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The Rebels have been rated as the 1959 national champion by Berryman QPRS, Billingsley Report, Dunkel System, and Sagarin Ratings. Fullback Charlie Flowers was a unanimous All-American selection. Three small college teams also claimed national championships: Bowling Green compiled a 9–0 record and was named the UPI small college national ...
The 1959 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York during the 1959 college football season.Led by eleventh-year head coach Ben Schwartzwalder, the independent Orangemen were undefeated and won the school's only national championship in football, topping the rankings by wide margins in the final polls in early December.
The 1959 Sugar Bowl featured the top-ranked LSU Tigers and the 12th-ranked Clemson Tigers. ... where it lost 24–6 to Alabama in a college football playoff semifinal.
A national championship in the highest level of college football in the United States, currently the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), is a designation awarded annually by various organizations to their selection of the best college football team.
The 1959 Cotton Bowl Classic was the 23rd edition of the college football bowl game, played at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas, on Thursday, January 1.Part of the 1958–59 bowl game season, it matched the independent and sixth-ranked Air Force Falcons and the No. 10 TCU Horned Frogs of the Southwest Conference (SWC).
Two human polls comprised the 1959 major college football rankings.Unlike most sports, college football's governing body, the NCAA, does not bestow a national championship, instead that title is bestowed by one or more different polling agencies.
Coaches Poll, College Football Rankings 1950s: What are the greatest college football programs of all-time based on the Coaches Poll final rankings?
At LSU, Cannon was twice named a unanimous All-American, helped the 1958 LSU team win a national championship, and received the Heisman Trophy as the nation's most outstanding college player in 1959. His punt return against Ole Miss on Halloween night in 1959 is considered by fans and sportswriters to be one of the most famous plays in LSU ...