Fru Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 NU smoked a team with Jamal Lewis, Peerless Price, a slew of other NFL pro bowlers, oh and some guy named Peyton Manning. UM barely squeaked out a controversial win over a team whose best player was Ryan Leaf. How this is even a debate is baffling. 4 2 Quote Link to comment
Crusader Husker Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 I always thought Nebraska would have won by at least 2 touchdowns. Probably 1 late as we wear them down. Quote Link to comment
MyBloodIsRed16 Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 1 hour ago, Fru said: NU smoked a team with Jamal Lewis, Peerless Price, a slew of other NFL pro bowlers, oh and some guy named Peyton Manning. UM barely squeaked out a controversial win over a team whose best player was Ryan Leaf. How this is even a debate is baffling. Well because as Michigan had Heisman winner Charles Woodson who with all his interceptions would have shut us down. Even tho we probably threw the ball about 5 times a game 2 1 Quote Link to comment
Gage County Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 I live 15 minutes from the Big House so I keep this handy when discussing 1997 Offense Defense Total Scoring Rushing Passing Total Scoring Rushing Passing Nebraska 1 1 1 104! 5 12 3 28 Michigan 44 44 28 63 1 1 7 1 Washington State 2 2 48 4 30 59 27 59 Tennessee 4 14 52 6 32 32 8 96 4 1 Quote Link to comment
JJ Husker Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 I don’t care what any meatchicken players or fans say, in 1997 Nebraska would’ve taken them behind the woodshed very similarly to how they did Tennessee. I gambled and paid very close attention to CFB that year and really it wouldn’t have been much of a contest. It would’ve been about 38 to 14. Fact 1 1 Quote Link to comment
nic Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 Conjecture all you want, but you have to play the game. Ask BYU and Wisconsin. Quote Link to comment
MyBloodIsRed16 Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 Michigan if I remember correctly squeaked by in a few games that year. 1 Quote Link to comment
CheeseHusker Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 Everyone uses the Colorado game against us.... if my memory is correct, they scored a junk TD, got an onside kick, and scored another junk TD. It was essentially a nothing game except for a period of maybe 3-4 fluky minutes. Quote Link to comment
dvdcrr Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 I think the Husker D would have absolutely shut down that Michigan O. That in itself is a very bad sign for Michigan. Yes they had a Really good defense but on the balance I think Nebraska wins that And the more times they play, the more often Nebraska wins. Woodson would not have loved that Steady dose of Frost and PIPELINE 2.0 Quote Link to comment
huskerfan333157 Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 I think Nebraska would have won but Nebraska fans ignore these facts: Michigan played the toughest schedule and played 6 top 25 teams. Michigan beat Colorado 30 to 3 that year, we beat them 27 to 24 We all talk about how we played a far superior team in the bowl game (which we did) yet we ignore that we had a common opponent in which Michigan beat them by 4 scores while we only beat them by 1. If a Michigan fan were to bring up these points then what would your rebuttal be besides the one bowl game? Quote Link to comment
dvdcrr Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 21 hours ago, nic said: Conjecture all you want, but you have to play the game. Ask BYU and Wisconsin. I am sorry, but in what universe ever is BYU a guaranteed W for any Big 10 team not named Ohio St? That is a real program and has been since the 1980's. I am betting that BYU over the years has pissed off more Big 10 dads than Toyota. Quote Link to comment
dvdcrr Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 6 minutes ago, huskerfan333157 said: I think Nebraska would have won but Nebraska fans ignore these facts: Michigan played the toughest schedule and played 6 top 25 teams. Michigan beat Colorado 30 to 3 that year, we beat them 27 to 24 We all talk about how we played a far superior team in the bowl game (which we did) yet we ignore that we had a common opponent in which Michigan beat them by 4 scores while we only beat them by 1. If a Michigan fan were to bring up these points then what would your rebuttal be besides the one bowl game? Well that is pretty easy actually. College football is all about emotion. Has been since it started. Colorado/Nebraska dating back to early days was always a highly contested rivalry. And so was Missouri for that matter. A 14-7 NU victory over Colorado or something similar was common. So Colorado surely had less fear of Nebraska, more familiarity, and more motivation. Rivalries count. And we won it. Now what was the Michigan tOSU score that year? How bad would Nebraska have beat them? Quote Link to comment
huskerfan333157 Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 20 minutes ago, dvdcrr said: Well that is pretty easy actually. College football is all about emotion. Has been since it started. Colorado/Nebraska dating back to early days was always a highly contested rivalry. And so was Missouri for that matter. A 14-7 NU victory over Colorado or something similar was common. So Colorado surely had less fear of Nebraska, more familiarity, and more motivation. Rivalries count. And we won it. Now what was the Michigan tOSU score that year? How bad would Nebraska have beat them? Besides the bowl game what do we have over Michigan? They beat more ranked teams, whooped a common opponent, tougher conference, etc. The only thing we bring up is the bowl game. Quote Link to comment
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