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This is a great article by Shatel

NUinID said:
I didn’t even watch the game live I was at a dodge ball tournament in town. My 7th grade son’s team won. I was dvring it. My older son text me that they won before we got home at about 10:30. I stayed up and watched the whole thing.
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You should‘ve been there man. nothing like the at game experience. And if you remember it was the week after that absolutely pathetic performance against Purdue (five interceptions, ya day Yama Yama) going against a highly rated MSU. The prospects for a win where not good going into that game. Soooooooo freeeeeeegin satisfying win GBR
 
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my five are ones I feel changed perspective of husker football. In no particular order
5. Notre Dame 1922/23 u pick them. Beat Rockne and 4 horsemenhttps://journalstar.com/sports/huskers/football/top-50/beating-the-four-horsemen/article_41969b09-56bf-5f59-aaeb-ab4bca0bf88d.html
4. Michigan 62-Huge for Devaney (his MSU ties I believe made this important.) while this was a down year for Wolves-nobody knew it at the time.
3. 71 Alabama-Yeah we beat Okie in GOTC-but we had already beaten Ok. in previous years. But beating the BEAR was the hurdle Devaney wanted.
2. 83 miami-we lost but painted a great picture of our coach
1. 95 Gators-yeah we won the year before beating a "not as good" maimi team. But crushing those "faster" gators who were more suited to natural grass (thanks corso).
Great topic of discussion, tho and appreciate each and every ones' input.
 
Agree with many on this thread, but want to add this relatively unappreciated key game...
1963 OU. Devaney beat Bud Wilkinson for his first Big 8 title. Lots of eyes one day after Kennedy was killed. Most games cancelled, but OU had a game the next week and Bud W. was JFK's advisor on physical fitness and opined that Kennedy would have wanted the game played. So it was. And put the Cornhuskers on the national radar screen.
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1963 Oklahoma @ Nebraska football | HuskerMax game page

Nebraska thoroughly shocked the powerful Oklahoma Sooners and claimed the Big Eight championship in a game played one day after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. It was 17-0 in the fourth quarter, and 29-7 with two minutes left in the game before the Sooners battled back to make...
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Stuck in the South said:
my five are ones I feel changed perspective of husker football. In no particular order
5. Notre Dame 1922/23 u pick them. Beat Rockne and 4 horsemenhttps://journalstar.com/sports/huskers/football/top-50/beating-the-four-horsemen/article_41969b09-56bf-5f59-aaeb-ab4bca0bf88d.html
4. Michigan 62-Huge for Devaney (his MSU ties I believe made this important.) while this was a down year for Wolves-nobody knew it at the time.
3. 71 Alabama-Yeah we beat Okie in GOTC-but we had already beaten Ok. in previous years. But beating the BEAR was the hurdle Devaney wanted.
2. 83 miami-we lost but painted a great picture of our coach
1. 95 Gators-yeah we won the year before beating a "not as good" maimi team. But crushing those "faster" gators who were more suited to natural grass (thanks corso).
Great topic of discussion, tho and appreciate each and every ones' input.
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Notre Dame 1923 - First year in Memorial Stadium. Ed Weir called by Knute Rockne "the greatest tackle I ever saw."
Game of the Century - Oklahoma 1971 - Johnny the Jet, Rich Glover, and Jeff Kinney.
Oklahoma 1978 - Never saw a greater effort out of the Cornhuskers.
Orange Bowl 1984 - Going for two defined Osborne.
Oklahoma - 1963 - The end of the Bud Wilkinson era (first time I remember my father swearing, "look at the face on that SOB").

You could do this list with five Nebraska - Oklahoma games and easily meet the original objective to define Nebraska football
 
Prairie Sage said:
Notre Dame 1923 - First year in Memorial Stadium. Ed Weir called by Knute Rockne "the greatest tackle I ever saw."
Game of the Century - Oklahoma 1971 - Johnny the Jet, Rich Glover, and Jeff Kinney.
Oklahoma 1978 - Never saw a greater effort out of the Cornhuskers.
Orange Bowl 1984 - Going for two defined Osborne.
Oklahoma - 1963 - The end of the Bud Wilkinson era (first time I remember my father swearing, "look at the face on that SOB").

You could do this list with five Nebraska - Oklahoma games and easily meet the original objective to define Nebraska football
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Actually you are spot on with that observation. “You could do this list with five Nebraska - Oklahoma games and easily meet the original objective to define Nebraska football”
 
HuskerGene said:
I really do agree with the one writer saying the 1978 Oklahoma game was the best ever played in Memorial Stadium.
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Unquestionably -- it was in a class by itself.

Not counting OU-NU '78, I'd cite these 5 home games as most revealing of NU football's historical trajectory in Memorial Stadium (actually I cheated and listed six):

Oklahoma '76: The early TO era was defined by an inability to overcome late Sooner Magic, and this was the start.

Missouri '78, the week after the OU game: TO finally beats OU and then this. A cruel, dagger-in-the-heart outcome that showed how NU football could go from the highest highs to lowest lows just like that. NU fans would be breathless with excited anticipation over a possible NC one moment; in the emotional abyss the next. It was as bad as the '84 OB vs. Miami.

Colorado '92: The Halloween Massacre. Not having beaten the Buffs in four years, and having had to endure insufferable behavior by the CU football community, NU finally got the monkey off its back in a big way. It was a revenge fantasy come true.

Colorado '94: The apex of NU football at home. While the '92 game showed NU football was again reaching for the heights, this game showed NU was back at the highest level. A complete dismantling of a NC-caliber opponent.

Kansas St: '03: The Bo Pelini-goes-rageaholic-vs. Bill Snyder game. NU loses by 29, it's worst home loss since pre-Devaney. This game removed all doubt about how far the progam had slipped.

Texas Tech' 05: This game removed all doubt about snakebitten NU football had become, with its ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. A late NU interception to seal the win, right? Nope. Instead of simply falling down, the interceptor tries to run it back and fumbles, which TT of course recovers and goes on to win. (Deja vu Exhibit B: Texas '06, where NU completes a pass for a 1st down to run out the clock for the win. Or not. The receiver fumbles after gaining 1st down yardage, and UT recovers and wins.)
 
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Excellent thread and great one to read through, hard to argue about one list vs another. A lot of great games kind of depressing when thinking back on last couple decades. There have been some great games, just nothing that ever set us up on a trajectory of capturing a title run.
 
The GREATEST GAME was when the officials put 1 second back on the clock in the Big 12 Championship Game with TEXASS, so T.A. could win the game with a field goal--the result of that game made Husker admin./faithful understand that we MUST LEAVE the Big Texass and the 11 dwards CONF. and join the BIG10 conf--the GREATEST CONF. in my humble opinion.
 
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