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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4196797, member: 289"] 1963 [URL="http://www.tiptop25.com/champ1963.html"]1963 College Football National Championship[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_NCAA_University_Division_football_rankings[/URL] [URL="http://www.tiptop25.com/fixing1963.html"]Fixing the 1963 AP Poll[/URL] This was the first year since 1959 when no additional games were needed to determine a national champion, (Heh…heh…). Texas was 11-0-0 and the only other unbeaten team was mid-major Memphis State at 8-0-1 and ranked #14 by the coaches and #8 by Vautravers, (the writers only had a top 10 and Memphis didn’t make it). Texas faced two big challenges from teams ranked #2, Oklahoma and then Navy in the Cotton Bowl and they dominated them by almost the same decisive score: 28-7 and 28-6. These were huge games, only the 3rd and 4th times since the war that teams ranked #1 and #2 had played each other, (the others: the 0-0 tie between Army and Notre Dame in 1946 and the 42-37 shoot out at the previous season’s Rose Bowl between Southern Cal and Wisconsin). Those games left quite an impression. But so did other games. This was not an historical great Texas team, although they had a great defense. Their 1961 team outscored their actual opposition 303-66. Their 1969 and 1970 teams outscored t heir actual opposition 435-119 and 423-149. This 1963 team out-scored theirs 243-71 and had a six game stretch were they won games 17-13 over a 5-5 team, 10-6 over a 6-4 team, 17-12 over a 4-7 team, 7-0 over an 8-3 team, 17-0 over a 4-5-1 team and 15-13 over a 2-7-1 team, a total of 83-44. Vautravers points out that Texas quarterback Duke Carlisle, who started all year, threw NO touchdown passes during the regular season. I recall that Roger Staubach was leading Navy to some more impressive scores (314-137 going into the Cotton Bowl), and the feeling was that Texas was lucky to win their games and that Navy would put on a show against them. But that Texas defense swallowed Roger and his mates whole in his first visit to the Cotton Bowl while Carlisle amazingly threw 58 and 63 yard bombs which sunk the Navy and leaving now doubt as to who the national champion was. Cotton Bowl: [MEDIA=youtube]oFrWl3obPd8:566[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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