Florida State at Auburn

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  The chronicle, Mississippi, November 25, 1963, page 1

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  Nebraska To Orange One Orange and a Tangerine have already been picked but a lot of ripe fruit in the form of lucrative bowl bids remains to be divided as spoils among the nations major college foot ball powers this week. Nebraska thrashed Oklahoma, 1920, on Saturday to nail down an Orange Bowl bid and West ern Kentucky accepted a berth in the Tangerine Bowl immediately after crushing Murray State, 500. But most of the bowl deciding games as we’ll as confer ence championship contests were postponed due to the death Of President Kennedy, and have been rescheduled for this week. The situation is as easy as pumpkin pie in the Big Ten where fourth : ranked Michigan State and eighth-ranked Illinois square off on Thanksgiving Day with the league title and Rose Bowl trip at stake. The winner goes, the loser stays, and in the event Of a tie, the Spartans get the nod. Up For Grabs The other berth at Pasadena’s Rose garden will be decided Saturday when Washington hosts Washington st. and South ern Cal tangleS with rival UCLA. Should the Huskeis whip State, they Will get the nod. A Washington loss would throw the Big Six into a frenzy with even State In the running for the bowl bid. Texas, which has already mapped its cattle drive to TT, Cotton Bowl, meets arch-rival Texas AIM on Thursday with mostly prestige on the line. The Longhorns, top-ranked in the country, are aiming for their first undefeated : united season in some 40 years. Third-ranked Mississippi can complete its annual travel plans for the Sugar Bowl by whipping Mississippi State in one of the formidable family feuds” scheduled for Saturday. The Rebels can wrap up the South eastern Conference title with a win but a loss would give the title to the winner of the Ala bama-Auburn clash. Auburn defeated Florida State, 21–⁠15 Saturday. The Pentagon must decide this week if the football spec tacular Of the year, the Army Navy game, will 60 on as scheduled Saturday. The second ranked MiddieS, with the bril-

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Auburn leads 13–⁠5–⁠1 in 19 meetings, counting the 13 since this game.