1958 Buffalo Bulls football team

The 1958 Buffalo Bulls football team represented the University at Buffalo in the 1958 NCAA College Division football season. The Bulls offense scored 236 points while the defense allowed 101 points. The team won the Lambert Cup, emblematic of supremacy in Eastern U.S. small-college football. The Bulls were invited to play in the Tangerine Bowl against Florida State. The team voted to turn down the bowl invitation after learning that they would be allowed to participate only if the team's two black players, back-up defensive end Mike Wilson and starting halfback Willie Evans, did not play in the game. The 1958 Bulls team was profiled on ESPN's Outside the Lines in 2008. Buffalo would not be invited to a bowl or be bowl-eligible for another 50 years.

1958 Buffalo Bulls football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–1
Head coach
CaptainNick Bottini, Lou Reale
Home stadiumCivic Stadium, Rotary Field
1958 NCAA College Division independents football records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 1 Mississippi Southern    9 0 0
Rochester    8 0 0
Rose Poly    8 0 0
Sewanee    8 0 0
No. 10 Buffalo    8 1 0
No. 6 Montana State    8 1 0
North Park    7 1 0
Carthage    7 2 0
Southern Connecticut State    7 2 0
Carnegie Tech    6 2 0
Northeastern    6 2 0
Cal Poly Pomona    7 3 0
Trinity (TX)    6 3 0
Hofstra    6 4 0
Tampa    6 4 0
Abilene Christian    5 5 0
No. 8 Chattanooga    5 5 0
Baldwin–Wallace    4 4 1
Louisville    4 4 0
Northern Michigan    5 5 0
Xavier    5 5 0
Washington University    4 4 0
Arkansas State    4 5 0
No. 18 Memphis State    4 5 0
UC Riverside    2 3 2
Hawaii    5 7 0
St. Norbert    3 6 0
Wabash    3 6 0
Howard (AL)    1 5 1
Pepperdine    1 7 0
Washington and Lee    1 7 0
Rankings from UPI small college poll
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