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Tag: Nebraska Cornhuskers
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Let’s look forward, Nebraska
The future doesn’t have to be bleak for Nebraska. Nebraska is still one of the great brands in the sport, but looking back is not going to fix the problem moving forward.
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The COVID-19 case against recent conference realignment
The most recent era of conference realignment in college athletics settled following Big Ten and ACC expansions which moved the leagues to 14-members in 2014. These moves widened the geographic footprint of their leagues for cable subscription purposes, in particular to capture New England cable subscriptions. The move was widely successful financially for the Big […]
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Big Red to the Big 10 (Ten years later)
It has now been ten years since Nebraska left the Big 12 Conference for the Big 10 on June 11, 2010. On that date, the Huskers made the move out of a conference they had been a core member of since 1907, when they were original members of a conference that morphed from the MVIAA […]
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If College Football teams were Olympic sports….
The Winter Olympics is basically a bonus for the football fan. Usually when the Super Bowl gets over, in non-Olympic years, a sense of despair sets in during that dead period before the NCAA basketball tournament starts and baseball gets to full speed. But during the Olympics, we get a big red, white, and blue […]
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Rivalries we’ve lost
College football has turned the final corner of the regular season. Conference races have narrowed to two or three contenders, and the march to bowl season is full steam ahead. Iconic and pivotal match-ups are beginning to take place, just as they have for over 100 years. Two of the best weeks on the sports […]
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How to create a new rivalry
Over the last decade in college athletics, numerous shifts in the landscape have caused a much different college football world in which we now live. As a result of this shift, many teams now play schedules against new teams or in entirely new conferences. As a result, new rivalries can emerge over time as teams […]
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Iowa vs Nebraska – It’s More than a Football Rivalry
Allow me to set the scene – it’s the day after Thanksgiving and my wife and her female friends and family are up and out of the house long before sunrise, freezing their kit-kats off while schlepping around the chilly Des Moines metro area, standing in long lines and being trampled by and trampling other […]
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#TBT: College Sports Mascots
Today’s Throwback Thursday take us to an era where children may have been a little less open to getting a picture with their favorite mascot. From birds to animals to trees (what?) mascots have been a part of sports since their creation, but have definitely become far more inviting creatures in the modern era. While […]
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