1979: Week 13
33 games. Three ranked teams lost. Three 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
| Nov 24, 1979 | Arizona 27, Arizona State 24upset | Box score |
| Nov 24, 1979 | 7Arkansas 31, SMU 7 | Box score |
| Nov 24, 1979 | 10BYU 63, San Diego State 14 | Box score |
| Nov 24, 1979 | Central Michigan 34, San José State 32 | Box score |
| Nov 24, 1979 | Colorado 21, Kansas State 6 | Box score |
| Nov 24, 1979 | East Carolina 38, William & Mary 14 | Box score |
| Nov 24, 1979 | 5Florida State 27, Florida 16 | Box score |
| Nov 24, 1979 | Georgia 16, Georgia Tech 3 | Box score |
| Nov 24, 1979 | Hawai’i 24, Colorado State 10 | Box score |
| Nov 24, 1979 | 9Houston 14, Texas Tech 10 | Box score |
| Nov 24, 1979 | UNLV 24, Lamar 24 | Box score |
| Nov 24, 1979 | Long Beach State 16, Cal State Fullerton 13 | Box score |
| Nov 24, 1979 | Maryland 17, Virginia 7 | Box score |
| Nov 24, 1979 | Memphis 23, Cincinnati 17 | Box score |
| Nov 24, 1979 | Ole Miss 14, Mississippi State 9 | Box score |
| Nov 24, 1979 | Missouri 55, Kansas 7 | Box score |
| Nov 24, 1979 | New Mexico 17, Wyoming 3 | Box score |
| Nov 24, 1979 | North Carolina 37, Duke 16 | Box score |
| Nov 24, 1979 | Northern Illinois 28, Ohio 27 | Box score |
| Nov 24, 1979 | Notre Dame 40, Miami 15 | Box score |
| Nov 24, 1979 | 8Oklahoma 17, 3Nebraska 14upset | Box score |
| Nov 24, 1979 | Oklahoma State 13, Iowa State 10 | Box score |
| Nov 24, 1979 | 19South Carolina 13, 13Clemson 9upset | Box score |
| Nov 24, 1979 | 4USC 49, UCLA 14 | Box score |
| Nov 24, 1979 | Temple 42, Villanova 10 | Box score |
| Nov 24, 1979 | Tennessee 20, Kentucky 17 | Box score |
| Nov 24, 1979 | 6Texas 13, 17Baylor 0 | Box score |
| Nov 24, 1979 | Texas A&M 30, TCU 7 | Box score |
| Nov 24, 1979 | 18Tulane 24, LSU 13 | Box score |
| Nov 24, 1979 | Utah State 41, Fresno State 31 | Box score |
| Nov 25, 1979 | Rutgers 31, Louisville 7 | Box score |