2000 Dec 30 Alamo Bowl - Nebraska vs Northwestern

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[@mrh3085]

I was at this game as well as the Big12 championship vs Texas. The Huskers have never lost in the Alamo Dome. #OurHouse #Huskers

[@HuskerIsNumberOne]

I'll never forget the day before this game, I was watching sports coverage on WGN and the sports anchor said something along the lines of "The good news is that Northwestern is in a bowl game. The bad news is that Northwestern is playing Nebraska." Those were the days. I miss them :(

[@lindseysummers5351]

HuskerIsNumberOne I'm feeling confident Coach Frost is going to bring that old luster back to Lincoln. The B1G is attracting some high-profile head coaches (Meyer, Harbaugh, D'Antonio, and now Frost), that hopefully will translate to a boost in recruiting. I think we're going to be satisfied. Go Big Red!!

[@rickmoreno6858]

@@lindseysummers5351 ya, it will not be the great husker you once knew, not with that shut offense he runs. They'll never win a title with the spread, because your dedense will not be dominant, I'm telling you go and look at all the spread offense teams and all there defenses are average. Now teams like alabama who run an offense built on the running game, have defenses that don't bend or break. If frost can switch back to the old I formation power running game then the husker will be great again until then, yes they'll play in bowls but not title games, I'm telling you guys. If Solich was still there you wouldn't have had 15 years of shit brand football, well minus 4 years of bo' s coaching they were a better team under him for sure

[@robjohnson8861]

"The bad news is that Northwestern is playing Nebraska.' Yeah, teams trembled at the thought of playing a team with 21-21 bowl record. When it mattered, most of the time Neb didn't.

[@HuskerIsNumberOne]

Rob Johnson That’s not the point I was trying to make.

[@robjohnson8861]

@@rickmoreno6858 "If Solich was still there you wouldn't have had 15 years of shit brand football" Yeah, and we are telling you the drunkard has 1 conference championship in 21 years and a 7-9 bowl record.

[@b7grams]

Vanden Bosch kind of gets overlooked when it comes to the better defensive players in Nebraska football history. He had a solid career at Nebraska and went on to have a very good career in the NFL including being a three-time Pro Bowler over 12 seasons (despite having a couple of knee injuries early in his career). A constant disruption in the backfield. It's a shame he wasn't around for the 2001 season, a player like him might have helped prevent the Colorado and Miami debacles at the end of that season, although he alone wouldn't have been enough to make up the gap to that Miami team in '01.

[@latarribell7827]

Nothing they could have done against that Miami team which rivals '95 Nebraska as greatest college teams in my lifetime. Colorado game was all on the coaches as they never adjusted to that stretch play. Pre-Callahan Huskers were a thing of beauty and I miss that brand of football.

[@orinyung8807]

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[@82dorrin]

Watched this game in an Applebee's in Scottsbluff, Nebraska.

[@bryanneideffer3969]

Onyx1916 hey! Someone who lives where I do! Had to be the older applebee's

[@82dorrin]

I was born in Scottsbluff, but I haven't lived there since I was little. I was actually visiting my Grandma that day. And yeah, it was the older Applebee's. :)

[@daveeast4272]

That’s awesome

[@mrh3085]

I was fortunate enough to be at this game. First game in a domed stadium and it was loud. GBR!

[@senorpimps4678]

Haha Clancy or some Irish called pub in omaha 88tb and dodge. I think they tore it down

[@walterlv01]

This was probably the last vintage performance by Nebraska as a national power - where they completely and totally overwhelmed a quality opponent. It was commonplace for a long time but they haven't been at this level since. Maybe Frost can eventually get them there but going to be tough to do in the Big 10.

[@pp3k3jamail]

There last vintage performance was 2001 vs Oklahoma

[@b7grams]

@@pp3k3jamail That's exactly what I was about to say. A few weeks later they traveled to Boulder and yeah...Husker football hasn't been quite the same ever since.

[@robjohnson8861]

Vintage performance over whom? Two games before, 3-8 Iowa beat Northwestern. And how was Nebraska paired with a team 10 spots below them in the polls?

[@tmarsh0307]

I still don't understand why Nebraska fired Frank Solich. He had that one bad year, 7-7 in 2002. But Bill Callahan was a disaster, Pelini specialized in 9-win seasons and Mike Riley was a terrible fit.

