FOOTBALL 5 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS • 46 CONFERENCE TITLES • 53 BOWL GAMES GAME 10: NEBRASKA 43 NEBRASKA (4-5, 3-3) Vs
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NEBRASKA FOOTBALL 5 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS • 46 CONFERENCE TITLES • 53 BOWL GAMES GAME 10: NEBRASKA 43 NEBRASKA (4-5, 3-3) vs. MINNESOTA (4-5, 1-5) 1 ARKANSAS STATE 36 NOV. 11, 2017 • 11 A.M. (CT) Saturday, Sept. 2 • 7 p.m. (BTN) MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. • TCF BANK STADIUM ® Lincoln, Neb. • Memorial Stadium NEBRASKA CAPACITY: 50,805 • SURFACE: FIELDTURF MINNESOTA OREGON 42 CORNHUSKERS ALL-TIME SERIES: UM, 31-24-2 GOLDEN GOPHERS 2 NEBRASKA 35 Saturday, Sept. 9 • 3:30 p.m. (FOX) • Record: 4-5 (3-3, Big Ten) • Record: 4-5 (1-4, Big Ten) Eugene, Ore. • Autzen Stadium • Last Game: lost to • Last Game: lost to Michigan, 33-10 NORTHERN ILLINOIS 21 Northwestern, 31-24 (ot) • Rankings: Not ranked 3 • Rankings: Not ranked • Coach: P.J. Fleck NEBRASKA 17 • Coach: Mike Riley FS1 • At Minnesota: 4-5 (first year) Saturday, Sept. 16 • 11 a.m. (FS1) • At Nebraska: 19-16 (3rd year) Brian Custer, Play-by-Play • Career: 34-27 (5th year) Lincoln, Neb. • Memorial Stadium • Career: 112-96 (17th year) Ben Leber, Analyst • vs. Nebraska: first meeting • vs. Minnesota: 2-0 NEBRASKA 27 4 RUTGERS 17 THE MATCHUP HUSKER RADIO Saturday, Sept. 23 • 2:30 p.m. (BTN) Nebraska heads to Minnesota for the Greg Sharpe Lincoln, Neb. • Memorial Stadium 105 first of two consecutive November Matt Davison Nebraska redshirt road games. The Huskers will take on Ben McLaughlin NEBRASKA 28 freshman and 5 the Golden Gophers on Saturday at NATIONAL SIMULCASTS ILLINOIS 6 Minnesota native JD Minnesota's TCF Bank Stadium. Kickoff • Sirius:134 • XM: 196 Spielman has 1,154 is set for shortly after 11 a.m. CT, with Friday, Sept. 29 • 7 p.m. (FS1) Champaign, Ill. • Memorial Stadium all-purpose yards this national television coverage on FS1. season. Spielman is The game can also be heard on the IMG Husker Sports Network. #9 WISCONSIN 38 105 yards from the 6 Nebraska freshman Saturday's game is a key contest for the bowl hopes of both Nebraska NEBRASKA 17 all-purpose yardage and Minnesota, who both enter the game with a 4-5 record with three Saturday, Oct. 7 • 7 p.m. (BTN) record of 1,259 yards games to play. The Huskers and Gophers both need a pair of victories in Lincoln, Neb. • Memorial Stadium by Ahman Green in the final three weeks to secure a postseason berth. #9 OHIO STATE 56 1995. 7 Nebraska's path to a bowl game got a little more difficult following a 31-24 NEBRASKA 14 overtime loss to Northwestern on Saturday in Lincoln. The Huskers took Saturday, Oct. 14 • 6:30 p.m. (FS1) a touchdown lead into the final quarter, but the Wildcats rallied to force Lincoln, Neb. • Memorial Stadium 3 their third sraight overtime and prevailed in the extra session. Nebraska senior NEBRASKA 25 Minnesota enters the game with a 4-5 record and a 1-5 mark in Big Ten 8 PURDUE 24 linebacker Chris Conference play, following a 33-10 loss at Michigan on Saturday. The Saturday, Oct. 28 • 6:30 pm. (BTN) Weber has three Gophers opened the year with a 3-0 non-conference record, before West Lafayette, Ind. • Ross-Ade Stadium consecutive games finding the going tougher in conference action, and posting a 1-5 record with double-figure in Big Ten action. NORTHWESTERN 31 tackles, including a 9 team-high 11 against Minnesota is led by first-year head coach P.J. Fleck, who guided Western NEBRASKA 24 (OT) Northwestern. Weber Michigan to an unbeaten regular season in 2016. The Gophers have Saturday, Nov. 4 • 2:30 p.m. (BTN) leads the Huskers a strong defense, ranking fifth in the Big Ten, including second in the Lincoln, Neb. • Memorial Stadium with 77 tackles on the conference in pass defense. NEBRASKA 4-5 season. 10 NEBRASKA FOOTBALL TOP 10 MINNESOTA 4-5 • Nebraska is 893-377-40 all-time, one of only 10 schools with 800 wins. Saturday, Nov. 11 • 11 a.m. (FS1) Minneapolis, Minn. • TCF Bank Stadium • The Cornhuskers are tied for fourth all-time with their 893 victories. 58 NEBRASKA 4-5 Saturday's game • Nebraska has won five national titles (1970, 1971, 1994, 1995, 1997). 