1968 All-America college football team
The 1968 All-America college football team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations that chose College Football All-America Teams in 1968.
The NCAA recognizes six selectors as "official" for the 1968 season. They are the American Football Coaches Association, the Associated Press, the Central Press Association, the Football Writers Association of America, the Newspaper Enterprise Association, and the United Press International. Four of the six teams were selected by polling of sports writers and/or broadcasters. The Central Press team was selected with input from the captains of the major college teams. The AFCA team was based on a poll of coaches. Other notable selectors, though not recognized by the NCAA as official, included Football News, a national weekly football publication, Time magazine, The Sporting News, and the Walter Camp Football Foundation.
No single team dominated the All-America selections in 1968 with [1968 1968 Ohio State Buckeyes football team|Ohio State Buckeyes football team|Ohio State] and [1968 1968 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team|Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team|Notre Dame] both having three first-team players.
Offensive selections
Ends
Ted Kwalick, Penn State Jerry Levias, SMU- Ron Sellers, Florida State
- Jim Seymour, Notre Dame
- Steve Zabel, Oklahoma
- Gene Washington, Stanford
- Eddie Hinton, Oklahoma
- Bob Klein, USC
Tackles
George Kunz, Notre Dame Dave Foley, Ohio State- Rufus Mayes, Ohio State
- Ken Carmon, Ohio
- Greg Shelly, Virginia
- Jim Anderson, Missouri
Guards
Charles Rosenfelder, Tennessee Jim Barnes, Arkansas Mike Montler, Colorado- Guy Dennis, Florida
- John Shinners, Xavier
- Joe Armstrong, Nebraska
- Malcolm Snider, Stanford
- Don King, Texas Tech
- Ken Mendenhall, Oklahoma
- Gary Roberts, Purdue
- Alvin Samples, Alabama
- John Miller, Lehigh
- Dave Bradley, Penn State
Centers
John Didion, Oregon State- Carey Metts, North Carolina State
- Jon Kolb, Oklahoma State
- Jerry Murphy, Brown
- Jack Rudnay, Northwestern
Quarterbacks
Terry Hanratty, Notre Dame- Bobby Douglass, Kansas
- Greg Cook, Cincinnati
- Steve Sogge, USC
- Brian Dowling, Yale
Running backs
O. J. Simpson, USC Leroy Keyes, Purdue Chris Gilbert, Texas- Bill Enyart, Oregon State
- Paul Gipson, Houston
- Ron Johnson, Michigan
- Larry Smith, Florida
- Steve Owens, Oklahoma
- Mercury Morris, West Texas State
- Charley Jarvis, Army
- Jim Otis, Ohio State
Defensive selections
Defensive ends
Ted Hendricks, Miami John Zook, Kansas- Bob Stein, Minnesota
- Ron Carpenter, North Carolina State
- Jimmy Gunn, USC
- Mike Ford, Alabama
- Billy Payne, Georgia
- Julian Nunamaker, Tennessee-Martin
Defensive tackles
Bill Stanfill, Georgia Joe Greene, North Texas State- Loyd Wainscott, Texas
- Rolf Krueger, Texas A&M
- David Campbell, Auburn
- Mike Reid, Penn State
- Tom Nelson, Arizona
- Art Thoms, Syracuse
Middle guards
Ed White, California Chuck Kyle, PurdueLinebackers
Dennis Onkotz, Penn State Steve Kiner, Tennessee- Bob Babich, Miami
- Ron Pritchard, Arizona State
- Mike Hall, Alabama
- Ken Johnson, Army
- Mike Widger, Virginia Tech
- Bill Hobbs, Texas A&M
- Chip Healy, Vanderbilt
- Dale McCullers, Florida State
- Jim Sniadecki, Indiana
- Ken Criter, Wisconsin
- Tom Stincic, Michigan
Defensive backs
Roger Wehrli, Missouri Jake Scott, Georgia Al Worley, Washington- Mike Battle, USC
- Al Brenner, Michigan State
- Tony Kyasky, Syracuse
- Jim Marsalis, Tennessee State
- Tommy Maxwell, Texas A&M
- Jim Weatherford, Tennessee
- Ted Provost, Ohio State
- Tom Curtis, Michigan
- Bill Kishman, Colorado State
- Johnny Peacock, Houston
- Jim Livingston, Southern Methodist
- Ed Hayes, Morgan State
- Eugene Epps, Texas-El Paso
Special teams
Kicker
- Ken Vinyard, Texas Tech
- Gerald Warren, North Carolina State
Punter
- Steve O'Neal, Texas A&M
- Bill Bradley, Texas
Key
Bold – Consensus All-American- -1 – First-team selection
- -2 – Second-team selection
- -3 – Third-team selection
Official selectors
- AFCA = American Football Coaches Association
- AP = Associated Press
- CP = Central Press Association
- FWAA = Football Writers Association of America
- NEA = Newspaper Enterprise Association
- UPI = United Press International
Unofficial selectors
- FN = The Football News, consisting of the 33 best college football players as selected by the staff and correspondents of The Football News
- Time = Time magazine
- TSN = The Sporting News
- WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation