sCrUmptious!

What exactly are you basing this information on, "The cupboard is bare"?! It's apparent that you didn't watch any of the games last year. If you did, you would notice that this team quit on the coaches as well as the coaches (Cosgrove) quitting on the team! I don't care if you have 11 all american blue chippers on the team, if they quit, they won't do squat! From the looks of your comment, we shouldn't even field a team because according to you, we don't have any players that amount to squat! (which I find to be a complete mountain of BS by the way!) Agreed. The "cupboard is bare" argument in the case of the current Huskers team is absolutely absurd. According to Rivals, Nebraska had the #5 ranked recruiting class in 2005, the #20 class in 2006, and the #13 class in 2007. Cupboard is bare my ass, the cupboard is stocked more full than it is at 98% of the other D-1 programs in the country. By comparison, when Hawkins took over in Boulder the Buffs had brought in the 19th, 49th and 43rd ranked classes in the country over Barnett's last 3 years. Now that, my friend, qualifies as a bare cupboard.

There's another side to that coin, negative momentum can also absolutely kill you. Look at what happened to you guys last year... you nab a couple of easy W's, come into the USC game feeling confident, get absolutely destroyed, and the wheels just completely fall off the whole of your program (coaches, fans, and players alike). Make no mistake, this is a critical season for you guys. The relatively long term future of the team is at stake during those big name games... if you can come out and win or at least keep the scores close, then the players will feel like Bo has brought the tradition of winning back to NU, but if you get stomped again, it's not going to take much to get those players thinking "aww crap... here we go again"

So because of the 5th down incident Colorado fans are no longer allowed to ever call out officials when they royally and blatantly screw the pooch? Is that honestly what you're saying here? It's been 18 years man, get over it already! And aside from that, if you really want to have this debate, let's talk about Missouri's Omniturf field, a field that turned into an icerink if players weren't wearing a specific cleat designed to get traction on this Omniturf stuff, though Mizzou never informed CU of this extremely necessary equipment. Check out all of the slips CU has on the final drive of this game alone: 1. At the 0:15 mark Mike Prichard slips when he was wide open for an incoming pass. 2. At 1:10 Eric Bienemy slips and falls over unprovoked in the middle of open field while running the ball. 3. At 2:15 Eric Bienemy slips and falls AGAIN, though at least this time there were some players within 5 yards of him. 4. Probably the most egregious when considered in the context of the game, CU tight end John Bowman slips and falls at the 2:45 mark when the end zone was WIDE OPEN in front of him (better view at the 3:30 mark). Without that crap field, this play would have ensured that CU wouldn't have even needed 1st down (let alone 5th) to get into the end zone. Mind you, that's 4 blooper worthy, absolutely unbelievable slips that CU players had on one drive. One drive! 4 plays out of 12 (not counting the two spikes) that ended not with a tackle or an incompletion, but with a player slipping on the field. That's 33% of the plays - imagine how many yards and opportunities CU lost on account of that horrible synthetic fiber... if CU had been wearing the same cleats Mizzou was sporting that day, the Buffs would have won by 40. Oh, and by the way, Missouri's already had their revenge for the 5th down. In the 1997 game CU had a touchdown called back for having 12 players on the field when in fact they only had 11. CU ended up losing that game 41-31. Yeah, Mizzou didn't get an MNC out of their good fortune, but we're talking about Missouri here... I mean, what do you expect?

God bless George Hypolite, I love that guy!

I'm not sure what his specific credentials are, but the man knows college football like the back of his hand and is far and away the best of the preseason prognosticators (though the competition isn't too fierce, as it's pretty obvious that the writers at Athlon and Lindy's spend about 8 minutes researching each team before making their predictions). I remember back in 2001, when CU was coming off a 3-8 season, almost every publication out there predicted that the Buffs would win somewhere between 4 and 6 games and be lucky to make a bowl game. Phil Steele on the other hand came completely out of left field and predicted that CU would not only contend for the North, but the Big XII as a whole. I'm sure he got a lot of flack for that at the time, but he looked mighty sage-like when Colorado hoisted the Big XII Championship trophy that November. If I remember correctly, he also predicted Kansas to have a very big year last year (though probably not as big as they ended up having). Of course, he's not always right, but he's always willing to make bold predictions if he feels that the statistics dictate that those predictions will come to pass. That's the other nice thing about Steele's mag: All of his predictions are based almost exclusively on in-depth statistical analysis, as opposed to the gut-feeling-based "well, we kinda feel like this is gonna happen for no explicitly stated reason" arguments that the other mags provide. Seriously, even if you feel spurned because he didn't give your 3-9 team enough love, you should check out his mag just to see what it's like. The layout is ugly as hell, but I'm sure you'll be impressed by the sheer volume of information that's in there... it's like a 6 dollar college football almanac.

