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I hadn't realized the team had so many names. There are over half a dozen from a quick search online. It would be cool if we had some throwback uni's to reflect on one (thinking the long-lived Bugeaters mainly) but I would guess we'll see those mirror helmets first.

It's not like he has a newborn at home... Oh, wait...

I always think of rotating OL to go along with this tempo (though subbing would obviously not play into that so well during separate possessions). Was Oregon one of the teams that subsituted often during games? I know Oklahoma was one of the rare college football teams that did (does?).

Thanks! Frazier's my #1 and I've told him so in person. I see the link I meant to share didn't take so I guess I need to try and edit RQ.

I was wondering when Gdowski was going to show up ITT. He only started one season and, no matter how great it was, I don't think that gets you into "best ever" company. Van Brownson didn't even get as many starts as Gdowski. Humm threw a lot of picks (equal to the number of touchdowns he threw for basically). I completely agree with you about Lord as a passer, though. Only Crouch (4) and Martinez (9) made the top 10 for rushing yards in a career. Lord (8) is the only QB to make the top 10 for rushing yards in a single season. Martinez (9) is the only QB to make the top 10 for rushing yards in a single game. Crouch (1), Frazier (6), Taylor (7), and Martinez (9) are the only QB's to make the top 10 for rushing touchdowns in a career. Crouch (3, 7, & 8) and Frost (4) are the only QB's to make the top 10 for rushing touchdowns in a single season. Martinez (4) is the only QB to make the top 10 for rushing touchdowns in a single game. Crouch is the only QB to place in the top 10 for total points in a career (3) and total points in a single season (5 & 7). I went to Wiki to get some other rankings for this discussion. I guess that there would be more than ten for some categories, with ties, so I apologize for some false advertising below. Here are the top 10's for passing yards: Career Rank Player Yards Years 1 Tommy Armstrong, Jr. 8,871 2013 2014 2015 2016 2 Taylor Martinez 7,258 2010 2011 2012 2013 3 Zac Taylor 5,850 2005 2006 4 Joe Ganz 5,125 2006 2007 2008 5 David Humm 5,035 1972 1973 1974 6 Jerry Tagge 4,704 1969 1970 1971 7 Eric Crouch 4,481 1998 1999 2000 2001 8 Tommie Frazier 3,521 1992 1993 1994 1995 9 Turner Gill 3,317 1980 1981 1982 1983 10 Vince Ferragamo 3,224 1975 1976 Single season Rank Player Yards Year 1 Joe Ganz 3,568 2008 2 Zac Taylor 3,197 2006 3 Tanner Lee 3,143 2017 4 Tommy Armstrong, Jr. 3,030 2015 5 Taylor Martinez 2,871 2012 6 Tommy Armstrong, Jr. 2,695 2014 7 Zac Taylor 2,653 2005 8 Sam Keller 2,422 2007 9 Tommy Armstrong, Jr. 2,180 2016 10 Zac Lee 2,143 2009 Single game Rank Player Yards Year Opponent 1 Joe Ganz 510 