1968 Northwestern

1–⁠9 (1–⁠6 Big Ten), coached by Alex Agase. Share

Schedule and results

Each game’s margin, wins above the line and losses below.

Date	Opponent	Result
Sep 20	at19Miami	L 7–⁠28	22%
Sep 28	vs3USC	L 7–⁠24	24%
Oct 5	vs1Purdue	L 6–⁠43	23%
Oct 12	at5Notre Dame	L 7–⁠27	13%
Oct 19	at2Ohio State	L 21–⁠45	17%
Oct 26	vsWisconsin	W 13–⁠10	70%
Nov 2	vs9Michigan	L 0–⁠35	29%
Nov 9	atIowa	L 34–⁠68	37%
Nov 16	atIllinois	L 0–⁠14	42%
Nov 23	vsMichigan State	L 14–⁠31	30%

Elo: a pregame chance from scores alone.

How it ended: Lost to Michigan State 31–⁠14; unranked in the final AP poll; tied for 8th in the Big Ten.

In program history: The 120th-best season in program history by end-of-season Elo (of 133 on file).

Led the nationMike Adamle: kickoff return yards (732 yds)

Rd 4

Kansas City Chiefs

1 first team, 3 second team

From Wikipedia’s 1968 all-conference team article, with the selectors that named each player (AP-1: the Associated Press’s first team).

Team	Conf.	Overall	AP final
Ohio State	7–⁠0	10–⁠0	1
Michigan	6–⁠1	8–⁠2	12
Purdue	5–⁠2	8–⁠2	10
Minnesota	5–⁠2	6–⁠4
Indiana	4–⁠3	6–⁠4
Iowa	4–⁠3	5–⁠5
Michigan State	2–⁠5	5–⁠5
Northwestern	1–⁠6	1–⁠9
Illinois	1–⁠6	1–⁠9
Wisconsin	0–⁠7	0–⁠10

Ordered by conference winning percentage, then conference wins. Division splits and tiebreakers aren’t applied.