In their first season under head coach Chuck Mills, the Aggies compiled a 7–2–1 record and outscored their opponents 205 to 143.
[1][2] This was the Aggies' final season at the original Romney Stadium; they moved to a larger venue of the same name in 1968, located several blocks north.
[3][4] Hired in February, Mills was previously the offensive coordinator with the Kansas City Chiefs,[5][6] the champions of the American Football League (AFL).
Tony Knap had resigned in January for an assistant coaching position with the BC Lions in the Canadian Football League (CFL).
[7][8] Fullback MacArthur Lane was the 13th overall selection of the 1968 NFL/AFL draft, taken by the St. Louis Cardinals,[16] and played eleven seasons in the National Football League (NFL).