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{{Short description|American college football season}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}
{{Infobox college football season
| type = NCAA University Division
| year = 1967
| image = NCAA logo.svg
| image_caption = 
| number_of_teams = 
| preseason_ap = [[1967 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team|Notre Dame]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.appollarchive.com/football/ap/seasons.cfm?appollid=322 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2009-01-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002005952/http://www.appollarchive.com/football/ap/seasons.cfm?appollid=322 |archive-date=2011-10-02 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| regular_season = September 15 – December 2, 1967 <!-- Please list date of first regular season game to date of last regular season game -->
| number_of_bowls = 8 <!-- Tangerine was College Division regional final 1964–67 -->
| bowl_start = December 16, 1967 <!-- Please list date of first bowl -->
| bowl_end = January 1, 1968 <!-- Please list date of last bowl -->
| championship = 
| championship_location = 
| champion = [[1967 USC Trojans football team|USC]] ([[1967 NCAA University Division football rankings|AP, Coaches]], [[Football Writers Association of America|FWAA]], [[National Football Foundation|NFF]])
| heisman = [[Gary Beban]] ([[quarterback]], [[1967 UCLA Bruins football team|UCLA]])
}}
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 [[NCAA Division I|Division I]] [[NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision|Football Bowl Subdivision]] (FBS).

The NCAA Football Guide, however, did note an "unofficial national champion" based on the top-ranked teams in the [[1967 NCAA University Division football rankings|"wire service" (AP and UPI) polls]].  The [[AP Poll|"writers' poll"]] by [[Associated Press]] (AP) was the most popular, followed by the [[Coaches Poll|"coaches' poll"]] by [[United Press International]] (UPI).  In 1967, both AP and UPI issued their final polls at the close of the regular season, but before teams competed in [[bowl games]].  The Associated Press presented the "AP Trophy" to the winner.

The AP poll in 1967 consisted of the votes of many sportswriters, though not all of them voted in every poll.  Those who cast votes would give their opinion of the ten best teams.  Under a point system of 10 points for first place, 9 for second, etc., the "overall" ranking was determined.

==Rule changes==
* The five interior linemen in punt formation are now required to remain at the line of scrimmage until the ball is kicked, which allowed for more and longer punt returns.  However, the rule was extremely unpopular among coaches and was repealed for the 1968 season. This rule was adopted by the [[National Football League]] (NFL) in {{nfly|1974}}.

==Conference and program changes==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! School !! 1966 Conference !! 1967 Conference
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[George Washington University|George Washington]] [[George Washington Colonials football|Colonials]] || [[Southern Conference|SoCon]] || ''dropped program''
|}

Prior to this season, [[1967 Idaho Vandals football team|Idaho]] and [[1967 Pacific Tigers football team|Pacific]] were demoted to the [[1967 NCAA College Division football season|College Division]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Idaho Football Now 'College Division'|newspaper=Capital Journal |location=(Salem, Oregon)|last=Much |first=Joe |date=August 15, 1967 |page=12|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28949606/idaho_football_now_college_division/|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1jdWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1egDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4374,2583457|title=Ostyn says Pacific cost major status |work=Spokesman-Review|location=(Spokane, Washington)|agency=Associated Press |date=August 9, 1967|page=15}}</ref> After&nbsp;two years, both returned to the University Division in&nbsp;[[1969 NCAA University Division football season|1969]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=P8pRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=D20DAAAAIBAJ&pg=2968,291028|title=NCAA ups 4 colleges |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|agency=Associated Press|date=July 2, 1969|page=22}}</ref>

==September==
In the preseason poll released on September 11, first place went to the defending champion [[1967 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team|Notre Dame Fighting Irish]], followed by the [[1967 Alabama Crimson Tide football team|No. 2 Alabama Crimson Tide]], the [[1967 Michigan State Spartans football team|No. 3 Michigan State Spartans]], [[1967 Texas Longhorns football team|No. 4 Texas]], and [[1967 Miami Hurricanes football team|No. 5 Miami]].  Pacific-8 (still officially called the AAWU until the following season) teams [[1967 USC Trojans football team|USC]] and [[1967 UCLA Bruins football team|UCLA]] were seventh and eighth, and [[1967 Colorado Buffaloes football team|Colorado]] of the Big 8 was tenth.  Joining Alabama  from the SEC were No. 6 [[1967 Georgia Bulldogs football team|Georgia]] and No. 9 [[1967 Tennessee Volunteers football team|Tennessee]].

