rsemingson said:
Those Franklin kicks were off a tee. Grant Taff was so pissed after the Baylor loss he got the NCAA to change and eliminate the FG tee the following year.
Not sure where you're getting all this. For one, Baylor lost that game 24-0. So he may have been pissed, but it was probably due to his team's play that day. For another, as twk said, the tee wasn't eliminated until 1989.
I believe, but don't have the book to prove it definitively, that Taeff was on the Rules Committee in 1990 (and maybe in 1989) so he MAY have had a hand in the tee getting bounced, but it was a decade and a half after this game.
Taeff didn't have anything to do with the rule change in 1978 that moved the ball to the previous spot (LOS) after a missed field goal rather than the 20, effectively a touchback. Or, if he did, it was networking.
Baylor had a decent kicker that year. 100% extra points and almost 50% FGs. Don't know his range, though. Probably not as good as the big 3 in the SWC (and college football) at the time (Franklin, Little, Erx).
