Novak decided to go into the family trucking business instead of the NFL. One of the guys from Notre Dame said he couldn't wait to go pro so he wouldn't have to face Novak any more.
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Trivia Question
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Got another one:
Of the 96 legitimate, universally recognized national championship college football teams, so named by the AP, Coach's Poll, BCS, and/or CFP since 1936, how many and which have our Huskers squared off against?
Of the 96 legitimate, universally recognized national championship college football teams, so named by the AP, Coach's Poll, BCS, and/or CFP since 1936, how many and which have our Huskers squared off against?
More than 40 ?
We've played fewer than 40 national championship teams over the last 85 years...
I would guess we’ve played against all of them at one point. Unless you were talking about the specific championship game
Yeah, talking about the specific, individual team - like if we had played Alabama last season or LSU in 2019
Ok, so playing in their National Championship years, floor is probably 7 and maybe a dozen (some multiple times like OU & Miami).
Here is who I am sure of ... OU, CU, Penn State, Miami, FSU, Clemson, & Ga Tech.
Likely Texas during Vince Young’s Rose Bowl season.
Probables are Minnesota (1930s 40s) and Norte Dame from same time period. Less confident on Washington & BYU.
I’ll guess again at 10 now understanding the question better.
In total, the number of individual national championship squads that Nebraska has played is well over 12...
You did, however, correctly identify 10 of the 12 schools to have played the Huskers in a national championship season!
Oklahoma
Colorado
Penn St
Miami
Florida St
Clemson
Georgia Tech
Minnesota
Notre Dame
Washington
OU alone have had three National title coaches. Switzer & Bud Wilkinson can probably claim at least 3 each & then Bob Stoops added to their trophy case.
Miami earned two at our expense. The Go For 2 Orange Bowl & a pretty good beat down on a Crouch led Rose Bowl team.
If there’s two more teams out there, somebody else is going to have to identify them ... I’m ‘out of Schlitz’ for who is left.
Edit: maybe Army or the Stanford team Huskers lost to in Rose Bowl just before WWII.
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Guess would be won 5 - Hawaii
Lost 5 - Ohio
Didn’t Alabama win the title when they played us in the late 60s?
Yep, 7 losses to national champ Sooner teams - 1950,1955,1956,1974,1975,1985,2000
We actually lost to 3 different Miami titlists - 1983, 1991, 2001
Army won championships in 1944 and 1945, but we didn't play them
Stanford has never won a national title
Yep, Alabama won the 1965 AP title by beating us 39-28 in the Orange Bowl
We also lost in Birmingham to the 1978 national champion Crimson Tide
There is just one school left that no one has come up with yet!
You got Ohio right!
{6 losses}
Close with Hawaii - we're actually 4-0 in the Aloha state
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Arkansas in.1964.
