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The Power Five => Big Ten => Topic started by: FearlessF on September 03, 2019, 09:54:11 PM
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NEBRASKA at COLORADO
SEPT. 7, 2019 | FOLSOM FIELD
BOULDER, COLO. | 2:30 P.M. (CT)
BROADCAST INFO
TV - FOX (Joe Davis, Brock Huard, Bruce Feldman)
RADIO - Husker Sports Network (Greg Sharpe, Matt Davison, Ben McLaughlin
SATELLITE RADIO - Sirius Channel 83, XM 83
INTERNET RADIO - Huskers.com, TuneIn.com
APP AUDIO - Official Huskers App, TuneIn App
HUSKERS
2019 Record: 1-0, 0-0 Big Ten
Last Game: South Alabama (W, 35-21)
Rankings: 24 (AP)
Coach: Scott Frost
Career/NU Record: 24-15 (4th Year)/5-8 (2nd Year)
vs. Colorado: 0-1
BUFFALOES
2019 Record: 1-0, 0-0 Pac-12
Last Game: Colorado St. (W, 52-31)
Rankings: NR
Coach: Mel Tucker
Career/CU Record: 1-0 (1st Year)/Same
vs. Nebraska: 4-5
The Matchup
The Nebraska Cornhuskers take to the road for the first time in the 2019 season, traveling to Boulder, Colo., to take on the Buffaloes on Saturday afternoon. Kickoff between the former conference rivals is set for 2:30 CT (1:30 MT) at CU's Folsom Field, with national television coverage provided by FOX and radio coverage available on the Husker Sports Network from Learfield-IMG.
Nebraska heads to Colorado after a 35-21 season-opening victory over South Alabama in Lincoln. The Huskers relied on an opportunistic defense and special teams in the win. Nebraska reached the end zone on an interception return, fumble return and punt return to overcome a sluggish offensive performance on opening day.
Colorado also comes into the game off a win, posting a 52-31 victory over Colorado State on Friday night in Denver. The Buffs' explosive offense showed great balance in the victory, rushing for 243 yards and adding 232 yards through the air. Colorado trailed 21-17 late in the second quarter against CSU, but outscored the Rams 35-10 from that point powered by four takeaways.
Nebraska and Colorado are meeting for the second consecutive season, as part of four games between 2018 and 2024. Colorado pulled off a fourth-quarter comeback to win in last year's meeting in Lincoln.
Overall, Nebraska holds a commanding 49-19-2 edge in the series. The two schools were in the same conference for more than 60 years in the Big Seven, Big Eight and Big 12, before moving to the Big Ten and Pac-12, respectively, in 2011.
Series History
Nebraska and Colorado are long-time foes with Saturday's meeting the 71st all-time between the schools. It is the second game in a home-and-home agreement that saw Colorado pull out a 33-28 victory in Lincoln last fall. That was the first meeting between the teams since both schools left the Big 12 Conference following the 2010 season.
• In last year's contest in Lincoln, Colorado jumped to a two-touchdown lead in the first quarter, before Nebraska rallied and eventually took an eight-point lead in the second half. However, the Buffs scored the game's final 13 points, including a touchdown with 1:06 remaining to escape Lincoln with a win.
• Nebraska and Colorado met each season from 1948 to 2010, as members of the Big Seven, Big Eight and Big 12 conferences.
• From 1996 to 2010, the Huskers and Buffs concluded the regular season against each other on Black Friday.
• Nebraska and Colorado combined to win the final eight Big Eight championships from 1988 to 1995.
• In addition to this Saturday's game, Nebraska and Colorado are scheduled for another home-and-home series in 2023 (Boulder) and 2024 (Lincoln).
Nebraska Has Long History vs. Pac-12
Nebraska's meeting with Colorado continues a tradition of marquee non-conference games against Pac-12 opponents. Since 1983, Nebraska has played 33 regular-season non-conference games against teams that were in the Pac-12 at the time.
• Nebraska is 23-10 against the Pac-12 in regular-season games in that span, including a 6-1 record against Arizona State and a 5-3 mark vs. UCLA. The record against the Pac-12 foes only includes last year's meeting with Colorado, not games against Colorado when the schools were conference rivals.