Not in the slightest, his preseason mag is far and away the best available on the market. Honestly, you're trying to discount him on the basis that he's not hyping your recently 3-9 football team? That's a laugh. DON'T get me started on who one of those victories was over..... Ah yes, that mythical afternoon when your Cyclones defeated the Colorado Buffaloes and the myth of competent officiating in the Big XII at the exact same time. Truly, that was a day to remember. I can tell you for certain that my Buffs remember it well, but we'll get to that in November.

Not in the slightest, his preseason mag is far and away the best available on the market. Honestly, you're trying to discount him on the basis that he's not hyping your recently 3-9 football team? That's a laugh.

Wow, that was an objective report... come on Trev, bring a few of your biases into your reporting, you're being WAY too even handed!

I will be absolutely astonished if Kansas wins more than 6 games next year, their schedule is absolutely murderous after their typically laughable ooc games (though they do have to play at South Florida, a game that was undoubtedly intended to be another cupcake when they scheduled it... oops). After having faced USF, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas Tech, and their rivalry game with KState, I'd imagine they should be dinged up and tired enough for the Huskers to cover the line at the very least, and probably win the game outright.

It'd be a little tough to put the 2001 Huskers on there without putting the 2001 Buffs ahead of them, considering what happened that year and all. Out all of the games Colorado has played against Nebraska.................you guys always bring up this ONE game........come on.........move alone. Buffaloes are pack animals, we never move alone. Honestly, I don't know why you'd even suggest such a thing. Regardless, I no longer go out of my way to bring that game up (though admittedly I did for about 5 years ), I was just bringing it up to provide a counterpoint. Simply by merit of what happened on the field between the two teams, you really can't list the 2001 Huskers as a better team than the 2001 Buffs. Just like the 05 game, 2001 wasn't a hard fought 1 or 2 point win, it was an out and out bloodbath.

It'd be a little tough to put the 2001 Huskers on there without putting the 2001 Buffs ahead of them, considering what happened that year and all.

You need something that incorporates your shiny new coach and your school's preoccupation with the color red. "BORED" It's perfect.

CALLA-HAN, CALLA-HAN, CALLA-HAN!!!

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As an aside, I'm still waiting for the day when live mascots are included in NCAA video games. The most beloved mascots in the country aren't the ones played by guys in dopey suits. Uga, Revellie, Bevo, Ralphie, those are the mascots they need to feature in these games. I honestly can't imagine why they haven't done that already...

You mean this guy? Yeah, he only looks like he's passing a kidney stone. That's WAY better than those other mascots.

Wow, you must be WILDLY popular on campus... Just for the record, I had a buddy when I was at CU who was from Lincoln and unabashedly flaunted his unnatural love for the Huskers whenever he got the chance. We'd bust his chops a lot, just as he'd bust ours, but I never saw anybody get in an honest to goodness argument with the guy about it. That said, it was understood from both he and the rest of us that we'd keep a healthy distance from each other the morning of the game. Once the game was over we were right back to being all chummy and what not (2001 was particularly fun ), but we just both knew to keep our distance before kickoff.

This is the worst fart joke I've ever heard. I can't even figure out the punchline.

Where the hell is Rae Carruth on this list??? I demand an explanation!!!

It's digress, you yutz. Yeesh, you must be suffering the ravages of oldtimers disease.

Bobby Pesavento was a ludicrously slow runner, so the option was completely out of the question until 2002, when we had Robert Hodge at QB (who was fairly fast, but was quite possibly the least adept passer to start at quarterback for a D1 school in the past 20 years). I wouldn't say that the Buffs "always" lost out to the more talented team while Watson was here, but they usually did. Barnett and Watson had a knack for putting a consummately sub par product on the field for 8 straight weeks, then suddenly rolling Buster Douglas out of the tunnel for a game that we had no business competing in. The '99 and '00 Nebraska games come to mind, '01 Texas and Kansas State would apply here (though that team was actually good), as would '02 KState and '03 Oklahoma (a game which we lost, but had every opportunity to win against an OU team that had been beating all of their opponents by 30+ before that game).

You two face! Allbuffs.com, as your friend blackshirts can attest, is a pretty friendly place... just keep an eye out for ladyblaise while you're there, she can be a bit... uh, "feisty" at times. You could also check out netbuffs.com, but the format is horrific and the people are generally a lot less friendly.

How about "I apologize in advance if this offends everyone"?

They probably cost about $60 when they first came out, I bet you can get one now for three buttons and an Arby's coupon.

I got one of these (no seriously, I really did get one of these): Did anybody else on here get one????