1968 BYU Cougars football team

1968 BYU Cougars football
1968 BYU Cougars football
Conference	Western Athletic Conference
Record	2–8 (1–5 WAC)
Head coach	Tommy Hudspeth (5th season);
Home stadium	Cougar Stadium
	Seasons ← 1967 1969 →

1968 Western Athletic Conference football standings
v t e	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
Wyoming $	6	–	1	–	0	7	–	3	–	0
Arizona State	5	–	1	–	0	8	–	2	–	0
Arizona	5	–	1	–	0	8	–	3	–	0
UTEP	3	–	3	–	0	4	–	5	–	1
Utah	2	–	3	–	0	3	–	7	–	0
Colorado State *	1	–	4	–	0	2	–	8	–	0
BYU	1	–	5	–	0	2	–	8	–	0
New Mexico	0	–	7	–	0	0	–	10	–	0

$ – Conference champion * Games against Texas Tech and Air Force counted in the conference standings.

The 1968 BYU Cougars football team was an American football team that represented Brigham Young University (BYU) as a member of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) during the 1968 NCAA University Division football season. In their fifth season under head coach Tommy Hudspeth, the Cougars compiled an overall record of 2–8 with a mark of 1–5 against conference opponents, finished seventh in the WAC, and were outscored by a total of 247 to 179.^[1]^[2]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
September 21	at Western Michigan*	Waldo Stadium Kalamazoo, MI	W 17–7
September 28	Iowa State*	Cougar Stadium Provo, UT	L 20–28	23,059
October 12	Wyoming	Cougar Stadium Provo, UT	L 17–20
October 19	at Arizona	Arizona Stadium Tucson, AZ	L 3–19
October 26	UTEP	Cougar Stadium Provo, UT	L 25–31
November 2	at Utah	Ute Stadium Salt Lake City, UT (rivalry)	L 21–30
November 9	Utah State*	Cougar Stadium Provo, UT (rivalry)	L 8–34	20,740
November 16	Arizona State	Sun Devil Stadium Tempe, AZ	L 12–47
November 23	at New Mexico	University Stadium Albuquerque, NM	W 35–6
November 30	at San Jose State*	Spartan Stadium San Jose, CA	L 21–25
*Non-conference game Homecoming

1968 BYU Cougars football team roster

Players

Coaches

Offense

Pos.	#	Name	Class

Defense

Pos.	#	Name	Class
LB	`36`	Steve Densley	Jr
DB	`19`	Chris Farasopoulos	So

Special teams

Pos.	#	Name	Class

^ "1968 BYU Cougars Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved January 3, 2019.
^ "BYU Football 2015 Almanac" (PDF). Brigham Young University. 2015. p. 169. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 3, 2019. Retrieved January 3, 2019.

v t e BYU Cougars football
Venues	LaVell Edwards Stadium (1964–present)
Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Utah: Holy War (Beehive Boot) Utah State (Beehive Boot, The Old Wagon Wheel)
Culture & lore	Cosmo the Cougar "The Cougar Song" BYU Cougar Marching Band Mormons vs. Mullets
People	Head coaches NFL draftees Statistical leaders
Seasons	1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943–1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
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