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How bad would it suck to play Oregon in a bowl game. I remember soundly defeating Washington, only to lose to them in one of the worst bowl performances in history, and then we had to play them again at the beginning of the next season. Please no Oregon for this year's bowl.

 
I expect this team to take on the bowl opponent they earn and compete hard. Absolutely no talk of being bored by a repeat opponent. Oregon gave the Huskers all they could handle and will do so again if given the opportunity.

 
I guess the Rose bowl would do. I will never forgot how bad the Bridgepoint Education Bowl, also known as the Holiday Bowl. One hundred ninety eight total yards of offense leading to a 19-7 loss to a team we destroyed 56-21 earlier in the year with 533 yards of total offense. We were 9-1 that year, and finish with 3 losses in our last four games. Please do nt let that happen this year.

 
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There were a LOT of factors going into that Washington rematch in 2010 that won't be repeated this year.

First and foremost, we won't be leaving the Big Ten this year, and we won't have a bunch of biased BS calls thrown at us by refs with an agenda. Within about a month of that Holiday Bowl we had the infamous 16-2 penalty game against A&M, smashed Colorado to get to the Big XII Championship, then had a total 2nd half collapse against Oklahoma to deny ourselves the chance to win a conference championship. Again.

Martinez was badly injured and shouldn't have played (but we had nobody else), half our O Line was badly injured and shouldn't have played, if I recall correctly Burkhead and Helu were dinged up as well.

That was Jake Locker's last game at Washington and his team was highly motivated to redeem him and themselves from that pasting a healthy Nebraska had laid on them earlier in the year.

That 2010 Husker team was mentally beat down, being told by a bunker-mentality coach that the world was out to get them, physically broken, and had zero interest in that game.

If we played Oregon in the Rose Bowl later this year, I doubt we'd be in the same place mentally. Oregon very well could win, but that depends on so many health and coaching factors between now and then that it's hard to guess who'll do what.

 
That game was the biggest possible mulligan for the Pelini era. How anyone could ever put any stock into how the game was going to, or did, play out, I just dont understand. Anyone with any pulse of football whatsoever wouldve known that game wasnt gonna go well. I'm shocked we kept it so close.

 
Well let's just hope this isn't what happens. Nobody ever wants to see a same season rematch in a bowl game and especially not Nebraska fans. We don't have the best history in that department and I'm not just talking about that Washington fiasco. Wasn't it about 1978 when we beat Oklahoma regular season and then crapped the bed in a rematch with them? It's too hard in CFB to get motivated to play somebody you've already beat even without all the extra drama surrounding that UDub debacle.

 
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Count 'Bility said:
That game was the biggest possible mulligan for the Pelini era. How anyone could ever put any stock into how the game was going to, or did, play out, I just dont understand. Anyone with any pulse of football whatsoever wouldve known that game wasnt gonna go well. I'm shocked we kept it so close.
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What?

It was a poor showing, for sure, but it's not like external events conspired to prevent the Huskers from having any chance from the moment bowl selection happened.

 
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