by Mike Babcock | Oct 24, 2019 | Football
Midway through the second quarter of the Nebraska-Colorado game in 1988, the Buffaloes lined up third-and-3 at the Nebraska 43-yard line. They had moved from their own 24 on four carries by tailback J.J. Flannigan and one by fullback George Hemingway. Both were listed...
by Mike Babcock | Oct 17, 2019 | Football
Yes, Tom Osborne’s 1983 team was nicknamed the “Scoring Explosion.” But the 1988 team had scored 63 points twice in its first six games in 1988 and a combined 95 in two others. So was this going to be the “Scoring Explosion II” team?...
by Mike Babcock | Oct 10, 2019 | Football
It was a war of words, sort of, with the renewal of a high school rivalry involving Nebraska’s Broderick Thomas and Texas A&M’s John Roper as a sub-plot. Thomas went to Houston Madison, Roper to Houston Yates. Both were seniors and both were outside...
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 26, 2019 | Football
Troy Aikman’s name might’ve been familiar to Nebraska. He had been a quarterback at Oklahoma, after all, enough of a passing talent that Sooner Coach Barry Switzer was willing to go away from the wishbone offense when Danny Bradley finished in...
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