"We don't want to take any chances on anything," Rodgers said. The stakes were so high, Nebraska brought its own meals to Oklahoma just to avoid food poisoning. "… it is impossible to stir the pages of history and find one in which both teams performed so reputably for so long throughout the day," Jenkins wrote in his game account the next week. That's routine these days given the BCS and College Football Playoff.
The Thanksgiving Day game marked only the fifth such No. The league finished the season with teams ranked No. Nebraska has lost its way outside the Big 12.įive decades ago, the Big Eight was the nation's strongest conference, and it wasn't close. He was the impetus behind the Texas-loathing move to the Big Ten. Osborne became the Nebraska AD, then a U.S. Nebraska's quarterback caught a 63-yard touchdown pass. There was the 2001 game when Eric Crouch pretty much won the Heisman in October. 2 Nebraska, 17-7, eventually losing the national championship to Miami in the Orange Bowl. There was the 1987 game referred to as "Game of the Century II". His wingman that night was a fur-coat wearing Tony Casillas, a defensive tackle who won championships playing for Switzer at Oklahoma and with the Dallas Cowboys. That was the polar opposite of Switzer, who once held court with writers at Kansas City's Union Station the night before the 2003 Big 12 Championship Game. Osborne used to make filibustering a fine science, going down the entire roster in preseason pressers so he wouldn't have to answer questions. It was a time when coaches were gods, not living trust funds. They played 86 times, every year from 1921 to 2010. You could set your football clock to Nebraska-Oklahoma. "We'd have been that good in 1970 if Chuck had let me go to it in the spring," Switzer said. The wishbone, used by Oklahoma, was still new, adopted by coach Chuck Fairbanks at the urging of Switzer. He broke down Nebraska's I-formation offense noting it sometimes shifted into "the spread." The graphic showed a four-receiver set that is all too familiar in 2021. Two ABC broadcasters referred to Oklahoma's Owen Field as "Owen Stadium." Analyst Bud Wilkinson, Oklahoma's legendary former coach, was prescient. The telecast was laden with car commercials, not too much different than today. 1 defense (Nebraska).įifty-five million people watched on ABC, the largest college football audience at that time.
1 offense (Oklahoma) went up against the nation's No. But Saturday's anniversary reminds there is still only one. Over the five decades since, the "Game of the Century" label has been tossed around like loose change. Look it up the grainy footage is still there.
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