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Is Ralphie a steer?
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Ralphie is a COW!!!
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Leading into the season this is one of the Top 5 highest priced tickets in all of College Football, right up there with ND-Georgia, Florida-Miami, OSU-Mich, and the SEC rivalries. Prices for the cheapest seats fell from about $225 all offseason to about $190 around the first week of August before jolting back up to over $230 this week.
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Before Montez and coach Mel Tucker addressed the media, CU athletic director Rick George declared Buffs-Huskers to be the “highest-revenue game that we’ve had in our history,” while also pleading for “civility” from CU fans toward the thousands of Nebraska faithful expected to be in and around Stadium Drive on Saturday. Buffs officials expect at least 6,000-8,000 to find their way inside Folsom, even though the Huskers ticket office was only given 3,000 tickets by its counterparts at CU.
“I want to make it very clear that we really want our fans and our community to be respectful of Nebraska and their fans. I think it’s important that we all remember this is just a football game,” George said. “Yes, it is Nebraska and we know that history and tradition, but I think it’s important that we have civility. There’s enough negative narrative out in our country. When Nebraska comes in, we ought to be respectful to their fans, like they are to our fans when we come in.”
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Buffs fans can be nasty. But that's nothing that Huskers don't already know.
And also, Ralphie is a cow!
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Ralphie is a COW!!!
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CihCzWrUgAAGyry.jpg)
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Since 2015, Nebraska’s record is 24-27. During the same time frame, Colorado’s record is 25-27.
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Since 2015, Nebraska’s record is 24-27. During the same time frame, Colorado’s record is 25-27.
Advantage: Buffs
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I made my first legal sports book wager in Indiana today at the OTB. This game is in my reckless 3 game parlay.
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Lemme guess, you took the Horns too, didn't you??? :)
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You can get UGA-ND tickets under $300 in the nosebleeds (third deck, I've never been up there). The UGA@ ND tickets went over $700 when I was mulling going.
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Benraska was my pick to win the B1G this year, so they need to bring it.
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You can get UGA-ND tickets under $300 in the nosebleeds (third deck, I've never been up there). The UGA@ ND tickets went over $700 when I was mulling going.
Texas-LSU tickets have been pretty expensive on the secondary market, from what I hear. A friend gifted me one so I lucked out.
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I was musing about how many ways there are to misspell Nebraska intelligibly.
Nebaskra
Nabreaska
Bennraska
Benraska
Nebbieraska
Nethrathka
Nebrathka
I guess this might leave some flat.
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You forgot the most famous one, at least to Omaha natives.
Aksarben.
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You forgot the most famous one, at least to Omaha natives.
Aksarben.
I'm sure there are more, I had not heard of that one, nor Nebrathka either, with an apparent lispth.
I wonder what it is spelled backwards?
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You forgot the most famous one, at least to Omaha natives.
Aksarben.
Wait, Omaha natives refer to UNL as the prison-city in Harry Potter?
That actually makes sense somehow.
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My first ever Horse Track I ever went to was Aksarben Park. That was such a huge place to a little kid. I think now it's turned into a mixed use village of some kind just south of UNO. Pretty area.
I was always told the name came from the Aksarben Knights which were going to turn Nebraska around during the depression or maybe sooner
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A rose by any other name would have thorns.
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Poison?
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The French think poisson is just fish, as if that extra s matters somehow.
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Every cowboy sings a sad, sad song.
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Benraska was my pick to win the B1G this year, so they need to bring it.
this game will tell us if Benraska has a chance to win the B1G
if they're not bringing it to this game, they don't have it
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Offensive coordinator Troy Walters coached at Colorado from 2013-15, and he’s looking forward to the return to Boulder.
“When I coached there, you couldn’t wear anything red,” he said. “Great rivalry. I told our guys to embrace it all."
>> Kicker Barret Pickering was still not in uniform on Wednesday. Wide receiver Kade Warner, however, was back in pads. Warner also missed the season opener.
