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re: Question for OU fans (Rivalry related)
Posted on 6/29/25 at 6:36 am to Wishbone85
Posted on 6/29/25 at 6:36 am to Wishbone85
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Posted on 6/29/25 at 6:40 am to Wishbone85
And the look on Dr Toms face when he finds out he has to play Oklahoma in a bowl game lol.
Posted on 6/29/25 at 6:43 am to Wishbone85
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Tom Osborne was one of the best but he didn't start winning nattys until Switzer retired. Switzer owned him.
To be accurate... Switzer owned him until Nebraska discovered steroids... in the '80s Switzer went 5-4 against Osborne after beating him after starting out 8-1.
As far as the "rivalry" itself...
It was just another game until 1959 when Nebraska broke OU's 77 game conference win streak and then proceeded to beat OU three straight times.
Then in 1962, Nebraska hired Bod Devaney.. and while OU won that year... Devaney took Nebraska from mediocrity to being a top five program nationally. As luck would have it... OU usually played Nebraska late in the season... so OU spent the '60s trying to spoil all these undefeated Nebraska team's seasons. And they did so in '64, '66, '67 (OU's only really good '60s team).
Nebraska then won two national titles in '70 and '71. OU was right with them. And then they pretty much took over the league.
However, OU and Nebraska were only rivals because they ended up being the two best teams in the Big 8. Could have been anybody. The rivalry was always bigger on the Nebraska side because they didn't really have anybody else to hate... where OU had Texas and OSU.
I like to describe the difference between the Texans and Nebraskans like this. Texans get pissed off if you refuse to admit that they are the "greatest people in the world"... Nebraskans get pissed off if you refuse to say that Nebraskans are "the nicest people in the world".
Posted on 6/29/25 at 7:06 am to genuineLSUtiger
Greg Pruitt versus Johnny Rodgers in 1971.
Nebraska won and faced undefeated Alabama with Johnny Musso in the Orange Bowl.
Oklahoma played one loss Auburn with Pat Sullivan/Terry Beasley in the Sugar Bowl.
Both games were total blowouts. Oklahoma led Auburn 31-0 at halftime and Nebraska destroyed Alabama 38-7.
Nebraska won and faced undefeated Alabama with Johnny Musso in the Orange Bowl.
Oklahoma played one loss Auburn with Pat Sullivan/Terry Beasley in the Sugar Bowl.
Both games were total blowouts. Oklahoma led Auburn 31-0 at halftime and Nebraska destroyed Alabama 38-7.
Posted on 6/29/25 at 7:07 am to Gunga Din
And Nebraska played a ton of functional retards, aka “Prop 48” until the Big 12 was formed. When that was shitcanned, tDecline began
Posted on 6/29/25 at 7:12 am to ouflak
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pretty goofy - and exceptionally unrealistic.
Working title of my autobiography
Posted on 6/29/25 at 7:54 am to makersmark1
Posted on 6/29/25 at 8:19 am to Wishbone85
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Tom Osborne was one of the best
Yes he was....and he retired in 1997!!!! Nebraska hasn't been good since then. For the math challenged LSU fans...that's almost 30 years ago.
Posted on 6/29/25 at 8:31 am to makersmark1
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1971 was an amazing game.
I recently watched a replay of that game.
It was awesome because on every play there would be 2-3 instances of what is considered targeting today lol.
Posted on 6/29/25 at 8:42 am to JayAg
A lot of people consider the '71 OU-Nebraska game the best one ever played, and it was always one of my favorites.
Someone earlier stated that it was a game of respect. That's very true. Sooners never hated Nebraska the way they hated Texas, and that's because the the Nebraska and Texas fan bases are so different.
But the game is history and others are threatened in this new landscape. Nebraska had a well-known walk on program that I always respected. They took Nebraska kids from all over the state and turned them into solid football players. That's history in today's environment, and in my mind it's Exhibit A in the argument that the game is no longer about the kids.
Someone earlier stated that it was a game of respect. That's very true. Sooners never hated Nebraska the way they hated Texas, and that's because the the Nebraska and Texas fan bases are so different.
But the game is history and others are threatened in this new landscape. Nebraska had a well-known walk on program that I always respected. They took Nebraska kids from all over the state and turned them into solid football players. That's history in today's environment, and in my mind it's Exhibit A in the argument that the game is no longer about the kids.
Posted on 6/29/25 at 2:53 pm to SOBMarcus
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And Nebraska played a ton of functional retards, aka “Prop 48” until the Big 12 was formed. When that was shitcanned, tDecline began
Ironically, in the Big 8 days... Nebraska led the nation in academic All Americans almost every year. That was one of their big selling points.
They really didn't start recruiting thuggish players until the late '80s... of course that became more prevalent across the country because the talent was starting to come from inner city programs.
People bitch about players and the game today... but in the early 1990s there were some really unsavory dudes playing CFB. Today, they tend to get the talented kids out of those environments by their high school years... but back then they came straight from the streets to college.
Posted on 7/1/25 at 4:28 pm to OK Roughneck
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The rivalry with Nebraska was a rivalry of respect. The winner of that game in most cases won the conference and played in the Orange or Sugar bowls.
Texas is and ALWAYS will be a Hate rivalry. "spits"
oSu "sheep frickers" by most of us are not considered a rivalry.
This about says it all, when this game was played it had the highest percentage of #1 vs #2 matchups and the winner almost always played for the national championship. The heyday of the rivalry was 70s-80s, when they were both on top, and OU owned the series, in the '90s OU had their worst decade in my lifetime and Nebraska took over, in the 2000's OU returned the favor, although the Big 12 made it to where they did not play every year. Overall series record: 47-38-3 OU. Last 10: 8-2 OU.
Posted on 7/2/25 at 11:49 am to JayAg
Nebraska was OUs main rival . The games were for national titles . Texas Nebraska were equals until the 90s imo. Now it’s just Texas .
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Posted on 7/2/25 at 1:23 pm to Cimarron
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But the game is history and others are threatened in this new landscape. Nebraska had a well-known walk on program that I always respected.
It went further than that. Just about every HS coach in Nebraska ran a style of offense that Nebraska ran, Osborne worked with them, and had all these walk on players familiar with his system and without the roster limitations they have now. When he retired, that all changed.
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