;September 15–16: The AAWU began its season a week ahead of most other conferences and No. 7 USC beat [[1967 Washington State Cougars football team|Washington State]] 49–0 in a Friday night game at Los Angeles. No. 8 UCLA hosted No. 9 Tennessee and won 20–16.  [[1967 California Golden Bears football team|California]] beat [[1967 Oregon Webfoots football team|Oregon]] 21–13 in advance of its game against No. 1 Notre Dame.  USC reached the Top Five in the next poll, while Miami dropped to eighth before it had played a game. The poll was No. 1 Notre Dame, No. 2 Alabama, No. 3 Michigan State, No. 4 USC, and No. 5 Texas.

;September 23: No. 1 Notre Dame hosted California and won 41–8.  At Birmingham, No. 2 Alabama played to a 37–37 tie with [[1967 Florida State Seminoles football team|Florida State]].  No. 3 Michigan State lost at home to the [[Houston Cougars football|Houston Cougars]] 37–7, and proved the preseason prognosticators wrong on its way to a 3–7 finish.  The big matchup was in L.A. between No. 4 USC and No. 5 Texas, and the Trojans won 17–13.  No. 6 UCLA beat the Panthers at Pittsburgh 40–8 and No. 7 Georgia won 30–0 at home over [[1967 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team|Mississippi State]]. The next poll was No. 1 Notre Dame, No. 2 USC, No. 3 Houston, No. 4 UCLA, and No. 5 Georgia.

:Saturday's games also saw a milestone in the integration of college sports in the South, as [[1967 Kentucky Wildcats football team|Kentucky's]] [[Nate Northington]] became the first African-American scholarship athlete to participate in any Southeastern Conference sport when he made his debut at [[1967 Indiana Hoosiers football team|Indiana]]. His debut was bittersweet, as it came while Greg Page, another African-American player who had arrived at Kentucky at the same time as Northington, was dying from complications of a paralyzing spinal cord injury suffered in an August 22 practice. Page would die on the Friday after Northington's debut.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ukathletics.com/documents/2018/7/17/2018_KentuckyFBRecord_Book_WEB.pdf |title=Pioneers of Integration in the SEC |work=2018 UK Football Record Book |publisher=[[Kentucky Wildcats]] |access-date=September 12, 2018 |archive-date=September 13, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180913074031/https://ukathletics.com/documents/2018/7/17/2018_KentuckyFBRecord_Book_WEB.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Maraniss |first=Andrew |date=2014 |title=Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South |location=[[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville, TN]] |publisher=[[Vanderbilt University Press]] |page=221 |isbn=9780826520241 |author-link=Andrew Maraniss}}</ref>

;September 29–30: In a Friday night game, [[Houston Cougars football|No. 3 Houston]] rolled over Wake Forest at home, 50–6.  On Saturday, No. 1 Notre Dame lost 28–21 at [[1967 Purdue Boilermakers football team|No. 10 Purdue]], and No. 2 USC won 21–17 at Michigan State. No. 4 UCLA trampled Washington State in [[Joe Albi Stadium|Spokane]], 51–23, and No. 5 Georgia won at [[1967 Clemson Tigers football team|Clemson]], 24–17.  Notre Dame fell from the Top 5 in the next poll and USC took the lead, followed by No. 2 Houston, No. 3 UCLA, No. 4 Purdue, and No. 5 Georgia.

