Wow this thread was much less eventful than I thought or hoped it would be. However I doubt it would matter. How many times have we heard this before and then said freshman never see the field until they are juniors.
True freshman are good enough to start at Oregon, and SEC country but not Nebraska. Until I see a TRUE freshman start in a big game, Threads about freshman mean pretty much nothing. :dunno
Per wikipedia...
Tommie Frazier joined the Nebraska football team as an 18-year-old true freshman in the summer of 1992, at 6-1 and 190 pounds, and began as a backup to senior Mike Grant. Nebraska started the season with a 4-1 record under Grant, but an early 27-14 loss to the
Washington Huskies, ranked 11th in the nation, set up Frazier's opportunity to take over as the starting quarterback. He did so at
Missouri on Oct. 24, a 34-24 Nebraska victory.
[8] Frazier gained national notoriety with the following two games,[
citation needed] both blowout wins broadcast nationally in evening time slots on
ESPN. He led the team on
Halloween to a 52-7 win against a powerful
Colorado team that carried a 9-1-1 record and was led by
Kordell Stewart. Frazier threw sparingly, completing 4 of 12 passes for 55 yards and two touchdowns, but rushed 16 times for 86 of Nebraska's 373 rushing yards.
[9] Frazier's arm was showcased the following week, Nov. 7, in a 49-7 win over
Kansas.
Play-action fakes resulted in long touchdown passes of 36 and 46 yards, and Frazier finished the game with 6 of 11 passes completed, for 161 yards and three touchdowns.
[10]
Nebraska finished the season with a 9-2 record, and Frazier registered seven starts at quarterback.