Football's Week

The citizens of Memphis had some signs of their own. GO TO HELL LIBERTY BOWL banners were displayed all over Memphis Memorial Stadium. Memphis State had expected that the victory over Florida Stale would produce a Liberty Bowl invitation, but the hometown selection committee passed over the Missouri Valley champions in favor of Alabama. Practices were lethargic until a squad meeting on Thursday when, according to Coach Billy (Spook) Murphy, "We got everything together." The Tigers put on their greatest offensive show in 20 years, beating Louisville 69-19. Although Murphy denied running up the score on the Cardinals for the benefit of the bowl committee, he couldn't resist saying, "We got after 'em pretty good."

Frank Howard's 1967 Clemson team wore orange shoes when it defeated North Carolina State for the Atlantic Coast Conference title. This year's team hoped a change of color might cause an upset of South Carolina, the ACC champions. "That's why we wore white today," Coach Howard said after the Tigers' 27-13 defeat. "But white shoes don't do it. They never have and they never will. Those orange shoes didn't win the game two years ago. What was in them won that game." South Carolina became only the sixth team to survive the conference race without a loss, and the Gamecocks will oppose West Virginia in the Peach Bowl. North Carolina's four-game winning streak, longest in years, came to a halt when Duke upset the Tarheels 17-13.