:In another integration-related milestone, the aforementioned Northington became the first African-American scholarship athlete to play in a matchup between two SEC teams when he took the field against [[1967 Ole Miss Rebels football team|Ole Miss]] that Saturday, the day after Page's death. Northington would suffer a separated shoulder shortly after entering the game, and never played again for the Wildcats, transferring to [[Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football|Western Kentucky]] after the season.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.kentucky.com/sports/college/kentucky-sports/uk-football/article103568827.html |title=UK reveals sculpture honoring first black football players |first=Mark |last=Story |newspaper=[[Lexington Herald-Leader]] |date=September 22, 2016 |access-date=January 30, 2018}}</ref>{{efn|The SEC's first African American varsity athlete was Stephen Martin, a [[Tulane Green Wave baseball|baseball]] [[Walk-on (sports)|walk-on]] at [[Tulane University|Tulane]], who made his varsity debut in 1966 (1965–66 school year), which was Tulane's last season as an SEC member.<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://tulanegreenwave.com/news/2013/5/16/Tulane_Mourns_the_Passing_of_Integration_Pioneer_Stephen_Martin_Sr_.aspx |title=Tulane Mourns the Passing of Integration Pioneer Stephen Martin Sr. |publisher=[[Tulane Green Wave]] |date=May 16, 2013 |access-date=January 30, 2018}}</ref> Later in the 1967–68 school year, [[Perry Wallace]], who enrolled at [[Vanderbilt University|Vanderbilt]] on a [[Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball|basketball]] scholarship at the same time as Northington and Page arrived at Kentucky, would become the first African American to play basketball in the SEC.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/mensbasketball/sec/2004-02-19-sec-trailblazer_x.htm|title=An SEC trailblazer gets his due|last=Carey|first=Jack |date=February 19, 2004|publisher=USA Today|access-date=March 7, 2010}}</ref>}}

==October==
;October 7: Top-ranked USC beat [[1967 Stanford Indians football team|Stanford]] at home, 30–0.  The No. 2 Houston Cougars, who had come from nowhere to reach a lofty ranking, lost at home to unranked North Carolina State, 16–6.  No. 3 UCLA edged [[1967 Penn State Nittany Lions football team|Penn State]] 17–15.  In a Big Ten matchup, No. 4 Purdue beat Northwestern 25–16, and No. 5 Georgia shut out South Carolina at home, 21–0.  In South Bend, No. 6 Notre Dame crushed [[1967 Iowa Hawkeyes football team|Iowa]] 56–6 to return to the Top Five as it prepared to face USC.  The next poll was No. 1 USC, No. 2 Purdue, No. 3 Georgia, No. 4 UCLA, and No. 5 Notre Dame.

;October 14: The No. 1 USC Trojans visited No. 5 Notre Dame and won 24–7, and No. 2 Purdue won at [[1967 Ohio State Buckeyes football team|Ohio State]] 41–6.  No. 3 Georgia lost to [[Ole Miss Rebels football|Ole Miss]] at [[Jackson, Mississippi|Jackson]], 29–20. No. 4 UCLA beat California at home, 37–14.  Taking the place of the Irish and Georgia in the Top Five were No. 6 Colorado, which had beaten [[1967 Missouri Tigers football team|Missouri]] 23–9, and [[NC State Wolfpack football|No. 9 N.C. State]], which won at [[1967 Maryland Terrapins football team|Maryland]] 31–9. The poll was No. 1 USC, No. 2 Purdue, No. 3 UCLA, No. 4 Colorado, and No. 5 North Carolina State.

;October 21: Top-ranked USC beat [[1967 Washington Huskies football team|Washington]] in [[Seattle]], 23–6, for its sixth straight win.  The Trojans' cross-town rival, No. 3 UCLA, was also 6–0, beating Stanford in Palo Alto, 21–16.  No. 2 Purdue lost its first game of the season, falling to visiting [[1967 Oregon State Beavers football team|Oregon State]], 22–14.  No. 4 Colorado won at Nebraska 21–16, and No. 5 N.C. State hosted Wake Forest and won 24–7. No. 6 Alabama and No. 7 Tennessee squared off in Birmingham and Tennessee won 24–13, a result that would eventually deliver the SEC championship to the Volunteers.  In the next poll, USC was the unanimous choice for No. 1, with all 37 first place votes.  The other top teams were No. 2 UCLA, No. 3 Colorado, No. 4 Tennessee, and No. 5 N.C. State.

;October 28: USC stayed atop the polls, defeating Oregon 28–6 at home, while No. 2 UCLA was idle.  No. 3 Colorado lost to visiting Oklahoma State 10–7.  No. 4 Tennessee narrowly beat LSU at home, 17–14, and No. 5 N.C. State beat Duke 28–7.  Replacing Colorado in the Top Five was No. 6 Georgia, which won 31–7 at Kentucky.  The poll: No. 1 USC, No. 2 UCLA, No. 3 Tennessee, No. 4 N.C. State, and No. 5 Georgia.

