Sports news and scores from Saturday December 1, 1979

`Sports headlines for Saturday December 1, 1979:`

No. 1 Alabama Plays Arkansas In Sugar Bowl
Houston Gets Another Chance In Cotton Bowl

Top-20 scores:

#1 Alabama 25, #14 Auburn 18
Texas A&M 13, #6 Texas 7
#10 Houston 63, Rice 0

Other scores:

Boston College 13, Holy Cross 10
Hawaii 29, Arizona State 17
Miami (Florida) 30, Florida 24
Navy 31, Army 7
Tennessee 31, Vanderbilt 10

Associated Press Top 20 for this week (poll of Nov. 27):

1 Alabama (34) 10-0 1193 2 Southern California (12) 10-0-1 1142 3 Ohio State (13) 11-0 1141 4 Florida State 11-0 997 5 Oklahoma (1) 10-1 963 6 Texas 9-1 934 7 Nebraska 10-1 850 8 Arkansas 10-1 848 9 Brigham Young (1) 11-0 760 10 Houston 9-1 751 11 Pittsburgh 9-1 611 12 Purdue 9-2 544 13 Washington 9-2 454 14 Auburn 8-2 392 15 Michigan 8-3 376 16 Tulane 9-2 354 17 South Carolina 8-3 266 18 Clemson 8-3 122 19 Penn State 7-3 114 20 Baylor 7-4 73

NCAA football standings as of this date