Actually, the one point win over Nebraska was in MacKenzie's year, 1966. We won the first four. Then Granville got hurt against ND and we were 5-3 facing the Huskers in Norman and won 10-9. It was the soph year for Hinton and Warmack. Then after upsetting the undefeated Huskers, we lost in Stillwater, a week later.
'65 was the year that got Gomer fired. 3-7. The three wins were against 2-8 Kansas, 0-10 K-State and a 5-4-1 Iowa State team. We got shut out four times and only scored double digits four times. OSU beat us for the first time since 1945 and the first time ever as a conference opponent. That was Ok A&M's "national championship."
'64 was Gomer's first year. Started poorly, 1-3 including a Game2 blowout loss to USC in Norman, 40-14. Then the seventh straight loss in the RRR, including the third in four years by the score of 28-7. Then came the previously mentioned 15-14 loss in Lawrence, when Gayle Sayers scored on the opening kickoff and then KU scored on the final play when their soph quarterback caught a 26-yard td pass, thrown back to him by their running back. They ran a reverse for the two pointer to win it.
OU got it together, and won five of the next six, and tied the other. So 6-3-1 heading to play a newly energized Florida St. passing game headed by qb Steve Tensi and a future Hall of Fame receiver, Fred Biletinikoff. And of course the big Sooner headline, during the time of NFL future draft picks, during the time of the AFL-NFL bidding wars, was four top Sooner players, Jim Grisham, Lance Rentzel, Wes Skidgel and Ralph Neely, getting kicked off the team before the game, because Gomer found out they'd signed pro contracts already. So had Tensi and Biletnikoff, but they faked a post game signing ceremony under the goal posts after the game, after smoking the Sooners 36-19. About the lone Sooner highlight, was when seldom used reserve qb Ron Fletcher hit Ben Hart for a 95-yard TD pass, which is still the school record for the longest pass play in school history by five yards.
But I think most alums and those around the program thought Gomer should have done what FSU did. It's part of why the next season was his last.