re: If osu wins the rest of their games in 10+ except maybe 1 close one

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Again 95 KSU contained Nebraska's run game just like you claim OU Miami or FSU would have done(held their RBs to under 4 ypc). But Frazier threw 4tds and scored on D and Special Teams and still blew them out

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Now imagine containing Nebraska’s running game and having three first rounders in the secondary, including the GOAT at FS.

From 1973-1993, three things prevented Osborne from winning national titles:

1. Switzer’s OU. He was 5-12 against him from 1973-1988.

2. FSU and Miami. He was 3-9 against them.

3. Strong OOC opponents.

1982 Nebraska possibly wins the natty without a trip to Penn State. 1983 Nebraska wins the natty without a trip to Miami in the Orange Bowl. The 1987 team at least plays for the natty if OU had been as shitty that year as 1995. 1993 wins it without FSU in the Orange Bowl. 1994 Nebraska wins every game by at least 10 without Miami in the Orange Bowl. 1996 Nebraska plays for a natty without a conference championship game.

My point isn’t so much that 1995 Nebraska wasn’t a great team because I certainly think they were. My point is that the domination of that team (relative to other Nebraska teams, including those like 1971 under Devaney) had a lot to do with the favorability of their schedule and bowl opponent.

1971 Nebraska doesn’t get their due because they played an OU team that was orders of magnitude better than anyone the 1995 team played in the regular season. The 62 pts. 1995 Nebraska hung on Florida would not have happened against the Ray Lewis / Warren Sapp D the 1994 team faced in the Orange Bowl.

Nebraska had a lot of great players in the ‘70s, ‘80s, and early ‘90s. A couple of Heisman winners, Super Bowl winners, and guys in the CFB/NFL HOF.

If all those teams had played the 1995 team’s slate, there would have been more national titles. Nebraska only had a 29 game winning streak against KSU and 36 game winning streak against Kansas throughout these seasons.

Not exactly Nebraska’s kryptonite.

Combine that with no Switzer at OU, no McCartney at Colorado, no Orange Bowl stadium, no FSU or Miami, and a finesse, pass-oriented bowl opponent with no experience against the Nebraska offense and that’s a pretty smooth road to travel compared to that of nearly all of Osborne’s teams.