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Flashback Friday: The 1984 Orange Bowl, the Fumblerooski and going for two

On Saturday, two storied programs will meet in a game that isn’t widely anticipated. #24 Nebraska will host Miami in a game that would have likely been for all the marbles in the 80s and 90s. Now it’s just another game on the docket. Let’s travel back to a time when this game meant everything….
The year was 1983 and under Tom Osborne, Nebraska was destroying their competition. In the first five weeks of the season they put 44 on Penn State, 56 on Wyoming, 84 on Minnesota, 42 on UCLA and 63 on Syracuse. They did have some close battles (14-10 win over Oklahoma State and 28-21 victory over Oklahoma) but this looked like a team of destiny.
The Huskers scored over 50 points a game and averaged over 400 yards rushing per game. Turner Gill was behind center and Mike Rozier cruised to a total of 2,148 rushing yards on the season and, in the process, won the Heisman Trophy.
At the end of the season, the Huskers sat at 12-0 and had been ranked #1 since the pre-season. On January 2nd of 1984,…

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