1927 Southern Conference football season
Date Visiting team Home team Site Result
November 24 Auburn Georgia Tech Grant Field • Atlanta GT 18-0
November 24 Clemson Furman Manly Field • Greenville , South Carolina L 28-0
November 24 Washington & Lee Florida Barrs Field • Jacksonville , Florida FLA 20-7
November 24 Tulane LSU Tiger Stadium • Baton Rouge , Louisiana TUL 13-6
November 24 Virginia North Carolina Kenan Memorial Stadium • Chapel Hill , North Carolina UNC 14-10
November 24 North Carolina State South Carolina Columbia , South Carolina NCST 34-0
November 24 Maryland Johns Hopkins Baltimore , Maryland L 14-13
November 24 Mississippi A & M Ole Miss Hemingway Stadium • Oxford , Mississippi MISS 20-12
November 24 Tennessee Kentucky Stoll Field • Lexington , Kentucky TENN 20-0
November 24 VMI Virginia Tech Roanoke , Virginia VMI 12-9
November 27 Georgia Alabama Rickwood Field • Birmingham , Alabama UGA 20-6
Season overview -- Regular season
The 1927 Southern Conference football season was the college football games played by the member schools of the Southern Conference as part of the 1927 college football season. The season began on September 17. Games were permitted after Thanksgiving for the first time in the conference. Georgia's dream and wonder team was deemed the national champion by some selectors (the Boand System and Poling System), even though it was upset 12-0 in the rain at the end of the season by would-be SoCon champion Georgia Tech. Prior to the game, Georgia was ranked #1 by the authoritative Dickinson System. Coach Robert Neyland's Tennessee and Jack McDowall-led North Carolina State also posted undefeated conference records and had claims to conference titles. Vanderbilt back Jimmy Armistead led the nation in scoring with 138 points, in no small part due to quarterback Bill Spears. One fellow wrote Vanderbilt produced almost certainly the legit top Heisman candidate in Spears, if there had been a Heisman Trophy to award in 1927. After Florida had an unexpected loss to Davidson, captain Frank Oosterhoudt was declared ineligible, and replaced at captain by Bill Middlekauff. With Middlekauff at captain, Florida suffered its only further losses to powers Georgia and NC State. Ole Miss won the first Egg Bowl with a trophy in 1927, led by players Ap Applewhite, Sollie Cohen and V. K. Smith. Clemson hired Josh Cody.