OT: Nebraska's Schedule for 2011 Bound to Change Now
| Date | Opponent | Location | Time(PST) | Media | Results |
| Sat, Sept 10 | Fresno State | Memorial Stadium | TBA | ||
| Sat, Sept 17 | Washington | Memorial Stadium | TBA | ||
| Sat, Sept 24 | Wyoming | at Laramie, WY | TBA | ||
| Sat, Oct 08 | Kansas State | Memorial Stadium | TBA | ||
| Sat, Oct 15 | Texas | at Austin, TX | TBA | ||
| Sat, Oct 22 | Oklahoma State | Memorial Stadium | TBA | ||
| Sat, Oct 29 | Missouri | at Columbia, MO | TBA | ||
| Sat, Nov 05 | Iowa State | Memorial Stadium | TBA | ||
| Sat, Nov 12 | Kansas | at Lawrence, KS | TBA | ||
| Sat, Nov 19 | Texas A&M | Memorial Stadium | TBA | ||
| Nov 25 - 26 | Colorado | at Boulder, CO | TBA | ||
As you all can see this schedule is bound to change now that we have joined you're conference but I wanted to know what a suitable Big Ten schedule for us would be good? Like who we should play in our first year in the conference. I'd love to play you guys and Ohio State in the same year but I don't know what the odds would be of that happening.
It all depends on how they draw up the divisions. The better Big Ten football schools lately have been Ohio State, Penn State, and Iowa. I suppose Wisconsin also to a lesser degree. By 2011 Michigan will (hopefully) once again be in a place to do some damage.
kick the shit out of them in Columbus or beat them here at Memorial. Here's the teams I would like to see placed on the 2011 schedule. Penn State, Wisconsin, Iowa, Ohio State, Michigan, Indiana, Northwestern and Purdue.
With an attitude like that you'll fit in just fine around here. Welcome to MGoBlog and the Big Ten (belated on both).
I, too, am looking forward to OSU playing Nebraska. I've never been to Omaha, but I'm keen to see it. Besides, this will give us another quality win.
Because we play in Lincoln :) lol. I live in Omaha.
I live up in the Bennington area. Omaha is a better place anyway, except on gamedays.
on gameday. My father and mother bleed red and cream year in and year out. I've got season tickets again this year so I'm really looking forward to seeing how our season will go and would love to take a home a Big 12 championship before we make our official leave from it. My street though goes crazy on gamedays. People out in red grilling, playing beer pong, corn hole and have their tvs outside so the whole street watches the games together. It's really awesome!
I don't know what it is like around here. We go tailgating around Memorial stadium. The place we tailgate at is like 4 stalls away from Larry the Cable Guys so it is pretty awesome.
I'm going to act as though I didn't make a mistake and point out that I never said we'd be playing anyone in Omaha.
You can't help being a dumbass. You're an Ohio State fan.
You can't help being a dumbass. You're an Ohio State fan.
Can never be said too many times.
That was a solid recovery.
I tried my best but I guess not good enough.
regardless of where the Nebraska/OSU game takes place, there will be too much red in either stadium and not enough maize and blue
University of Nebraska is in Lincoln not Omaha. sry. Most people want the NU - OSU match up because of Bo growing up a OSU fan.
sry someone corrected it first.
Bo Pelini was a safety and 2-yr starter at ohio st. A bit of an understatement describing him as a buckeyes fan.
i thought it was a giant space nipple. then, i was like, "oh, meteor game"
the earliest reference of which I am aware:
http://georgiasports.blogspot.com/2005/09/rooting-for-cataclysm-meteor-…
that gray ring is the next Big House renovation, and the meteor-looking thing is what happens when Dilithium is unleashed at its full potential. Easy mistake
Which makes it a very simple choice.
Good luck trying to pull out a win there. Your Texas not-so-buddies pulled one off, but ask them how much fun it is down there.
And wear body armor...Lincoln, it ain't.
I think we need to wait to see what the conference split is like and that will go a long way to determine the schedules. I look forward to playing Nebraska, hope to win some of those also.
Whoever the conference sets up as your "rivals", plus however many other Big 10 teams it takes to fill your conference schedule.
Jerk comment concluded, I think we're all very interested to see how the schedule changes shake out since every Big 10 team will have to make changes now.
The Big House, The Shoe, Happy Valley
Those will be good "First time in the conference visits" but I doubt they'll all be in year 1.
My guess is they'll try to get you guys playing your natural geographical rivals right off the bat: Minnesota, Iowa, Wisco, but I dunno who would be home.
for a good (winnable) schedule hope you get IU, U of I and Northwestern.
On the other hand, had any more guy at the bar problems??? /sarcasm on last sentence only
lol it's Omaha you never know what you'll get.
