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Miami blew out Nebraska 37–14 to win the national title. The Cornhuskers and Hurricanes scheduled a back-to-back matchup for the 2014 and 2015 seasons. Nebraska won the first game 41–31 at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, NE before the largest crowd to ever fill Memorial Stadium.
The 1962 Gotham Bowl was the second and final edition of the college football bowl game, played at Yankee Stadium in New York City on Saturday, December 15. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Part of the 1962–63 bowl game season, it matched the Nebraska Cornhuskers of the Big Eight Conference and the independent Miami Hurricanes .
The 1962 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska in the Big Eight Conference during the 1962 NCAA University Division football season.Led by first-year head coach Bob Devaney, the Huskers were 8–2 (5–2 in Big 8, third) in the regular season, [1] and played their home games on campus at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.
After a controversial championship game loss in 1993, he won his first major-poll national championship in 1994, avenging three previous Orange Bowl losses to Miami. [7] Osborne retired after taking Nebraska to seven straight New Year's Six bowl games.
Nebraska beat Miami for its first bowl victory in the 1962 Gotham Bowl, the first of six bowl meetings between the rivals. The 1984 Orange Bowl , considered among the best games in college football history, became a de facto national title game after a chaotic 1983 bowl season . [ 31 ]
Pat Bryant caught a 4-yard touchdown pass from Luke Altmyer in overtime to give No. 24 Illinois a 31–24 win over No. 22 Nebraska in Lincoln to open Big Ten conference play. The Fighting Illini ...
The Gotham Bowl was a post-season college football bowl game that was played in New York City, in 1961 and 1962. [1] The game was initially created as a fund-raising attempt for the March of Dimes . The game was not a success financially: the two games that were played both lost money as few fans were willing to sit through the frigid December ...
Miami finished the season 7–4. The team's offense scored 189 points while the defense allowed 217 points. The Hurricanes competed in the final Gotham Bowl, held at Yankee Stadium. Just 6,166 people came to the game, in which the Nebraska defeated Miami, 36–34. It was the only college bowl game ever played at the stadium.