- 1968 American Football League season
Infobox AFL
year = 1968
NFLchampion =New York Jets
regular_season =September 6 1968 -December 15 1968
playoffs_start =December 22 1968
sb_name = XL
sb_date =December 29 1968
sb_site =Shea Stadium ,Flushing, New York
pb_date = The 1968American Football League season was the ninthregular season of the American Football League, and it's penultimate season prior to theAFL-NFL Merger .The season ended when the
New York Jets defeated theOakland Raiders in the AFL Championship Game, and the Jets then defeated theNational Football League 's Baltimore Colts inSuper Bowl III in one of the biggest sports upsets in history.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 agains 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 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.
Playoffs
*Western Division playoff
**Oakland Raiders 41, Kansas City Chiefs 6,
*AFL Championship Game
**New York Jets 27, Oakland Raiders 23,
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**N.Y. Jets (AFL) 16, Baltimore (NFL) 7, at Orange Bowl,
External links
* [http://www.databasefootball.com/boxscores/scheduleyear.htm?yr=1968&lg=afl Football Database]
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