==November==
;November 4: Top-ranked USC beat California at Berkeley, 31–12, to extend its record to 8–0, and No. 2 UCLA stayed unbeaten but was tied by visiting [[1967 Oregon State Beavers football team|Oregon State]], 16–16.  No. 3 Tennessee visited Tampa and beat the Spartans, 38–0.  No. 4 N.C. State won at Virginia 30–8, and the No. 5 Georgia Bulldogs narrowly lost at Houston 15–14.  No. 6 Purdue won at Illinois 42–9. The next poll was No. 1 USC, No. 2 Tennessee, No. 3 N.C. State, No. 4 UCLA, and No. 5 Purdue.

;November 11: Top-ranked USC finally lost, falling 3–0 in the rain and mud at [[Reser Stadium|Corvallis]] to Oregon State. No. 2 Tennessee beat Tulane 35–14. No. 3 N.C. State lost at Penn State 13–8.  No. 4 UCLA shut out visiting Washington, 48–0, and No. 5 Purdue beat Minnesota 41–12. Their Big Ten rival, [[1967 Indiana Hoosiers football team|No. 6 Indiana]], won at Michigan State 14–13. UCLA took USC's place at the top, leapfrogging Tennessee, whom the Bruins had beaten earlier in the year. The other top teams were No. 3 Purdue, No. 4 USC, and No. 5 Indiana.

;November 18: In Los Angeles, the No. 1 UCLA Bruins and the No. 4 USC Trojans met at the [[Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum|Coliseum]] for their [[1967 USC vs. UCLA football game|rivalry game]], with a Pac-8 title, a [[1968 Rose Bowl|Rose Bowl]] berth, and possibly the national championship on the line.  USC reclaimed its place at the top, edging UCLA 21–20.  No. 2 Tennessee faced Mississippi in Memphis and won 20–7. No. 3 Purdue beat Michigan State 21–7, but No. 5 Indiana lost to Minnesota 33–7.  [[1967 Oklahoma Sooners football team|No. 7 Oklahoma]], which had gone on a winning streak after an early loss to Texas in the [[Red River Showdown]], beat Kansas 14–10 at home to clinch the Big 8 championship and a spot in the [[1968 Orange Bowl|Orange Bowl]]. The next poll was No. 1 USC, No. 2 Tennessee, No. 3 Purdue, No. 4 UCLA, and No. 5 Oklahoma.

;November 25: In the final week of games before the final polls, No. 1 USC had already completed its season at 9–1.  No. 2 Tennessee won at Kentucky 17–7 to clinch the SEC title; the Vols opted to play Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl rather than heading to the Sugar Bowl. Indiana had fallen out of the Top Ten, but made their way back in when they beat No. 3 Purdue at home in Bloomington, 19–14.  There was a three-way tie in Big Ten Conference play.  Not only were Indiana, Purdue, and Minnesota each 6–1, but Indiana beat Purdue, Purdue beat Minnesota, and Minnesota beat Indiana.  The Hoosiers had the better overall record (9–1 vs. 8–2 and 8–2), and since Purdue and Minnesota had been to the Rose Bowl more recently, Indiana qualified for the Rose Bowl. No. 4 UCLA, without injured Heisman Trophy winner Gary Beban and little motivation after their loss to USC the week before, lost a meaningless game to [[1967 Syracuse Orangemen football team|Syracuse]] 32–14, and No. 5 Oklahoma beat [[1967 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team|Nebraska]] 21–14.  No. 6 Notre Dame, which had won a Friday night game at Miami, 24–22, returned to the top five with unranked [[1967 Indiana Hoosiers football team|Indiana]].  In the final poll, USC was tops in both the AP and UPI polls, and was awarded the AP Trophy.

The final regular season poll featured No. 1 USC, No. 2 Tennessee, No. 3 Oklahoma, No. 4 Indiana, and No. 5 Notre Dame. No. 6 Wyoming was the only major team to go unbeaten (10–0), and the Cowboys prepared to play LSU in the [[1968 Sugar Bowl|Sugar Bowl]]. No. 7 Oregon State had played three teams that were ranked 1st or 2nd when they played them (UCLA, USC, and Purdue) and went 2–0–1 in those games, but their 13–6 loss to Washington on October 7 kept the "Giant Killers" out of the Rose Bowl. The poll was rounded out by No. 8 Alabama, No. 9 Purdue, and No. 10 Penn State.

