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1938 NCAA football season

1938 Big 6 football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
No. 4 Oklahoma $ 5 0 0     10 1 0
Iowa State 3 1 1     7 1 1
Missouri 2 3 0     6 3 0
Nebraska 2 3 0     3 5 1
Kansas State 1 3 1     4 4 1
Kansas 1 4 0     3 6 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll
1938 Big Ten football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
No. 10 Minnesota $ 4 1 0     6 2 0
No. 16 Michigan 3 1 1     6 1 1
Purdue 3 1 1     5 1 2
No. 17 Northwestern 2 1 2     4 2 2
Wisconsin 3 2 0     5 3 0
Ohio State 3 2 1     4 3 1
Illinois 2 3 0     3 5 0
Iowa 1 3 1     1 6 1
Indiana 1 4 0     1 6 1
Chicago 0 4 0     1 6 1
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll
1938 IIAC football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Northern Illinois State $ 4 0 0     6 1 1
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll
1938 NCAA independents football records
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
No. 18 Villanova         8 0 1
No. 9 Holy Cross         8 1 0
No. 5 Notre Dame         8 1 0
No. 8 Pittsburgh         8 2 0
Army         7 2 0
No. 6 Carnegie Tech         7 2 0
No. 20 Dartmouth         7 2 0
Boston College         6 1 2
No. 15 Fordham         6 1 2
St. Mary's (CA)         6 2 0
Navy         4 3 2
Penn State         3 4 1
Rankings from AP Poll
1938 Missouri Valley Conference football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Tulsa $ 3 1 0     4 5 1
Washburn 1 0 0     6 3 0
Creighton 1 0 1     6 1 1
Washington University 2 1 1     6 3 1
Drake 1 1 1     5 4 1
Saint Louis 0 1 1     3 5 2
Oklahoma A&M 0 4 0     2 8 0
  • $ – Conference champion
1938 MSC football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Utah $ 4 0 2     7 1 2
BYU 3 2 1     4 3 1
Denver 3 2 1     4 4 1
Colorado 3 2 1     3 4 1
Utah State 3 3 0     4 4 0
Wyoming 1 4 1     2 5 1
Colorado A&M 0 4 2     1 5 2
  • $ – Conference champion
1938 PCC football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
No. 7 USC + 6 1 0     9 2 0
No. 14 California + 6 1 0     10 1 0
UCLA 4 3 1     7 4 1
Oregon State 4 3 1     5 3 1
Oregon 4 4 0     4 5 0
Washington 3 4 1     3 5 1
Idaho 2 3 1     6 3 1
Stanford 2 5 0     3 6 0
Washington State 1 7 0     2 8 0
Montana 0 1 0     5 3 1
  • + – Conference co-champions
Rankings from AP Poll
1938 RMFC football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Montana State 1 0 1     3 5 1
  • $ – Conference champion
1938 SEC football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
No. 2 Tennessee $ 7 0 0     11 0 0
No. 13 Alabama 4 1 1     7 1 1
No. 19 Tulane 4 1 1     7 2 1
Ole Miss 3 2 0     9 2 0
Georgia Tech 2 1 3     3 4 3
Vanderbilt 4 3 0     6 3 0
Florida 2 2 1     4 6 1
Auburn 3 3 1     4 5 1
Georgia 1 2 1     5 4 1
LSU 2 4 0     6 4 0
Mississippi State 1 4 0     4 6 0
Kentucky 0 4 0     2 7 0
Sewanee 0 6 0     1 8 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1938 NCAA football season ended with the Horned Frogs of Texas Christian University (TCU) being named the nation’s #1 team by 55 of the 77 voters in the final Associated Press writers' poll in early December. Tennessee is also recognized as a national champion; both teams won every game.

September 24 Defending champion Pittsburgh beat West Virginia, 19-0. California defeated St. Mary’s 12-7. In Los Angeles, Alabama beat USC 19-7. Minnesota defeated Washington 15-0, and Dartmouth beat Bates 46-0.

October 1 Alabama defeated Samford 34-0, Fordham beat Upsala 47-0, Dartmouth beat St Lawrence 51-0, and Notre Dame beat Kansas 52-0. Pitt defeated Temple 28-6, California beat Washington State 27-3, and Minnesota beat Nebraska 16-7.

October 8 Minnesota defeated Purdue 7-0. Alabama beat North Carolina State 14-0. Dartmouth stayed unscored upon, winning at Princeton 22-0. Pittsburgh beat cross-town rival Duquesne 27-0. Fordham beat Waynesburg College 53-0. California played a double-header for the fans, with the reserves beating the California Agricultural school (lager UC-Davis) 48-0, and the varsity and reserves beating College of the Pacific 39-0. In Atlanta, Notre Dame beat Georgia Tech 14-6

October 15 Pittsburgh won at Wisconsin 26-6. California defeated UCLA 20-7. Dartmouth beat Brown 34-13, and Notre Dame beat Illinois 14-6. Minnesota edged Michigan, 7-6. Fordham was tied by Purdue 6-6, and in Birmingham, Alabama was shut out by Tennessee, 13-0. When the first round of balloting was finished, the defending champion Panthers were again #1, followed by Minnesota, California, Dartmouth and Notre Dame.

October 22 #1 Pittsburgh beat SMU 34-7. #2 Minnesota was idle. #3 California won at Seattle over Washington 14-7. #4 Dartmouth won at Harvard 13-7. #5 Notre Dame beat #13 Carnegie Tech 7-0. In San Francisco, #6 Santa Clara beat Arkansas 21-6 in San Francisco, while in Milwaukee, #7 TCU beat Marquette 21-0, and the two winners replaced Dartmouth and Notre Dame in the Top Five: 1.Pittsburgh 2.Minnesota 3.California 4.TCU 5. Santa Clara.


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