Nebraska's Back in the Top 25!!!

[huskerlaw]

Weeeee're baaaaaack!!!!!



Is your team in the post-season Top 25? Here's your chance...post here, give them a shout out!

(yes, Texas, we know you won, but you've got lots of threads...this one's for teams 2-25. Thanks!)

:toast: To a season well played...and good luck to everyone in the fall!

[GOPisEvil]

1. Hahahahahahahahaha! We're in the bottom 25, I think.

:cry:

Congratulations to my favorite Big 12 North team. :7

[huskerlaw]

2. Well, I didn't really mean you

I meant people with teams that are actually, you know, at least sorta good... ;)

[GOPisEvil]

4. Well, at least I'm not a bandwagon-jumping front runner.

Like half of Texas' fans seem to be. :D

[huskerlaw]

6. Hey now...

this is supposed to be a Longhorn-free thread!

But ok, in the spirit in which the post was intended...

Congratulations, Aggies!!! Keep up the good work! :evilgrin:

[GOPisEvil]

7. Ah yes...forgive me.

All the burnt orange has affected my brain. :silly:

By the way, let the hype begin now: Nov. 11, 2006, Nebraska @ A&M :bounce:

[huskerlaw]

8. you really want to bring attention

to the date of your ultimate humiliation? I mean, really??

[GOPisEvil]

9. No, no...ultimate humiliation comes 2 weeks later here in Austin.

You're just one humiliating step along the way.

[huskerlaw]

10. Youuuch.

Good luck with that!

[GOPisEvil]

11. We'll need it.

We play OU the week before you guys. Can you say three-game losing streak? Betcha can! :bounce:

[fishwax]

3. Oklahoma in at #22

Lowest end of season ranking in a while, but we'll be back next year.

Congrats to your Huskers :toast:

[huskerlaw]

5. Congrats Sooners!

I have no doubt you'll be back in fighting form next year. Good luck!

[Zomby Woof]

12. Post-season rankings?

That's like being voted Most Likely To Succeed after you die! :P

[huskerlaw]

13. Just because USC

isn't #1 anymore doesn't mean you need to be bitter. :P

[Zomby Woof]

14. I am not bitter

I am not upset at USC losing as much as I am about Texas winning.

I prefer UCLA. If THEY lost to Texas in the Rose Bowl, I would be bitter. :D

Texas fans have been stupid about the rankings. USC earned their #1 spot all year by not only maintaining an enormous winning streak, but by winning some amazing games, like against Notre Dame.

Texas won, and they deserve their new ranking. But that doesn't erase what a great season the Trojans had, and they held their championship on the cusp of 3 years in a row. I don't see Texas winning another one for at LEAST the next 35 years. :P

[huskerlaw]

15. Ok, fair enough

I'm going to spend the off-season deciding which LA team will become my hometown favorite. At this point, I like them both...but I realize I can't keep riding the fence. ;)

Texas fans, stupid about ratings? There's a shocker! You're right though, they had no legitimate claim to #1 until last night.

[Zomby Woof]

16. UCLA!

They're a much more liberal school than USC, a snooty private university. What else do you need to know? :D

[huskerlaw]

17. If I required the school to be liberal

I wouldn't exactly be a Husker fan, would I? ;)

Convince me of why I should support the football team. Tell me why the coach is better, who the best players are...what should I like about them?

[Zomby Woof]

21. true

I can't tell you WHY, other than I DO use classism as a reason. :P The USC students can be elitist snots.

My first rule is to be loyal to southern CA ahead of the rest of the country. I graduated from a Division I college in Washington state, so my college is never in conflict with the PAC-10 teams from there or here. I get to be broadly loyal to a region. :D

My college did produce a starting NFL QB this past decade, and we were ranked #1 for Division I at the same time the Huskies were ranked #1 with the big boys, back in 1991.

If I were to go to grad school right now, it would be at UCLA. :D

[huskerlaw]

22. They may be snots

but they dodge bullets to get to class...doesn't that count? ;)

I cannot be loyal to SoCal football or the PAC-10 ahead of my Huskers. It's simply not going to happen. That would be like asking me to denounce my American citizenship. I understand that Washington was good, but nothing is like Husker Nation. I can't explain it, but ask anyone who's gone to a game at Memorial Stadium. :)

The most I can promise is that once I pick my SoCal school, I will be loyal to it in all games EXCEPT when/if they play the Huskers. Most of the time this won't be an issue. Except USC for the next 2 years and potentially in future bowl games. I will foresake the Big 12 for the school of my choice (as evidenced by my mutany against Texas last night). I will NOT adopt the PAC-10 though.

Honestly, I'm leaning towards UCLA for sentimental reasons. My earliest memory of wanting to move to LA involves begging my mom to buy me a UCLA sweatshirt for Christmas...I think I was 8. ;)

[Strawman]

18. Best part is that they did it by beating Michigan

I wish they had played in 1997. They would have kicked the crap out of Michigan.

I remember the when they came into Spartan Stadium (Not sure what exact year, but I think they had Lawrence Phillips then). They annihilated us.

[Halliburton]

19. as a Penn State fan

I was glad too see Nebraska stick it to Michigan. Michigan can claim that they were screwed over by the refs but in my mind they had it coming for a long time!

[Strawman]

20. Michigan never loses

Not in their minds. Never. They are the biggest bunch of whinyasses ever.

[huskerlaw]

24. The refs sucked, no doubt

and it is bad that Michigan had to blow timeouts to get plays reviewed, but the refs didn't decide the game. Michigan lost fair and square.

[huskerlaw]

23. Ah yes,

I remember that too...1994? 5? Hmmm. All of those ass kickings between 1993-1997 kinda run together... ;)


And yeah, I'm thrilled they beat Michigan! :)

[Floogeldy]

25. Please

Act like you've been there before.

You have, you know.

[huskerlaw]

26. Of course we have...

how am I acting like we haven't?

[liberaltrucker]

27. Uh......you're not exactly "back" just yet.....

Callahan needs some time. 2007 perhaps? That West Coast offense is a bitch at the college level. It'll happen, though:hi:

[huskerlaw]

28. That depends on your definition

of "back," I suppose.

I mean that teams will no longer look at Nebraska on their schedule and think "YES! Make that a W!" We're going to be taken seriously again.

I didn't mean to imply that we're national champion material.

[liberaltrucker]

30. Taking the Huskers for granted will be a thing of the past

My point was that it'll take time for Callahan to make them a contender. I only hope Husker fans have the patience. Did I mention that the company I'm employed by is HQ'ed in Lincoln?:toast:

[huskerlaw]

32. I agree

and I think now that we're seeing progress, we will have the patience. I was in Nebraska over the holidays and the feedback after the bowl game was very positive.

[liberaltrucker]

34. Great.

The transition from run, run, run to a run-pass offense will be, uh, traumatic. Hang in there, Bill knows what he's doing:) Edditted fer spellllin':rofl:

[Floogeldy]

29. By having a fucking orgasm because you are in the Top 25.

Jeez.

[huskerlaw]

31. Oh for Christ's sake

We've gone through a lot for the last few years. Am I not allowed to be happy that the pendulum is finally swinging back the correct way?

Or is it that I'm only supposed to support my team when we're #1?

And if that's your definition of an orgasm, you need better partners.

Jeez. :eyes:

[liberaltrucker]

33. Aw, c'mon Floog

Get a life. You fav team must've REALLY sucked, if you have one. My Auburn lost to Wisconsin, but I'm not THAT bitter. It's just a fucking game.