[@robjohnson8861]

@@tmarsh0307 easy pesy, you gordhead. Soilich was 16-12 his last 28 games....cough...with his recruits. See what his record was with the wizard of Os's.

[@timothyball7502]

Dan Alexander is a man who does this sport correct. No excessive celebration, just do the sport. I give him the title G.O.A.T.!

[@josephrandolphiii5649]

I see much of that in Yant, hopefully, he'll stick around & they will let him run

[@timothyball7502]

Joseph a comment for my comment, super.5-7-2022

[@tunafish1954]

Fumbled against texas, when we had the game wrapped up, GOATS don’t fumble games away

[@gregoryfreeman2269]

The last full season of elite Nebraska Football (ending with a bang, rather than a thud). The Huskers beat OU in '01, but longtime Husker fans know what happened after that...and what's happened since.

[@franciscoribeiro6223]

the end of the golden era for Nebraska

[@Tofuey]

I mean they did make a championship the next season

[@daveshearer1961]

They played in the national championship game the following season. But, after that, things began going downhill.

[@scottdevaney3928]

Cuz it was the end of Osborne's recruits Frank apparently wasn't out recruiting or something happened

[@rontrecker8822]

This is the game that Kyle Vanden Bosch totally took over defensively for Nebraska.

[@damienwhited87]

Northwestern led 10-7. Then Nebraska woke up & finished the game on a 59-7 run. Miss those days when Nebraska would whip teams by halftime or by sometime in the 3rd quarter.

[@lindseysummers5351]

Damien Whited Just give it time. Coach Frost is going to give these B1G defenses fits. If only he brings back the dominance of the Blackshirts of old, they are going to be kicking ass.

[@IanPrino]

I was going to say basically the same thing. If anyone can get the Huskers back to prominence it is Frost. I haven't been this excited for a season in quite some time.

[@michaelhamilton7102]

You can't win with losers & underachievers like Riley & Callahan. Hiring idiots like them..nearly destroyed the program. Solich and Pelini were fired for winning 9 games a year..the here comes these 2 clowns...what a ridiculous mistake.

[@rickmoreno6858]

@@lindseysummers5351 it's not going to be black shirt defense ever if he doesn't junk that offense, ya you'll score 40 points but your defense will give 41 up. Not until Nebraska maled a switch back to the old O formation power running game. And don't tell me it doesn't work, look at wosconsin, alabama, etc teams that play for titles year in year out have a power running game not that hurry up spread shit, God I hate that offense.

[@robjohnson8861]

@@michaelhamilton7102 Whose recruits was Callahan playing with mostly? The same coach that got run out of Neb with a 16-12 record after going 32-7 (with more of Osborne's recruits than his own). Facts matter.

[@taitrief]

I looked up to vandenbosh as a kid!!

[@williamdiemert2116]

Randy Walker R.I.P.

[@b7grams]

It's nice to see a guy like Pat Fitzgerald carry on Walker's legacy and remain committed to Northwestern despite bigger and better opportunities he's had elsewhere. I respect Northwestern's program a great deal because of their program's leadership the past couple of decades.

[@lindseysummers5351]

The Big Red was one of the best teams in the country in 2000. They got owned by Oklahoma but should have beaten K State. I wonder if they couldn't have beaten the Sooners in a rematch in a neutral site. This beating sent a message to the country for 2001. Too bad they didn't follow through.

[@gregoryfreeman2269]

Yeah, the Huskers got spanked in Norman early in the season (but got payback in '01 - with Eric's catch). So they ended one season on a serious up note, only to nosedive at the end of the next season... And they really haven't been the same (consistently) since.

[@bryanneideffer3969]

Jason Summers miss that rivalry so much Oklahoma was the only rival team I had lots of respect for so much tradition between the 2 wish it never was stopped,

[@lindseysummers5351]

Bryan Neideffer Not having permanent divisional crossover opponents like the SEC is just one way the Big XII fouled up. Oklahoma was Nebraska's only real rivalry from the former Big 8. Missouri was competitive up until about the 1970's. But the rest of them (Colorado, Kansas, K State, Iowa State, Oklahoma State) were very one-sided.

