re: Top 50 College Football Players of the Past 50 Years

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Leland McElroy

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I swear if he only played against LSU he be high on this list

If we're gonna bring up knuckleheads that wasted talent I have to mention Cecil Collins

Ahman is 3rd, maybe 2nd all-time Husker RB, he's 2nd all-time rushing in school history so that helps his argument

Agreed, Frazier was the QB therefore the leader, Phillips was one of two ELITE backs for the Huskers but EVERYTHING was executed through Frazier's play.

Wow. That list is not very good.

But Nebraska never broke the football program at CU like what CU did to Nebraska
You went into that game #1 in the country thinking of another championship. Before you knew any better the score was 35-3 and the Children of the Corn were holding their head in shame. After all when you beat Colorado they still have Colorado but when you beat Nebraska you have Corn

You also have 60000 people show up to Lincoln for a tractor pull you might have 60000 show up in Boulder for free drugs, alcohol or even books but not for football or tractor pulls

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I think it was the 99 season that Nebraska almost fell apart but Crouch was able to keep them relevant

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They were really good in 1999. I think you can certainly make the argument that they were the best team in the country even though they didn't play in the National Championship (sorry Husker fans ). I thought they were a more complete team than FSU and VT.

1999
Nebraska - 42 Iowa - 7
Nebraska - 45 Cal - 0
Nebraska - 20 Southern Miss - 13 (S. Miss was very good that year and finished ranked #13).
Nebraska - 40 Missouri - 10
Nebraska - 38 Oklahoma State - 14
Nebraska - 49 Iowa State - 14
Nebraska - 20 Texas - 24 (Imagine that... )
Nebraska - 24 Kansas - 17
Nebraska - 37 aggy - 0
Nebraska - 41 Kansas State - 15 (that was a great 11-1 KSU team)
Nebraska - 33 Colorado - 30 (Colorado exploded in the 4th quarter)
Nebraska - 22 Texas - 6 (Nebraska's sole win in the 10 games against Texas since the Big XII formation)
Nebraska - 31 Tennessee - 21

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But Nebraska never broke the football program at CU like what CU did to Nebraska
You went into that game #1 in the country thinking of another championship. Before you knew any better the score was 35-3 and the Children of the Corn were holding their head in shame. After all when you beat Colorado they still have Colorado but when you beat Nebraska you have Corn

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That is one game I'll never forget. We were on the road beating aggy as usual. I heard the scores...28-3 CU at the end of the 1st quarter. My jaw dropped, but I thought Nebraska would somehow rally.

Then, 42-16 CU. Then I heard it was 42-30 in the 3rd with Nebraska having the ball on the goal line. Surely Nebraska was going to punch it in and put it at 42-37 and have a miraculous comeback.

Next thing I know, it was something like 55-30. Of course, the final was 62-36. Chris Brown, Bobby Purify, and Daniel Graham just torched Nebraska that day.

I think I was meaning 98 when Crouch first came on the scene and Kansas St won the North.

I was banned from the Nebraska board because I questioned their view of history. They have this alternate universe they created to explain the history of the Big 8, the SWC realignment, the Big XII and now the BIG
They try to play the victim but they claim at one time they were the most powerful university in the country. How can you be powerful and a victim.
Pretty much revisionist history. A lot like Arkansas.
Arkansas needs Texas. Nebraska needs Texas. Without UT they are lost and need that program to hate more than anything on the Earth. I have connections at both UT and CU. UT as a alum and CU through my father but I am not anti Nebraska. I am just anti revisionist history

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But Nebraska never broke the football program at CU like what CU did to Nebraska

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Because there wasn't a program to break -- with the exception of one season in 1991 Colorado is irrelevant. Then in 1994 when Buffs fans thought they were gonna win it all - beat Michigan on the Hail Mary and then Nebraska went to Boulder and spanked em 24-7

Nebraska was trending downward as soon as Osborne retired. Colorado had zero to do with it.

Whatever you tell yourself. At the end of the day you only have the history you want to believe to make yourself feel better.
As of 2017 CU is coming off a PAC 12 South Championship while Nebraska has been in a 16 year period of mediocrity since the Boulder Beatdown. More importantly CU finally does not have to deal with the hayseeds from Lincoln smelling up their state and stadium. CU finally gets to rub shoulders with people who view college sports as they do and not a way to make a wasteland known as Nebraska known around the country.