1968 championship game vs OU

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The Frozen Shield said:
Did Tennessee get jobbed on a game winning field goal to end the game?

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I was 4 years old and I remember screaming at the TV in my diapers!

Actually, you caused me to research the 1967 season, which was fascinating. Tenn had a real chance at a Natl Championship. But apparently USC winning the Rose Bowl earlier in the day locked up #1 for the Trojans... regardless of the UT-OU outcome.
 
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UT claims a national title for this year, don't they? I guess if Bama does it, we can do it, too.
 
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Karl Kremser, our first soccer-style kicker, narrowly missed a 43-yd. FG, hooked it to the right. Litkenhaus awarded us the national championship that year. At that point in time, final polls were issued BEFORE bowl games were played.
 
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Volosaurus rex said:
Karl Kremser, our first soccer-style kicker, narrowly missed a 43-yd. FG, hooked it to the right. Litkenhaus awarded us the national championship that year. At that point in time, final polls were issued BEFORE bowl games were played.
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I know the captain of that team. Within the past several years they actually received championship rings for that national title.
 
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The Frozen Shield said:
Did Tennessee get jobbed on a game winning field goal to end the game?

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My late uncle was there and couldn't see to judge, but said body language of the two teams and spectators and what he could see later made him think it looked good to a lot of people at the time. His personal opinon as a lifelong Vol fan was it could have been called good w/ no argument and may have been right over the goalpost.

FWIW
 
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its amazing u bring this up...my dad tells me this story all the time he was 11 at the time and was at his first tenn game.. tells me half the stadium was cheering thinking it was a fieldgoal and the other half knew it wasnt good....so apparently in his story we missed it? sry if that doesnt help
 
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Five of us drove down and stayed with a frat buddy who lived in Coral Gables. I don't know if kick was good or not, but Vols rallied when it looked like no hope. As stupid kids do we played the drink a beer every half hour game driving down. Life was good back then.
 
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I was 9 years old when this game was played and remember watching it. In the summer of '68 I met Kremser and Richmond Flowers who were around the track frequently though not counselors at the UT all-sports camp. If I remember correctly Kremser was a high jumper too. It was great to meet these guys at the time.
 
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He missed it....I've seen video of that game...Was close but it was clearly a miss....Great comeback by the VOLS in that game!
 
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Bristvol said:
Five of us drove down and stayed with a frat buddy who lived in Coral Gables. I don't know if kick was good or not, but Vols rallied when it looked like no hope. As stupid kids do we played the drink a beer every half hour game driving down. Life was good back then.
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That's a lot of beer. You must have been trashed when you got there.
 
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I just bring it up because my uncle was talking about the game yesterday, saying that it was one of the best college games he had ever seen and didn't think it could be topped, but said that the next year Kansas and Penn State had a even better game.

He said something about that kick at the end of the game and how he thought it was good, but wasn't really sure.

Appreciate all the feedback
 
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it was a great game. iirc we were down 19-0 at the half, dewey warren led a great comeback and the missed FG ended in a 26-24 loss.

there were 16 seconds left on the clock when kremser was sent in for the FG. CDD got some criticism for not trying to get the ball closer, but we beat UGA earlier in the season with a 40+ yarder so kremser had the leg for it.

our only regular season loss that year was our opener at UCLA, who was ranked. USC's only loss was late season to i think unranked oregon, yet the polls still had USC #1 before the bowl games. another example in a long history of media bias. had we beaten OU we likely still would have ended up ranked #2 in the major polls.
 
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My dad swore until the day he died that Kremser hit that field goal. I wasn't born yet, and I can't tell from the film I've seen of it. It was close either way.

Litkenhous still chose their national champion before the bowls in 1967, as did the UPI and some of the other selectors. Tennessee was 9-1 against a brutal schedule, and it's very easy to make a case if you leave out the bowls. I don't think we should claim it, but it's not the worst national title claim out there.
 
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It is a fair claim. That is the way titles were traditionally awarded and bowl games were not always seen as "championships" like they are now.
 
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