[@acetiger9337]

(I know late reply) It's STILL one sided.. 3 time straight Big 12 Titles... I will never say its getting boring (especially because of how we've been upset 7 years in a row one-two game(s) a season) but when you beat Texas twice in a row OK STATE 3 times in a row.. 3-ts conference titles.. I want an old rival back.. Can we like.. take Nebraska from the Big 10 back here? Maybe? - Oklahoma Fan

[@lindseysummers5351]

John Van Hof Wasn't going to happen. They felt disrespected and left for greener pastures. The whole Heroes Trophy game on Black Friday felt so flat the first time I saw it. Now, after getting blasted three straight times, I am looking for some payback!! They have other natural geographic rivalries with Wisconsin and Minnesota, plus the fact that everyone is gunning for Ohio State. Their presence in the B1G felt quite weird at first, but is beginning to grow on me. Hopefully Coach Frost is going to Indianapolis on a regular basis, along with some trips to Pasadena.

[@jeffreyault7586]

Biggest Offensive explosion in Bowl History! NW doesn't even know what hit them until they were behind by 3 TDs.

[@gregoryfreeman2269]

Felt sorry for the 'Cats. I like to see up-and-coming/longtime loser programs have some success, but I was happy to see N.U. come out and take care o' business after things went off the tracks vs. K-State.

[@lindseysummers5351]

Jeffrey Ault Unfortunately, Big Red has since lost that distinction to West Virginia (70-33 over Clemson in the 2011 Orange Bowl). Still, this was pretty gratifying to watch...

[@gynandroidhead]

This was a refreshing butt-kicking after a disappointing loss to K-State.

[@gregoryfreeman2269]

These were angry, motivated Huskers (after that K-State loss).

[@robjohnson8861]

Yeppers, Billy (KSU) was 5-36 against top 10 coaches. The drunkard was 1 of the 5 to lose to him.

[@dadestarmysteries255]

@@robjohnson8861 So? Most of those losses were when he was trying to build K-State from the bottom. Your stat is meaningless without the context. The fact he got any wins against top 10 teams is amazing with the program they were, and by the time any top teams were losing to them they were a top 10 team themselves, not the losers they once were. If only there were a Snyder to turn you around.

[@robjohnson8861]

@@dadestarmysteries255 God, I love owning you. The 5-36 stat is not my stat. It lives and breathes because it is so bad and obviously it has validity because he was compared to his peers. He was horrible against Top 10 teams his entire career. From a 2017 post I found which was before he got another win against a top 10 team. 1) Snyder is actually now 4-36 vs. AP Top 10. 2) His first AP Top 10 win was unfortunately vs. Kansas in 1995 -- but it was Kansas nonetheless in Manhattan. He never beat a Tom Osborne team. He only beat Nebraska ONCE as a top 10 team EVER: in 2000. All-time, Snyder is 1-11 vs. a Top 10 Nebraska team. 3) The vaunted 1998 team only played one top 10 team that season... AND KSU LOST (Texas A&M - in B12 CH game). Obviously that team went on to lose to unranked Purdue in the Alamo Bowl. 4) His first top 10 win vs. a team other than Kansas was Nebraska, in his 12th year. After that win he was 2-19 vs. the AP Top 10. That win. Against Solich. 5) After his first tenure ended in 2005, Snyder was 3-25 vs. the AP Top 10. 6) Since coming back, Snyder is just 1-11 vs. the AP Top 10. Of course, the sole win was vs. Bob Stoops of OU, vs. whom he has two of his four Top 10 wins ever (in 40 total games). 7) In Bowl games, Snyder of course is 0-fer vs. Top 10 teams all-time: 0-4. Against any AP ranked team in bowls, he's just 2-6 (including losses to #18 Syracuse and #14 UCLA) 8) All-time, Snyder's best bowl win by ranked opponent would be... either #14 Syracuse (1997 season) or #21 Tennessee (2000 season) -- both games in which KSU was the higher ranked team. 9) Snyder has only won one road game vs. a Top 10 team -- it came in his 21st season of coaching: 2006 at (yep, you guessed it) OU (24-19). This one win actually matches KU's road win total vs. the top 10 in the same period (KU beat #4 CU 40-24 in 1995). 10) Finally, Snyder is just 2-13 all-time at home vs. the Top 10 (again one of those wins vs. Kansas). He's 1-17 in true road games, and 1-6 in the post-season.