A few more games were played after the final poll, but none of them resulted in losses for ranked teams. On December 2, No. 2 Tennessee defeated Vanderbilt 41−14, while the Vols' Orange Bowl opponent, No. 3 Oklahoma, won 38–14 over Oklahoma State. No. 8 Alabama played Auburn in [[Iron Bowl|its annual game]] at [[Legion Field|Birmingham]], won 7–3, and prepared to face SWC champion Texas A&M in the [[1968 Cotton Bowl Classic|Cotton Bowl]].

==Conference standings==
{| cellpadding="5"
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1967 Athletic Association of Western Universities football standings}}
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1967 Atlantic Coast Conference football standings}}
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1967 Big Eight Conference football standings}}
|-
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1967 Big Ten Conference football standings}}
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1967 Ivy League football standings}}
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1967 Mid-American Conference football standings}}
|-
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1967 Middle Three Conference football standings}}
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1967 Missouri Valley Conference football standings}}
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1967 Southeastern Conference football standings}}
|-
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1967 Southern Conference football standings}}
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1967 Southwest Conference football standings}}
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1967 Western Athletic Conference football standings}}
|-
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1967 NCAA University Division independents football records}}
|}

==Bowl games==
===Major bowls===
''Monday, January 1, 1968''
{| class="wikitable"
! BOWL
! 
! 
!
!
|-
| [[1968 Cotton Bowl Classic|COTTON]]
| [[1967 Texas A&M Aggies football team|Texas A&M Aggies]] 
| 20
| No. 8 [[1967 Alabama Crimson Tide football team|Alabama Crimson Tide]]
| 16
|-
| [[1968 Sugar Bowl|SUGAR]]
| [[1967 LSU Tigers football team|LSU Tigers]] 
| 20 
| No. 6 [[1967 Wyoming Cowboys football team|Wyoming Cowboys]] 
| 13
|-
| [[1968 Rose Bowl|ROSE]] 
| No. 1 [[1967 USC Trojans football team|USC Trojans]]
| 14
| No. 4 [[1967 Indiana Hoosiers football team|Indiana Hoosiers]]
|  3 
|-
| [[1968 Orange Bowl|ORANGE]]
| No. 3 [[1967 Oklahoma Sooners football team|Oklahoma Sooners]]
| 26   
| No. 2 [[1967 Tennessee Volunteers football team|Tennessee Volunteers]]
| 24
|}

In the final AP poll, 9–1 USC had been the top choice of the writers for the AP Trophy, with 36 of the 49 first place votes, and Tennessee followed with 11.  Though there was no No. 1 vs. No. 2 matchup, the Rose and Orange bowls featured the four top-ranked teams, with No. 1 USC meeting No. 4 Indiana at Pasadena, and No. 2 Tennessee facing No. 3 Oklahoma at Miami.  The Sugar Bowl, at that time, did not automatically get the SEC champion.  Ultimately, the New Orleans game featured the Wyoming Cowboys (10–0) of the Western Athletic Conference, against the LSU Tigers.  LSU had finished sixth in the ten-team SEC, behind Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, and Georgia. But LSU justified their selection by knocking off Wyoming, {{nowrap|20–13}}. In the Cotton Bowl, unranked Texas A&M upset No. 8 Alabama 20–16. USC then went out and claimed the national title with a 14–3 over Indiana in the Rose Bowl. Effectively eliminated from finishing No. 1 after USC's win, No. 2 Tennessee went out and lost in the Orange Bowl to No. 3 Oklahoma, 26–24.

===Other bowls===
{| class="wikitable"
!BOWL 
!Location 
!Date
!Winner
!Score
!Runner-up
|-
|[[1967 Sun Bowl|SUN]]
|El Paso, Texas
|December 30
|[[UTEP Miners football|Texas El Paso]]
|14–7
|[[1967 Ole Miss Rebels football team|Mississippi]]
|-
|[[1967 Gator Bowl|GATOR]]
|Jacksonville, Florida
|December 30
|No. 11 [[1967 Penn State Nittany Lions football team|Penn State]]
|17–17
|No. 15 [[1967 Florida State Seminoles football team|Florida State]]
|-
|[[1967 Bluebonnet Bowl|BLUEBONNET]]
|Houston, Texas
|December 23
|No. 13 [[1967 Colorado Buffaloes football team|Colorado]]
|31–21
|No. 16 [[1967 Miami Hurricanes football team|Miami (FL)]]
|-
|[[1967 Liberty Bowl|LIBERTY]]
|Memphis, Tennessee
|December 16
|No. 17 [[1967 NC State Wolfpack football team|N.C. State]]
|14–7
|No. 18 [[1967 Georgia Bulldogs football team|Georgia]]
|}
* Prior to the [[1975 NCAA Division I football season|1975]] season, the [[Big Ten Conference|Big Ten]] and [[Pac-12 Conference|Pac-8]] conferences allowed only one postseason participant each, for the [[Rose Bowl Game|Rose Bowl]].
* [[Notre Dame Fighting Irish football|Notre Dame]] did not play in the postseason for 44 consecutive seasons ([[1925 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team|1925]]–[[1968 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team|1968]]).

