Lol. Well, look at all the butthurt and vitriol it generated. I think he got what he was after.
Write something stupid then sit back and watch the show and giggle.
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Lol. Well, look at all the butthurt and vitriol it generated. I think he got what he was after.
Write something stupid then sit back and watch the show and giggle.
Frost was just on the Jim Rome show, good interview. It's the Husker fans calling the show now that is hilarious. All the talk online here about how they just want to be respectable, B.S., every one of these callers are talking about National Titles within a couple years and a return to glory. Frost sounds like a good guy but there are some unrealistic expectations going on in Lincoln.
FWIW - The Legendary Tom Osborne had a losing bowl record. if memory serves me right there was a strech where 7 or 8 in a row were lost, some in blood letting fashion
That's pretty crazy. Never looked at that before. I know he was pretty harshly criticized for performance in bowl games. Turns out he lost 7 bowl games in a row from 1987 to 1993. That's a LONG losing drought. What's even crazier is that his combined record for that same time span was 69-15,
I'm not here living in the past or anything of the like that some here like to accuse Nebraska fans of. The post just made me curious to go back and look at TO's bowl record, and I noticed some interesting factoids. I would find it just as interesting if it were something I noticed about Iowa's history:
1) Nebraska finished #3 or #2 four times. Two of those finishes were when his team was ranked #1 going into the bowl. He lost to Miami 31-30 in the infamous 1984 game and to FSU 18-16 on a missed 45-yd FG in 1994. Crazy to think how close he was to having two more national titles.
Also sort of crazy the way they had bowls set up back then:
2) Nebraska played in the Orange Bowl four years in a row from 1991-92 to1994-95, losing all but the last one.
3) From 1987-88 to 1994-95, Nebraska played in 8 bowl games. They only played in one game that was not against either FSU or Miami. How monotonous would that get? Especially when you lose every single time you played except once (1994-95)
Didn't Pelini win 3 out of 4 against Iowa?? Yea, you guys aren't worried about Frost...lulz
That talentless jackass still has a radio show?
What is too bad for Nebby is the fact that they accepted the Bowl game. I am no fan of Notre Dame; however, they know when to accept and when to decline a bowl invitation. The once proud and glorious Nebraska tradition has been supplanted by an "accept a bowl at all cost for revenue mentality." SAD, SAD, SAD!!!
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I don't think many are butthurt about anything some braska troll has to say. Just happy to show them how mediocre they are.
Giggle about all the post showing how mediocre their team is these days? I wouldn't find that funny if I was a braska fan
lulz?
didn't know we had any 11 year old girls on here.....
Interesting for sure. Without looking at Nebraska’s OOC during the years Nebraska lost a bunch of bowl games in a row, would it be safe to say they hardly played anyone? Meaning the Big 12 is what we have always said and was extremely weak? That’s not a flame attempt, just something I noticed.
I can’t wait for the season either. Of course this offseason was a lot more intruiging and took way longer than usual, but I just want to see what we look like on both sides of the ball, even if we experience a lot of growing pains
Sigh. I wish Iowa could’ve played in the Big8 during that era. Who knows how many Nat Titles we could’ve had.
Probably none. But one can dream though.
Since you asked OOC teams 87-93.
UCLA 3 times
Utah St 3 times
Utah 2 times
Arizona State 4 times
Washington 2 times ( they were National champs with Miami in 91 which were the only 2 losses-that year)
South Carolina
Texas A&M (SW) not in Big 12
Texas Tech(SW)ditto
Baylor ( SW)ditto
In that bowl losing streak Nebraska played either Miami Fl or Florida St the exception was Georgia Tech who shared the National title with Colorado.
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I thought Nebby fans were saying they would lock up the B1G and win the conference every other year? Still waiting?
I'm sure the argument could be made. Let me know what you think. I love looking at stuff like this regardless of team, but if its too much because of the sensitivities here, let me know.
Here is an interesting chart regarding historical conference strength. Interesting that the strength of the Big 8 hit its low point in 1994, the year Nebraska won the national title over Miami. Couple of points regarding the Big 8 dip during that time:
- Oklahoma declined during the middle of that 7-year period, was sanctioned and ineligible for bowls in 1989 and 1990.
- Colorado had a strong 3 year run from 1989-1991, winning the conference outright twice and sharing it once and finishing #4, #1/2, and #20 nationally.
- I think the Big 8 had a dip in competitiveness, at least from it's top teams, during those years, and I think Nebraska's final rankings reflect that too. I just find it really interesting that regardless of their finish, teams they played in that 7-year stretch either finished #1 or 2 in at least one poll every year, so even when Nebraska wasn't one of the top 10 teams in the country, they were playing teams vying for national titles.
