Evening star., 1954-10-26
UCLA Is Close Third;
Arkansas and Army
Move Up in Rating
BY The Assoeiatsd Press

minded Buckeyes have earned
the designation as the No. /
college football team in America,
in the opinion of the Nations
sports writer's and broadcasters.
BY walloping Wisconsin, 31-14.
last Saturday while Oklahoma
was sliding listlessly through a
21-0 decision over Kansas State,
the Buckeyes moved in front of
the Oklahoma team that had
been on top Of the Associated
Press poll ratings for three
straight weeks.
It was a close decision, made
by 214 writer's and broadcasters
participating in this weeks poll,
with three unbeaten and united
teams almost winding UP in q
deadlock.
Oklahoma collected 10 more
first-place votes than Ohio State,
74-64. but the Bucks edged ahead
on the second-place ballots, Of
which SO went to Ohio State and
only 40 to the Sooners.
UCLA Close Third.
The final count, on the usual
1898 etc. basis, gave Ohio
State 1883 points and Oklahoma
1884. UCLA. with As firsts. was
right behind with 1900 points
and the surprising Arkansas
team fourth with 1851.
Ohio State, fourth last week,
impressed the voters by the de-
cisive way it disposed of Wiscon-
sin, which had been ranked Sec
ond to Oklahoma a week ago.
It was a game that had been
expected to help decide the Big
Tens Rose Bowl nominee and
nobody had foreseen such q one
sided score.
Meanwhile, Oklohoma, winning
its fifth straight game, didn't
have to extend itself against
Kansas State and this lackluster
apparently was re-
1ected in the voting. UCLA,
which walloped Oregon State,
61-0. polled a much higher vote
than it did a week ago in re-
tanning third place.
Army Rises to Fifth.
Arkansas, a team Of destiny"
which came from nowhere to
take the Southwest Conference
lead and then knocked Missis-
sippi from the ranks of the un-
beaten, jumped from seventh to
fourth place in the ranking.
Army rose from ninth to fifth
and West Virginia from 10th to
seventh.
The new order, after the first
four, is Army, Notre Dame, West
Virginia. Wisconsin, Purdue and
Miami (Fla.). Purdue returned
to the top 10 after dropping to
18th last week. Miami, 10th a
week ago. makes its first topic
Of the season. The
two teams replaced Mississippi
and Minnesota, which took a
$40 beating from Michigan.
Michigan just missed q spot
among the 10 leaders, polling
344 points to 800 for Miami.
whose 9-7 victory over Maryland
made the voters aware Of the
fact that the Hurricanes are un-
beaten in five games.
Major Tests Ahead.
Virtually all of the leading
teams will be afforded the op-
portunity this week to clear up
any lingering doubts in the
minds Of the voters. Of the
records. Ohio State should be
strongly favored over North
western, but it will take an i'm
pressive victory over the stub
born Wildcats to keep Ohio on
top If the other teams should
continue winning.
Oklahoma meets Colorado
one of its strongest Big Seven
rivals; UCLA takes on Califor-
mia, Notre Dame tackles Navy
West Virginia faces Pittsburgh
its most dangerous opponent;
Wisconsin plays Iowa and Pur-
due meets Illinois. The COM
paratively easy assignments are
Arkansas VS.. Texas A. & M.
Army VS.. Virginia and Miami VS.
Fordham.
The leading teams with first
place votes and seasons record
in parentheses points based or
10 for first place. 9 for second
ofn \.