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COLORADANS 4 NEBRASKA is in the house

Sounds like Gabbert is gonna do some recruiting of his own! In one of the rivals articles he said the first thing hes gonna do is call Keeston Terry, to help with a tag team effort to pull in some more talent (hopefully Marcus Lucas). Now Im assuming his main focus will be out of Mizzouri, but who knows maybe he influence some other guys' decisions. Whatever the case it looks like Nebraska is up for a pretty good class, unless some Decommiting Masacre happens.

OKLAHOMA!!!!!!! As unrealistic as it seems, it still is the victory I crave the most. Ever since Crouch left we have been repeatedly beaten by these guys (usually by an overwelming amount) and I am just sick of it!

Lets Restore Justice to the meaning of Nebraska vs. Oklahoma

Wow not one person showing some love to Blake Lawrence! My first pick would have been "The Prince of the Backfield", credit me for this nickname and by all means start spreading it, but since noone has picked Blake Im gonna go with him. The kid showed a lot of promise at the end of last season, especially at the Gator Bowl with 4 tackles and that very helpfull INT, and since the losses of Glenn and Wortman he will see great time probably at the Sam spot.

On O, despite the DUI fiasco, Im going with Niles Paul to be our break out player considering he had a great summer (until the DUI) and definitely has the talent level. In fact we may be able to credit some of Tyler Gabberts intrest in UNL from his great performance in the summer, as Gabbert described him as "amazing" and claimed "he can catch anything". I didn't choose helu because he's already starting to get national attention and his "breakout" is already expected.

Last I heard Bell is not coming for the Spring game.

Nope he's now committed to OU, hes cancelled all his visits

I think Keeston Terry, also big time WR from Missouri, is comming

this is y (sorry if this seems its a bit on the attack but I was writing to CU fans and just pasted everything on this board, I only changed a tad of the wording)

CU vs. Nebraska is a rivalry (just not a very significent one, at least to us), just like Oklahoma vs OSU is a rivalry, or Michigan vs MSU, or Georgia vs GT, or CU vs CSU, or Teas vs TAMU, or KSU vs Nebraska, or KSU vs Kansas, or Florida vs FSU, and many more. The fact of matter is that these games all are rivalry games, just not major ones. This is because one sides sees this game as the top of their list every year and the other does not, it still is a big game, just not supernatural in the college football world. CU pretty much founded their program with object of defeating the unwaiving powerhouse of Nebraska, so the game has gigantic meaning to the CU side of the deal, but to our side it was just another team in the Big 8 then 12 who wanted to put themselves on the map. Our big game has been and still is Oklahoma, unfortunately the Big 12 arranged it so that we could not play every year and Texas began to take over as Oklahoma's markee game. In truth our fan base is more excited about the Missouri game than CU, just as Notre Dame sees Michigan as a bigger game than Purdue. It's nothing personal to CU, just that there is just a big split in tradition between the two teams when it comes to the way we view the game and in truth the series hasn't ever really been balanced until we had our worst patch of years in our history(47 to 19 and 3 ties in history, 14 to 6 and 1 tie in the last 20 years from 2007 and back). No disrespect to CU's program (a true talent of the 90's), but in truth it wasn't a major game for us until their uprising in the late 80's/early 90's and Oklahoma's fall in the 90's (but still OU was our most important game of the season).

since 1936 (modern era to NCAA standards) the series is at 37-44-3 with Oklahoma in the lead (a much more narrow of a gap the NU vs CU, 47-19-3 NU in the lead) since than Nebraska has won 5 national titles,3 Heismans, 43 confrence championships, 816 wins (4th in NCAA, winning 69% of their games) and 92 all-americans. Oklahoma has won 7 NCs, 4 Heismans, 41 confrence championships, 757 wins (winning 69% of their games), and have had144 all-americans. Since 1970 Nu=5 NCs, 3 Heismans OU=4 NCs, 2 Heismans. From 1950 the NU-OU game was the final game of the season (with a few minor excuses usually set by the two teams not being able to come to agreement). From this time the battle grew into a rivalry because of the fact that the two were always in contention for the big 8 title and then National Title, and such games as the "The Game of the Century" and "The Game of the New Century" were played.

The NU v OU rivalry isn't a battle for the Championship for the National Title now, well at least for us, but neither were the 90's (for OU). Now I do recoginize that Texas has now taken our place as OU's #1, but I don't believe we should settle for our major rivalry to be with a team who has mediocre prestige. Now granted we are not our Power House stage currently, but with our fanbase, history, athletic facilities, and of course Tom Osborne we just don't see that we will be down forever, just as USC came back or Oklahoma.

Heres the stats in the mediocre rivalry

CU needs to win a few more championships and about 20 straight games and they will be a little closer to our #1 game! Sure it's a rivalry, but like I said before, through out the years how much of a rivalry has it been (lets say in comparison Ohio State to Illinois)?

Answer: 5 champions (all undeafeted, but 1970 had a tie) to 1(with a 9-1-1 record, given with 5 downs to get in the NC and a clipping call to get out of the NC with a W), favoring NU

3 Heismans (almost 4) compared to 1, favoring NU

43 confrence championships to 26 (only six from Big 8 to Big 12), favoring NU

92 unanimous all-americans to 55, favoring NU

35 (44 overall) straight bowl appearances to just 27 overall, favoring NU

23 (major) individual awards to 10, favoring NU

817 program wins to 658, favoring NU

Tom Osborne 3 NCs (one of the highest winning % in college football, more the Bear Bryant, JoePa, and Bowden, and the once most winningest coach in college football) and Bob Devaney 2 NCs ( only a few percentage points below Osborne's career and our founder) compared to Bill McCartney (only noteworthy coach of CU) 1 NC ( a coach not even with a 100 wins, and a winning percentage about 20% less than Osborne's), favoring NU

297 consecutive sellouts at a stadium that holds over 80,000 compared to Fulsom [Prison] that sometimes can't even fill its near 50,000 seats, favoring NU

The series is 48-19-3, favoring NU

Heres a link to a cool rundown of another fans reasoning

The Definitive Work on Nebraska's Rival