Seasons 1945 Week 8 ← Week 7 Week 9 → 1945: Week 8 49 games. Seven ranked teams lost, three to unranked teams. Four games matched two ranked teams. Winners are listed first; numbers before names are AP ranks going in.
The week in review Upsets A ranked team beaten as the betting favorite, or, where no line is on file, by an unranked or lower-ranked team.
FBS vs. FBS Oct 25, 1945 South Carolina 0,Clemson 0Box score Oct 26, 1945 Detroit Mercy 19,Drake 14Box score Oct 26, 1945 Miami 27,Miami (OH) 13Box score Oct 27, 1945 6 Alabama 28,Georgia 14Box score Oct 27, 1945 Arkansas 19,Ole Miss 0Box score Oct 27, 1945 1 Army 48,19 Duke 13Box score Oct 27, 1945 California 19,Nevada 6Box score Oct 27, 1945 Cincinnati 16,Kentucky 7Box score Oct 27, 1945 11 Columbia 27,Brown 6Box score Oct 27, 1945 Dartmouth 8,Syracuse 0Box score Oct 27, 1945 Denver 41,Utah State 6Box score Oct 27, 1945 Georgia Tech 20,Auburn 7Box score Oct 27, 1945 Harvard 25,Coast Guard 0Box score Oct 27, 1945 15 Holy Cross 21,Colgate 0Box score Oct 27, 1945 8 Indiana 7,14 Tulsa 2Box score Oct 27, 1945 Kansas 13,Wichita State 0Box score Oct 27, 1945 13 LSU 39,Vanderbilt 7Box score Oct 27, 1945 Michigan State 13,Marquette 13Box score Oct 27, 1945 West Virginia 13,Maryland 13Box score Oct 27, 1945 Merchant Marine 33,Boston College 20Box score Oct 27, 1945 16 Michigan 19,Illinois 0Box score Oct 27, 1945 Missouri 19,Nebraska 0Box score Oct 27, 1945 3 Navy 14,7 Pennsylvania 7Box score Oct 27, 1945 NC State 20,William & Mary 6Box score Oct 27, 1945 Northwestern 26,4 Purdue 14upset Box score Oct 27, 1945 2 Notre Dame 56,Iowa 0Box score Oct 27, 1945 12 Ohio State 20,5 Minnesota 7upset Box score Oct 27, 1945 Oklahoma 41,Kansas State 13Box score Oct 27, 1945 17 Oklahoma State 25,TCU 12Box score Oct 27, 1945 Rice 7,9 Texas 6upset Box score Oct 27, 1945 Temple 6,Pittsburgh 0Box score Oct 27, 1945 Tennessee 33,Villanova 2Box score Oct 27, 1945 Texas A&M 19,Baylor 13Box score Oct 27, 1945 Texas Tech 12,West Texas 6Box score Oct 27, 1945 Tulane 19,SMU 7Box score Oct 27, 1945 UCLA 12,Oregon 0Box score Oct 27, 1945 Utah 28,Colorado State 0Box score Oct 27, 1945 Virginia 31,Virginia Tech 13Box score Oct 27, 1945 Washington 13,20 USC 7upset Box score
Everyone else Oct 26, 1945 Saint Louis 19,Olathe Navy 13Box score Oct 27, 1945 Bucknell 26,Lafayette 2Box score Oct 27, 1945 Catawba 21,Richmond 7Box score Oct 27, 1945 Florida 45,Louisiana 0Box score Oct 27, 1945 Great Lakes Navy 39,Western Michigan 0Box score Oct 27, 1945 New York University 13,Brooklyn 6Box score Oct 27, 1945 Presbyterian 34,Camp Mackall 20Box score Oct 27, 1945 Princeton 14,Rutgers 6Box score Oct 27, 1945 Washington State 21,Idaho 0Box score Oct 27, 1945 Yale 18,Cornell 7Box score