I had this long thought out response written out, took probably about 5 minutes and by the time i hit "Save" the thread was (rightfully so) locked. the thread was perfect as is.
Go get an MGoRoom, you two!
Grumble grumble grumble
But i picture cowboy boots being involved somehow. Just get the free drinks out of it and be happy.
Don't you guys play every year? Are the Cornhuskers playing the Sooners this year? Is it just on the off chance of a B-12 title game? Did the Big 12 screw that rivalry up all by themselves, without Big Ten assistance?
Is your gig with Washington a home-and home contract? I presume so. That's what they like to do.
And how did you get roped into a game @ the Wyoming Cowboys? There are more more Nebraska season-ticket holders, than there are people in Laramie!
Once the Cornhuskers are into a regular Big Ten schedule, do you think that NU would get into a long term out-of-conference deal with Oklahoma, a la Michigan-Notre Dame?
I too am really pissed that we aren't playing them in 2011 and I'm hoping we continue to have them on our schedule in the future because that's just ruining tradtion. And for all I know Big 12 officials may have very well set it up so we don't play them but to me that would make absolutely zero sense. We do play them in 2012.
The Washington series is a two year deal with 2011-2012 why they wanted to set the Huskies up for two years in a row is beyond me. I think they want to play a more wider schedule so that would inculde Pac 10 teams too although I think we'll win both games.
Again back to Oklahoma you're guess is as good as mine on that one but keep in mind we have to go to Austin to play the Longhorns in Texas so that game will be hard enough (although I am truly hoping we demolish them)
For the Wyoming game yeah lol that might as well be a home game for us, which in the end is probably what is going to happen lol.
To be honest the OU rivalry is almost dead, it's not gone but holds almost no meaning like it used to. They NEED to change that.
To be honest some of college football's best rivalries have lost their momentum. Ohio State vs Michigan no offense at all to Michigan fans on this board but that game has lost a lot of competition. The last Ohio State Michigan game I saw that was amazing to watch and very exciting was the 2006 game when OSU was 1st and Michigan was 2nd. I'm a Husker fan so I don't remember any of the classic OSU Michigan games sadly. Sorry guys lol.
And I agree about the Oklahoma rivalry that now a days it does not mean anything anymore. Back in the days when Nebraska was a powerhouse and strong team this game use to be so amazing to watch but now not so much.
Oh and about the OSU Michigan game, you guys will be back! Just give it time. Who knows! You might upset the Bucks this year. It is "The Game" anything could happen!
It just seems like UM is going through the Callahan days that NU had to endure. The difference is RRod isn't a dipshit fuck up like Callahan was. We need this season!!
I would say Insight, Alamo or possibly Capital One?
Probably the Insight versus a Big Twelve North team. If we go to the Little Caesar's Bowl, well, I don't know what would happen.
It isn't affiliated with the Big Ten anymore.
...the rivalry is still strong. Michigan dominated from 1988-2000, going 10-2-1. OSU has gone 8-1 since 2001. Usually, the cyclical nature of the rivalry goes a little faster than that, but the streaks have given outsiders an illusion that the rivalry isn't as intense anymore. However, the games are still as intense on the field as they ever were.
Now that you will be looking forward to the Big Ten, you may see Michigan/OSU with different eyes this year. Especially if it turns out, as would be my preference, to be a Michigan "upset for the ages" of previously undefeated OSU.
As a member of the BIG TwelvEN, Nebraska's 2011 OOC schedule should be as follows:
Ball State
@Notre Dame
Bowling Green
Eastern Michigan
I'd want as many marquee match-ups as possible. Might make for a brutal schedule for Nebraska, but you've got to advertise your new product! Nebraska needs to play as many of the following as possible: Iowa, Michigan, Ohio St., Penn St. and Wisconsin.
thanks a lot
I'm not sure the guys from the '97 teams would go for that one. Imagine if that were riding on the line when we had Sheridan playing QB. Shudder...
and would beat the hell out of some bullshit new rivalry game/trophy that the bigwigs dream up.
The below schedule is based off of my pure boredom at work and is on the assumption (ass-u-me) of PSU being in the west.
03 SEP: Northern Illinois
10 SEP: Fresno St.
17 SEP: Washington
24 SEP: @ Wyoming
01 OCT: BYE
08 OCT: MINN
15 OCT: @ tOSU (lock your coolers)
22 OCT: ILL
29 OCT: @ PSU
05 NOV: MSU
12 NOV: @ IOWA
19 NOV: @ PUR
26 NOV: WIS
7 home games, if the Big Ten adds the 9th conf. game take away N. ILL and add UM/IND/NW and move the bye week.