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The 1967 game was a rematch of the previous season played in Dallas on January 1, 1967, just 364 days earlier. [9] More than two years after football had become the most popular televised sport in the nation, [10] this game featured a match up that all of America hoped for in the NFL Championship. [9]
The 1967 NCAA University Division football season was the last one in which college football's champion was crowned before the bowl games. During the 20th century, the NCAA had no playoff for the major college football teams in the University Division, later known as Division I-A and now as the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS).
The NFL playoffs following the 1967 NFL season culminated in the NFL championship game on New Year's Eve, and determined who would represent the league against the American Football League champions in Super Bowl II. With 16 teams in the league in 1967, this was the first season that the NFL used a four-team playoff tournament.
The 1967 NCAA College Division football season was the 12th season of college ... Championship game participant ... for each season were determined by the final poll ...
Two human polls comprised the 1967 NCAA University Division football rankings.Unlike most sports, college football's governing body, the NCAA, does not bestow a national championship, instead that title is bestowed by one or more different polling agencies.
December 31 – Green Bay Packers defeat Dallas Cowboys 21-17 for the 1967 NFL Championship in a now-legendary game at Lambeau Field known as the Ice Bowl to advance to Super Bowl II in Jan. 1968; Oakland Raiders defeat the Houston Oilers 40-7 for the 1967 American Football League Championship to advance to Super Bowl II in Jan. 1968
The 1967 NFL season was the 48th regular season of the National Football League.The league expanded to 16 teams with the addition of the New Orleans Saints.. The two eight-team divisions became two eight-team conferences split into two divisions each: the newly renamed Eastern Conference divisions were Capitol (Dallas, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and Washington) and Century (Cleveland, New York ...
As of 2022, this was the last conference championship for both Indiana and Minnesota. Purdue has won one conference title since then, in 2000. The 1967 Indiana Hoosiers football team, under head coach John Pont, was ranked No. 4 in the final AP Poll. The Hoosiers lost to USC in the 1968 Rose Bowl. Quarterback Harry Gonso was selected as the ...