Here are the data (year, result, Nebraska finish AP/Coaches, team, team finish AP/Coaches):
1987 - 28-31 - #06/06 - FSU - #2/2
1988 - 03-23 - #10/10 - Miami - #2/2
1989 - 17-41 - #11/12 - FSU - #3/2
1990 - 21-45 - #24/17 - GT - #2/1
1991 - 00-22 - #15/16 - Miami - #2/1
1992 - 14-27 - #14/14 - FSU - #2/2
1993 - 16-18 - #03/03 - FSU - #1/1
- If you want to see something truly impressive, look at FSU's finishes from 1987 to 2000 (14 seasons). They never finished outside of the top 5 in either the coaches or AP poll a single time in that span, yet they only won the national championship twice.
I don't think many are butthurt about anything some braska troll has to say. Just happy to show them how mediocre they are.
Giggle about all the post showing how mediocre their team is these days? I wouldn't find that funny if I was a braska fan
lulz?
didn't know we had any 11 year old girls on here.....
You're giving many Nebraska fans too much credit for being grounded in reality.
Cool- Nebby is 2-4 (No major bowl or even close)
Outscored (not doing math I have a life)
One of those bowl games won was 5-7 team that didn't even finish .500.
How can you go onto a board in which your favorite team has gotten destroyed several years in a row and talk smack? Seriously you are pathetic
Big gap? No there isn't. You'll come back to reality this year. You aren't winning anything with Alex Hornibrook.
Yes their fan base is the only fan base in college football with that problem.
Sure, but in terms of the extent and level of delusion, no fan base in America surpasses the Husker faithful. None.
Wisconsin beat Iowa by 8 points in 2016, fyi.
Regardless, your logic is circular reasoning. Iowa beat Ohio State by 30 points last year; that hardly means Iowa is 30 points better than Ohio State in terms of the entire body of work for a season.
Wisconsin is without question the best team in the West right now. They are better than Iowa because they don't lose to inferior teams and don't have an anemic offense. To their credit, the defense was outstanding last year, too, which was their obvious strength. But the gap between them in Iowa isn't as pronounced as you would like to believe. Wisconsin is better because they are more consistent than Iowa. I will give Wisconsin all the credit in the world for being a legit elite team last year, but their schedule was also pretty weak. This year should be interesting.
Wow you REALLY don’t know anything about football. I can’t teach you everything about everything in college football. Don’t have the time.
It was monotonous. I was ribbed unrelentingly from friends during many of these yeas as they also almost always included a loss against OU, and victories against nobody(Big 8) that was perceived to have a pulse. Saw two of the Miami beat downs in person, but also treated to the thrashing of Florida.
Arrived in iowa city for college in 82 and they squeezed in to my fandom. Two great programs to grow up on, and enjoy. For all the bickering, there has been tremendous ball played at both programs...both worthy of respect for long-term consistency and fun .
I think we all know our place and are not stupid enough to troll a team that has been the best team in the west.....unfortunately some Nebby fans are not so bright and make the rest look bad. The wisconsin game has been a damn good rivalry since BA took over coaching duties with most games being very close with the occasional blowout from both sides in the last 20 years. Recently Wisconsin has been top dog and obviously we are working at changing that- until then.......I have nothing else to say
While Iowa is 4-3 against Nebraska, it is the 1-3 vs. Wisconsin that matters most. Iowa and Nebraska are both 1 out of 7 in division races. Iowa lost a hard, close game 16-13 game basically on final series against MSU, in 2015. In 2012, Nebraska lost 70-31 to Wisconsin.
The team to beat is clearly Wisconsin in 2018, unless the Black Friday game has a role in the Division race for the first time ever!
The team to beat is clearly Wisconsin in 2018, unless the Black Friday game has a role in the Division race for the first time ever!
Black shirts.... more like black skirts. UNL hasn’t been relevant in over 20 years.
Wisconsin is the team Iowa and Nebraska need to catch. Black Friday relevant?
When does Black Friday become the game that decides the West division winner?
When does Black Friday become the game that decides the West division winner?
Michigan became relevant for a while in 2015. Then, MSU took the punter's fumble back for a touchdown and more of the same was repeated, 0-6 vs. MSU and OSU.
Scott Frost has Nebraska back in the news.
How will the offense be in 2018 under the direction of the young freshman QB?
Unranked, like Michigan. Some suggest the game with Michigan to kickoff the 2018 B1G season is biggest Week 4 game in the Big Ten.
We shall see in September.
Scott Frost has Nebraska back in the news.
How will the offense be in 2018 under the direction of the young freshman QB?
Unranked, like Michigan. Some suggest the game with Michigan to kickoff the 2018 B1G season is biggest Week 4 game in the Big Ten.
We shall see in September.
How are the Black Skirts looking this year? Still lifting ‘em for any team that sets a date with them?
I can't seem to find those quotes. Must have come from the well known propaganda manual titled "Spreading Husker Hate For Beginners" written by Colorado Buffalo Chip. The guy got rich off this book. He's now lost it all due to his addiction to legal marijuana in his home state.
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Not sure what point you are trying to get across here....whatever it was, you failed miserably
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