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1943 college football season

1943 Big Ten football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
#5 Purdue + 6 0 0     9 0 0
#3 Michigan + 6 0 0     8 1 0
#9 Northwestern 5 1 0     6 2 0
Indiana 2 3 1     4 4 2
Minnesota 2 3 0     5 4 0
Illinois 2 4 0     3 7 0
Ohio State 1 4 0     3 6 0
Wisconsin 1 6 0     1 9 0
Iowa 0 4 1     1 6 1
  • + – Conference co-champions
Rankings from AP Poll
1943 Big 6 football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Oklahoma $ 5 0 0     7 2 0
Missouri 3 2 0     3 5 0
Iowa State 3 2 0     4 4 0
Kansas 2 3 0     4 5 1
Nebraska 2 3 0     2 6 0
Kansas State 0 5 0     1 7 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll
1943 MSC football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Colorado $ 2 0 0     5 2 0
Utah 0 2 0     0 7 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll
1943 PCC football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
USC $ 5 0 0     8 2 0
California 2 2 0     4 6 0
#12 Washington 0 1 0     4 1 0
UCLA 0 4 0     1 8 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll
1943 SEC football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
#13 Georgia Tech $ 3 0 0     8 3 0
LSU 2 2 0     6 3 0
Tulane 1 1 0     3 3 0
Georgia 0 3 0     6 4 0
Vanderbilt 0 0 0     5 0 0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • Seven other SEC schools did not field a team due to World War II.
Rankings from AP Poll
1943 Southern Conference football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
#7 Duke $ 4 0 0     8 1 0
Maryland 2 0 0     4 5 0
South Carolina 2 1 0     5 2 0
Wake Forest 3 2 0     4 5 0
North Carolina 2 2 0     6 3 0
Richmond 1 1 0     6 1 0
Clemson 2 3 0     2 6 0
VMI 2 3 0     2 6 0
NC State 1 4 0     3 6 0
Davidson 0 3 0     0 5 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll
1943 Southwest Conference football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
#14 Texas $ 5 0 0     7 1 1
Texas A&M 4 1 0     7 2 1
Rice 2 3 0     3 7 0
SMU 2 3 0     2 7 0
TCU 1 4 0     2 6 0
Arkansas 1 4 0     2 7 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1943 NCAA football season concluded with the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame crowned as the nation’s #1 team by a majority of the voters in the AP Poll, followed by the Iowa Pre-Flight Seahawks as the runner-up. For the third time in the history of the AP Poll, a team that had lost a game was named mythical national champion; (Minnesota 1936 and Ohio State 1942). Notre Dame lost its final game of the season, a Chicago contest against the Great Lakes Naval Training Center. Along the way, however, the Fighting Irish had played one of the toughest college schedules ever, beating two #2 ranked teams (Michigan and Iowa Pre-Flight) and two #3 ranked teams (Navy and Army).

In 1943, as many as 131 sportswriters participated in the AP poll, which included, for the first time, “service teams“. Drawn from flight schools and training centers for participants in World War II, the service teams played against the colleges. At the same time, a number of universities suspended their football programs. Most of the members of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) -- Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Tennessee, and Vanderbilt -- did not field teams in 1943. In addition, Pacific Coast Conference teams Oregon, Oregon State, Washington State, and Stanford, did not play, nor did Boston College, the Citadel, Duquesne, Fordham, Harvard, Michigan State, Syracuse, and William & Mary.

On September 17, Georgia beat Presbyterian College 25-7. The next day, September 18, Michigan won at Camp Grant, 26-0. Wisconsin lost to Marquette, 33-7, on its way to a 1-9-0 finish.

September 25 Ohio State lost to Iowa Pre-Flight 28-13. Michigan beat Western Michigan 57-6. Notre Dame won at Pitt, 42-0. Army beat Villanova 27-0 and Navy beat North Carolina Pre-Flight, 31-0. Georgia lost at LSU, 34-27. Tulsa beat SMU 20-7, Georgia Tech beat North Carolina 20-7.

October 2 Michigan won at Northwestern 21-7. Notre Dame beat Georgia Tech 55-13. Army defeated Colgate 42-0 and Navy beat Cornell 46-7.

October 9 #1 Notre Dame beat #2 Michigan, 35-21. #3 Army registered another shutout, defeating Temple 51-0. In Baltimore, #4 Navy edged #5 Duke, 14-13. #6 Penn edged Dartmouth 7-6. #7 Purdue went to 4-0-0 with a 19-0 win over Camp Grant.


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