11 #16 PENN STATE 7-2 will mark the 58th • The Huskers have won an NCAA record 46 conference championships. all-time meeting Saturday, Nov. 18 • TBA (TBA) between Nebraska • Nebraska’s 53 all-time bowl appearances rank second in NCAA history. University Park, Pa. • Beaver Stadium and Minnesota. The • Three Huskers have won the Heisman Trophy (Rodgers, Rozier, Crouch). #25 IOWA 6-3 Huskers have played 12 Minnesota more than • Nebraska’s 107 football Academic All-Americans lead the nation. NEBRASKA 4-5 any other Big Ten • The Huskers have 110 first-team All-Americans in school history. Friday, Nov. 24 • 3 p.m. (FS1) opponent. NU and Lincoln, Neb. • Memorial Stadium • Nebraska football is the only team in any sport in NCAA history to total Minnesota met for 100 athletic and academic All-Americans. 19 straight seasons (1934-1952). • Memorial Stadium has been sold out every game since Nov. 3, 1962, a streak of 360 consecutive sellouts. 2017 NEBRASKA FOOTBALL GAME NOTES PAGE 3 NEBRASKA-MINNESOTA SERIES from $18.5 million in his first year to more than Games: 57 $40 million by 2007 and became self-sufficient. Standing: Minnesota leads, 31-24-2 In Moos’ Oregon tenure, the Ducks won 13 At Minneapolis: Minnesota leads, 21-13-2 Pac-10 championships in six different sports; At TCF Bank Stadium: Nebraska leads, 2-1 and UO student-athletes earned 722 academic all-conference selections, 34 Academic All- NEBRASKA-MINNESOTA America selections, nine NCAA Postgraduate BIG TEN STANDINGS MEETINGS AS BIG TEN FOES Scholars and one NCAA Top VIII Award. WEST DIVISION Rank Place Team Overall Big Ten Date Site NU/UM Result Score Moos came to Oregon after five years as the 1. Wisconsin 9-0 6-0 10/22/2011 Minneapolis 13/ W 41-14 University of Montana’s director of athletics. He 2. Northwestern 6-3 4-2 11/17/2012 Lincoln 16/ W 38-14 began his career in 1982 as assistant athletic 3. Iowa 6-3 3-3 10/26/2013 Minneapolis / L 23-34 director at Washington State and also was the Nebraska 4-5 3-3 11/22/2014 Lincoln 21/ L 24-28 school’s associate director. He was director 10/17/2015 Minneapolis / W 48-25 5. Purdue 4-5 2-4 of development for more than five years and 11/12/2016 Lincoln 21/ W 24-17 6. Minnesota 4-5 1-5 associate director for nearly two, supervising 7. Illinois 2-7 0-6 Series scoring Total Average all external operations. For eight years prior Nebraska 972 17.1 to that, he managed and owned private EAST DIVISION Minnesota 932 16.9 businesses in Washington and Oregon. Place Team Overall Big Ten 1. Ohio State 7-2 5-1 • Nebraska holds a 4-2 edge in the series since Moos co-captained Washington State’s 1972 Michigan State 7-2 5-1 joining the Big Ten Conference in 2012. team and was first-team All-Pac-8. 3. Penn State 7-2 4-2 Michigan 7-2 4-2 • Before joining the Big Ten in 2011, Minnesota RILEY IN THIRD SEASON was Nebraska's most frequent opponent 5. Rutgers 4-5 3-3 among conference schools. The teams met AT HELM OF HUSKER PROGRAM 6. Maryland 4-5 2-4 51 times before the Huskers joined the Big Head Coach Mike Riley is in his third season 7. Indiana 3-6 0-6 Ten, including 19 straight seasons from 1934 as the Nebraska head coach in 2017. Riley has to 1952, and eight straight years from 1967 to guided the Huskers to an 19-16 record. BIG TEN CONFERENCE 1974. • Riley is in his 26th season as a head coach, PLAYER OF THE WEEK NOMINEES • Minnesota's victory in 2013 ended a 16-game tying for the second-most experience of any Game Offense Defense Sp. Teams Frosh Nebraska win streak in the series, a streak that FBS head coach entering the 2017 season. ASU Bryant Spielman Spielman ORE Morgan Williams spanned from 1963 to 2012. Nebraska posted • Riley is one of eight active FBS head coaches NIU five shutouts during that win streak. who also has experience as an NFL head coach. RU Ozigbo Reed Pierson-El Spielman • Minnesota owned a 29-6-2 record in the first • Riley owns 16 victories over nationally ranked ILL Lee Weber Stille 37 games in the series, while Nebraska holds opponents during his college head coaching WIS an 18-2 edge since that time. tenure. OSU Spielman • Nebraska scored 84 points in a 1983 win at PUR Lee Weber Brown Bradley Minnesota, its highest point total in the post- SENIOR LINEBACKER WEBER NU Spielman World War II era. NAMED NFF SCHOLAR-ATHLETE MINN Nebraska linebacker Chris Weber joined an elite PSU MOOS TAKES OVER AS group of scholar-athletes on Nov. 1, as the senior IOWA NEBRASKA ATHLETIC DIRECTOR was one of 13 finalists by the National Football Bold indicates winner Bill Moos, a distinguished leader in collegiate Foundation and College Hall of Fame for the athletics who elevated programs at the Oregon 2017 William V. Campbell Trophy, presented 2017 HUSKER HONORS and Washington State to national prominence, by Fidelity Investments®. Drew Brown, Sr., PK was named Nebraska’s athletic director on As a finalist, Weber will receive an $18,000 • Lou Groza Award Watch List (1 of 30) Sunday, Oct.