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Contributing to Coach Frank Beamer’s rookie-season woes were the struggles of placekicker Chris Kinzer, who led the nation in field goals and earned second-team All-America honors in 1986 as a sophomore. He entered 1987 as a consensus preseason All-American selection, and his success might have gone to his head a little bit. According to backup placekicker Scott Freund, “Chris made the Playboy All-American team, and he carried that issue of Playboy in car and had it with him everywhere he went.”