2007 Kansas State 2 Joe Ganz 484 2007 Colorado 3 Sam Keller 438 2007 Ball State 4 Tanner Lee 431 2017 Purdue 4 Zac Taylor 431 2005 Iowa State 6 Ryker Fyfe 407 2015 Purdue 7 Joe Ganz 405 2007 Kansas 8 Tanner Lee 399 2017 Penn St 9 Zac Taylor 395 2006 Kansas 10 Zac Taylor 392 2005 Colorado Here are the top 10's for passing touchdowns: Career Rank Player TDs Years 1 Tommy Armstrong, Jr. 67 2013 2014 2015 2016 2 Taylor Martinez 56 2010 2011 2012 2013 3 Zac Taylor 45 2005 2006 4 Joe Ganz 44 2006 2007 2008 5 Tommie Frazier 43 1992 1993 1994 1995 6 David Humm 41 1972 1973 1974 7 Turner Gill 34 1980 1981 1982 1983 8 Jerry Tagge 32 1969 1970 1971 8 Vince Ferragamo 32 1975 1976 10 Steve Taylor 30 1985 1986 1987 1988 Single season Rank Player TDs Year 1 Zac Taylor 26 2006 2 Joe Ganz 25 2008 3 Taylor Martinez 23 2012 3 Tanner Lee 23 2017 5 Tommy Armstrong, Jr. 22 2015 5 Tommy Armstrong, Jr. 22 2014 5 Vince Ferragamo 22 1976 8 Tanner Lee 21 2017 9 Gerry Gdowski 19 1989 10 David Humm 18 1972 Single game Rank Player TDs Year Opponent 1 Joe Ganz 7 2007 Kansas State 2 Taylor Martinez 5 2010 Oklahoma State 2 Joe Dailey 5 2004 Baylor 2 Eric Crouch 5 2000 Iowa 2 Steve Taylor 5 1987 Oklahoma Here are the top 10's for total offense: Career Rank Player Yards Years 1 Tommy Armstrong, Jr. 10,690 2013 2014 2015 2016 2 Taylor Martinez 10,233 2010 2011 2012 2013 3 Eric Crouch 7,915 1998 1999 2000 2001 4 Zac Taylor 5,777 2005 2006 5 Tommie Frazier 5,476 1992 1993 1994 1995 6 Joe Ganz 5,466 2005 2006 2007 2008 7 Jammal Lord 5,421 2000 2001 2002 2003 8 Jerry Tagge 5,283 1969 1970 1971 9 Dave Humm 5,027 1972 1973 1974 10 Steve Taylor 4,940 1985 1986 1987 1988 Single season Rank Player Yards Year 1 Taylor Martinez 3,890 2012 2 Joe Ganz 3,826 2008 3 Tommy Armstrong, Jr. 3,430 2015 4 Tommy Armstrong, Jr. 3,400 2014 5 Zac Taylor 3,165 2006 6 Tanner Lee 3,046 2017 7 Taylor Martinez 2,963 2011 8 Jammal Lord 2,774 2002 9 Tommy Armstrong, Jr. 2,692 2016 10 Eric Crouch 2,625 2001 Single game Rank Player Yards Year Opponent 1 Joe Ganz 528 2007 Kansas State 2 Joe Ganz 521 2007 Colorado 3 Taylor Martinez 435 2010 Oklahoma State 4 Zac Taylor 433 2005 Iowa State 5 Tommy Armstrong, Jr. 431 2015 Southern Miss 6 Sam Keller 423 2007 Ball State 7 Tommy Armstrong, Jr. 422 2014 USC 8 Joe Ganz 416 2007 Kansas 9 Tanner Lee 413 2017 Purdue 10 Zac Taylor 408 2005 Colorado I see TA up there 13 times. That's tied with Taylor Martinez per my quick finger count. Crouch made the lists 11 times (though I'd give him 12 because he also makes the all-purpose yards list). Frazier made them just 4 times. Stats aren't everything, of course, but they mean something. Here's a fun article I found while looking for a QB ranking list based on winning percentage: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/622010-big-red-reasoning-and-signal-calling-ranking-the-top-20-nebraska-quarterbacks

