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The 2001 Nebraska football season

2001 was crazy. Nebraska was a machine right up until that day in Boulder Colorado. Nothing could have prepared us for what happened. It was as if our beloved Huskers completely forgot how to play defense. Craig bowl was our coordinator and it was as if he didn’t have a clue. It was a terrible day that saw me thrown out of my own house and and out of my neighbors house. If there were a quota for profanity I am sure that I used up at least 23 lifetimes worth. The BCS had just started in 1998-99 and they were still figuring out the formula when Nebraska imploded at the end of 2001. Everyone asked themselves this newfangled BCS thing was better than the bowls. Our beloved Huskers squeaked by Colorado and Oregon into #2 in the BCS as everyone howled. “How could Nebraska be in a national title game if they didn’t win their conference? They didn’t even win their division.” Now we have a College Football Playoff and we ask roughly the same questions because nobody’s really quite sure who gets in and why. The recommended solution is to expand eight teams. It’s a stupid solution. It’s an attempt to create fairness in place where such a concept will never exist.

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