==Awards and honors==
===Heisman Trophy voting===
''The [[Heisman Trophy]] is given to the year's most outstanding player''

{| class="wikitable"
! Player !! School !! Position !! 1st !! 2nd !! 3rd !! Total
|-
| '''[[Gary Beban]]''' || '''[[1967 UCLA Bruins football team|UCLA]]''' || '''QB''' || '''369''' || '''332''' || '''197''' || '''1,968'''
|-
| [[O. J. Simpson]] || [[1967 USC Trojans football team|USC]] || RB || 261 || 359 || 221 || 1,722
|-
| [[Leroy Keyes]] || [[1967 Purdue Boilermakers football team|Purdue]] || HB || 278 || 142 || 248 || 1,366
|-
| [[Larry Csonka]] || [[1967 Syracuse Orangemen football team|Syracuse]] || FB || 22 || 20 || 30 || 136
|-
| [[Kim Hammond]] || [[1967 Florida State Seminoles football team|Florida State]] || QB || 17 || 15 || 9 || 90
|-
| [[Bob Johnson (American football)|Bob Johnson]] || [[1967 Tennessee Volunteers football team|Tennessee]] || C || 13 || 10 || 17 || 76
|-
| [[Granville Liggins]] || [[1967 Oklahoma Sooners football team|Oklahoma]] || DT || 2 || 11 || 33 || 61
|-
| [[Dewey Warren]] || Tennessee || QB || 4 || 13 || 18 || 56
|-
| [[Wayne Meylan]] || [[1967 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team|Nebraska]] || MG || 11 || 5 || 12 || 55
|-
| [[Terry Hanratty]] || [[1967 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team|Notre Dame]] || QB || 1 || 12 || 27 || 54
|}
'''Source:''' <ref name=gbwheis>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ljlWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=G-kDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5857%2C4809509 |newspaper=Spokesman-Review |location=Spokane, Washington|agency=Associated Press |title=Gary Beban wins Heisman |date=November 28, 1967 |page=10}}</ref><ref name=gbhsmn67>{{cite web |url=http://heisman.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=33&path=football |work=Heisman Trophy |title=Gary Beban |date=1967 |access-date=January 24, 2017}}</ref>