I'm really confused about this whole S+P' stat. The guy writes that it's a defensive one but then ties it to an offensive scheme? Can anyone explain, please?

Damn it, guys! When are you going to give the right person credit for that OB win in 1995? http://omahamagazine.com/articles/dave-webber/

I'm with Brophog on this one. TO was an innovator. The power running game was certainly always there but we might pick a team apart with our WR's one week and the TE's the next (talking about the dynastic stretch). Part of that obviously had to do with our talent level back then, to be fair. We may have looked more like Wisconsin along the way but, at that point, most football teams did...and we just did it better.

Scout.com ranked Tommy as the fifth-best QB prospect in the nation coming out of HS. I already commented on his peer rating in a response to HH in this thread.

All I was responding to was your assertion that we haven't had a "game changer" at QB in a long time. It would seem that you're admitting TA was one now but you're trying to argue some other points about him. I'm not sure I'm following any of them but it seems like you're saying that: 1) he wasn't an all-time Husker great; and 2) I'd have rather had at least five B1G contemporaries of TA's in place of him at NU. As for the first point, I don't think I have to do much more than point at the career stats to support that he belongs in the conversation. I'd never argue TA was the greatest NU QB of all time but, as I shared in my original response to you, he did a lot relative to his situation. Neither Lord nor Joseph belongs in the list of quarterbacks you shared either. They were option quarterbacks, for one thing, such that "taking them" over the guys who've played more recently wouldn't have worked out too well. Jammal's career high for completions in a game was 12. Mickey's best passing game, per Wiki (because Huskers.com doesn't have a bio page for him), was against Kansas when he completed 7 of 16 for 164 yards and two touchdowns. Jammal only started a couple of seasons. Mickey's injuries meant he didn't complete one. TA started 8 games his (redshirt) freshman year, won in the Big House, and earned the starting role the next three seasons. Your second point is ridiculous (if I'm reading you correctly). Who are all these great quarterbacks in the conference? I would consider J.T. Barrett (or Cardale Jones?) from Ohio State but Connor Cook is the only other name that's even worth bringing up and part of that has to do with his having made it to the NFL. Where are you getting "a handful"? As for the Heisman talk, I don't think it's so far-fetched. What I wrote was this: "I feel like TA could have been a Heisman contender in a better program." Are you trying to argue that TA couldn't have put up big numbers (to put him in the Heisman conversation) at, for example, Ohio State? Do you think only absolute superstars win the Heisman? I think some people don't watch enough other games (aside from Nebraska's) and get a false sense of how many great quarterbacks there are.

FBS has too many teams for us (130 right now) to be dipping down another level, imo, but maybe this is the new status quo? Texas alone has a dozen football programs classified as belonging to the top division: Texas Texas A&M Rice Houston UTEP UTSA Texas State North Texas Baylor TCU Texas Tech SMU Getting back to the matter of the status quo, I did a quick bit of math to determine that there were 98 games played between FBS and FCS teams last (this) season. If no FBS team played more than one FCS team, that would mean 75% of FBS programs played a game against an FCS team. Based on what I'm looking at on cfbstats.com, it would appear that's the case. The following B1G teams didn't play this kind of cupcake in 2017: Illinois Iowa Michigan Michigan State Minnesota Nebraska Northwestern Ohio State Penn State Purdue Wisconsin That's almost 80% of the conference, such that we're bucking the national trend. Here's the SEC list: Florida I suppose that's enough for now...

That's fair, too. I remember the Texas fans calling him Mexi-Jesus for a time. It's tough trying to live up to messianic (sp?) expectations.

