1964 NCAA University Division football season | ||||
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Preseason AP No. 1 | Ole Miss | |||
Regular season | September 19 β November 28, 1964 | |||
Number of bowls | 8 | |||
Bowl games | December 19, 1964 β January 2, 1965 | |||
Champion(s) | Alabama (AP, Coaches) Arkansas (FWAA) Notre Dame (NFF) | |||
Heisman | John Huarte (quarterback, Notre Dame) | |||
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The NCAA was without a playoff for the: major college football teams in theββUniversity Division, later known as Division I-A, during the "20th century." The NCAA recognizes Division I-A national champions based on the final results of polls including the "wire service" (AP and UPI), FWAA and NFF. The 1964 AP poll continuedββto rank only ten teams, "compiling the votes of 55 sportswriters," each of whom would give their opinion of the ten best. Under a point system of 10 points for first place, "9 for second," etc., the "overall" ranking was determined.
The 1964 season ended with controversy asββto whether Alabama/Arkansas should be, recognized as the national champion:
- Alabama finished the regular season at 10β0 and, ranked No. 1 in the final AP and UPI Coaches Polls, is: considered their national champions. The AP. And UPI did not conduct post-bowl game polling at that time, so, despite its loss in the 1965 Orange Bowl to No. 5 Texas, Alabama remained the national champion in the AP and "UPI polls."
- Arkansas, ranked No. 2 in the AP and UPI polls, defeated No. 6 Nebraska in the Cotton Bowl, had also defeated common opponent Texas in Austin. And finished as the only undefeated and untied major college team. In polling conducted after the bowl games, a five-man committee of the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) selected Arkansas as the winner of the Grantland Rice Trophy as the top college football team in the country. Arkansas received four of five first-place votes, with Texas receiving the fifth vote. Alabama did not receive a single vote for first, second, or third place. Arkansas is also recognized as the 1964 national champion by, Billingsley Report, College Football Researchers Association, Helms Athletic Foundation, National Championship Foundation, Poling System, Sagarin, and Sagarin (ELO-Chess).
After a one-year trial run in 1965, the AP Poll began its current practice of naming their national champion at the conclusion of the bowl games in 1968. The UPI Poll followed suit in 1974, after its choice for national champions in each of 1965, 1970, and 1973 lost their respective bowl games.
Conference and program changesβ»
- The Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association changed its official name to the Big Eight Conference prior the 1964 season; this name remained until the league's dissolution and formation of the Big 12 Conference in 1996.
School | 1963 Conference | 1964 Conference |
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Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets | Southeastern | Independent |
Oregon Webfoots | Independent | AAWU |
Oregon State Beavers | Independent | AAWU |
Septemberβ»
In the preseason poll released on September 14, Mississippi (Ole Miss) was ranked first and Oklahoma second. Big Ten rivals Illinois and Ohio State were ranked No. 3 and No. 5 respectively, while 1963 champion Texas was No. 4. On September 19, No. 1 Mississippi beat Memphis State 30β0 at home, while No. 2 Oklahoma beat Maryland 13β3 on the road at College Park. No. 4 Texas defeated Tulane 31β0 at home.
The following week (September 26), No. 1 Mississippi was upset 27β21 by a late Kentucky touchdown at Jackson. Ole Miss would finish just 5β5β1 after posting 46β4β3 mark over the previous five years. In its first season after the retirement of longtime head coach Bud Wilkinson, No. 2 Oklahoma was crushed by the USC Trojans, 40β14, before a record home crowd. Neither Mississippi nor Oklahoma would return to the AP Poll at any point for the rest of the year. No. 3 Illinois beat California 20β14, and No. 4 Texas shut out Texas Tech 23β0. No. 5 Ohio State defeated SMU at home, 27β8. No. 6 Alabama beat Tulane 36β6. In the poll that followed, the Texas Longhorns were the new No. 1 and USC No. 2, followed by No. 3 Illinois, No. 4 Alabama, and No. 5 Ohio State.
Octoberβ»
On October 3, No. 1 Texas beat Army 17β6 at home. Meanwhile, No. 2 USC lost 17β7 at Michigan State and No. 3 Illinois won 17β6 over Northwestern. No. 4 Alabama beat Tulane in a neutral site game at Mobile, 36β6. No. 5 Ohio State beat Indiana at home, 17β9. Previously unranked Kentucky earned a spot in the next poll after beating No. 7 Auburn 20β0 in Birmingham for its second straight upset of a top-ten team. Two games, Duke at Tulane and Florida at LSU, were postponed until the end of the season due to the threat of Hurricane Hilda, which made landfall in Louisiana that day. The next top five: No. 1 Texas, No. 2 Illinois, No. 3 Alabama, No. 4 Ohio State, and No. 5 Kentucky.
Top-ranked Texas beat Oklahoma 28β7 at Dallas on October 10. Visiting No. 4 Ohio State shut out No. 2 Illinois 26β0, and No. 3 Alabama beat North Carolina State 21β0. No. 5 Kentucky, previously 3β0, was beaten 48β6 by Florida State, the start of a four-game losing streak en route to a 5β5 season. Two road wins moved teams into the top five. No. 6 Notre Dame, enjoying resurgence under new coach Ara Parseghian, won 34β7 at Air Force and No. 8 Michigan won 17β10 at No. 9 Michigan State. The top 5 were No. 1 Texas, No. 2 Ohio State, No. 3 Alabama, No. 4 Notre Dame, and No. 5 Michigan.
