by Mike Babcock | Jun 4, 2020 | Football
With Keithen McCant, the coaches’ Big Eight Offensive Player of the Year in 1991, gone, Mike Grant stepped in as the starting quarterback in the 1992 opener against Utah. It wasn’t his starting debut at Nebraska, however. The fifth-year senior from Tampa,...
by Mike Babcock | May 28, 2020 | Football
Nebraska lined up fourth-and-1 at its own 16-yard line. Punter Mike Stigge was on the sideline. Dire late-game, situation, right? Actually, less than four minutes remained in the first half of the 1992 season-opener against Utah at Memorial Stadium—76,234,...
by Mike Babcock | May 21, 2020 | Football, Football Recruiting
Nebraska’s 1992 recruiting class included 22 players, two of them junior college transfers. But “I had the feeling he was the only guy we recruited this year,” Tom Osborne said during a news conference on the day following the signing of...
by Mike Babcock | May 14, 2020 | Football
Miami players didn’t lack confidence. “I don’t think Nebraska would score unless we played until tomorrow about noon,” Hurricanes defensive tackle Eric Miller said following the 1992 Orange Bowl. He was nothing if not brash. Top-ranked (more...
by Mike Babcock | May 7, 2020 | Football
If Colorado football players were huddled around a television set on the day after Thanksgiving in 1991 watching the Nebraska-Oklahoma game, as Buffalo free safety Greg Thomas indicated they should be after a tie with Nebraska in Boulder early in the month, they were...
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