Guy Chamberlin

Let's not forget that he averaged 4 yards a carry in the Gator Bowl.

None of this happens without Bob Devaney.

And the professional QBs coming out of the Nebraska system would be........? Face it. We would have worshipped Tebow and the system had they been racking up wins for Nebraska. And Tebow washing out as a pro remains a distinct possibility.

Yeah, I can see Nebraska beating a couple of those teams ranked 20 - 25. But wouldn't guarantee they beat Cal or Tulsa either. Not a lot of argument from me on the Top 20. I hate making Texas happy, but there's something right about them being ranked above Oklahoma. Three years ago this same Husker team makes the Top 25 based on legacy. Maybe that was unfair to some teams beneath them. Truth be told..... I'm kinda enjoying the Huskers coming into things as underdogs. Color me happy about this Nebraska football season.

Frost was a tough SOB, surprisingly fast and hell to defend against, but he wasn't a good passer. In fact, he was a bad passer. That "funny" throwing motion was a late release that pointed the ball down instead of up. I can't remember why Joe Theisman would have been doing a Nebraska game, but he pointed this out about Frost using replays. Frost could complete passes to his wide-open receivers, often on simple slants, but they rarely got many Yards After Catch despite being wide open, because Frost often put the ball at their feet and rarely hit them in stride. And those were the completions. I don't recall anyone remembering Scott Frost for his touch or accuracy.

Or to look at it another way: Of course Tebow could run this offense. He would run better than Ganz (but Ganz ain't bad), not pass quite as sharply, but make fewer interceptions. And when we all come back to this post in a few years, it remains entirely possible that Ganz is playing somewhere in the NFL while Tebow is not. That's not a slam on Tebow. It's just a simple fact of Heisman winners.

Imagine Scott Frost being able to pass. And coming to the defense of a woman being attacked.

Or would you bump Nutt to the top spot?

I've stood next to Steve Young. Steve Young is 5' 11".

Does anyone recall the first line of Hunter S. Thompson's suicide note? "Football season is over."

That 12-1, second-ranked 1999 Husker team led the nation in fumbles. I'm guessing that doesn't happen very often. Though I do remember those great Oklahoma teams of the 1970s dropping the pumpkin all over the place.

I went to a meaningless pre-season game (aren't they all) between the San Francisco 49ers and Dallas, when Steve Young was running the team in place of Joe Montana. Young has the Niners down to the Dallas 10 and lines them up wide right, then throws a little flare to the left. Dallas DB reads it all the way, intercepts in stride and takes off with 90 yards of wide open space for the touchdown. Except here comes Steve Young from the far side of the field, finding the angle and sprinting like mad. The crowd goes wild. He's actually catching up to the guy....and dragging him down from behind a good 15 yards from the end zone. I don't even remember if Dallas scored. And like I said, the whole game was meaningless. But it remains one of the most impressive mental and physical displays I've ever seen a quarterback put on. For what it's worth, Ganz is taller than Steve Young.

Yeah, I seem to remember Dan Alexander's Alamo Bowl wiping the floor with Quentin Castille's Gator Bowl. And I only need go back a few weeks to find this very board filled with people convinced Castille shouldn't even be carrying the ball if any other back was healthy.

ESPN always extolled the virtues of Nebraska when we were on top. And just like every college football powerhouse, it becomes a story when the program falters. These guys like college football, it's their job to report it, and Nebraska has been treated with as much respect - if not more - than other college programs. Also, the ESPN staff picked two Nebraska teams ('95 and '71) in their all-time Top Five, merely switching the order and dropping one team a single notch from the viewer rankings. Herbstreit thinking 2001 Miami could have beaten the '71 Huskers is a pretty sane argument from anyone in the other 49 states. Husker fans tend to be pretty savvy football fans, but bleating about East Coast Bias is idiotic. And what's not to like about Tim Tebow? If you like college football, there's no reason not to like this NC matchup. btw....here in California some folks honestly believe USC doesn't get its props from the press.

Why is this team that almost lost to Colorado at home suddenly a juggernaut of hindsight? Because this coach is going to see to it that "almost lost" when having things go wrong even when you are clearly the better team, will be the worst case outcome in that type of game next year. If you are honest, Frank or Callahan never gave you that "feeling" If we're being honest, Frank Solich coached a couple good but not great Husker teams to the verge of National Championships, and Callahan's second team took Colorado behind the woodshed for a beating in Boulder, and followed up by coming from behind and beating a better Michigan team in its bowl game. Perspective, grasshopper.

Why is this team that almost lost to Colorado at home suddenly a juggernaut of hindsight?

If 79 things had gone a little differently, we could have beaten Mizzou.

Suh played it smart. He clearly knew that if he picked the ball up and ran it in, the extra seven points would bump us from #27 to #26 in the Sagarin computer rankings.

I told Larry Jacobson to get the hell off our private property. He's kinda notorious for being a d******d.

That is in no way a "shot" at the season Nebraksa had, unless you consider it cheap for a college football analyst to offer one of MANY observations that teams who won in regular season head-to-head contests (in this case an utter dismantling by Mizzou at home) find themselves in a lesser position at the end of the year. Had the teams been reversed, Stewart Mandel would have made the exact same observation on behalf of Nebraska. Again, nothing makes Husker fans look more cornball than crying media bias.

But yeah....a top-20 match-up would have been better for the program.

I don't know. I already had a chance to see how the Huskers played against ranked opponents on national television and it wasn't pretty. And that last game against a losing team was inches away from being a loss. Oh yeah, one other thing? The teams who go into bowl games all sniffy, like they deserved a better opponent, often get their asses handed to them. Don't think that will be a problem with Pelini. They aren't in a position to take anyone lightly. The Gator Bowl is what it is.

Yep. Wes Walker definitely popped into mind.

My buddy who played for Lincoln East remembers trying to tackle Tom Rathman in the open field on a punt return. It wasn't pretty.

Yeah, I don't see any glaring disrespect to our players here. These are All-Conference awards and you gotta go with the numbers. But the nice thing about hard-working guys like Ganz and Swift is that they may actually benefit by flying under the radar. There are a lot of NFL players who have been built out of small salaries and low expectations and who survive longer than some of the bigger names whose agents and entourages turn them into fragile head-cases before they can grow into their talent. Suh is no longer flying under the radar. He's gonna do just fine. As for Henery: I think he should be pretty happy with his place in history right now.