College Football: Upset Saturday

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Every fall, there is one nonsensical day when the football gets even with the boys who kick it around. "Upset Saturday," it is called, and last week was it. At Madison, Wis., Ohio State punched across a touchdown with 2 min. 13 sec. to go and edged No. 2-ranked Wisconsin, 13-10. At Evanston, Ill., 150-Ib. Halfback Sherman Lewis picked off a pass for one TD, bolted 87 yds. for another, and Michigan State downed No. 9-ranked Northwestern, 15-7. North Carolina State beat Duke for the first time since 1946, 21-7, and Stanford clobbered Notre Dame, 24-14, for the first time ever. At Cambridge, Mass., Harvard broke Dartmouth's 15-game winning streak, longest in major college football, 17-13.

Then there was Navy. Quarterback Roger Staubach (TIME cover, Oct. 18) strapped himself into a shoulder harness, completed 14 of 19 passes, for 168 yds., scored one TD himself, and steered the No. 10-ranked Middies to a convincing 24-14 triumph over unbeaten, No. 3-ranked Pittsburgh. But the bookies insisted that it wasn't really an upset. Just because of Staubach they had picked Navy by five points.