re: Top 10 College Football Programs of the Last 60 Years (ranked by wins)

The downfall of Nebraska happened when they left the Big 12. They lost a huge recruiting area (Texas). The plains states are not very fertile recruiting grounds, combine that with the fact that Nebraska is a cold weather state and you see the picture. The only northern states that have any real numbers of recruits are Ohio and Penn, and there are lots of big time programs closer to those recruits.

Nebraska is headed toward the dustbin of college football unless they somehow rejoin a warm weather conference.