2011 CornHUSKE r F o o T BALL Nebraska Media Relationsw One Memorial Stadium w Lincoln, NE 68588-0123 w Phone: (402) 472-2263 w [email protected] 2011 Nebraska Schedule Game 11: Date Opponent (TV) Time/Result Sept. 3 Chattanooga (BTN) W, 40-7 Nebraska at Sept. 10 Fresno State (BTN) W, 42-29 Sept. 17 Washington (ABC) W, 51-38 Michigan Sept. 24 at Wyoming (Versus) W, 38-14 Oct. 1 at Wisconsin (ABC) L, 48-17 Nov. 19, 2011 | Michigan Stadium Oct. 8 Ohio State (ABC) W, 34-27 Ann Arbor, Mich. | 11 a.m. CT Oct. 22 at Minnesota (ABC) W, 41-14 Oct. 29 Michigan State (ESPN) W, 24-3 Huskers Wolverines Record: 8-2, 4-2 Nov. 5 Northwestern (BTN) L, 28-25 Record: 8-2, 4-2 Game Information Nov. 12 at Penn State (ESPN) W, 17-14 Rankings: Television: ESPN Rankings: Nov. 19 at Michigan (ESPN) 11 a.m. Coaches–16 Radio: Husker Sports Network Coaches–18; AP–20 Last Game: Nov. 25 Iowa (ABC) 11 a.m. AP–17 Capacity: 109,901 Dec. 3 Big Ten Championship Game (Fox) Last Game: def. Illinois, 31-14 Surface: FieldTurf at Indianapolis, Ind. 7 p.m. def. Penn State, 17-14 Coach: Brady Hoke Series Record: Michigan leads, 3-2-1 All times Central Coach: Bo Pelini UM/Career Record: Career/NU Record: In Ann Arbor: Michigan leads, 2-1 8-2/1st year, Television 38-14/4th year Last Meeting: Nebraska 32, Michigan 28 55-53/9th year ESPN vs. Michigan: 0-0 2005 Alamo Bowl vs. Nebraska: 0-1 Dave Pasch, Play-by-Play Chris Spielman, Analyst The Matchup Urban Meyer, Analyst Nebraska completes the road portion of its 2011 schedule on Saturday when it travels to Ann Arbor, Mich., to take Quint Kessenich, Sidelines on the Wolverines in a Big Ten Legends Division matchup. The matchup of two of the four winningest programs in college football history will be televised by ESPN and kickoff is set for Noon ET at Michigan Stadium. Radio The Huskers improved to 4-2 in the Big Ten and 8-2 overall with a hard-fought 17-14 victory at Penn State on Husker Sports Network Saturday. Nebraska jumped to a 17-0 lead midway through the third quarter and held off a late Nittany Lion rally to Greg Sharpe, Play-by-Play secure the victory. The win kept Nebraska one game behind Legends Divison leader Michigan State with two games Matt Davison, Color to play in the regular season. The victory also allowed Nebraska to climb two spots to 17th in the AP poll, one place Lane Grindle, Sidelines to No. 16 in the USA Today Coaches Poll and NU is No. 16 in the latest BCS rankings. Michigan will also bring an 8-2 overall record and a 4-2 mark in Big Ten play into Saturday’s game, following a Internet 31-14 victory at Illinois on Saturday. The Wolverines also need a victory on Saturday to keep their hopes of playing Huskers.com in the inaugural Big Ten Championship Game alive. Michigan is ranked 20th in this week’s Associated Press poll, 18th HSN free audio in the coaches poll and checks in at 18th in the BCS rankings. Live stats, blog, game-day information, photos Michigan is the winningest college football program of all-time with 892 victories, while Nebraska is in fourth at 845 wins. The game is also likely to feature the largest crowd ever to witness a Nebraska football game. The Huskers Other have played in front of just two crowds of more than 100,000 fans, with the crowd of 110,753 at Penn State in 2002 Satellite Radio being the largest crowd for a Nebraska game in its 122-year history. Sirius Channel 91, XM 91 The Series National Radio (ESPN Radio) Saturday’s game will be the first regular-season meeting between the two schools since 1962, when NU won at Michigan 25-13 in Bob Devaney’s first season as head coach. The two most recent meetings have come in bowl games, A Numbers Game with Michigan winning the 1986 Fiesta Bowl and NU capturing a 32-28 win in the 2005 Alamo Bowl. The Coaches Nebraska: Bo Pelini (Ohio State, ‘90) owns a 38-14 record in his fourth season. Pelini has guided NU to nine or 1,072 more wins in each of his first three seasons as head coach, joining Bob Devaney, Tom Osborne and Frank Solich in Rex Burkhead’s rushing yardage total through 10 accomplishing that feat. Pelini has guided Nebraska to a conference championship game the past two seasons and games. He is the first Husker to eclipse 1,000 yards to at least a share of the Big 12 divisional crown his first three seasons as head coach. Michigan: Brady Hoke (Ball State, ‘82) holds an 8-2 record in his first season at Michigan, and a 55-53 record in rushing in 10 games or fewer since quarterback his ninth season overall as a college head coach. Hoke previously served as head coach at Ball State (2003-08) and Jammal Lord also topped the mark in 10 games in San Diego State (2009-10) before taking over in Ann Arbor in January. 