===All-Americans===
{{main article|1967 College Football All-America Team}}
;1967 Consensus All-America Team:
{{col-begin}}
{{col-1-of-2}}
:''Offense''
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%"
!Position
!Name
!Height
!Weight (lbs.)
!Class
!Hometown
!Team
|-
|[[Quarterback|QB]]
|[[Gary Beban]]
|6'0"
|191
|Sr.
|[[Redwood City, California]]
|'''[[1967 UCLA Bruins football team|UCLA]]'''
|-
|[[Halfback (American football)|HB]]
|[[Leroy Keyes]]
|6'3"
|199
|Jr.
|[[Newport News, Virginia]]
|'''[[Purdue Boilermakers football|Purdue]]'''
|-
|[[Halfback (American football)|HB]]
|[[O. J. Simpson]]
|6'2"
|205
|Jr.
|San Francisco
|'''[[1967 USC Trojans football team|USC]]'''
|-
|[[Fullback (American football)|FB]]
|[[Larry Csonka]]
|6'2"
|230
|Sr.
|[[Stow, Ohio]]
|'''[[1967 Syracuse Orangemen football team|Syracuse]]'''
|-
|[[End (American football)|E]]
|[[Dennis Homan]]
|6'0"
|182
|Sr.
|[[Muscle Shoals, Alabama]]
|'''[[1967 Alabama Crimson Tide football team|Alabama]]'''
|-
|[[Tackle (American football)|T]]
|[[Ron Yary]]
|6'6"
|245
|Sr.
|[[Bellflower, California]]
|'''[[1967 USC Trojans football team|USC]]'''
|-
|[[Guard (American football)|G]]
|[[Harry Olszewski]]
|5'11"
|237
|Sr.
|[[Baltimore]]
|'''[[1967 Clemson Tigers football team|Clemson]]'''
|-
|[[Center (American football)|C]]
|[[Bob Johnson (American football)|Bob Johnson]]
|6'4"
|232
|Sr.
|[[Cleveland, Tennessee]]
|'''[[1967 Tennessee Volunteers football team|Tennessee]]'''
|-
|[[Guard (American football)|G]]
|[[Rich Stotter]]
|5'11"
|225
|Sr.
|[[Shaker Heights, Ohio]]
|'''[[Houston Cougars football|Houston]]'''
|-
|[[Tackle (American football)|T]]
|[[Edgar Chandler]]
|6'2"
|222
|Sr.
|[[Cedartown, Georgia]]
|'''[[1967 Georgia Bulldogs football team|Georgia]]'''
|-
|[[End (American football)|E]]
|[[Ron Sellers]]
|6'4"
|187
|Jr.
|[[Jacksonville, Florida]]
|'''[[1967 Florida State Seminoles football team|FSU]]'''
|-
|}
{{col-2-of-2}}
:''Defense''
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%"
!Position
!Name
!Height
!Weight (lbs.)
!Class
!Hometown
!Team
|-
|[[Defensive end|DE]]
|[[Ted Hendricks]]
|6'8"
|222
|Jr.
|[[Miami Springs, Florida]]
|'''[[Miami Hurricanes football|Miami]] (FL)'''
|-
|[[Defensive tackle|DT]]
|[[Dennis Byrd (American football, born 1946)|Dennis Byrd]]
|6'4"
|250
|Sr.
|[[Lincolnton, North Carolina]]
|'''[[North Carolina State Wolfpack football|NC State]]'''
|-
|[[Nose guard|MG]]
|[[Granville Liggins]]
|5'11"
|216
|Sr.
|[[Tulsa, Oklahoma]]
|'''[[1967 Oklahoma Sooners football team|Oklahoma]]'''
|-
|[[Nose guard|MG]]
|[[Wayne Meylan]]
|6'0"
|231
|Sr.
|[[Bay City, Michigan]]
|'''[[1967 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team|Nebraska]]'''
|-
|[[Defensive end|DE]]
|[[Tim Rossovich]]
|6'5"
|235
|Sr.
|[[Mountain View, California]]
|'''[[1967 USC Trojans football team|USC]]'''
|-
|[[Linebacker|LB]]
|[[Adrian Young (American football)|Adrian Young]]
|6'1"
|210
|Sr.
|[[La Puente, California]]
|'''[[1967 USC Trojans football team|USC]]'''
|-
|[[Linebacker|LB]]
|[[Don Manning]]
|6'2"
|204
|Sr.
|[[Culver City, California]]
|'''[[1967 UCLA Bruins football team|UCLA]]'''
|-
|[[Defensive back|DB]]
|[[Tom Schoen]]
|5'11"
|178
|Sr.
|[[Euclid, Ohio]]
|'''[[1967 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team|Notre Dame]]'''
|-
|[[Defensive back|DB]]
|[[Frank Loria]]
|5'9"
|174
|Sr.
|[[Clarksburg, West Virginia]]
|'''[[1967 VPI Gobblers football team|VPI]]'''
|-
|[[Defensive back|DB]]
|[[Bobby Johns (American football)|Bobby Johns]]
|6'1"
|180
|Jr.
|[[Birmingham, Alabama]]
|'''[[1967 Alabama Crimson Tide football team|Alabama]]'''
|-
|[[Defensive back|DB]]
|[[Dick Anderson]]
|6'2"
|204
|Sr.
|[[Boulder, Colorado]]
|'''[[1967 Colorado Buffaloes football team|Colorado]]'''
|}  
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===Statistical leaders===
Player scoring most points: [[Leroy Keyes]], Purdue, 114.

==See also==
*[[1967 NCAA University Division football rankings]]
*[[1967 College Football All-America Team]]
*[[1967 USC vs. UCLA football game]]

==Footnotes==
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==References==
{{Reflist}}

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