by Mike Babcock | Dec 19, 2019 | Football
No, Rod Serling wasn’t at mid-field for the coin toss at Memorial Stadium prior to the Nebraska-Oklahoma game in 1989, though he might as well have been. Maybe you’re too young to remember Serling. He created the television series “The Twilight...
by Brandon Vogel | Dec 11, 2019 | Football
Tuesday's game of follow the bouncing ball led us right into the arms of Lane Kiffin. The new Ole Miss head coach got the gig thanks in part to two conference-championship seasons at Florida Atlantic. Two seasons that were also fueled by some pretty good turnovers...
by Mike Babcock | Oct 31, 2019 | Football
Temperature at kickoff, officially 2:42 p.m., in Norman, Oklahoma, was 35 degrees, but a wind gusting to 30 miles an hour created a windchill of 9. And it was rainy as well as cold. In short, it was not a good day to pass. Those were the conditions when No. 7...
by Mike Babcock | Oct 3, 2019 | Football
To quote Alice in Wonderland. “Curiouser and curiouser!” That might describe the context of the 1987 Nebraska-Oklahoma game, which Sports Illustrated’s Rick Telander called the “Battle of the Century II” (the 1971...
by Mike Babcock | Sep 19, 2019 | Football
At 2:30 p.m. on the Saturday before Thanksgiving in 1986 at Memorial Stadium, Oklahoma’s Todd Thomsen kicked off to the Nebraska end zone. There was no return. The time, according to the official statistics, reflected a significant storyline related to the No. 5...
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