[@sorney98]

@@robjohnson8861 first off you haven’t owned anyone considering you do t know $hit about football. And secondly it’s hard to take anyone seriously when he hasn’t played a snap football, even flag football for crying out load. There’s a reason why no one likes you, respects you, let alone even listens to you. You think you actually know how things work in life let alone how things are in football yet you don’t. It’s truly a sad story. I’m sure your therapist really enjoys hearing your storytelling every session.

[@don4476]

Mike didn't like that pass to Davison? That's a pretty low percentage play, isn't it? Otherwise you'd see it 6 times a game, but you don't.

[@wdurazo22]

once upon a time Nebraska football mattered

[@gynandroidhead]

Almost every loss from 1962-2001 was vomit-inducing, either costing Nebraska a National Championship or a chance to play for one. A record of 398-78-5 Since the Miami loss in the 2002 Orange Bowl, we haven't even had a chance to throw up after a game which has had relevance to a National Championship.

[@robjohnson8861]

@John Van Hof lol. 2002 Rose Bowl not 2001

[@ryanedwards2668]

The announcer said thunder Collins hopefully he'll have a bright future. LOL

[@rappmasterdugg6825]

yeah, not so good.

[@Rcknroler913]

The last time Nebraska was Nebraska. Even though the cracks had already started to form.

[@don4476]

Run the ball. Win games.

[@nuduce123]

This is what Frost will have Nebraska back to. The biggest difference is Frost has a QB that is accurate and can throw on the run. I also notice that refs must have loved Crouch getting his head ripped off by the facemask and not throw a flag

[@jaboba69]

lol

[@grant8490]

That didn't age well.

[@scottdevaney3928]

You Can't Blame A Crouch for this being him being the start of the downfall I mean I wasn't happy with how he went home and cuz he didn't get his way but dude was he was Rock Solid who's as fast as any quarterback we've had and he got up after every hit not to mention what he did to that Iowa back going in for the touchdown and he was hesitant to pitch because they the running backs kept fumbling they cost us a championship in 99 I can see why he was hesitant to do it really sucks at Tom retired why he had Bobby Newcomb and Eric Crouch in the backfield he might have won one if not two championships more more

[@ozarkdaredevils]

Northwestern players where cocky and loudmouth , lots of cheap shoots......Nebraska ran the score up !!!!

[@dstreck9]

If I remember correctly, Northwestern did a lot of talking before this game. Nebraska shut them up as the game went along.

[@jmiller4280]

Remember the Titans theme intro.

[@wellitsherenow]

crouch was the start of nebraskas fall

[@robertherberg9595]

Lol, Mike Golic when he was young.

[@shelbycole2546]

And just as dumb

[@mrh3085]

We were all young Robert. 😏

[@braddvaughn6076]

You can see it here how a zone blocking scheme hurt nebraska ! when they put their linebackers up in the gaps and basically play a 5-2 the ends are having to play the run like linebackers, not the linebackers scraping over the top ! Might have worked if they still had grant wistrom at the time ! This is how colorado gashed them the next year! Northwestern just didn't have the athletes like colorado at the time! Once you break through the 5 yard area around the los there is only db's !

[@Lukuigi]

The amount of bitching from the announcers about running a flea flicker while up. As if a flea flicker is just a guaranteed touchdown. Looking back you realize how fast life goes, who has time to worry about what everyone else thinks about your team having fun.

[@bign8580]

Don't worry now-a-days that is all every team has to do for the ranking . And they would have ran it up on Nebraska if they could have ...... look ......... In college you have to let them play ....That is how they learn the good and the bad parts of sports ..........

[@timothyball742]

Take both N's, Nebraska and Northwestern. Lay on the side both have a z look. The helmets is a good place to look, purple z and red Z!

[@jeffrey717]

Really? And m's turned upside down are w's....wow!

[@mrh3085]

This is what you took from this game? Very telling…

[@don4476]

Golic doesn't agree with calling a scoring play.

[@tjmusa]

GO BIG RED

[@pretorious700]

Flea flicker, up by 35?

[@markstepanekii388]

Northwestern was talking a lot of shit leading up to this game

[@pretorious700]

@@markstepanekii388 Ok, I understand.

[@blainecole5452]

No quarter asked for, no quarter given.

[@timothyball7502]

'Pin their ears'. I have to say !Ouch!

