by Erin Sorensen | Mar 10, 2021 | Football
Tom Osborne thought he was signing children’s books. That’s why he showed up to Best of Big Red in downtown Lincoln on Wednesday morning. As he approached the shop just before 10 a.m., he saw former Nebraska athletic trainer Doak Ostergard parking his car....
by Mike Babcock | Aug 18, 2020 | Football
Trick? Or Treat? Colorado was 6-0-1 and tied with Nebraska at No. 8 in the Associated Press poll on Halloween in 1992, the Buffaloes’ lone blemish a 24-24 tie with Oklahoma two weeks before. Colorado had a 25-game unbeaten streak in the Big Eight, its last conference...
by Mike Babcock | Aug 18, 2020 | Football
On the Friday before the Missouri game in 1992, Tom Osborne would neither confirm nor deny whether Tommie Frazier would be the starting quarterback. That was the speculation, and not just because Mike Grant, who had started the first five games and played without...
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 | Aug 8, 2019 | Football, Football Recruiting
To open with a cliché: You can’t keep a good man down. Tom Osborne underwent double-bypass heart surgery the week before letter-of-intent signing day in 1985. But, accompanied by wife Nancy, he attended a news conference in the South Stadium lounge to...
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