Spirit Fall 2020 Edition 13
NU in the running for something big.
State College also has one.
better part of four decades, it hardly ever happened. For so long, a child could be born, grow into an adult and have children of her own without ever seeing Nebraska football fall out of the national discussion. From 1969 to 2001, NU had 33 consecutive seasons of at least nine wins. The Huskers won 10 games eight times in that stretch. They won 11 games five times. They won 12 games four times and 13 games three times. There were 22 conference titles and five national titles. Nebraska never lost more than three games in a season for 29 consecutive seasons. The further away that statistic gets, the more remarkable it becomes.
Nebraska played in a bowl game for 35 consecutive seasons, the longest streak in college football history. The Huskers were ranked in the final Associated Press top 25 poll 33 straight years, and in 23 years, finished in the top 10. It was a sustained, consistent level of success that perhaps more than anything else allowed Nebraska to be unique among its peers. Memorial Stadium/Atmosphere Every school has a place it calls home. A lot of those schools even call their home Memorial Stadium. Heck, the University of Nebraska doesn't even have the only Memorial Stadium in its state —Wayne
There are few Memorial Stadiums, though, that can match the one in Lincoln. It's not the biggest, or the loudest (though it might be close in that regard). But when the moment is right, when the Huskers need it most, there isn't a better home-field advantage in the sport. Those moments have been rare since the program's glory days. But at times in recent years — Miami in 2014 or Oregon in 2016, for example — the old girl still rises to the occasion.
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That success, naturally, almost always had
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