1944 Mississippi State Maroons football team

1944 Southeastern Conference football standings
	$ – Conference champion; Rankings from AP Poll

1944 Mississippi State Maroons football
1944 Mississippi State Maroons football
Conference	Southeastern Conference
1944 record	6–2 (3–2 SEC)
Head coach	Allyn McKeen (5th season);
Home stadium	Scott Field; (Capacity: 20,000)
	Seasons ← 1942 1945 →

The 1944 Mississippi State Maroons football team represented Mississippi State College during the 1944 college football season. The Maroons returned to action after not playing in 1943 due to World War II. Halfback Shorty McWilliams was named the SEC Player of the Year by the Nashville Banner.

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Source
September 30	Jackson Field*		Scott Field Starkville, Mississippi	W 41–0
October 7	Millsaps*		Scott Field Starkville, Mississippi	W 56–0	^[1]
October 14	Arkansas A&M*		Scott Field Starkville, Mississippi	W 49–20
October 21	at LSU		Tiger Stadium Baton Rouge, Louisiana (rivalry)	W 13–6
November 4	Kentucky	No. 18	Crump Stadium Memphis, Tennessee	W 26–0	^[2]
November 11	at Auburn	No. 19	Legion Field Birmingham, Alabama	W 26–21
November 18	at Alabama	No. 16	Denny Stadium Tuscaloosa, Alabama (rivalry)	L 0–19
November 25	at Ole Miss		Hemingway Stadium Oxford, Mississippi (Egg Bowl)	L 8–13
*Non-conference game Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

^ "Maroons maul Millsaps, 56–0". The Knoxville Journal. October 8, 1944. Retrieved August 24, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "State Maroons capitalize on Kentucky fumbles and McWilliams to win easy". Clarion-Ledger. November 5, 1944. Retrieved April 29, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
^ College Football @ Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved December 26, 2015

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1944 Southeastern Conference football standings
v t	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 13 Georgia Tech $	4	–	0	–	0	8	–	3	–	0
No. 12 Tennessee	5	–	0	–	1	7	–	1	–	1
Georgia	4	–	2	–	0	7	–	3	–	0
Alabama	3	–	1	–	2	5	–	2	–	2
Mississippi State	3	–	2	–	0	6	–	2	–	0
LSU	2	–	3	–	1	2	–	5	–	1
Ole Miss	2	–	3	–	0	2	–	6	–	0
Tulane	1	–	2	–	0	4	–	3	–	0
Kentucky	1	–	5	–	0	3	–	6	–	0
Florida	0	–	3	–	0	4	–	3	–	0
Auburn	0	–	4	–	0	4	–	4	–	0
Vanderbilt	0	–	0	–	0	3	–	0	–	1

$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll