College Football Yearbook - 1969 

That 69 Tennessee team absolutely blew it against Mississippi. My step dad was a student at UT when this happened and everyone was shocked that they had lost. It poisoned the remainder of the season too, we lost 14 - 13 to Florida in the Gator Bowl. What a waste for a very good Doug Dickey team. Underperformed.

1969 is my favorite year of college football. So many interesting story lines, the cool helmet and a lot of available games via actual broadcast. I'm not sure it would work today, but I sort of like the debate of whom would be national champion. Texas and Penn State both have a case to make and likely Ohio State would beat them both on a given saturday. Perhaps at the time it was frustrating, but looking back it's what makes it significant to people watching today whom were not even born in 1969.

williamford .......... thanks for info on book ......... that era of football was outstanding .......... the wishbone that texas ran ....... was incredible .......... and when coach royal helped out the sooners to develp their own bone ........... lookout texas and the rest of college football........... oklahoma football history , several parts , but especially from the wilkinson years thru the switzer years is a terrific story

Reason that ABC made the switch for Arkansas/Texas from mid-October to December: Beano Cook (yes, him) was working as a liason between the NCAA and ABC after being fired as Pitt's SID-and had a gut feeling that the game could be HUGE, but also knew that they faced competition from potential World Series broadcasts on NBC (remember the WS had all day games back then) So, Beano urged ABC and Arkansas to make the December date

Some day in the future, somebody will make a video about the 2020's college football. It has been an eventful decade so far. It will probably only get crazier.

Infamous in LSU history my dad and his friends talked about this all the time, that generation saw hiring Brian Kelly as a bit of revenge.

Fact Check: The Big Ten had a No-Repeat Clause in its Rose Bowl Contract until 1971, meaning Ohio State was already ineligible for the Rose Bowl bid anyway when the season began. That rule also played into Penn State’s decision into choosing the Orange Bowl over the Cotton Bowl as everyone outside Michigan expected Ohio State to beat Michigan and remain #1 no natter what happened in Texas-Arkansas and the bowl games.

This video was brilliant! And no, I didn't know either about the LSU "pissing off the Sugar Bowl" story either! For anyone who may be interested, there is a great book on the 1969 Texas Arkansas game, the teams, players and coaches. It is " Horns, Hogs & Nixon Coming ( Texas vs Arkansas in Dixie's Last Stand) by Terry Frei.

3:32: The big issue, right or wrong, with Penn State not being appreciated in the polls, was their status as an independent and the perception, which had credence, that this resulted in a weak schedule. Much weaker compared to others who were in conferences with multiple powerhouse teams that played each other every year. The Big Ten, with Michigan, Ohio State and Purdue. The Southwest Conference, Texas and Arkansas. The Pacific 8 with USC, Oregon State and California. The Big 8 with Kansas and Missouri. Penn State in 1968 did not play a ranked team until the Orange Bowl on January 1 1969. Their regular season schedule consisted Kansas State, UCLA and the rest eastern teams, none of whom had a major presence. Ranked #3, in the Orange Bowl, they defeated the #6 ranked Kansas Jayhawks 15-14 on a controversial 2nd attempt of a 2 point conversion in the final minute after Kansas was called for a penalty when they stopped the initial 2 point play.

Would you please consider doing one of these for 1989 and 2005? Those two years were similar for the fact that the top of the polls both years were the same for pretty much the entire season, but the action below the top was somewhat chaotic. However, '89 would end up anticlimactic, while 2005 ended up with arguably the greatest college football game of all time, and the latter year had arguably the greatest single weekend of all time, and at least for sure in the last 25-30 years.

"I'd like to know, how could the President know so little about Watergate in 1973, and so much about college football in 1969” -JoePa

Ohio State was never going to a bowl game that year. They couldn't "repeat" after going to Pasadena in '68. If they would have won that game versus UM, they would have been national champs without going anywhere. Alas....

Penn State should have played in the Cotton Bowl and then there would be no debate. It would have matched #1 vs #2.

LSU: "That's a fine mess you got yourself into!"

I suppose Rutgers played Temple or Kent State this season. Why would they not just schedule Princeton? In fact it should be the first game every year televised on a major network. God help the world if I were Jeff Bazos, you get Princeton/Rutgers & Harvard/Yale every year on prime. 🤣🤣

Man, idk how you've only chose years where UM ends up winning the game😂😂😂 hopefully that ends with the next vid.

@MN04 You're exactly correct. It didn't matter if OSU did or didn't beat Michigan, they were not going to the Rose Bowl. Jack Tatum in his famous book "They Call Me Assassin" stated that that loss was the fault of the players and not the coaching staff. This was due to the fact that the team wasn't going to a bowl game, so the team wasn't as motivated. They also thought that they could easily beat a weaker team under a first year and one-time assistant coach of Woody's. His name was Schembechler.

Sorry you didn’t have the film of James Street’s long 4th down completion to beat Arkansas. Was that a copyright issue? … As for the no repeat Big 10 rule, I wonder if the conference ADs could have voted to rescind it, or grant a waiver for Ohio State had they beaten Michigan. Also, my understanding is that whereas the Rose Bowl committee paid each non champion Pac and Big 10 team to stay away from other bowl games, each school had the option to turn down the offer. When bowl games became more lucrative than the committee’s cash, those conferences’ teams started going to other bowls. So I believe Ohio State could have gone to the Orange Bowl to settle the national champion question with Penn State had they finished undefeated.

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