And yet many Nebraska fans think he hated us. I never understood it. Nebraska football just got steadily worse under Solich, then Callahan, and Musberger called more losses, which causes fans who are emotionally weak and conflate an announcer having to feign excitement for a winning team he barely thinks about outside of that 3-ish hours as loving that the bad guys beat their precious team. All I can figure.
I was born in 1982 so I caught the tail end of this rivalry's importance in late November. For much of my kid/young adult years Nebraska and Colorado was easily THE game in the Big 8/Big 12....
When the Big 8 became the Big 12 (despite the charter only dating to 1996 and the fact that the Big 12 says they are separate, even though we all know they were at the time for all intents and purposes an enlarged Big 8) it split into divisions and NU-OU was no longer annual. 1998 was the first time since 1926 (when the conference was still called the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association, it split largely along public/private lines in 1928 with all but one public school remaining the MVIAA and what is now Oklahoma State joining with the private schools and former North Central Conference member Creighton to form the modern Missouri Valley Conference) that NU and OU did not play. The possibility remained for the teams to meet in the Big 12 championship game, which they did in 2006 and 2010, both seasons in which they did not meet in the regular season. Nebraska left for the Big Ten in 2011 and Oklahoma will leave for the SEC in 2025. The game was staged as a non-conference contest in 2021 and 2022, and will do so again in 2029 and 2030.
One of my favorite Husker wins. It's been a long time since there's been this kind of jubilation in Memorial Stadium after a Husker win (they tore down the goalposts). Despite those miserable conditions (do they even still play football games in "weather"?), those fans were as happy as N.U. fans have ever been. N.U. offenses (great, good or bad) and fumbles have seen a lot of each other over the years (decades): like two people with nothin' in common who were introduced at a party once, and continue to run into each other over and over again for the rest of their lives 🙂 I once saw the Huskers lose 9 fumbles in a game! And even though N.U. has become a finesse/passing team in the 2000s (esp., the 2020s), they still know how to fumble the football.
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Brent Mussburger was the absolute best. He can make any old lay sound like its the greatest thing that has ever happened. Amazing.
Tits up, huh?
And yet many Nebraska fans think he hated us. I never understood it. Nebraska football just got steadily worse under Solich, then Callahan, and Musberger called more losses, which causes fans who are emotionally weak and conflate an announcer having to feign excitement for a winning team he barely thinks about outside of that 3-ish hours as loving that the bad guys beat their precious team. All I can figure.
I was born in 1982 so I caught the tail end of this rivalry's importance in late November. For much of my kid/young adult years Nebraska and Colorado was easily THE game in the Big 8/Big 12....
Back in the day this big 8 rivalry always had conference championship on the line plus legendary coaches Barry Switzers and Dr Tom Osborne
When the Big 8 became the Big 12 (despite the charter only dating to 1996 and the fact that the Big 12 says they are separate, even though we all know they were at the time for all intents and purposes an enlarged Big 8) it split into divisions and NU-OU was no longer annual.
1998 was the first time since 1926 (when the conference was still called the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association, it split largely along public/private lines in 1928 with all but one public school remaining the MVIAA and what is now Oklahoma State joining with the private schools and former North Central Conference member Creighton to form the modern Missouri Valley Conference) that NU and OU did not play.
The possibility remained for the teams to meet in the Big 12 championship game, which they did in 2006 and 2010, both seasons in which they did not meet in the regular season. Nebraska left for the Big Ten in 2011 and Oklahoma will leave for the SEC in 2025. The game was staged as a non-conference contest in 2021 and 2022, and will do so again in 2029 and 2030.
One of my favorite Husker wins. It's been a long time since there's been this kind of jubilation in Memorial Stadium after a Husker win (they tore down the goalposts).
Despite those miserable conditions (do they even still play football games in "weather"?), those fans were as happy as N.U. fans have ever been.
N.U. offenses (great, good or bad) and fumbles have seen a lot of each other over the years (decades): like two people with nothin' in common who were introduced at a party once, and continue to run into each other over and over again for the rest of their lives 🙂 I once saw the Huskers lose 9 fumbles in a game!
And even though N.U. has become a finesse/passing team in the 2000s (esp., the 2020s), they still know how to fumble the football.
Powerful Online. The end showed the dime D. The beginning of the 4-3. D pressure with DB coverage. We were coming back!
Dick Vermeil is such a pleasure.
Curtis Cotton married my high school crush. Out of my league.😢
😊Good for you Tricia!
OU had both Texas and Nebraska beat in 1991...only to blow it.
God never created two more different men than Barry Switzer and Tom Osborne
Before Tommie Frazier(BTF)
Keith McCant's one of the least talked about - and most underrated - former Husker QBs (like Gdowski, Quinn, Sorley, Berringer)
Someone chart how many times OU fumbled and got it back vs NU over the years. ALOT
Gibbs kicks to start both halves? Not smart. Then punts on 4th 2 from the +42 late. Not a good decision. Wonder why he got fired.?
Catch fumble! Incompetence or straight cheating! 😂
Turf looks awful
It was awful. I remember it. Like playing on concrete.
I bet it tasted terrible too 😞