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1969 Bama/Ole Miss Game
Posted on 8/15/13 at 1:16 pm
Posted on 8/15/13 at 1:16 pm
I was looking for a game where Ole Miss scored my age for I-59 Tiger's thread, and I came across this article.
1969 Bama/OM
I hadn't thought about this game in a while. It's the game where Archie set the SEC total offense record that stood until last year (F-U Manziel.
).
I didn't know what an impact it had on college football becoming a primetime television event.
What a fuggin game. If I could go back and see any game, this would be a top choice. And we lost.
I like that Bryant and Vaught both thought it was an awful game. Haha
1969 Bama/OM
I hadn't thought about this game in a while. It's the game where Archie set the SEC total offense record that stood until last year (F-U Manziel.
). I didn't know what an impact it had on college football becoming a primetime television event.
What a fuggin game. If I could go back and see any game, this would be a top choice. And we lost.
I like that Bryant and Vaught both thought it was an awful game. Haha
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Posted on 8/15/13 at 1:19 pm to Wanderin Reb
The best part is how it almost didn't happen.
Alabama was close to having to forfeit the game.
Alabama was close to having to forfeit the game.
Posted on 8/15/13 at 1:23 pm to MagicCityBlazer
O rly?
If that's in the article, I must have scanned over it.
What almost caused that?
If that's in the article, I must have scanned over it.
What almost caused that?
Posted on 8/15/13 at 1:33 pm to Wanderin Reb
LINK
The lights weren't strong enough at first to televise and Bear Bryant told them to (paraphrase) "call the mayor because if he can't fix this and we forfeit he'll never get relected here again".
The lights weren't strong enough at first to televise and Bear Bryant told them to (paraphrase) "call the mayor because if he can't fix this and we forfeit he'll never get relected here again".
Posted on 8/15/13 at 1:47 pm to Wanderin Reb
Alabama also played in the first prime-time bowl game, the 1965 Orange Bowl loss vs. Texas on NBC.
Posted on 8/15/13 at 1:52 pm to Wanderin Reb
I was there. 
That was back when you still wore a coat and tie to games. 'Course,I was 7 so I pretty much did what I was told.
Introductions for the starters back then for TV were great. Each player one by one stood in front of the camera and Bill Flemming told his name and hometown and he turned away.The coach was always last.
That was back when you still wore a coat and tie to games. 'Course,I was 7 so I pretty much did what I was told. Introductions for the starters back then for TV were great. Each player one by one stood in front of the camera and Bill Flemming told his name and hometown and he turned away.The coach was always last.
Posted on 8/15/13 at 2:00 pm to I-59 Tiger
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I was there.
Me too. Senior year at UA. Probably the most exciting game I attended.
Posted on 8/15/13 at 2:18 pm to Wanderin Reb
Although I was very young, I remember that game and that time.
Wow what a fall THAT was!
3 weeks after that 33-32 Hunter/Manning duel,
I attended my first Tiger game with my Dad and the son of a La.State Trooper - who got us the tickets in the SEZ. It was Oct. 25, 1969.
9th ranked unbeaten LSU and Tommy Casanova vs 6th ranked unbeaten Auburn with Pat Sullivan, Mickey Zofko and Terry Beasley.
LSU remanined unbeaten with a spine-tingling 21-20 win, only to suffer their only loss the following week at Ole Miss and Archie 23-26.
Here's just a few of the events I remember from that fall:
- Judy Garland's death
- 1st Moon landing - July 20 - Neil Armstrong
- Chappaquidick - Edward Kennedy/Mary Jo Kopechne
- Famed Woodstock concert in upstate N.Y.
- Manson family murders in L.A.
- Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits Miss. Coast
- Amazin' Mets beat Orioles in World Series upset
- Underdog Michigan stuns #1 tOSU in Ann Arbor
- "Satisfaction" by Rolling Stones, "Sugar Sugar" by Archies and "Age of Aquarius" are big hits.
- Saints Bill Kilmer and Cardinals Charlie Johnson
combine for 12 TD passes in 51-42 Saints win.
- Expansion N.O. Saints go 5-2 down stretch.
- #1 Texas rallies from 0-14 down to edge #2 Arkansas 15-14.
- Cotton Bowl prematurely invites #5 9-1 LSU to face #1 Texas in Cotton Bowl, then reneges and takes twice beaten #11 Notre Dame over LSU - who votes to stay home instead.
