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The 1964 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 1964 college football season. The Longhorns finished the season as Orange Bowl champions. In the 1965 Orange Bowl Tommy Nobis made one of the most famous tackles in the game’s history. On fourth-and-inches and clinging to a 21โ17 lead he led his teammates to a game-saving halt of top ranked Alabama’s quarterback Joe Namath.