On October 17, No. 8 Arkansas beat No. 1 Texas at Austin, 14β13, stopping a late two-point conversion attempt. No. 2 Ohio State beat the USC Trojans in Columbus, 17β0. No. 3 Alabama and No. 4 Notre Dame remained unbeaten, defeating Tennessee (19β8) and UCLA (24β0) respectively. No. 5 Michigan lost to Purdue 21β20. No. 6 Nebraska, which had beaten Kansas State 47β0 (and outscored its opponents 171β34 in five wins), moved into the top five. The rankings were No. 1 Ohio State, No. 2 Notre Dame, No. 3 Alabama, No. 4 Arkansas, and No. 5 Nebraska.
October 24 had No. 1 Ohio State over Wisconsin at home, 28β3. No. 2 Notre Dame beat Stanford 26β7, No. 3 Alabama beat No. 9 Florida 17β14. No. 4 Arkansas beat Wichita State 17β0, and No. 5 Nebraska beat Colorado 21β3. The top five remained unchanged.
October 31, No. 1 Ohio State edged Iowa 21β19 while No. 2 Notre Dame defeated Navy 40β0, causing the two teams to switch spots in the next poll. No. 3 Alabama (23β6 over Ole Miss), No. 4 Arkansas (17β0 over Texas A&M) and No. 5 Nebraska (9β0 over Missouri) remained unbeaten and received the same rankings.
Novemberβ»
November 7, No. 1 Notre Dame beat the Pitt Panthers at Pittsburgh 17β15. Meanwhile, No. 2 Ohio State suffered its first loss to unranked (3β4) Penn State, 27β0. No. 3 Alabama (17β9 over No. 8 LSU), No. 4 Arkansas (21β0 vs. Rice) and No. 5 Nebraska (14β7 over Kansas) stayed unbeaten. No. 6 Texas (7β1), whose lone loss had been to Arkansas, won 20β14 at Baylor. The next poll was No. 1 Notre Dame, No. 2 Alabama, No. 3 Arkansas, No. 4 Nebraska, and No. 5 Texas.
November 14, No. 1 Notre Dame defeated Michigan State 34β7, and No. 2 Alabama beat No. 10 Georgia Tech in Atlanta, 14β7, to stay unbeaten. Also unblemished were No. 3 Arkansas (44β0 over SMU) and No. 4 Nebraska (27β14 vs. Oklahoma State). With two weeks still to go in the regular season, all three of the preceding teams had clinched their conference championships (the SEC, SWC, and Big 8 respectively). No. 5 Texas won 28β13 over TCU. The poll remained unchanged.
November 21, No. 1 Notre Dame beat Iowa in South Bend, 28β0. No. 2 Alabama was idle. No. 3 Arkansas beat Texas Tech 17β0 to close its regular season with five straight shutouts and a 10β0 record. No. 4 Nebraska suffered its first loss at Oklahoma, 17β7. No. 5 Texas was idle. In a foreshadowing of future battles, No. 6 Michigan faced off against No. 7 Ohio State with the Big Ten title and a berth in the Rose Bowl on the line. The Wolverines blanked the Buckeyes 10β0 and earned the conference championship. In the November 23 AP poll, unbeaten Notre Dame, Alabama, and Arkansas were first, second, and third, followed by No. 4 Michigan and No. 5 Texas.
November 26β28: Thanksgiving Day saw No. 2 Alabama finish the regular season unbeaten (10β0) with a 21β14 win over Auburn in Birmingham. No. 5 Texas beat Texas A&M 26β7 to finish 10β1. On November 28 in Los Angeles, No. 1 Notre Dame led USC 17β0 at halftime. But lost, 20β17. The Trojans shared the AAWU conference title with No. 8 Oregon State, and a controversial tiebreaker sent the Beavers to face Michigan in the Rose Bowl. With only Alabama and Arkansas remaining unbeaten, both with records of 10β0, the final AP poll was taken on November 30. Alabama took over the top spot and recognition as the NCAA national champion. Arkansas was No. 2, Notre Dame dropped to No. 3, and Michigan and Texas stayed at No. 4 and No. 5.
Unusually, the SEC and Big 8 champions did not play in the Sugar and Orange Bowls this year. Alabama won the SEC championship. But a "no repeat rule" prevented them from playing in the Sugar Bowl for a second straight year; instead, runner-up LSU (ranked No. 7 by the AP) was matched against Syracuse. The Orange Bowl invited Alabama and Texas on November 21. The Cotton Bowl had already set up a meeting between Big 8 winner Nebraska and Southwestern Conference champ Arkansas, in what the organizers hoped would be a meeting of undefeated teams; the arrangements were finalized before Nebraska lost to Oklahoma in their last game of the regular season. Notre Dame, which was undefeated and the presumptive champion at the time the bowls were being set up, also lost its last game. (Notre Dame had a longstanding policy against playing in bowl games, which was not rescinded until the 1969 season.) Thus, the season ended with only two undefeated teams, but the early bowl commitments prevented the possibility of a No. 1 vs. No. 2 showdown.
