This whole thing is awful
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HuskerfaninOkieland
Heisman Trophy Winner
I just hope once the dust settles, Castiglione and Osborne discuss the possibility of renewing this rivalry. In all honesty, I think it would out-do the Mich/tOSU rivalry
junior4949
All-American
IMO, the OU/NU rivalry died when Switzer was forced out at OU after being caught cheating. The rivalry as I remember it was always TO against Switzer. It would have been nice to fire it back up when Bo was hired considering his ties with Stoops. If Stoops doesn't want any part of joining the SEC, I highly doubt he'll want any part of playing us in the nonconference every year either.
HuskerfaninOkieland
Heisman Trophy Winner
As much as I would like to disagree, I unfortunately can't. Stoops seems to be the type of coach who likes to play weaker non-con teams as a warm-up to the conference games. He would absolutely flip out if he had to play us (non-con) just before the Red River Rivalry.
Kevin The Sooner Fan
Walk-on
It won't happen because Stoops and Castiglione only want one "tough" out of conference game per season, and we've got Florida State (2010-11), Notre Dame (12-13), Tennessee(14-15), Ohio State (16-17), and LSU (18-19) already up for the next decade. Plus...if they're not fighting to stay with Nebraska now....
Anyway, I miss the days of playing you all at Thanksgiving for all the marbles. It was a good, friendly rivalry. Too few of those these days.
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I don't know, Perkins has already said they would be hard pressed to play Nebraska or MU if they left. I see no benefit of playing Iowa State. We could offer Texas a neutral site game at Arrowhead possibly
Kevin The Sooner Fan
Walk-on
Heh. Well, those days may be returning to us soon. With everything that has gone on with our basketball program, the NCAA has us under a microscope. In a dark, dark way, I wish that it would happen so Castiglione would be forced out.
The funny thing about Stoops, too, is that he doesn't like to schedule games against friends or family. He's balked at playing Iowa and Arizona. Although, now he's going to have to play Arizona. And, you'll find a pretty sizable contingent of Sooner fans who believe Mike was more of the driver on defense than Bob anyway. I always thought Mike would hold out for a Big Ten job and was really surprised when he took the Arizona job.
I loved Pelini for the season he was at OU because we shut out Texas for the first time since 1972. Vince Young at QB, Roy Williams at WR, Cedric Benson in the backfield...and zero points against Pelini!
NU is moving to a great conference. OU looks like they will have a solid conference too. The change won't be that much for them. The Pac-16 inland division would have just Southwest teams and the divisional play will be largely the same with 5 or 6 teams from the South. Championship games will just involve USC or Oregon some years and Oklahoma is a nice counterpart to Oregon as is Texas to USC and those games should be intense. Just makes it more important for OU to beat TU. We will have to see how our division plays out in The Big Ten but if we beat Mich., Penn St, and Ohio St I bet we see OU in the Rose Bowl before long. There also will still be room to schedule a couple games too so I expect we see that.
Fuzzy
All-Conference
Im actually happy now that Oklahoma and Nebraska are not in the same conference anymore. Now i can root for both teams, instead of just the one. I'll always be a Nebraska fan, Big Red flows in my veins, but I will be an Okie fan as well. You guys stop letting Texas push you around, haha.
At least you will get an opportunity for some payback with Oregon.
I really don't feel like we are losing anything by leaving the Big 12. With all due respect to the other schools in the old Big 8, Oklahoma was our only real rival. And that rivalry basically died with the formation of the Big 12. Iowa instantly becomes a bigger rival than anyone in the Big 12 north. I certainly hope we can rekindle something with Oklahoma after all of this plays out.
muffler dragon
Four-Star Recruit
Forgive my ignorance as I didn't have a vested interest in Nebraska during the days of the Big 8; but which was the bigger rivalry: NU v Oklahoma or Texas v Oklahoma?