1968 Minnesota Vikings season

The 1968 season was the Minnesota Vikings' eighth in the National Football League. Under head coach Bud Grant, the Vikings won the NFL Central division title with an 8–6 record, and qualified for the postseason for the first time in franchise history. This was the first of four consecutive division titles for the Vikings. The Vikings' first trip to the playoffs saw them suffer a 24–14 loss in the Western Conference Championship Game to the eventual NFL champion and Super Bowl runner-up Baltimore Colts at Baltimore's Memorial Stadium. In the Playoff Bowl two weeks later, they again lost to the Dallas Cowboys 17–13.

1968 Draft

 * undefined The New York Giants traded their 1st-round selection (1st overall), 1967 1st-round selection (2nd overall), 1967 2nd-round selection (28th overall), and 1969 2nd-round selection (39th overall) to Minnesota for QB Fran Tarkenton.
 * undefined Minnesota traded their 1st-round selection (7th overall) and their 1969 1st-round selection (17th overall) to New Orleans for QB Gary Cuozzo.
 * undefined Minnesota traded their 3rd-round selection (61st overall) to PIttsburgh for CB Brady Keys.
 * undefined Dallas traded their 3rd-round selection (76th overall) to Minnesota for WR Lance Rentzel.
 * undefined Minnesota traded their 5th-round selection (117th overall) to Washington for OL Bob Breitenstein.
 * undefined Atlanta traded their 7th-round selection (167th overall) to Minnesota for QB Ron Vander Kelen.
 * undefined Detroit traded their 17th-round selection (445th overall) to Minnesota for their 1969 16th-round selection (407th overall).

Week 11: at Baltimore Colts
This would be the last occasion the Colts hosted the Vikings in the regular season until 2000, by when the former team had been relocated to Indianapolis for seventeen seasons. The intervening gap of 31 seasons constitutes the second-longest gap without one team visiting another in NFL history.

Conference Playoff: at Baltimore Colts
Following upon their last regular-season visit to the Colts for 32 years, the Vikings would visit the Colts for the last time in a competition game until 2000 in their first-ever postseason appearance.