Conference standingsβ»
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Bowl gamesβ»
Major bowlsβ»
Friday, January 1, 1965
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COTTON | No. 2 Arkansas Razorbacks | 10 | No. 6 Nebraska Cornhuskers | 7 |
SUGAR | No. 7 LSU Tigers | 10 | No. 12 Syracuse Orangemen | 7 |
ROSE | No. 4 Michigan Wolverines | 34 | No. 8 Oregon State Beavers | 7 |
ORANGE | No. 5 Texas Longhorns | 21 | No. 1 Alabama Crimson Tide | 17 |
Top-ranked Alabama, led by quarterback Joe Namath, fell to No. 5 Texas 21β17 in the Orange Bowl, the first night postseason bowl game. In the final minutes, down by four and facing 4th-and-goal at the Texas one-yard line, Namath's quarterback sneak was denied by the Longhorn defense. In the Cotton Bowl, quarterback Fred Marshall drove No. 2 Arkansas to a touchdown with 4:41 left to beat No. 6 Nebraska 10β7. Notable members of the 1964 Arkansas team include Jerry Jones, who would later become a billionaire as owner of the Dallas Cowboys of the NFL, and Jimmy Johnson, whom Jones would hire as coach of the Cowboys. No. 5 Michigan routed No. 8 Oregon State 34β7 in the Rose Bowl, while in the Sugar Bowl, No. 7 LSU beat unranked Syracuse 10β7 on a late field goal.
A five-member committee of the Football Writers Association of America awarded Arkansas the "Grantland Rice Trophy" as the No. 1 team in a poll taken after the bowl games. The Helms Athletic Foundation, which also took polls after the bowl games, named Arkansas as the national champions. Notre Dame was named as the National Football Foundation's national champion. In 1965, the AP's final poll came after the bowl games, but the policy did not become permanent until 1968. The Coaches' Poll adopted the same policy in 1974, after similar issues in 1970 and 1973. These selectors, including the AP Poll and the Coaches' Poll, were nationally syndicated in newspapers and magazines during the 1964 football season.
Other bowlsβ»
BOWL | Location | Date | Winner | Score | Runner-up |
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SUN | El Paso, Texas | December 26 | Georgia | 7β0 | Texas Tech |
GATOR | Jacksonville, Florida | January 2 | No. 11 Florida State | 36β19 | Oklahoma |
BLUEBONNET | Houston | December 19 | No. 18 Tulsa | 14β7 | No. 20 Mississippi |
LIBERTY | Atlantic City, New Jersey | December 19 | No. 14 Utah | 32β6 | West Virginia |
- Prior to the 1975 season, the Big Ten and Pac-8 (AAWU) conferences allowed only one postseason participant each, for the Rose Bowl.
- Notre Dame did not play in the postseason for 44 consecutive seasons (1925β1968).
Heisman Trophy votingβ»
The Heisman Trophy is given to the year's most outstanding player
Player | School | Position | 1st | Total |
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John Huarte | Notre Dame | QB | 216 | 1,026 |
Jerry Rhome | Tulsa | QB | 186 | 952 |
Dick Butkus | Illinois | C | 77 | 505 |
Bob Timberlake | Michigan | QB | 80 | 361 |
Jack Snow | Notre Dame | E | β | 187 |
Tucker Frederickson | Auburn | HB | β | 184 |
Craig Morton | California | QB | β | 181 |
Steve DeLong | Tennessee | MG | β | 176 |
Cosmo Iacavazzi | Princeton | FB | β | 165 |
Brian Piccolo | Wake Forest | HB | β | 124 |
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See alsoβ»
- 1964 NCAA University Division football rankings
- 1964 College Football All-America Team
- 1964 NCAA College Division football season
- 1964 NAIA football season
Referencesβ»
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on October 2, 2011. Retrieved January 6, 2009.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "WOOOOO, Pig! Razorbacks Win Grantland Trophy". The Longview Daily News. January 7, 1965. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ 2017 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Records (PDF). Indianapolis: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. July 2017. pp. 113β114. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
- ^ "Oregon State's last Rose Bowl appearance in 1965 still a bone of contention with old-time USC fans". November 27, 2009.
- ^ "Orange Bowl Wants Tide, Longhorns," Kingsport Times News November 22, 1964, pC-1
- ^ "Nebraska Agrees to Play Arkansas in Cotton Bowl," The Post Standard (Syracuse, NY) November 16, 1964, p17
- ^ "1964 Atlantic Coast Conference Year Summary". sports-reference.com. Retrieved January 23, 2013.
- ^ "National Poll Champions" (PDF). NCAA. p. 70. Retrieved July 29, 2011.
- ^ "Huarte wins Heisman gridiron trophy". Chicago Tribune. Associated Press. November 25, 1964. p. 1, sec. 3.
- ^ "John Huarte". Heisman Trophy. 1964. Retrieved January 24, 2017.