1945 Mississippi State Maroons football team

1945 Southeastern Conference football standings
	$ – Conference champion; Rankings from AP Poll

1945 Mississippi State Maroons football
1945 Mississippi State Maroons football
Conference	Southeastern Conference
1945 record	6–3 (2–3 SEC)
Head coach	Allyn McKeen (6th season);
Home stadium	Scott Field; (Capacity: 20,000)
	Seasons ← 1944 1946 →

The 1945 Mississippi State Maroons football team represented Mississippi State College during the 1945 college football season.

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 29	Southwestern Louisiana*		Scott Field Starkville, MS	W 31–0
October 6	at Auburn		Legion Field Birmingham, AL	W 20–0
October 13	vs. Detroit*	No. 20	Crump Stadium Memphis, TN	W 41–6	12,000	^[1]
October 20	Maxwell Field*	No. 20	Scott Field Starkville, MS	W 16–6
November 3	at Tulane	No. 15	Tulane Stadium New Orleans, LA	L 13–14	25,000
November 10	at No. 14 LSU		Tiger Stadium Baton Rouge, LA (rivalry)	W 27–20
November 17	Northwestern State*	No. 16	Scott Field Starkville, MS	W 54–0
November 24	Ole Miss	No. 20	Scott Field Starkville, MS (Egg Bowl)	L 6–7
December 1	at No. 3 Alabama		Denny Stadium Tuscaloosa, Alabama (rivalry)	L 13–55	25,000	^[2]
*Non-conference game Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

^ John N. Sabo (October 14, 1945). "Weathermen and Maroons Make Things Hot for Titans". Detroit Free Press. p. Sports 1, 2 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Bassett, Norman (December 2, 1945). "Tide's second half burst swamps State 55–13 to keep slate clean". The Tuscaloosa News. p. 6. Retrieved September 6, 2012 – via Google News Archives.
^ College Football @ Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved December 26, 2015

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1945 Southeastern Conference football standings
v t	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 2 Alabama $	6	–	0	–	0	10	–	0	–	0
No. 14 Tennessee	3	–	1	–	0	8	–	1	–	0
No. 15 LSU	5	–	2	–	0	7	–	2	–	0
No. 18 Georgia	4	–	2	–	0	9	–	2	–	0
Ole Miss	3	–	3	–	0	4	–	5	–	0
Georgia Tech	2	–	2	–	0	4	–	6	–	0
Mississippi State	2	–	3	–	0	6	–	3	–	0
Auburn	2	–	3	–	0	5	–	5	–	0
Vanderbilt	2	–	4	–	0	3	–	6	–	0
Florida	1	–	3	–	1	4	–	5	–	1
Tulane	1	–	3	–	1	2	–	6	–	1
Kentucky	0	–	5	–	0	2	–	8	–	0

$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll