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Welcome, don't worry about this board, its the best. People sometimes just kid around.
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I put together a website with various stats on college football. Mainly one on National Champions. Have walking pneumonia so hope there aren’t many mistakes
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I'm having a "discussion" with someone on youtube, about the 95 Wazzu game. He says the Huskers struggled to scratch out a victory and played few second team players.
I remember the game and the Cougars did have a great effort. But I am sure NU did play the second team although when WSU scored in the 4th quarter to make it closer Nebraska did put the 1st unit back in. Anyway leading 28-7 in the 4th and winning 35-21 is hardly a struggle.
Anybody have a video to shed some light on this? I live out of state and can't go to library to read game review in newspaper archive.
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99' The Dan Alexander fumble on the goalline then beating Texas 22-6 in the rematch.
I am pretty sure it was Buckhalter, I know huskers.com article says Alexander but this article says Buck
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This is an article written after the Rose Bowl but before NU's Orange Bowl.
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With one more win, Nebraska deserves national title
© 1998 Copyright Nando.net
1998 Scripps Howard
MIAMI (Jan 2, 1998 - 05:12 EST) -- If Nebraska beats Tennessee in the Orange Bowl by the margin the odds makers say it should, then the Cornhuskers should win the national championship. They wont, but they should.
Too many voters are too reluctant to drop a winning team. And that's unfortunate for Nebraska.
In voting unbeaten Michigan over unbeaten Nebraska for the last third of the season, I based that first-place vote, in part, on Michigan's tougher schedule. The bowl games have changed my perspective.
The Big Ten was overrated. That became more evident with every bowl game: Michigan State lost to Washington 51-23. Iowa lost to Arizona State 17-7. Wisconsin lost to Georgia 33-6. Penn State lost to Florida 21-6. Ohio State lost to Florida State 31-14. Purdue, which Michigan didn't play, was the only other Big Ten winner (33-20 over Oklahoma State in the Alamo Bowl).
Michigan's opponents, five Big Ten teams and Notre Dame, went 0-6 in the bowls.
Nebraska's opponents went 2-2 in the bowls. Washington and Kansas State won; Missouri and Texas A&M lost.
Here's what I jotted down on a notepad after Michigan's 21-16 Rose Bowl victory over Washington State: Records: If Nebraska beats UT in the Orange Bowl, it will be 13-0. Michigan is 12-0.
Opponents: If Nebraska beats UT, its opponents record will be 76-74; Michigan's opponents are 74-67.
Dominance: Nebraska outscored its opponents by 30.7 points per game; Michigan outscored its opponents by 17 points per game.
More dominance: Nebraska outscored its opponents with winning records by 23.6. Michigan outscored its opponents with winning records by 10.8 points.
It's too easy to say Michigan was No. 1 and won its game, so it should stay No. 1. That's not the way the system is supposed to work. Our archaic method of choosing a college football champion is based on style points. Nebraska lost style points because it beat Missouri in overtime and beat Colorado by three after leading by 17 late in the game.
However, against good teams, Nebraska, not Michigan, has been more stylish. The Cornhuskers beat 11-1 Kansas State by 30 points. They beat Washington by 13. They beat Texas A&M by 39 points just three weeks ago.
In Thursday's Cotton Bowl, those same Aggies almost upset a UCLA team that had won nine consecutive games. Don't forget that Michigan only beat Notre Dame by seven points, Iowa by four and Wisconsin by 10. Its most-convincing victory was against Penn State, which for much of the year was the most-overrated team in the country.
Michigan deserves tremendous credit for an unbeaten season. But if Nebraska plays well in beating Tennessee, it deserves the national championship.
By JOHN ADAMS, Scripps Howard News Service
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Long time lurker, first time poster..! 45 years old, born and raised in Omaha, Husker fan all my life and happy to be here! GO BIG RED!
Welcome!! This is the best Husker Message Board. Lots of good people.
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Two things have been pointed out
1. Bowden built a nobody into a top program, T.O. inherited one
2. T.O has been gone since 1997, thats ancient to kids today.
One thing I would bring up ( and I voted for Tom ) he was 2-6 vs Bowden. Going from memory 2-2 in regular season and 0-4 in bowls.
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I would love to play Spurrier again. One of my favorite Husker memories was seeing the dumbfounded look on Spurriers face when we whipped them in the Fiesta Bowl.
This might be
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Oops! I forgot I promised this pic, too. And below the inscription, that's the FieldTurf from the North end zone. I've got about 50 pics from my little adventure today. It was a great day for taking pics.
Hey knapplc, Thanks for remembering the photo!! You're worth more $$$$
Here is a link to where I have it online
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So I got asked by a friend today what has Nebraska done in the pros, so of course I talk about Craig, then Winstrom, Shields, Thomas, fryar, Bob brown, and Guy Chamberlain. But it got me thinking, who were the most successful Huskers in the NFL. So my question 4 y'all is who would ur top 5 b and y?
You can use this link to go to Husker homepage and then click on page that lists the players that have made all pro etc.(couldn't get diredt link)
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How did Devaney turn a 3-6-1 team into a 9-2 team?