2002 (1,155 yards). Burkhead is the first I-back to accomplish the feat since Dahrran Diedrick, who had Nebraska Football 1,097 rushing yards after 10 games in 2001. Overall, Nebraska is 845-347-40 all-time, one of just eight schools with 800 all-time victories w Nebraska has won five national championships (1970, 1971, 1994, 1995, 1997). w The Cornhuskers have won 43 conference championships. w 47 all-time Burkhead is only the third NU I-back to total 1,000 bowl appearances rank fifth nationally. w Since 1970, NU has 411 wins, 26 more than any other school. w Nebraska’s yards rushing in 10 games or fewer since 1997. 99 football Academic All-Americans lead the nation. w The Huskers have had 107 All-Americans in school history. Game 11 at Michigan 1 2011 Nebraska Football 2011 Nebraska Football Huskers.com Nebraska-Penn State Stat Wrap Noting Game 10...Nebraska 17, Penn State 14 Team Stats NU PSU 4Nebraska’s victory over No. 12 Penn State marked the highest ranked team Nebraska has defeated away from First Downs 21 21 home since a victory over sixth-ranked Tennessee in the 2000 Fiesta Bowl. It is also the highest ranked team Rushes-Yards 48-188 43-166 Nebraska has defeated in a true away game since a 27-14 win at second-ranked Washington in 1997. Passes 13-27-0 17-35-0 Passing Yards 143 209 4Nebraska improved to 13-5 on the road under Head Coach Bo Pelini, including 3-4 in road games against ranked Total Offense 331 375 teams. This marks the third straight season Nebraska has posted a road win against a ranked opponent (at No. 24 3rd-Down Conversions 6-of-16 5-of-16 Missouri in 2009, at No. 17 Oklahoma State in 2010). Turnovers 1 1 Penalties 6-45 3-32 4Nebraska improved to 11-3 in November in Bo Pelini’s four seasons as head coach. Time of Possession 29:03 30:57 4The crowd of 107,903 at Beaver Stadium was the second-largest crowd ever for a Nebraska football game. The NU Rushing Leaders Rex Burkhead–25 carries, 121 yards, TD only larger crowd was 110,753 in Nebraska’s previous visit to Penn State on Sept. 14, 2002. Taylor Martinez–19 carries, 56 yards 4Junior I-back Rex Burkhead rushed 26 times for 121 yards and a 14-yard touchdown run. It marked Burkhead’s NU Passing Leader sixth 100-yard rushing game of the season and the 10th of his career. Burkhead also scored a rushing touchdown for Taylor Martinez–13-26-0, 143 yards NU Receiving Leaders the 10th straight game this season. He has 14 rushing touchdowns this season and 16 overall touchdowns in 2011. Kenny Bell–4 receptions, 42 yards 4Burkhead went over 1,000 yards to post the 31st 1,000-yard rushing season in school history. Burkhead pushed Kyler Reed–3 receptions, 40 yards his season total to 1,072. It marks the third straight year Nebraska has had a 1,000-yard rusher (Roy Helu Jr. in 2009 NU Defensive Leaders Will Compton–6 UT, 7 AT, 13 TT, 1-1 TFL and 2010). Lavonte David–6 UT, 3 AT, 9 TT 4Sophomore quarterback Taylor Martinez completed 13-of-26 passes for 143 yards. Martinez completed 11-of- Cameron Meredith–2 UT, 2 AT, 4 TT, 1-7 sack, fumble caused NU Special Teams Leader 18 passes in the final three quarters. With his 143 passing yards, Martinez moved up two places to seventh on the Brett Maher–8 punts, 45.0 average, 5 inside 20, 41-yd FG Nebraska career passing list. He now has 3,319 career passing yards, and against Penn State he moved past Vince Ferragamo (3,224, 1975-76) and Turner Gill (3,317, 1980-83). 2011 Big Ten Standings Legends Division 4Martinez also rushed for 56 yards and accounted for 199 yards of total offense to become the eighth player in Records school history to reach 5,000 career yards in total offense. Martinez has 5,052 yards of total offense to rank No. 7 Team Big Ten Overall Next Game in school history. Michigan St. 5-1 8-2 Indiana Nebraska 4-2 8-2 at Michigan 4Senior linebacker Lavonte David recorded nine tackles, with his final tackle stopping Penn State short on a 4th- Michigan 4-2 8-2 Nebraska and-1 from the Nittany Lion 37-yard line with 1:49 remaining.