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1941 NCAA Division I-A football season

1941 Big 6 football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
No. 7 Missouri $ 5 0 0     8 2 0
Nebraska 3 2 0     4 5 0
Oklahoma 3 2 0     6 3 0
Kansas 2 3 0     3 6 0
Kansas State 1 3 1     2 5 2
Iowa State 0 4 1     2 6 1
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll
1941 Big Ten football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
No. 1 Minnesota $ 5 0 0     8 0 0
No. 5 Michigan 3 1 1     6 1 1
No. 13 Ohio State 3 1 1     6 1 1
No. 11 Northwestern 4 2 0     5 3 0
Wisconsin 3 3 0     3 5 0
Iowa 2 4 0     3 5 0
Purdue 1 3 0     2 5 1
Indiana 1 3 0     2 6 0
Illinois 0 5 0     2 6 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll
1941 IIAC football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Northern Illinois State 3 1 0     7 1 1
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll
1941 NCAA independents football records
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
No. 3 Notre Dame         8 0 1
No. 6 Fordham         8 1 0
Miami (FL)         8 2 0
No. 10 Navy         7 1 1
Penn State         7 2 0
Boston College         7 3 0
Drexel         4 2 1
Army         5 3 1
Villanova         4 4 0
Pittsburgh         3 6 0
Rankings from AP Poll
1941 Missouri Valley Conference football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Tulsa $ 4 0 0     8 2 0
Oklahoma A&M 3 1 0     5 4 0
Creighton 3 2 0     5 5 0
Saint Louis 1 3 1     4 5 1
Washington University 1 3 0     4 5 0
Drake 0 3 1     4 5 1
  • $ – Conference champion
1941 New England Conference football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Rhode Island $ 2 0 0     5 2 1
Maine 2 1 1     3 2 2
New Hampshire 0 0 1     4 3 1
Northeastern 0 1 0     4 3 0
Connecticut 0 2 0     2 6 0
  • $ – Conference champion
1941 MSC football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Utah $ 4 0 2     6 0 2
BYU 3 1 2     4 3 2
Denver 3 1 2     4 3 2
Colorado A&M 3 2 1     4 2 1
Colorado 3 2 1     3 4 1
Wyoming 1 5 0     2 7 1
Utah State 0 6 0     0 8 0
  • $ – Conference champion
1941 PCC football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
No. 12 Oregon State $ 7 2 0     8 2 0
Washington 5 3 0     5 4 0
No. 19 Washington State 5 3 0     6 4 0
Stanford 4 3 0     6 3 0
Oregon 4 4 0     5 5 0
UCLA 3 4 1     5 5 1
California 3 4 0     4 5 0
USC 2 4 1     2 6 1
Montana 1 3 0     6 3 0
Idaho 0 4 0     4 5 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll
1941 SEC football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
No. 16 Mississippi State $ 4 0 1     8 1 1
No. 18 Tennessee 3 1 0     8 2 0
No. 20 Alabama 5 2 0     9 2 0
No. 14 Georgia 3 1 1     9 1 1
No. 17 Ole Miss 2 1 1     6 2 1
Vanderbilt 3 2 0     8 2 0
LSU 2 2 2     4 4 2
Tulane 2 3 0     5 4 0
Georgia Tech 2 4 0     3 6 0
Florida 1 3 0     4 6 0
Auburn 1 3 0     4 6 0
Kentucky 0 4 0     5 4 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1941 NCAA football regular season ended with the Golden Gophers of the University of Minnesota repeating as the AP Poll national champion. This was Minnesota's fifth national championship in eight years. The Big Ten Conference did not allow their teams to participate in the post-season bowl games, therefore the undefeated, untied Duke Blue Devils, faced the #12-ranked Oregon State Beavers in the Rose Bowl. The Rose Bowl game had been temporarily moved from Pasadena, California to Durham, North Carolina following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Oregon State beat Duke, 20-16, but postseason games were played after the AP Poll rankings. Each writer listed his choice for the top ten teams, and points were tallied based on 10 for first place, 9 for second, etc. The AP then ranked the twenty teams with the highest number of points. Mississippi State, who won the SEC championship, was unable to participate in the post-season due to the wartime airport and train station closings. Therefore, the Georgia Bulldogs and the Alabama Crimson Tide were selected to play in the Orange Bowl and Cotton Bowl, respectively. Georgia defeated TCU 40-26 and Alabama defeated the Texas A&M Aggies 29-21.

In addition to Minnesota's regular season AP national championship, the Golden Gophers were also selected national champions by Billingsley,Boand, DeVold, Dunkel, Football Research, Helms, Litkenhous, the National Championship Foundation, Poling,Sagarin and Sagarin (ELO-Chess). The Alabama Crimson Tide were selected national champions by the Houlgate Poll. The Texas Longhorns were selected national champions by the Berryman and Wilson polling systems. The University of Texas doesn't claim this season as a national championship though. All selectors of national title teams are documented in the official 2010 NCAA FBS College Football Record Book. These selectors were nationally syndicated in newspapers and magazines during the 1941 season.


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