1968 American Football League season
| 1968 American Football League season | |
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| Regular season | September 6, 1968 - December 15, 1968 |
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| All-Star game | |
The 1968 American Football League season was the ninth regular season of the American Football League, and its penultimate season prior to the AFL-NFL Merger.
The season ended when the New York Jets defeated the Oakland Raiders in the AFL Championship Game; the Jets then defeated the National Football League's Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III in one of the biggest sports upsets in history.
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[edit] Division races
With the addition of the Cincinnati Bengals, the AFL's ten teams were grouped into two divisions. Each team would play a home-and-away game against the other four teams in its division, one game against each of the five teams in the opposite division, and a second game against one of the other division's teams.
The best team in the Eastern Division would play against the best in the Western Division in a championship game. If there was tie in the standings (as happened when Oakland and Kansas City both finished at 12-2-0), a playoff would be held to determine the division winner.
| Week | EASTERN | WESTERN | ||
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| 1 | BOSTON | 1-0-0 | Tie (KC, SD) | 1-0-0 |
| 2 | Tie (Bos, NYJ) | 1-0-0 | Tie (Oak, SD) | 1-0-0 |
| 3 | N.Y. JETS | 2-0-0 | Tie (Oak, SD) | 2-0-0 |
| 4 | Tie (Bos, NY) | 2-1-0 | OAKLAND | 3-0-0 |
| 5 | N.Y. JETS | 3-1-0 | OAKLAND | 4-0-0 |
| 6 | N.Y. JETS | 3-2-0 | KANSAS CITY | 5-1-0 |
| 7 | N.Y. JETS | 4-2-0 | KANSAS CITY | 6-1-0 |
| 8 | N.Y. JETS | 5-2-0 | KANSAS CITY | 7-1-0 |
| 9 | N.Y. JETS | 6-2-0 | KANSAS CITY | 7-2-0 |
| 10 | N.Y. JETS | 7-2-0 | KANSAS CITY | 8-2-0 |
| 11 | N.Y. JETS | 7-3-0 | KANSAS CITY | 9-2-0 |
| 12 | N.Y. JETS | 8-3-0 | Tie (KC, Oak) | 9-2-0 |
| 13 | N.Y. JETS | 9-3-0 | Tie (KC, Oak) | 10-2-0 |
| 14 | N.Y. JETS | 10-3-0 | Tie (KC, Oak) | 11-2-0 |
| 15 | N.Y. JETS | 11-3-0 | Tie (KC, Oak) | 12-2-0 |
[edit] Standings [1]
The Cincinnati Bengals joined the league as an expansion team.
| Eastern Division | ||||||
| Team | W | L | T | PCT | PF | PA |
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| *New York Jets | 11 | 3 | 0 | .786 | 419 | 280 |
| Houston Oilers | 7 | 7 | 0 | .500 | 303 | 248 |
| Miami Dolphins | 5 | 8 | 1 | .385 | 276 | 355 |
| Boston Patriots | 4 | 10 | 0 | .286 | 229 | 406 |
| Buffalo Bills | 1 | 12 | 1 | .077 | 199 | 367 |
| Western Division | ||||||
| Team | W | L | T | PCT | PF | PA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *Oakland Raiders | 12 | 2 | 0 | .857 | 453 | 233 |
| Kansas City Chiefs | 12 | 2 | 0 | .857 | 371 | 170 |
| San Diego Chargers | 9 | 5 | 0 | .643 | 382 | 310 |
| Denver Broncos | 5 | 9 | 0 | .357 | 255 | 404 |
| Cincinnati Bengals | 3 | 11 | 0 | .214 | 215 | 329 |
* — Team qualified for Championship Game.
Italics mean team qualified for the playoffs.
[edit] Playoffs
- Western Division playoff
- Oakland Raiders 41, Kansas City Chiefs 6, December 22, 1968, Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland, California
- AFL Championship Game
- New York Jets 27, Oakland Raiders 23, December 29, 1968, Shea Stadium, New York City
- Super Bowl III
- N.Y. Jets (AFL) 16, Baltimore Colts (NFL) 7, at Orange Bowl, Miami, Florida
[edit] External links
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1968 AFL Season
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| Eastern Division | Western Division |
| Boston | Cincinnati |
| Buffalo | Denver |
| Houston | Kansas City |
| Miami | Oakland |
| New York Jets | San Diego |
| 1969 AFL Draft • AFL Playoffs • 1968 AFL All-Star game • Super Bowl III Related: 1968 NFL Season |
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