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In the early 1980s, portable lighting was occasionally used to allow Nebraska to host late afternoon games, typically on Black Friday against rival Oklahoma. The first night game at Memorial Stadium was a 34–17 victory over Florida State on September 6, 1986, after which Bobby Bowden swore off any further trips to Lincoln. [13]
The game, a 29–20 Nebraska win, was nearly canceled due to the assassination of John F. Kennedy the day prior. [78] NU defeated Auburn in the Orange Bowl to finish 10–1 and ended the season ranked sixth, the highest final rank in school history. [i] Nebraska's surge into the upper echelon of college football continued through the mid-1960s.
5 Nebraska Cornhuskers: 27: Lincoln, Nebraska: Memorial Stadium [11] Nebraska Cornhuskers September 15, 2001 [c] 10 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets – 6 Florida State Seminoles – Tallahassee, Florida: None due to game postponement September 29, 2001 11 Kansas State Wildcats 37 3 Oklahoma Sooners: 38: Norman, Oklahoma: Oklahoma Memorial Stadium ...
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Here are the ten games that show how and why the fall of Nebraska football has taken place. Nov. 23, 2001: Colorado 62, Nebraska 36 Most important game of each season- 2001
Nebraska won the "Game of the Century" in 1971, of which Dave Kindred of The Courier-Journal wrote, "They can quit playing now, they have played the perfect game." Oklahoma won every matchup from 1972 to 1977, a streak that ended in 1978 , when Nebraska upset No. 1 Oklahoma; less than two months later, OU won a rematch in the Orange Bowl .
The Illinois vs Nebraska game is the 400th consecutive sellout in Memorial Stadium history in Lincoln. The attendance for the milestone game is 86,936. 400th consecutive sellout.
From December 1986 to January 1989, Nebraska's women's team won twenty-nine consecutive games at the Devaney Center, an arena record. [3] Decades later, NU's record-setting 32–2 season in 2009–10 produced the only regular-season sellout in program history, a 67–51 win for No. 3 Nebraska over the Missouri Tigers.