by Mike Babcock | Sep 6, 2019 | Football
The Colorado football team was 0-6, on the way to a 1-10 season under second-year coach Chuck Fairbanks, when No. 9 Nebraska prepared to travel to Boulder in late October of 1980. The Huskers would play No. 15 Missouri in Lincoln the next week. But I’m getting...
by Mike Babcock | Mar 20, 2018 | Football
Rewind to the final day of October in 1980, the day before Nebraska would play nemesis Missouri at Memorial Stadium. The Cornhuskers were ranked No. 8, Missouri No. 15. Nemesis? A Tom Osborne-coached team had yet to beat the Tigers in Lincoln. Nebraska’s last...
by Mike Babcock | Mar 13, 2018 | Football
Oklahoma Coach Barry Switzer made a surprise appearance during Bob Devaney’s television prediction show on the Friday night before the 1980 Nebraska-Oklahoma game at Memorial Stadium. Switzer presented the Cornhusker Athletic Director with a sack of tacos. The...
by Mike Babcock | Mar 6, 2018 | Football
You probably could’ve heard Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust” as you sat in traffic after the Nebraska-Colorado game at Folsom Field in late October of 1980, playing on the car radio, or if you were a Cornhusker fan willing to take the...
by Mike Babcock | Feb 27, 2018 | Football
You want drama? Try this, Oct. 4, 1980: Nebraska was at the Florida State 3-yard line trailing 18-14 with the final seconds ticking off as quarterback Jeff Quinn rolled to his left. Those in a sellout crowd of 76,152 at Memorial Stadium were on their feet, cheering....
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