[Husker] clemson

[Steve Schmadeke]

I think there has been at least one other, though I can't remember who  
just now.

Nebraska was almost part of that group.

After losing to Oklahoma in 1975, apparently the team was ready to  
stay home rather than go to the Fiesta Bowl that year to play WAC  
Champion Arizona State.  In terms of prestige, it would have been  
roughly the equivalent of Alabama somehow ending up playing in the  
Humanitarian Bowl this year.

After things cooled down (and probably with some prodding by the  
administration), the Huskers did go down to Tempe and lost to Frank  
Kush's team on their home field to end the season with two rough  
losses and end Nebraska's then record-typing six-game bowl winning  
streak.

The hangover persisted into the 1976 season, probably the most  
disappointing in Osborne's tenure.  The top-ranked Huskers opened with  
a tie against unranked LSU and followed it with three conference  
losses during the course of the season.  The combined three-game  
winless streak over the last two games of 1975 and culminating in the  
1976 season opener was the longest winless streak in Osborne's career  
and the three conference losses were also the most he ever suffered in  
one season.

--Steve Schmadeke

On Dec 3, 2008, at 3:08 PM, dano wrote:

> Question:
> Has any school in modern history apart from Notre Dame had the gall  
> to turn
> down an invite and stay home rather than lower themselves to play in a
> perceived inferior bowl?