1970 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team

1970 Southeastern Conference football standings
	$ – Conference champion; Rankings from AP Poll

1970 Mississippi State Bulldogs football
1970 Mississippi State Bulldogs football
Conference	Southeastern Conference
1970 record	6–5 (3–4 SEC)
Head coach	Charles Shira (4th season);
Home stadium	Scott Field; (Capacity: 35,000)
	Seasons ← 1969 1971 →

The 1970 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team represented Mississippi State University during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. The Bulldogs finished 6–5 for the only winning season in head coach Charles Shira's tenure. The 1970 squad included the first two African-American football players on the Bulldogs' varsity team, defensive back Frank Dowsing and defensive tackle Robert Bell.^[1]^[2]

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
September 12	Oklahoma State*	Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium Jackson, Mississippi	W 14–13
September 19	at No. 14 Florida	Florida Field Gainesville, Florida	L 13–34
September 26	vs. Vanderbilt	Memphis Memorial Stadium Memphis, Tennessee	W 20–6
October 3	Georgia	Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium Jackson, Mississippi	W 7–6
October 10	Houston*	Scott Field Starkville, Mississippi	L 14–31
October 17	No. 17 Texas Tech*	Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium Jackson, Mississippi	W 20–16
October 24	Southern Miss*	Scott Field Starkville, Mississippi	W 51–15	^[3]
October 31	at Alabama	Denny Stadium Tuscaloosa, Alabama (rivalry)	L 6–35
November 7	at No. 10 Auburn	Legion Field Birmingham, Alabama	L 0–56
November 14	at No. 9 LSU	Tiger Stadium Baton Rouge, Louisiana (rivalry)	L 7–38
November 26	at No. 10 Ole Miss	Hemingway Stadium Oxford, Mississippi (Egg Bowl)	W 19–14
*Non-conference game Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

^ Banks, Lacy J. (December 1970). "Black football players in the White South". Ebony Magazine. No. Dec. 1970.
^ Martin, Charles (2010). Benching Jim Crow: The Rise and Fall of the Color Line in Southern College Sports, 1890-1980. Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-03551-7.
^ "State wallops USM". The Delta Democrat-Times. October 25, 1970. Retrieved March 23, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
^ College Football @ Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved December 25, 2015

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1970 Southeastern Conference football standings
v t	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 7 LSU $	5	–	0	–	0	9	–	3	–	0
No. 4 Tennessee	4	–	1	–	0	11	–	1	–	0
No. 10 Auburn	5	–	2	–	0	9	–	2	–	0
No. 20 Ole Miss	4	–	2	–	0	7	–	4	–	0
Florida	3	–	3	–	0	7	–	4	–	0
Georgia	3	–	3	–	0	5	–	5	–	0
Alabama	3	–	4	–	0	6	–	5	–	1
Mississippi State	3	–	4	–	0	6	–	5	–	0
Vanderbilt	1	–	5	–	0	4	–	7	–	0
Kentucky	0	–	7	–	0	2	–	9	–	0

$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll