by Mike Babcock | Sep 18, 2020 | Football
During Nebraska’s stay in Miami preparing for the 1993 Orange Bowl game against Florida State, Tom Osborne asked Derek Brown if he would return for his senior season. Some of Brown’s teammates asked the same question. Brown said he’d be back. Frank Solich, assistant...
by Mike Babcock | Aug 27, 2020 | Football
White on red. That was Nebraska’s look when it played Oklahoma at Norman on the day after Thanksgiving in 1992, white jerseys with red pants. So what, you ask? The Huskers had worn white on white for three previous road games that season, two of them losses, most...
by Mike Babcock | Aug 27, 2020 | Football
Seven of eight. That’s how many in-state players accepted scholarship offers from Nebraska in the 1993 recruiting class. Only one signed a letter of intent with another school. But that one drew the most attention on signing day. That one was Scott Frost. The...
by Mike Babcock | Aug 19, 2020 | Football
Fans began leaving at the start of the fourth quarter of the Kansas game. They’d seen enough. Seriously, Nebraska fans, heading to their cars . . . or bars. That was the scene outside Memorial Stadium on the first Saturday night in November 1992. The score was 49-7....
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...
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