[NU Sports] More on rivalries

[Mike Nolan]

> Was Nebraska-Oklahoma a great rivalry because the teams were separated by 
> only one state? No. That may be why they played every year, but the great 
> rivalry grew in part out of the fact that those games mattered year in and 
> year out. Compare that to, say, Nebraska-Kansas. It was a tradition, 
> because  they played so many times, but a rivalry? No, at least not in 
> the last 40 years or so.

Oklahoma did not consider Nebraska enough of a rival to fight for
a protected cross-division rivalry in the Big Twelve schedule.
(Something that Texas didn't want.)  Had other schools fought for
that and a few other things, the Big Twelve might still be intact.

With apologies to Adler & Ross: "Whatever Texas wants, Texas gets."
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Mike Nolan