| Oct 17, 1970 | 7Air Force 26, Navy 3 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | 12Arizona State 27, BYU 3 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | 8Auburn 31, 16Georgia Tech 7 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | Bowling Green 44, Kent State 0 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | Cincinnati 35, Wichita State 5 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | Dartmouth 42, Brown 14 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | Dayton 41, Buffalo 0 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | Duke 22, NC State 6 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | Florida 20, Richmond 0 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | Georgia 37, Vanderbilt 3 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | Harvard 27, Cornell 24 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | 19Houston 19, Oregon State 16 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | Indiana 30, Illinois 24 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | Kansas State 17, Iowa State 0 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | Long Beach State 33, California–Santa Barbara 7 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | 15LSU 14, Kentucky 7 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | Louisville 16, Marshall 14 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | Maryland 21, South Carolina 15upset | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | Memphis 16, Florida State 12 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | 6Michigan 34, Michigan State 20 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | Mississippi State 20, 17Texas Tech 16upset | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | 5Nebraska 41, Kansas 20 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | New Mexico 24, New Mexico State 17 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | North Texas 11, West Texas 10 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | Northwestern 24, Wisconsin 14 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | 3Notre Dame 24, 18Missouri 7 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | Ohio 23, Miami (OH) 22 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | 1Ohio State 28, Minnesota 8 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | Oklahoma 23, 13Colorado 15upset | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | Oregon 49, Idaho 13 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | Pittsburgh 36, West Virginia 35 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | Princeton 34, Colgate 14 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | Purdue 24, Iowa 3 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | San Diego State 32, San José State 6 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | 11USC 28, Washington 25 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | SMU 10, Rice 0 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | Southern Miss 30, 4Ole Miss 14upset | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | 9Stanford 63, Washington State 16 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | Syracuse 24, Penn State 7upset | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | 14Tennessee 24, Alabama 0 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | TCU 31, Texas A&M 15 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | UTEP 41, Colorado State 37 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | Toledo 20, Western Michigan 0 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | Tulane 24, North Carolina 17 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | 19UCLA 24, California 21 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | Utah 20, Wyoming 16 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | Virginia 21, Army 20 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | Virginia Tech 17, Tulsa 14 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | Wake Forest 36, Clemson 20 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | William & Mary 24, VMI 10 | Box score |
| Oct 17, 1970 | Yale 32, Columbia 15 | Box score |