December 7, 1958
Prairie View won the game 26-8, and the Daily World reported that “39,426 See Panthers Win Undisputed Nat’l Crown.” Sports columnist Marion Jackson wrote that Prairie View coach Billy Nicks was frustrated “that some unfair tactics had been used against his team in not judging them national champions on the basis of regular season play. He took newspapermen to task for what he termed a farce in billing the Orange Blossom Classic yearly as a national championship game when it was purely a post-season exhibition.” Finally, ten days after the game the Daily World noted that a local group of sport enthusiasts called the 100 Per Cent Wrong Club had also named Prairie View the national intercollegiate football champions for 1958.