I've searched the HB, Google, YouTube, College Football Datawarehouse and others, but find no info on how he coached - his quotes, approach, recruiting, scheme...anything.
Nebraska was terrible in 1961 and had only three winning seasons for the past 21 years. In his fourth year, he had NU playing for a national championship.
Any stories & personal accounts or DVDs & books suggestions would all be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
I did find one quote:
"You learned you can come back. Remember that. That is the lesson of life."
Devaney did have some talented players on the team. Bill Jennings (fired after 1961) was able to recruit. He just wasn't as scuccessful as a coach, Devaney was. One thing I read that Devaney did was ask the players what they didn't like from previous years was that the practices were to long. So he said ok and shortened them. Players liked him right away. Jennings was not able to get Gayle Sayers to commit to the Huskers. To bad. Or maybe if he had he would not have been fired??
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Not bad, may want to change one thing though. You stated "NU rarely ran a true triple option."
In fact Nebraska NEVER ran the triple option. In Nebraska's offense the fullback was never a QB option, any time the fullback touched the ball it was a designed play for him to do so. The only time a Nebraska QB had more than the pitch/keep option in the 90's was on an option pass play.
Well, I was going from the link below. Maybe I will change it to "rarely if ever". Many people think (wrongly) that the QB being able to keep the ball, pitch to a trailing back, or dropping back to throw is the triple option.
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Added a new page. You see a lot of fools who think 2001 Miami was better than 1995 Nebraska.
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2001 Miami Hurricane Football Team was the greatest College Football Team Ever assembled. 95 Huskers are 2nd.
2001 Miami couldn't even score an offensive TD vs Bostn College, and only beat VTech 26-24. 1995 NU destroyed evey team, including 4 that finished in the top 10.
1971 NU some people think was the best ever. Beat the #s 2-3-4 teams in the final AP poll.
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I'm not done with this website on college football, but thought I would post a link now. Started out just on past National Champions, but I added other pages
Constructive criticism in appreciated, bitching and nitpicking like an old woman in not.
Keep in mind I am just an old farm boy from Nebraska.
This is a previous effort, on Nebraska football
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Can't imagine this happening. This will be more expensive and much slower than driving your own car, or renting a bus. Amtrak just cannot compete.
When's the last time you checked out traffic on I-80 from Omaha to Lincoln on game days? I doubt seriously that it'll be slower. If anything, it'll take the same time, and most likely it'll be faster, and put most people on the ground about as close to the stadium as they would normally park.
I think it'll fail because of the cost involved, because it's far cheaper to drive your own car than spend $15 or more on a train ticket. Plus your own car gives you flexibility to come and go when you want, so if you want to leave right away you can leave, or if you want to stick around for dinner or to hit O Street after the game you can do that, too. With the train, when it leaves you leave, or else.
Last year, went to the Tech game. It took us barely over an hour to get there from Omaha. I have been to many games, and it's never taken me over 2 hours to get to Lincoln. By the time you drive to the Amtrak terminal in downtown, get on the train, wait for departure, etc., and then you don't know how much rail traffic or railwork is taking place on those routes. All it takes is a broken rail or a derailment and Amtrak may not even get to Lincoln.
While I don't know the price of a ticket on Amtrak, I'd be willing to bet that it would be $50-$60.
Well, It probably wouldn't be Amtrack, some small company. I worked for the railroad for almost 30 years, the track from Linclon to Omaha has maybe dozens of trains a day. That is the problem. Trying to run one passenger train in all that traffic could be a mess.
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Maybe its based on Snyders stellar 5-13 record vs the Huskers
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This isn't about wearing something, but if you ever watched the King of Queens with Kevin James, there were at least 2-3 times when he would walk into a room where his friends were watching tv and he asked if they were watching the Nebraska game. He talked about the Jets and Mets on the show but I don't think I ever heard him mention any other college team. Show was on from 1998 to 2007. James played some small college football as a fullback, maybe he was a fan of how NU played the game back in the day.
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I found this quote on another message board:
"Nebraska played 14 teams this year and 13 of those 14 had their worst production of the year versus NU."
I haven't seen that anywhere else. Anyone know if they are talking points or yards or what?
Either way, if true, it's impressive.
You can use this link and find the team game by game stats.
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I'm taping the replay. I think that just maybe I can fast forward a little bit when I watch it and that extra second will be used up before the end of the game??
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I have a website with photos of the other 3 inscriptions from the towers on the outside of the stadium. The one I don't have is I think on the NW corner - "Courage; Generosity; Fairness; Honor; In these are the
true awards of manly sport." Would appreciate a photo of that if at all possible or if you know a link to a photo of it let me know. I live in Washington State and don't make it back very often, and then usually not to Lincoln.
Link to what I have Website
When will NU overtake Michigan for all-time wins?
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IF my ciphering is correct in the last 47 years (since 1962) NU has gained 57 games on Michigan. To gain another 50 will probably take at least that long. Maybe we can catch Notre Dame in the next 10 years?