UPON FURTHER REVIEW Unfortunately for Nebraska, the NCAA didn’t institute video review in football games until the 2005 season, after the Big Ten experimented with it in 2004. Had it been used in 1993, Tom Osborne’s national championship run might’ve been four in...
GOODBYE GIFT Nearly 30 years have passed. Times have changed, as they always do. On December 10, 1997, four days after No. 2 Nebraska defeated No. 14 Texas A&M 54-15 in the Big 12 Championship game in San Antonio, a Wednesday, Tom Osborne held a news conference...
UP TO THE CHALLENGE Texas A&M outside linebackers John Roper and Chris Wallace were nicknamed the “Blitz Brothers.” Nebraska had to deal with them in the first game of the 1988 season, the Kickoff Classic. Roper and Husker outside linebacker Broderick Thomas...