- Ole Miss and Archie beat Arkansas in 1970 Sugar 27-22 as Archie named Sugar MVP.
Wow what a fall THAT was!
3 weeks after that 33-32 Hunter/Manning duel,
I attended my first Tiger game with my Dad and the son of a La.State Trooper - who got us the tickets in the SEZ. It was Oct. 25, 1969.
9th ranked unbeaten LSU and Tommy Casanova vs 6th ranked unbeaten Auburn with Pat Sullivan, Mickey Zofko and Terry Beasley.
LSU remanined unbeaten with a spine-tingling 21-20 win, only to suffer their only loss the following week at Ole Miss and Archie 23-26.
Here's just a few of the events I remember from that fall:
- Judy Garland's death
- 1st Moon landing - July 20 - Neil Armstrong
- Chappaquidick - Edward Kennedy/Mary Jo Kopechne
- Famed Woodstock concert in upstate N.Y.
- Manson family murders in L.A.
- Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits Miss. Coast
- Amazin' Mets beat Orioles in World Series upset
- Underdog Michigan stuns #1 tOSU in Ann Arbor
- "Satisfaction" by Rolling Stones, "Sugar Sugar" by Archies and "Age of Aquarius" are big hits.
- Saints Bill Kilmer and Cardinals Charlie Johnson
combine for 12 TD passes in 51-42 Saints win.
- Expansion N.O. Saints go 5-2 down stretch.
- #1 Texas rallies from 0-14 down to edge #2 Arkansas 15-14.
- Cotton Bowl prematurely invites #5 9-1 LSU to face #1 Texas in Cotton Bowl, then reneges and takes twice beaten #11 Notre Dame over LSU - who votes to stay home instead.
- Ole Miss and Archie beat Arkansas in 1970 Sugar 27-22 as Archie named Sugar MVP.
Posted on 8/15/13 at 2:18 pm to EbbTide
Lucky old bastards. 
Posted on 8/15/13 at 2:20 pm to I-59 Tiger
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That was back when you still wore a coat and tie to games.
like we do still?
Posted on 8/15/13 at 2:24 pm to MetryTyger
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- Cotton Bowl prematurely invites #5 9-1 LSU to face #1 Texas in Cotton Bowl, then reneges and takes twice beaten #11 Notre Dame over LSU - who votes to stay home instead.
dafuq?
so who ended up playing?
Posted on 8/15/13 at 2:34 pm to ccard257
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ccard257
1969 Bama/Ole Miss Game
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- Cotton Bowl prematurely invites #5 9-1 LSU to face #1 Texas in Cotton Bowl, then reneges and takes twice beaten #11 Notre Dame over LSU - who votes to stay home instead.
dafuq?
so who ended up playing?
#1 Texas (who stayed at #1 after their close win over then #2 Arkansas) was a lock for the Cotton.
But the Cotton Bowl,(after first informally inviting 8-1 and #5 LSU even before LSU ended season vs Tulane) decided to go with #11 and 8-2 Notre Dame over LSU.
Texas defeated Notre Dame 21-17 to win the 1969 National Championship.
LSU, who had assumed they were going to the Cotton Bowl, were out of a NYD bowl when the Sugar chose Ole Miss in the confusion.
Ole Miss beat 9-1 Arkansas 27-22.
So one of LSU's best teams ever, ranked #7 at 9-1, outscoring its 10 opponents 349-91, and setting an NCAA record that still stands by allowing 39.6 yards a game rushing, stayed home. They turned down the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl invite.
#5 LSU, who had an outside chance of winning the NC had they played #1 Texas (because the teams behind Texas also lost) ended up after the bowls ranked #7, ahead of thrice-beaten Notre Dame.
This post was edited on 8/15/13 at 2:40 pm
Posted on 8/15/13 at 2:36 pm to ccard257
Archie threw for 436 yards, and Alabama's Scott Hunter threw for 300, all without a HUNH.
Posted on 8/15/13 at 2:37 pm to ErnestTBassmaster
ISWYDT
stop it :beatdeadhorse:
stop it :beatdeadhorse:
Posted on 8/15/13 at 2:54 pm to MetryTyger
Ah. I read your original post to mean that notre dame turned down the cotton bowl invite.
Posted on 8/15/13 at 3:41 pm to Wanderin Reb
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