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...Mississippi State: a 20-17 victory over Mississippi, favored (by 10 points) and Bluebonnet Bowl-bound; at Oxford, Miss. Trailing 6-3 at half time (on a 48-yd. field goal by State's Justin Canale), Ole Miss rallied for 14 points in the second half, still lost to its cross-state rival for the first time in 18 years-ever since Johnny Vaught, the nation's winningest major college coach, took over as boss of the Rebels...
...question now is how much he is going to cost the lucky bidder. Last week Rhome hiked the starting price another notch by flinging 29 passes and completing 18 for 234 yds. and two touchdowns, leading Tulsa to a 21-7 victory over Wichita and a berth in the Bluebonnet Bowl...
...lineup: Rose Bowl, Illinois (7-1-1) v. Washington (6-4-0); Sugar Bowl, Mississippi (7-0-2) v. Alabama (7-2-0); Orange Bowl, Nebraska (9-1-0) v. Auburn (9-1-0); Bluebonnet Bowl, Louisiana State (7-3-0) v. Baylor (6-3-0); Cotton Bowl, Texas (10-0-0) v. Navy (8-1-0) or Pitt...
...Texan's superiority complex, it is the fact that no Texas college has ranked No. i in the football polls for more than 20 years. No state takes the game more grimly. Rawboned youngsters begin locking noseguards in the second grade. Texas supports four bowl games (Cotton, Bluebonnet, Sun, Prairie View), three professional franchises, 30 college teams-and many of the nation's football bookmakers. The eight teams in the Southwest Conference* have produced some 65 All-Americas, are the breeding grounds for such superb professionals as Yale Lary, Kyle Rote, John David Crow and Bobby Layne. Still...
...Bluebonnet Bowl Football Game (CBS, from 1:45 p.m.). From Houston, Texas v. Alabama, followed by the Green Bay-Los Angeles National Football League clash in California...