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re: 1969 tigers no bowl??
Posted on 7/24/12 at 3:51 pm to bearhc
Posted on 7/24/12 at 3:51 pm to bearhc
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This was Mac's finest team that could have won the national championship. There was a gentlemen's agreement that LSU would play Texas for the national championship in the Cotton Bowl.
This is not true. For 1, Nixon awarded the "national championship" trophy to Tx after they beat Arkie 15-14 in the last game of the season. Also, the Final Top 20 was: 1.Texas 2.Penn State 3.USC 4.Ohio State 5.Notre Dame 6.Missouri 7.Arkansas 8.Mississippi 9.Michigan 10.UCLA 11.Nebraska 12.Houston 13.LSU 14.Florida 15.Tennessee 16.Colorado 17.West Virginia 18.Purdue 19.Stanford and 20.Auburn.
Joe Pa had Child Molester U's first undefeated season that year and they were the ones that really got screwed [pardon the pun]. USC was 10-0-1.
If we had beaten Texas in the Cotton Bowl, Penn State would have been No. 1 in the final AP poll.
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Posted on 7/24/12 at 5:15 pm to Chill Pill
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Nixon awarded the "national championship" trophy to Tx after they beat Arkie 15-14 in the last game of the season.
Depends on what you mean by national championship. He basically had a plaque made and declared the winner national champion. The AP didn't award until after the bowls, but as long a TX won out, they were going to get it anyway. TX and Ark were 1/2 after Michigan beat undefeated Ohio State
on 11/22/69. Penn State's also went undefeated in 1968 (11-0 and also Orange Bowl champs). At the end of 69 they hadn't lost (1 tie to FSU in the 67 Gator Bowl) in 30 games. The were independent and the Boise St of their day (except their huge fan base made them appealing to Bowls).
Posted on 7/24/12 at 9:12 pm to Chill Pill
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they were the ones that really got screwed
If I remember right, tOSU got shafted also. Their only loss was to Michigan for the Big10 title. Big 10 only allowed its champ to go to a bowl back then. The two best teams in the country that year probably both sat home.
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