastern Conference school by 20 points. Third Place Difference The panel was so evenly divided in the vote announced today that Syracuse and MissiSsippi each received % first place votes and also the same number. Is, for second. The difference came in third place. Seven members of the panel placed the Rebels in that spot while three voted for the Orange. Four voters, apparently op- Grating on the theory that Syracuse has yet to prove its worth. didn’t place the Orange among the top 10. Only one left Mississippi off his ballot. Washington, which opened the season with a 55–⁠6 victory over College of Pacific, ran a strong third, just as the HuskieS did in the preseason balloting. The Big Five team, which plays Navy October /, was named first on three bal lots and compiled 378 points. Four Teams Tumble Opening game losses cost Southern California, Pittsburgh and Texas first 10 ranking. Oklahoma, which opens its campaign Saturday against Northwestern, also dropped out Of the select. The quartet’s places were taken by Alabama CNo. s., Kansas mo. y, UCLA (No. 81 and Oregon State (No. 10). Illinois replaced Texas as No. 4 while Michigan State moved up from eighth to sixth and Clemson retained ninth. The top 20 teams Figures in brackets indicate flrst-place voteS):

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Ole Miss leads 15–⁠3 in 18 meetings, counting the 10 since this game.