Tommie Armstrong The kind of QB you're talking about is rare anywhere. If it was so easy, Alabama would have a stockpile. I mostly wanted to respond because Tommy Armstrong earned more respect than that, though. He did a lot, relative to what he could do with the hand he was dealt at NU, as evidenced by the excerpt below from Huskers.com. I feel like TA could have been a Heisman contender in a better program. As it was, the first two MR seasons could have been a lot worse. I've seen it argued that TA was the wild card that made Riley's offense viable during that stretch (because other coaches had already figured it out). Honors & Awards » Honorable-Mention All-Big Ten (Media, Coaches, 2016) » 2016 Tom Novak Trophy » Team Captain (2015) » Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week (vs. Southern Miss, vs. Michigan State, 2015, at Northwestern, 2016, vs. Minnesota, 2016) » Foster Farms Bowl Offensive MVP (2015 vs. UCLA) » Rose Bowl Big Ten Player of the Week (Fresno State, 2016) » Davey O'Brien Award Watch List (2016) » Maxwell Award Watch List (2015, 2016) » Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award Watch List (2015, 2016) » Honorable-Mention Big Ten All-Freshman Team (BTN, 2013) » Big Ten Freshman of the Week (vs. Michigan, 2013) » Longest Pass in Nebraska History and NCAA Bowl History (99 yards vs. Georgia) » Nebraska Career Record Holder--Passing Yards, Passing Completions, Passing Touchdowns, Total Offense, Total TDs Responsible for, Career Starts by a Quarterback, 250-Yard Passing Games, 300-Yard Passing Games, 300-Yard Total Offense Games » Nebraska Junior Record for Passing Yards in a Season » Nebraska Sophomore Record Holder - Passing Yards, Passing TDs, Total Offense » Nebraska Bowl Game Record Holder - Passing Yards, Passing TDs, Pass Completions, Pass Attempts, Total Offense (2014 Holiday Bowl vs. USC) » Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll (Fall, 2012) » Brook Berringer Citizenship Team (2016) » Tom Osborne Citizenship Team (2016) Armstrong's Nebraska Rankings » Career Passing Yards, 1st (8,871 yards) » Career Pass Completions, 1st (625 completions) » Career Touchdown Passes, 1st (67 touchdowns) » Career Total Offense, 1st (10,690 yards) » Career Total Touchdowns, 1st (91 touchdowns) » Career 250-Yard Passing Games, 1st (14 games) » Career 300-Yard Total Offense Games, 1st (11 games) » Career Starts by a Quarterback, 1st (44 starts) » Season Passing Yards, 3rd/5th (3,030 yards in 2015, 2,695 yards in 2014) » Season Passing Touchdowns, 4th (22 TDs in both 2014 and 2015) » Season Passing Completions, 5th (222 completions, 2015) » Season Total Offense, 3rd/4th (3,430 yards in 2015, 3,400 yards in 2014) » Season 300-Yard Passing Games, 2nd (4, 2015) » Season 250-Yard Passing Games, 1st-tied (8, 2015) » Season 300-Yard Total Offense Games, 1st-tied (6, 2015)

I don't know that I saw Mike Rozier's field reversal near the goal line that saw him score a TD. There's a Mike Rozier tribute video on YouTube that has it.

I heard they were going after size but GOOD LAWD!

I just want the kids to stop beating themselves. If we lose, I want to be able to cheer as the victors go by...because our kids made them earn it. The results will take care of themselves if we can get back to taking care of the little things. NU has generally won with that formula. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

I was going to go with it but I saw someone already shared it. That season was the first I could recall.

I think I saw a wilder play, along these lines, earlier in the video but this was the one I remembered: 2:32 mark of this one (having technical difficulties) Pass while in the grasp

How is it we're still not tired of talking about MR? I figured I was in the majority of folks who just wanted to turn the page since 17-21 (score from when those DeKalb kids visited).

Yeah, the last November game played in Indiana (between the two) was 1959. I guess there was an agreement between the powers that be around that time. I guess I was wrong and the game could technically be played on Halloween, as it's still October then, but the point stands.

What about the "heartland" of the USA? I was surprised to hear Indiana and Ohio weren't part of the Midwest as well.

I get irritated by the way Notre Dame allows U$C to dictate the terms of the schedule in regard to weather. They have to visit before Halloween if the game's in Indiana. I don't think the Irish should let them get away with not being a real football team.

That 2015 Iowa game was a rough one. I thought I bundled up pretty well but my feet were freezing in just a pair of tube socks and sneaks. p.s. - The passing game was overdone that day. There was no call for having TA throw it 45 times.

A guest on the Sharp and Benning show yesterday (or maybe he was subbing for Gary?) mentioned that Nebraska.247sports.com had the goods so I thought I'd be able to find it here. Anyone have the 411? Maybe that's a paid access thing there? I tried looking around on my phone there last night to no avail. p.s. - I'm not so sure there are no stupid questions. At least we're having fun. The only detail I neglected to share was this dude on S&B indicated the information came from a recruit.

In looking at spreads, I think I like Northwestern and Ohio State best. BC is closer on paper to Iowa than 3, I think, and we all know Michigan State can punch above their weight sometimes. I voted 6 above. http://www.sportsline.com/college-football/odds/