[Husker] Think About This

[Steve Schmadeke]

The Florida State - Miami series had a pretty good run with seven  
straight meetings between 1987 and 1993 where both teams were in the  
AP Top 10 at the time of the game.  They had another three-year run  
from 2002-2004, though neither team finished in the Top 10 in 2004.   
The 1996 and 2000 meetings were the only other Top 10 match-ups for  
those teams.

Bob mentioned the Michigan-Ohio State series.  During the "Ten Year  
War" from 1968-1977, both teams were ranked in the AP Top 10 at game  
time eight times, skipping only the 1969 and 1971 games.  The  
following ten years saw only three such match-ups (1980, 1983 and 1986).

I can think of a quite a few candidate series that were big over the  
course of a decade or so (Army-Notre Dame, Oklahoma-Texas, Alabama- 
Auburn, Alabama-Tennessee, Notre Dame-Miami, etc.), but none that  
matched the sustained excellence and longevity of that stretch of the  
Big Red rivalry.

--Steve Schmadeke

On Dec 2, 2006, at 10:22 AM, jonlists at cbsol.com wrote:

> Pretty good....  possibly Florida State - Miami over a period  
> between 83
> and maybe, what, 2001?
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> Jon Johnston
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> Dick Karre <dkarre at comcast.net>
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> I got this from a Terry Douglass piece in the GI paper: Between  
> 1971 and
> 1988 (18 seasons, 19 games), OU and NU played 15 times when both teams
> were ranked in the top ten. I can't imagine that any other rivalry  
> could
> come close to matching that.
> http://www.theindependent.com/stories/120206/hus_oldtimes02.shtml
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> Dick Karre
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