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The 1972 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska in the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. The team was coached by Bob Devaney, in his eleventh and final season with the Huskers, and played their home games in Memorial Stadium in Lincoln. Nebraska, national champions in 1970 and 1971, entered the ...
The team has completed 135 seasons and played 1,394 games. Nebraska is among the most storied programs in college football history and has the eighth-most all-time victories among FBS teams. [ 1 ] NU has won forty-six conference championships and five national championships ( 1970 , 1971 , 1994 , 1995 , and 1997 ), along with seven other ...
The Cornhuskers repeated as national champion the following season with Tagge as the full-time starter, a team that is often considered one of the best in college football history. [20] Nebraska was challenged just once all season, a 35–31 victory over No. 2 Oklahoma in Norman that was billed the "Game of the Century."
The 1972 Orange Bowl was the 38th edition of the college football bowl game, played at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, on Saturday, January 1. [3] The final game of the 1971–72 bowl season, it matched the top-ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers of the Big Eight Conference and the #2 Alabama Crimson Tide of the Southeastern Conference (SEC).
Nebraska's football history unofficially began in 1889 when a group of civil engineering students chopped down enough trees to create a small field at the corner of 10th and R Streets in Lincoln. [2] A team was formally organized in 1890 under the direction of Dr. Langdon Frothingham, a newly hired veterinary pathologist from Harvard University.
Rodgers was one of six Nebraska Cornhuskers on this All-Century Team 85 man roster; the others being Rich Glover, Dave Rimington, Dean Steinkuhler, Tommie Frazier and Aaron Taylor. [11] In 1999, Rodgers was selected as a starting receiver to the Walter Camp Football Foundation College Football All Century Team.
The streak reached 200 on October 29, 1994, a dominant win for Nebraska over second-ranked Colorado; the Cornhuskers leapt to No. 1 and won Osborne's first consensus national title in January. [5] The win over CU came in the middle of a forty-seven-game win streak, the third-longest in major college football history.
When Nebraska crushed unbeaten Alabama 38–6 in the Orange Bowl to finish 13–0, the Cornhuskers were said by many to be the greatest team in college football history. [13] In fact, the Huskers defeated the teams ranked second, third, and fourth in the final AP Poll: Oklahoma, Colorado, and Alabama. [14]