{"id":137695,"date":"2025-08-11T19:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T19:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/137695\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T19:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T19:19:10","slug":"cam-littles-70-yard-field-goal-tops-ncaa-69-yarder-as-the-longest-at-any-level-of-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/137695\/","title":{"rendered":"Cam Little&#8217;s 70-yard field goal tops NCAA 69-yarder as the longest at any level of football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Jaguars kicker <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/cam-little-kicks-70-yard-field-goal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Cam Little booted a 70-yard field goal<\/a> on Saturday, it did not break the official NFL record, because preseason stats don\u2019t count. But it did break the unofficial record for the longest field goal ever kicked in any football game at any level.<\/p>\n<p>Little\u2019s 70-yard field goal was one yard longer than <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/news\/football\/article\/2024-08-31\/longest-college-football-field-goal-what-we-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the NCAA record of 69 yards<\/a>, set by Abilene Christian\u2019s Ove Johansson in 1976.<\/p>\n<p>Johansson was aided by a strong wind at his back. In fact, it was such a windy day across Texas that on that same day in 1976, Texas A&amp;M\u2019s Tony Franklin hit both a 65-yard field goal and a 64-yard field goal. Johansson also had the benefit that in those days, college football holders could place the ball on a tee for field goals, which elevated the ball and promoted longer kicks.<\/p>\n<p>Little had neither of those advantages. He just had his strong leg, and he now has the distinction of kicking the longest field goal in any football game, even if it won\u2019t appear in the NFL record book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Jaguars kicker Cam Little booted a 70-yard field goal on Saturday, it did not break the official&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":137696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-137695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115011752192556646","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}