[@williamdiemert2116]

Two B1G schools

[@tunafish1954]

we were pretty good…too bad ESPN and the SEC, made us and most of college football completely irrelevant 22 years later. #always follow the money.

[@bogo1992]

At the score to go 28 for Nebraska. Pushing up front on goal line. “That’s how you play goal line football...” As opposed to Frost calling 4 incomplete pass plays. Nebraska won’t compete again until it starts running smash mouth once again.

[@mrh3085]

Agreed but you need a dominant O line to do that.

[@pretorious700]

Why didn't they just put Michelle in the booth? ENOUGH ALREADY.

[@williamdiemert2116]

Two B1G school.

[@lindseysummers5351]

William Diemert Yep. Intradivisional game now.

[@johnmommens5952]

Anyone else see that there was a Ricketts and a Schwab both playing for the huskers.

[@rodolfohilliard1656]

Well, i c frost has nebraska back. Hahaha

[@tunafish1954]

Scott frost hides in closets

[@storiesworthtellingwiththe6810]

GBR

[@josephdelanzo605]

JJ

[@errose5967]

Franks heaving drinking and having an illegitimate kid would soon catch up with Nebraska 2 years after this which affected recruiting big time. Arguably they have really never recovered. T.O. made a bad hire in Frank.

[@errose5967]

I said "Arguably they have really never recovered" key word being "Arguably" Don't recall mentioning Callahan either. We won in those years because of T.O. not because of Frodo. When Frodo became coach he turned into a fucking drunk that had a illegitimate kid and recruiting suffered, because he was a fucking drunk. Remember his first year in Ohio? found pointed the wrong way on a one way street passed out at the wheel, DRUNK.

[@nebraskatpp]

Er Rose AND you forget the liaison with another coaches wife.... The Arkansas coach that is.

[@rickmoreno6858]

@@errose5967 ya you try and deal with the stress of husker nation and it's idolizition of Nebraska football. Fuck. And I'm pretty sure he was drugged with GHB, it was released his info on that dui, and who gives a fuck about children of another mother that's life, doesn't mean ruin a man's life and a football program to boot. Oh ya and I'm 100% sure that of all Callahan drafted recruits oh like suh, etc, they were all recruited by guess who? Solich. He could recruit. Fuck look at carriker, incognito, suh [again] tierre green, don't give me that it was recruiting. He lost a 4yr starting qb, it takes at least 2yrs to develop an option qb for that system, damn, it's not like these shit spread offense, that you plug in and play. But some come on naturally and play or are gifted, Ie frazier, crouch, Turner gill, etc. It all booked boiled down to what society has become , a "What have you done for me lately" and that is what has become husker football the last 15/16 years, well Pelini, was a good coach and again came another duo shit athletic director who didnt understand or didn't care

[@nd-mr7om]

@@rickmoreno6858 suh was a callahn recruit, graduated in 09. He was either apart of callahans first or second year clasd

[@rickmoreno6858]

@@nd-mr7om no he was a Solich recruit, it was the university of Nebraska led by Solich who found suh . Would have been coming to nu if Solich wasn't fired either way

[@rickmoreno6858]

Attention husker fans you shouldnt have allowed Solich to be fired! Look what he has done at the university of Ohio! They are in the MAC championship game just about every year. Look what has become of the greatest college program the last 15 years, it's sad, college football needs the university of Nebraska to be great again. I think frost can do it, but it's going To take just about 7 years before they'll be great again.

[@abramswoboda1127]

Well my belief is 3 more years and Nebraska will be playing for a National Title maybe sooner under Frost we stand I saw lot's of changes last year now let's see what happens this year Might be in a great suprize GBR

[@jrperot7503]

i think they'll win the West this year and Welp never look back

[@pp3k3jamail]

@@abramswoboda1127 lmao

[@robjohnson8861]

"Look what he has done at the university of Ohio! They are in the MAC championship game just about every year." What? He's been there 15 yrs and been in the championship 4 times. Yeah, 15/4 ='s 7.5 only in a Neb fan's head. Pop Quiz Shelia: How many of the 4 has he won?

[@robjohnson8861]

"but it's going To take just about 7 years before they'll be great again." lol, wouldn't 99% of his players be seniors in his 4th year. And you think he needs 3 yrs beyond that? Why is that?