LJ;885104 wrote:If Boise would have accepted the deal, this past saturday they would have played the #10 ranked team who is top 5 in all time wins, on the road. GTFO

enigmaax;885103 wrote:Results-wise, Nebraska isn't an elite program at the moment. But they certainly don't need to overpay Boise and take all the risk with nothing really to gain. Nebraska has sold out every game for what, 40-plus years? They just enhanced their financial opportunities by joining the B1G - they aren't hurting for exposure. Why would they pay way above their own going rate just so Boise can try and earn a spot at the table? Or, what added value does Boise bring to Nebraska's schedule that Nebraska needs?

queencitybuckeye;885114 wrote:Over the last two decades or so, the opponent they dominated this week has been vastly better than Nebraska. Vastly.

queencitybuckeye;885114 wrote:Over the last two decades or so, the opponent they dominated this week has been vastly better than Nebraska. Vastly. Pre-season rankings are a joke, and that the 'holers were good a thousand years ago, so the all-time thing is pretty much meaningless as well. You GTFO.

LJ;885178 wrote:Nebraska has had 4 seasons of less than 9 wins in the past 41 years

karen lotz;885207 wrote:And the inevitable arbitrary line of when college football started to matter has been drawn.

karen lotz;885207 wrote:And the inevitable arbitrary line of when college football started to matter has been drawn.

queencitybuckeye;885114 wrote:Over the last two decades or so

FatHobbit;885140 wrote:I'm not sure I would go with vastly better, but I looked back to 2002

enigmaax;885219 wrote:Why not talk about Nebraska's 20-8 to Georgia's 14-12 in the last 2 years?

enigmaax;885219 wrote:Um, it had already started:




Why not talk about Nebraska's 20-8 to Georgia's 14-12 in the last 2 years?

FatHobbit;885228 wrote:I wanted to go with queencitybuckeye's last two decades until I realized ESPN only went back to 2002 and got lazy.

LJ;885246 wrote:Nebraska was 111-15 from 1992-2001. Don't think you wanna go there

queencitybuckeye;885114 wrote:Over the last two decades or so, the opponent they dominated this week has been vastly better than Nebraska. Vastly. Pre-season rankings are a joke, and that the 'holers were good a thousand years ago, so the all-time thing is pretty much meaningless as well. You GTFO.

karen lotz;885247 wrote:randomly saying 41 years? ok I can see how you would go back 41 years, but not 43. Not 35 either, exactly 41.

Al Bundy;885264 wrote:Georgia has been vastly better over Nebraska the last 2 decades...lmao. Nebraska has more national titles in the last 2 decades than Georgia has conference titles in that time period.

sleeper;885395 wrote:LOL @ SEC fans comparing Nebraska to Georgia. Nebraska would finish ahead of Georgia and most SEC teams year in year out in the SEC, and now they are bottom feeder in the Big Ten. SEC "best conference" my ass.

ytownfootball;885419 wrote:I don't see Georgia anywhere on this list but I do see Nebraska listed not once but twice in the top 5:

http://espn.go.com/page2/s/list/colfootball/teams/best.html

enigmaax;885622 wrote:Ha ha. Boise's favorite mouthpiece summarizes their situation perfectly.

"I love playing early in the season in games like this," Boise State's Byron Hout said following Saturday's gouging of Georgia. "It sets the tone for the rest of the season. It's a taste of what a big bowl game can be like with this type of atmosphere. If you can do the right thing you can find yourself in another event like this at the end of the season."

Win one big game early and you can play one more at the end of the season. What do you do for 11 games in between?

Al Bundy;886144 wrote:Boise has a pretty sweet deal. Win one game a year and get an 8 figure payout.

karen lotz;886146 wrote:They won 11 games in the regular season last year. I don't think they got an 8 figure payout, though.

Al Bundy;886164 wrote:When you only play 1 game a year, you can't have any bad losses mixed in there.