Bowfin

You nailed it. Most Wisconsin past times are centered around drinking with something going on in the background, like football, the salmon run on Lake Michigan, a college education, softball, deer hunting, etc. I will tell you that it's a lot better at a football game than a row of drunken guys shoulder to shoulder along a river trying to cast large, sharp hooks with a six ounce weight attached and fighting with the guys in the boats. The Manitowoc hospital used to have a special ER station set up just fro salmon snaggers so they didn't clog up the regular ER room. I could be seeing this through the tunnel vision of only one person's firsthand experience, but that's what I did see it first hand.

My guess is that you are too young to remember Tom Osborne's first ten years against the Sooners of Oklahoma. If it is any consolation, I know how you feel, based on Barry Switzer and Jamelle Holloway.

I don't care what Herbstreit says, pro or con. He is a talking head, not a thinking one. Things "trickle through his head, like water through a sieve"* *shamelessly stolen for Lewis Carroll

So help me out here...are you saying a Bo Pelini win against Ohio State was less of an accomplishment than a Mike Riley loss against Wisconsin? If not, what are you saying? Be careful, you are boxing yourself into a corner.

Tell us all again, which games "don't matter" in conference play? I really could give half a sh!t about Pelini, but it is comments like this that set me off. If we lose to Rutgers or Purdue, they really, REALLY do matter. Does anybody here believe different?...anybody?...

As I said, I don't rate losses and I can't classify as to what is a "quality loss". Same with the first seven wins that the talking heads had denigrated before this game. Every win is a good win.

Can you go back through the records and see who has the biggest comeback win as a Huskers coach? Report back what you find and then square it with what you say.

If a troll defined as someone who does engage in groupthink and group speak, count me in as being one. This thread was preordained by such herd mentality that, if we lost, there would be endless talk about how bad Pelini would have lost, or did lose, or some such drivel. Its a salve that cures a lot of butthurt that came when the 2015 season blew up into so many people's faces, and I guess it's still feels soothing in 2016. Don't want to hear me talk about Pelini, don't bring up Pelini. quit picking at the scab and let it heal so some of you won't need that butthurt salve. My only surprise is that we didn't see the ever popular "He left the cupboard bare!" excuse rear its old, tired head yet.

Don't put this back on me, I didn't mention any scores in comparing losses...that was that other guy saying something about 70-31. I am pretty much binary when it comes to losses. It either is or it isn't one.

So Riley has more "quality losses" than Pelini?

This thread is like listening to the slow pitch softball team that lost 22-21. They had nine errors, three strike outs, four guys fell down running the bases, two guys end up on the same base, but it was the one questionable call at first that they can't get over. That dang ump! No team or coach had a perfect game last night, neither did the refs. That's pretty standard in any form of human endeavor.

Even with the disastrous season last year, Wisconsin's win was more of an "escape" than a convincing win last year. I think Nebraska is a much better team this year, so I don't get how they can be overwhelmingly picked as a favorite. Then again, it is somewhat foolish of me to speculate when in 12 hours we will know. I would have to say that growing up nine miles from the Wisconsin border and spending time in Wisconsin didn't endear me to the "hippie college" in Madison and the binge drinking behaviors that passes for normal in many parts of that state. Once these people found out I was from Nebraska, I was lectured on how we should govern, how we should farm, how we should hunt deer, fish, take care of our county roads...and how to play football. ( I guess they conveniently forget that the guy who taught THEM how to play football as of late came from Nebraska ) So yeah, I would like to see Nebraska 8-0 tomorrow morning a little more than the average fan. End rant.

One could look at a football coaching making $800,000 annually as ridiculous in a lot of different ways. http://deadspin.com/infographic-is-your-states-highest-paid-employee-a-co-489635228

I had an uncle on that 1957 team... ...I think they lost to Hawaii that year. The coach refused to throw a pass for some reason until the game was almost out of reach.

I looked around a little bit, and the lists of "all time wins" are like snowflakes: No two are ever exactly alike. One even had Nebraska already ahead of Texas. That being said, I think Nebraska gains ground on Notre Dame and Texas.