| Oct 15, 1977 | 4Alabama 24, Tennessee 10 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | Arizona State 37, Air Force 14 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | Ball State 31, Northern Illinois 6 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | Boston College 28, West Virginia 24upset | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | Bowling Green 14, Kent State 10upset | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | BYU 63, Colorado State 17 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | Brown 21, Cornell 3 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | 20California 41, Oregon State 17 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | Chattanooga 31, Illinois State 28 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | Clemson 17, Duke 11 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | Colgate 31, Princeton 13 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | Kansas 17, 3Colorado 17 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | East Carolina 35, Richmond 14 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | Fresno State 24, Pacific 10 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | Furman 42, Marshall 24 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | Georgia 24, Vanderbilt 13 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | Georgia Tech 38, Auburn 21 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | Harvard 31, Dartmouth 25 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | Illinois 29, Purdue 22upset | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | Iowa State 24, 9Nebraska 21upset | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | Jackson State 38, Southern 0 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | 12Kentucky 33, 16LSU 13 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | Louisiana 24, Southern Illinois 0 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | Louisiana Tech 20, Arkansas State 7 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | Maryland 35, Wake Forest 7 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | McNeese 29, UL Monroe 7 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | Memphis 21, Mississippi State 13 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | Miami (OH) 28, Ohio 24 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | 1Michigan 56, 14Wisconsin 0 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | Indiana 13, Michigan State 13 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | Minnesota 13, Northwestern 7 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | Ole Miss 17, South Carolina 10 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | New Mexico 22, Wichita State 17 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | North Carolina 27, NC State 14 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | North Texas 15, Texas–Arlington 6 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | 11Notre Dame 24, Army 0 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | 5Ohio State 27, Iowa 6 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | 7Oklahoma 21, Missouri 17 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | Oklahoma State 21, Kansas State 14 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | 10Penn State 31, Syracuse 24 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | 17Pittsburgh 34, Navy 17 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | San Diego State 49, UTEP 7 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | San José State 33, Long Beach State 16upset | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | 6USC 33, Oregon 15 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | SMU 37, 19Houston 23upset | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | Southern Miss 28, Hawai’i 26 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | 2Texas 13, 8Arkansas 9 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | 13Texas A&M 38, Baylor 31 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | 15Texas Tech 42, Rice 7 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | Tulane 16, Cincinnati 13upset | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | UCLA 27, Washington State 16 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | Utah 20, Utah State 0 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | Virginia Tech 14, Virginia 14 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | VMI 19, The Citadel 3 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | Washington 45, Stanford 21 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | West Texas 31, Drake 7 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | Western Michigan 28, Toledo 7 | Box score |
| Oct 15, 1977 | Yale 42, Columbia 20 | Box score |