NU v OU rivalry (anymore?)

[kramer]

Has Callahan and Pederson kill the NU v OU rivalry?

Did the Big 12 Conference?

Did it die when Switzer retired? or T.O.

 

Here's what some OU fans have said:

It was always hard to rub in a victory over Nebraska to their fans. Like I've always said, they will cheer for their team and support their team as loudly and proudly as anyone. I remember though walking out of Owen Field after the 2000 game. There were quite a few Husker fans there. They were nothing but classy and complimentary even though their team had just been dominated. No excuses, no nasty words exchanged. That has been the rule in my life experiences with Husker fans.

 

My memories of the 70's and 80's OU vs. Nebraska rivalry are some of my best moments as a sports fan. The OU-Texas rivalry is more of just a pure dislike both on and off the field for each other. The OU-Nebraska rivalry was hard fought, passionate and for the most part clean. I think Nebraska and Oklahoma share a lot of things in common and there was a mutual respect between the two both in relation to football and life. With Texas it was always as if we were trying to prove we weren't inferior, like showing up the rich kid or something. It's not so much that way anymore in my mind but it used to be. The creation of the Big 12 destroyed the rivalry with Nebraska but it did make the OU-Texas game that much more important. Basically you can say the winner of that game wins the South, it's that simple.

 

I hope that for the good of college football and the Big 12 that Nebraska can come back nationally. Unfortunately I don't see it happening under Schnellahan. I think Turner Gill will return at some point and be their head coach.

 

I just feel that this rivalry has lost lots of the "love". I don't like them any more and hope we kick their tails by 70! I can sense this is the feeling amoungst many Sooners now. Switzer and Osborne are gone and the Sooner fans have gained the Stoops mentality. Kill them at all stakes! There have been some bad incidents and I just don't care about the old love affair.

 

Callahan is the one who doesn't get it about the Oklahoma/Nebraska rivalry and relationship. That's sad.

 

However, Nebraska is still represented by the finest fans in all of college football. For their sakes, I will always support Nebraska and its players. Having experienced the quality of Cornhuskers and Nebraskans in general, I reckon it says something about Sooners in general that so much of the feeling and respect is mutual.

 

In this unfortunate era of trash talking and hatred in sports, I think we'd be pretty stupid, no, really stupid, to throw away the last fine rivalry left.

[rawhide]

Since I grew up in the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's oops havent stopped. No I feel that the OU rivalry ceased to be an annual tradition when the Big 8 was changed to the Big 12. The only way it could have continued is if OU was part of the Big 12 N division. IMO

Now I think there is more rivalry between CU and NU. JMHO

 

 

GBR

 

 

 

[hoyamannn]

Really tough to have a rivalry when they play 2 and are off 2. Rivalries need to be played each year, like Yanks/Sox, Broncos/Raiders, Duke/UNC. Big XII killed the rivalry, but it's always going to be a big game if we're both solid teams.

[Eric the Red]

Nice set up k-man.

 

The rivalrly has gone south. It doesn't have the same feel. I don't think anyone person can be blamed, but a combination of things. This rivalry didn't end in a short period, but it took a long time. First OU slipped, then NU. First Switzer retired then Osborne. Then came the Big 12, then Stoops, then Callahan. Just to much for the rivalry to overcome.

 

It will return if NU can come back. Then all of this will go away.

[hack]

Has Callahan and Pederson kill the NU v OU rivalry?

 

yes... they also caused the tsunami, are responsible for higher gas prices and the fall of modern western civilization.

 

their evil knows no bounds!

[Pedro Guerrero]

The Big 12 killed it by only allowing them to play every couple of years. Maybe they should of scheduled non-coonference games together.

[Eric the Red]

Has Callahan and Pederson kill the NU v OU rivalry?

 

yes... they also caused the tsunami, are responsible for higher gas prices and the fall of modern western civilization.

 

their evil knows no bounds!

Hack, you kill me, you gotta come around more often.

[DaveH]

To me, it hasn't been the same since the formation of the Big 12.

[AR Husker Fan]

As much as playing every year helps, the real draw to a rivalry is two top-level talents squaring off. Even if Oklahoma and Nebraska played every year, it would still not have the feel of the '70s - for a long period, one or the other of the teams has not been "up". Besides, if both were, at the same time, at the levels they were in the '70s, they would meet every year in the Big 12 Championship game. If anything, the rivalry would be more intense each year, with BCS implications.