>> Quarterbacks coach Mario Verduzco took the blame for Saturday on himself, calling the outing “piss poor.” He also said he won’t make any excuses for what happened, and that he needs to do a better job coaching and getting quarterback Adrian Martinez ready to go.
>> Offensive line coach Greg Austin said he got hit in the head by an orange thrown from the crowd when Nebraska played at Colorado in 2005, the "Restore the Order" game.
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McCartney enforced all of that stuff. Ridding Boulder of Big Red soda and gum.
I only went out to Boulder in 95, when Skippy was coaching, and he did that dumb War time chant and had the team enter the field from the student section. Ahman Green took the first Nebraska play for 65 yards and a TD. No flags, no turnovers, no sacks all game. I think a missed fga was about the only mistake all day. Frazier was brilliant that game.
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great game, Osborne has mentioned that was as close to a flawless game as he coached
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I would really like to hope this is not true.
https://twitter.com/mitchsherman/status/1170492910652948480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1170492910652948480&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2F247sports.com%2Fcollege%2Fwisconsin%2FBoard%2F23%2FContents%2FTweets--23262434%2F%3FPage%3D376
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I would really like to hope this is not true.
https://twitter.com/mitchsherman/status/1170492910652948480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1170492910652948480&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2F247sports.com%2Fcollege%2Fwisconsin%2FBoard%2F23%2FContents%2FTweets--23262434%2F%3FPage%3D376
Talking smack and bad things happening at the bottom of a pile,not the 1st time that's happened......that day.I'm sure Montez went back to the huddle held hands and sang "Kumbaya"
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I didn't see the game so this is an honest question not an attempt to troll:
From looking at the play-by-play it looks like Martinez took a sack on 3rd and 9 at the 24 while trailing 34-31 in OT. How does that happen? Nebraska missed the ensuing 48 yard FG attempt but everyone knows that 48 yard FG's are a LOT harder than 41 yard FG's. You just can't take a sack there. If he had thrown that ball into the stands the game would have likely entered the second OT at 34-34 and Nebraska might have won but after that sack all they could do was pray for a 48 yarder to make it. Oops.
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how does that happen?
poor O-line play
Defensive tackle engages the right guard, right guard blocks him, right guard decides to help the right tackle with the DE that right tackle has great position on. More or less passes the DT to the Center, Center just stands there blocking no one. D-tackle dives into the backfield at the QB's feet, QB has his eyes downfield, doesn't see the DT coming in low, gets grabbed. Takes the loss. Piss poor. Center is a redshirt frosh playing his 2nd game as a center. was a tight end as a freshman
Of course the 1st down and 2nd down runs were botched by the O-line and gained a total of one yard.
at the start of OT Washington had run for 76 yards on 13 carries. The problem was that 40 of the 76 had come on one run for 40 yards. So, 36 yards on 12 carries. The O-line can't run block at all. Marginally better at pass pro.
don't get me started.............
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Colorado rallied to beat Nebraska in overtime in Week Two while smashing the Folsom Field cash record.
With the receipts tallied and books closed, the Buffaloes provided the Hotline with an official count from the Cornhuskers’ first visit since Colorado joined the Pac-12:
The Buffs collected $3.5 million in revenue from the game, effectively doubling the previous school record.
Oregon’s appearance in Boulder in 2015 generated $1.8 million in game-day revenue, while Utah’s visit in 2016 — with the division title at stake — produced a tick under $1.8 million.
The windfall from the Nebraska game was due, in large part, to Cornhuskers fans gobbling up available tickets and making the trip to Boulder.
According to CU, ticket sales were responsible for $2.7 million — and that’s just from single-game sales; revenue from season tickets isn’t allocated on a per-game basis.
Additionally, the Buffaloes took in $700,000 in concessions (a typical game is $388,000) and $66,000 in merchandise sales (typical: $55,000).
Key point: Parking isn’t included in athletic department revenue; it’s handled by campus.
But if you assume a low-six figure total for parking and whatever indirect unallocated benefits the game-day experience produced (donations, season-ticket sales), then the total income for the university is pushing $4 million.
It’s like these teams are rivals or something. — Jon Wilner.