BIG TEN RIVALS ( A work in progress... )

skersfan said:
I think Wisconsin has established they are here to stay. The question now is will we live up to being their rival. I really do not think they are too concerned about Nebraska currently. They have been better than us for close to ten years I think
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I think they are as good as they will ever be, I dont think we are as good as we will be in the near future. Nebraska has way more going for its program then Wisconsin. We have way more tradition, way better facilities and I think we have an athletic department that is willing to do more to win than what theirs might be willing to do, thats just my opinion though.

However if you look at the last ten years they really havent been much better than us. They have 87 total wins and 2 BIG championships. We have 85 total wins with 4 CCG appearances. Now with that said I would much rather have the 2 conference championship, than the 4 appearances, those results also factor in the darkest period of Husker football since before the Bob father.

So I do think that Wisconsin will be our primary rival in the BIG, but I honestly feel when we look back in 50 years ( I hope I'm still alive!) that the results will be fairly heavily in our favor, 65% winning percentage. But like Notre Dame Joe said, with the crazy realignment now a days I'm not sure if we will ever have a true rival ever again. It takes time and with the constant change of college football, I dont think we will have alot of it

 
I was on my home from work on Monday (driving, couldn't call in) listening to Mark Packard on Sirius XM, and they had Iowa fans calling in like crazy bashing Nebraska. There was some serious hate coming in and not a single Nebraska fan called in to stand up. Pack kept saying that, "Nebraska is just getting DESTROYED by Iowa today!" This went on for about a half an hour! Apparently Iowa hates us more than we do them. It was disappointing, I had to change the station to Jam_On.

 
simplekin said:
I was on my home from work on Monday (driving, couldn't call in) listening to Mark Packard on Sirius XM, and they had Iowa fans calling in like crazy bashing Nebraska. There was some serious hate coming in and not a single Nebraska fan called in to stand up. Pack kept saying that, "Nebraska is just getting DESTROYED by Iowa today!" This went on for about a half an hour! Apparently Iowa hates us more than we do them. It was disappointing, I had to change the station to Jam_On.
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That is why the Black Friday game is hollow. Nebraska doesn't care about Iowa.

 
I hate to say it but the best thing for the Iowa Nebraska series would be for Iowa to win this year by a coiple points in the last few minutes. That will get all of Husker nation boiling for the next years meeing.

With that said, personally, I dont ever want to lose to Iowa again. Rivalry be damned, no better way to end the regular season than by beating Iowa and showing them why they will never be Nebraska.

 
deedsker said:
simplekin said:
I was on my home from work on Monday (driving, couldn't call in) listening to Mark Packard on Sirius XM, and they had Iowa fans calling in like crazy bashing Nebraska. There was some serious hate coming in and not a single Nebraska fan called in to stand up. Pack kept saying that, "Nebraska is just getting DESTROYED by Iowa today!" This went on for about a half an hour! Apparently Iowa hates us more than we do them. It was disappointing, I had to change the station to Jam_On.
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That is why the Black Friday game is hollow. Nebraska doesn't care about Iowa.
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I was under the impression that Iowa didn't want the Black Friday game because they're a bunch of hairy lady parts.

 
Iowa is Colorado again all over. EXACTLY THE SAME.

Yeah, they beat us in our house last year. Well, Colorado beat a select few times too. So what. Check back in ten years.

 
This brings me back to something I have said on this board, probably too many times. I hope Nebraska and OU can get an end of season game together; I think its good for football and the conference (I realize all the BS that needs to go down to make it happen, but still want it to happen)

 
Husker from Kansas said:
However if you look at the last ten years they really havent been much better than us. They have 87 total wins and 2 BIG championships. We have 85 total wins with 4 CCG appearances.
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You can't fairly compare '4 ccg appearances' since before 2011 Wisconsin had no championship game. Further, you are ignoring other things such as their 3 straight Rose Bowl appearances, end of season rankings, bowl games/bowl wins, etc. They have been a lot better than us.

IlliniHusker said:
On the national scene the truly great college football rivals occur when the outcome was significant in terms of ratings, conf titles and bowl selections.
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The first time we played them we were both ranked in the top 10, and the third time we played them was for a conference title...
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Count 'Bility said:
Iowa is Colorado again all over. EXACTLY THE SAME.

Yeah, they beat us in our house last year. Well, Colorado beat a select few times too. So what. Check back in ten years.
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I don't know, I think it can be a little different than Colorado. Sure they are both forced Rivalries, but with Colorado they had some mighty big shoes to fill. Meanwhile Iowa is just replacing Colorado, not that tall of a task. Iowa could develop into something special should Wisconsin ever regress and leave a void in the division.

Northwestern may regress as well sooner than later but I feel they will always be pesky when we play them, a good trait for a rivalry.

 
1995 Redux said:
Count 'Bility said:
Iowa is Colorado again all over. EXACTLY THE SAME.

Yeah, they beat us in our house last year. Well, Colorado beat a select few times too. So what. Check back in ten years.
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I don't know, I think it can be a little different than Colorado. Sure they are both forced Rivalries, but with Colorado they had some mighty big shoes to fill. Meanwhile Iowa is just replacing Colorado, not that tall of a task. Iowa could develop into something special should Wisconsin ever regress and leave a void in the division.

Northwestern may regress as well sooner than later but I feel they will always be pesky when we play them, a good trait for a rivalry.
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Colorado was pulling sh#t like this and trying to fabricate a rivaly with us LONG before the day-after-thanksgiving tradition with Oklahoma was axed.

 
Iowa doesnt have to be like Colorado though. They arent trying to be our rival and we arent trying to be theirs. The Big Ten wants it to happen. But if its meant to be itll happen naturally. It makes alot more sense than Colorado ever did.

 
A bunch of Iowa fans called into a radio show to trash Nebraska. No Nebraska fans called in to defend the Huskers or talk trash about Iowa. Why? Probably because we dont care one hoot. This is exactly what Nebraska/Colorado was. And ask any Husker fan that lives in Iowa. Or even Omaha or Council Bluffs and has to deal with Iowa fans on a regular basis. You would quickly get it.

 
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