[Husker] Who is our rivalry game?

[Jay Saunders]

The answer is C - all of the above.

Living away from Nebraska (and mostly out of big 12 territory) the past eight years, I get asked the question a lot: "who is Nebraska's rival."

I tell people we don't have one rival, we have about five. Geographically it's Kansas State. Kansas is pretty close to home. We play Misery for the "Bell". Oklahoma is our historic rival. Colorado hates us.

But there is not one team that sticks out as "the" rival for the Big Red. For years every team was our rival because everyone wanted to stick it to the mighty Cornhuskers. That's still the case, because all of those little teams that we trounced over the years are getting their turn in the sun. And fans act like one win against the Huskers (even now) replaces 30 years of futility.

That's my long answer to a simple question!

Jay Saunders
Milwaukee, WI




--- On Thu, 10/2/08, Scott R Lawson <SLawson at uamail.albany.edu> wrote:

> From: Scott R Lawson <SLawson at uamail.albany.edu>
> Subject: RE: [Husker] Who is our rivalry game?
> To: "Don Mares" <donmares at gmail.com>, "Husker List" <husker at tssi.com>
> Date: Thursday, October 2, 2008, 10:22 AM
> No way- Oklahoma (in my mind anyway) will always be
> Nebraska's chief
> rival, whether they play every year or not.
> 
> Where was Missouri the last 30 years?
> 
> Colorado? They remind me of the little annoying dog that
> chases you down
> the sidewalk while you laugh at it. And the other schools
> you mentioned,
> well they may want to put a few wins together first. This
> may all sound
> like arrogance, but really it isn't, it's just the
> truth. OU vs.
> Nebraska will always be the "big" game, at least
> in my opinion.
> 
> Scott in NY
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: husker-bounces at tssi.com
> [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf
> Of Don Mares
> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 11:08 AM
> To: Husker List
> Subject: [Husker] Who is our rivalry game?
> 
> Hey guys?
> 
> Is this week's Missouri game the closest thing we can
> consider to a
> rivalry
> game?  Missouri is certainly the best of the big 12 north
> right now.
> Chase
> Daniel is a serious heisman contender.  They even look like
> a rival in
> their
> black and gold.  It's national tv and a night game.  It
> has the makings
> of a
> rivalry.
> 
> We don't play OU on a regular basis anymore.  Colorado
> was a wannabe but
> only beat us a couple times and wasn't enough to
> inspire fear and hatred
> like a true rivalry should.  Kansas seems too nice and a
> little like a
> one
> year wonder.  K-State maybe but again you have to bring it
> year after
> year.
> Prince may not be there after another year.
> I almost feel like Colorado was to us a few years back in
> terms of
> rivalry
> to missouri?  We have to beat them a few times and take the
> big 12 away
> from
> them and make them hurt.  Kind of like Texas did to us when
> we switched
> over
> from the big 8 to big 12 and Texas became instant hated
> rivalry after
> the
> 1996 big 12 championship.  Of course missou probably
> hasn't gotten over
> the
> catch yet so is it a rivalry or isn't it?  Given
> Nebraska's history of
> crushing the big 12 north teams throughout the 80's and
> 90's we could
> almost
> take our pick of a rival team.
> 
> We're spoiled by our history a little here.  I'm
> not sure Nebraska is
> good
> enough to have a rival right now but I give Bo a couple
> years and we'll
> be
> dominating people and feeling good about ourselves again. 
> Who is our
> rivalry game?
> 
> http://myespn.go.com/blogs/big12/0-3-5/Should-Missouri-now-be-considered
> -Nebraska-s-major-rival-.html
> 
> I think we need a couple years to get back on top and a
> tough loss or
> two and there won't be any question.  The quickest way
> for that to
> happen is
> to win this game and put ourselves in the drivers seat for
> the big 12
> north.
> 
> Don
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