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According to “Endymion,” the John Keats poem: “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” Tom Osborne’s 200th career victory with Nebraska football would be a joy forever, you could say. But it “wasn’t a thing of beauty,” Osborne said, following 7th-ranked Nebraska’s 27-13...

Calvin Jones was a “participant” in Nebraska football’s 48-13 victory against Colorado State in the fourth game of the season at Memorial Stadium, Sept. 25, 1993. The senior I-back didn’t “play,” he “participated.” It was semantically important. The day before, Coach...

It certainly wasn’t easy, but ninth-ranked Nebraska football managed a win against UCLA in the third game of the 1993 season, defeating the 0-1 Bruins 14-13 at the Rose Bowl. Maybe fan support made a difference. An estimated 12,000 in the crowd of 50,299 were Husker...

Nebraska football scored 50 points against Texas Tech in the second game of the season at Memorial Stadium in mid-September 1993. In other words, the Huskers coasted, right? Well, not exactly. With 8:37 remaining in the third quarter, the Red Raiders took a 21-20 lead...

Time to backtrack. Next up for our Hail Varsity Historical series is a game-by-game recap of the 1993 Nebraska football season, which set up Tom Osborne’s remarkable run of three national titles in his final four seasons. North Texas Coach Dennis Parker described it...

On the Wednesday following Nebraska football's 54-15 victory against Texas A&M in the 1997 Big 12 Championship Game, with some tears all around, Tom Osborne announced his retirement. That was the  backdrop for the No. 2 Huskers’ Orange Bowl clash with No. 3...

The offseason is underway for Nebraska football, which means it's transfer season. The portal window opened on Jan. 2 and runs through Jan. 16, giving players two weeks to decide their futures (with exceptions for teams that make the national championship and for...

Nebraska football came prepared to play Texas A&M in the second Big 12 Championship game, Tom Osborne said following the Huskers’ 54-15 victory in the San Antonio Alamodome, December 6. 1997. The score was sufficient evidence, as was the fact Nebraska led 37-3 at...

What is there to say? Utah defeated Nebraska football 44-22 in the Las Vegas Bowl Wednesday to extend a season-ending Husker losing streak to three, including 37-10 to Penn State and 40-16 to Iowa. As with last season, Nebraska was 7-6, though 2024 ended with a...

It shouldn’t have come down to this. Nebraska football was second-ranked and 10-0, Colorado 5-5. The Huskers led 27-10 late in the fourth quarter at Folsom Field in Boulder, the day after Thanksgiving 1997, and they were driving to what would’ve been a game-sealing...

Nebraska football is all-in Wednesday when the underdog 7-5 Huskers play 10-2 and 15th-ranked Utah in the SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl at Allegiant Stadium. The Huskers want to take another step in development under Matt Rhule. Of course they do. No surprise there....

Tom Osborne faced a dilemma in the closing seconds of the first half of Nebraska’s game against Iowa State at bitterly-cold Memorial Stadium, in mid-November 1997. “I didn’t want to score right before the half,” he said. What? The Huskers’ coach didn’t want to score?...