More Non Conf schedules-1960's

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uihawk82

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There have been a few threads and many posts about OOC Non Conf schedules. I had the good fortune of hearing and watching some great games and the Hawks play some stiff competition in the late 1950's and here is the 1960's list.

There are a lot of reasons I just loved following the hawks but one was the great competition and different teams they played in the Non Conf. You youngsters take note at the bottom that the hawks were on TV only about 8 times in the decade.

Once again the ISU game was mandated but it would be nice to see different competition.

1960 #10 Oregon St #19 Kansas At Notre Dame record 3-0
1961 Cal at USC Notre Dame record 3-0
1962 Oregon st No 6 USC at Notre Dame record 1-2
1963 Wash St at Washington Notre Dame (cancelled JFK death) record 1-0-1
1964 Idaho #10 Washington #1 Notre Dame record 2-1
1965 Wash St Ore St NC ST record 1-2
1966 Arizona Ore St Miami FL record 1-2
1967 TCU Ore St #6 Notre Dame record 1-2
1968 Ore St TCU #5 Notre Dame recored 1-2 5-5 Season record
1969 Ore St Wash St Arizona record 2-1 back to back 5-5 Seasons

8 TV appearances
 
Back in the 60s college football was much different. You didn't have a huge revenue stream with the television networks so if you were not drawing in big crowds to the games you were probably operating at a loss. If you wanted to compete for the national title you had to schedule a tough non conference since back then it was all done with voting. Back then the only post season option you had was if you won the Big Ten you got to go to the Rose Bowl so scheduling a tough non conference couldn't hurt you.

Cable TV and ESPN forever changed college football, its now more about making money than it is winning a NC.
 
ssckelley said:
Back in the 60s college football was much different. You didn't have a huge revenue stream with the television networks so if you were not drawing in big crowds to the games you were probably operating at a loss. If you wanted to compete for the national title you had to schedule a tough non conference since back then it was all done with voting. Back then the only post season option you had was if you won the Big Ten you got to go to the Rose Bowl so scheduling a tough non conference couldn't hurt you.

Cable TV and ESPN forever changed college football, its now more about making money than it is winning a NC.
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And it will be interesting to see what happens as the Millennials, the oldest of which are 35 age. Numbers of college students is on the decline. They also don't watch traditional TV. They live in a world that is about minutes and seconds as opposed to hours. Once the boomers get too old to spend and care about watching, things will change. Football has a lot of challenges. The game needs to speed up for one thing.
 
You forgot to include how many of these teams beat the tar out of Iowa. By the time the mid sixties arrived Iowa was somebody's else's cupcake game.
 
linus19 said:
It would be nice to have Notre Dame on the schedule again.
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I hate that they reap the benefits ($$) from the BIG by playing so many of our teams but won't join our conference. Screw them. There were or are years where BIG teams made up 25% of their schedule. I hope they get pinched for scheduling in the years down the line when the superconferences start and teams start playing more conference games. I suppose they'd join then.
 
ssckelley said:
Back in the 60s college football was much different. You didn't have a huge revenue stream with the television networks so if you were not drawing in big crowds to the games you were probably operating at a loss. If you wanted to compete for the national title you had to schedule a tough non conference since back then it was all done with voting. Back then the only post season option you had was if you won the Big Ten you got to go to the Rose Bowl so scheduling a tough non conference couldn't hurt you.

Cable TV and ESPN forever changed college football, its now more about making money than it is winning a NC.
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You also couldn't get into a bowl game with a 5-7 record. Now there are so many it's watered down bad.
 
Well, I was there for most of those games in the sixties and then into the seventies. We were truly HORRIBLE, a perennial Big Ten doormat starting in 1962 and stretching all the way until 1979, the beginning of the Hayden Fry era. There were ZERO winning seasons from 1962 through and including 1980. Zero. None. Nada. Young Iowa fans have no appreciation for how pathetic Iowa football was at that time. I'd just as soon try to forget that era.

To put it into perspective, in 1978, Iowa State defeated Iowa 31-0 in Kinnick, and it wasn't that close. Iowa State 31, Iowa zip! Unbelievable
 
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