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Friday, September 19, 2014

Nebraska vs. Miami!

This is to be the big home game of the year. Lots of tradition. That 1984 game for the national championship was the best game between these two powerful teams. Tom Osborne went for two and Nebraska failed losing by one point, Miami 31 Nebraska 30..

The !995 Orange Bowl was won by Nebraska 24, Miami 17. Nebraska won the national championship and Warren Sapp went home a loser.

And then there was Solich's team that lost 37 to 14 in the 2002 Rose Bowl. 38 players from that Miami team was drafted. The average winning margin of that team (Miami) was over 33 points.

Now we play again. Both teams are trying to get back in the nationa picture again after a few down years. Nebraska is pretty good but they can play poorly like they did against McNeese St.

Nebraska lost a couple of key players this week. Sam Burtch just come back to shore up the receivers and had a season ending leg injury and Mauro Bondi had a motorcycle accident and broke his collarbone. He has been key in kicking the ball deep enough into the endzone that opposing teams could not return for yardage.

Nebraska should be fired up although these kids don't know the rivalry. But the fans do so the crowd should be electric.

Miami has speed. They aren't that bad of a team.

Nebraska 31
Miami 30

Look to Northern Illinois to knock off Arkansas this week. Always good to see an SEC team get beat.
Also Central Michigan will knock off Kansas. Since the firing of Turner Gill, Kansas has been terrible.

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