1) I think that Texas and Nebraska are PROBABLE for the championship...but by no means a lock. Texas has a stronger hold on the South than Nebraska in the North. Mizzou or A&M could easily pose a problem for NU. Plus - and I don't care how many people want to razz me for it....Colorado, if they win only 1 game in a year, they want to beat NU. Huskers will have to be ready to play each and every week. Wake up, we aren't so superior to be guaranteed anything.
2) I don't believe there is one team in the country that is head and shoulders above the rest. It's a good thing. All the changes and work done by the NCAA to the D-1 scholarship and recruiting programs has done what it is supposed to...make an even playing field. This is what we (at least I believe what all true football fans) have wanted. I'd rather see 10-20 teams that could match up well week to week than wait for three or four undefeated teams to prove something at the end of the year. Makes for better season-long football.
3) I'm a Husker alum and fan for life and I live in Iowa. But I don't get the 'hatred' for the Big 10. It's one of if not the top conference in the country top to bottom week to week. Talk about smash-mouth football. Again, wake up. We play Michigan or Ohio State this year...and we'd get waxed. And don't even bring up the Alamo Bowl. That team last year 1- felt slighted and did not want to be there (coaches and players) and 2- had a 50% Mike Hart in the backfield.
I just get so tired of hearing Nebraska fans thinking we are entitled to anything and that we are the ever-lasting, overpowering, eternal ruling beast of college football.
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