1970 National Champions 11-0-1
Early in the 1970 season, Jerry Murtaugh predicted Nebraska would win the national championship. Murtaugh was a senior linebacker and co-captain who, in just three seasons, set the Cornhusker career record for tackles. A quarter of a century later, Murtaugh’s mark still stands.It was obvious that Murtaugh was capable of backing up whatever he said, which, in the case of the 1970 season was not without some justification. Nebraska had been 9-2 the previous season, winning its final seven games, including a decisive 45-6 victory against Georgia in the Sun Bowl.
After the Sun Bowl game, Georgia coach Vince Dooley said the Cornhuskers hadn't belonged in El Paso, Texas; they deserved better competition than his team could provide.
Still, 1970 was a new season. And though Nebraska had several starters returning on offense, Murtaugh was one of only three defensive starters returning. Dave Walline and Jim Anderson were the others.
Besides, winning a national championship wasn't something over which a team had complete control. It would depend not only on being successful, but also on the votes of writers and broad casters in the Associated Press poll or of selected coaches in the United Press International poll.
Two games into the season, Murtaugh's brash prediction became a long shot, at best. After opening with a 36-12 victory against Wake Forest, the ninth-ranked Cornhuskers played Southern California to a 21-21 tie at the LA Coliseum. The Trojans tied the score with 8:16 remaining, after a failed 12 yard field goal attempt, resulting from a poor center snap, kept Nebraska from putting the game away.
"We should have won the game," Johnny Rodgers said years later.
Rodgers was a sophomore in 1970, his first varsity season.
A tie at USC was certainly no disgrace. Coach John McKay's team was ranked No. 3. Nebraska even moved up in the next week's Associated Press poll. But No. 8 was still a long way from No. l.
And the Cornhuskers' record had a blemish, however slight.
Nebraska returned to Memorial Stadium to defeat Army 28-0 the next week, to begin what would be a 23-game winning streak and include not one but two national championships.
The Cornhuskers rolled through the Big Eight, moving up to No. 3 in the AP rankings after a 51-13 victory against No. 20 Kansas State in the next-to-last game of the regular season. Nebraska intercepted Wildcat quarterback Lynn Dickey a school-record seven times, and Cornhusker I-back Joe Orduna rushed for 105 yards and four touchdowns against what had been the conference's best defense.
Orduna, a senior who sat out the 1969 season as a medical redshirt, led Nebraska in rushing in 1970.
A week later, the Cornhuskers won the Big Eight championship outright by defeating Oklahoma 28-21 at Memorial Stadium. Though unranked, the young Sooners could have earned a share of the conference title with a victory. Nebraska had to come from behind twice during the game. Junior quarterback Jerry Tagge scored the winning touchdown, capping a 53-yard drive, with 7:42 remaining.
Nebraska finished 10-0-1, its first undefeated regular season since 1965, and ranked No. 3 in both wire service polls, behind two unbeaten and untied teams: No. 1 Texas and No. 2 Ohio State. The UPI didn't conduct a poll after bowl games, so Texas was its national champion for 1970.
The Cornhuskers were matched against No. 5 LSU in the 1971 Orange Bowl game on New Year's night. Texas played Notre Dame, which had been No. 1 until a late-season loss to USC, in a rematch of the previous year's Cotton Bowl. Ohio State drew Stanford in the Rose Bowl.
Nebraska's hopes of earning the AP version of the national championship were slim. Both Texas and Ohio State would have to lose, and the Cornhuskers would have to win. But it happened. Notre Dame upset Texas 24-11, and Stanford staged a fourth-quarter comeback to defeat Ohio State 27-17. Nebraska learned of the latter result during the Orange Bowl's pre-game warm-ups.
The Cornhuskers appeared ready to seize their opportunity, jumping ahead of LSU 10-0 in the first 13 minutes of the Orange Bowl. But the Tigers controlled the ball during the second and third quarters, scoring on a 31-yard pass on the final play of the third quarter to take a 12-10 lead.
Nebraska responded by driving 67 yards for the winning touchdown, scored by Tagge from 1 yard away with 8:50 remaining. Junior linebacker Bob Terrio, a junior college transfer who had arrived at Nebraska as a fullback, preserved the victory by intercepting a Bert Jones pass with 45 seconds left.
Notre Dame Coach Ara Parseghian argued that his team should be the AP national champion because it had defeated top-ranked Texas. But Nebraska was a decisive No. 1 in the final AP poll. "I was afraid Ara's comments might influence the voters, but I guess the writers are too smart to take some coach's word," Cornhusker Coach Bob Devaney said. "The writers knew who was best."
Nebraska also received a national championship endorsement from President Richard Nixon, who proclaimed the Cornhuskers No. 1, to the delight of 8,000 at the NU Coliseum, on Jan. 14, 1971. Co-captains Murtaugh and fullback Dan Schneiss joined Devaney alongside Nixon. It was just as Murtaugh had predicted.
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1971 National Champions 13-0-0
Nebraska's 1971 season came down to a single game at Owen Field in Norman, Oklahoma, on Thanksgiving Day. At least, that's how it is most often remembered. The #1 ranked Cornhuskers played #2 ranked Oklahoma in what still is regarded as college football's "Game o f the Century."The teams were undefeated and untied, and they included 17 of 22 first-team All - Big Eight players. Nebraska had the nation's top-ranked defense. Oklahoma had its most productive offense.
The cover of the issue (November 22, 1971) of Sports Illustrated published the week of the game included photographs of Nebraska linebacker Bob Terrio and Oklahoma running back Greg Pruitt, nose-to-nose, beneath the headline: "Irresistible Oklahoma meets Immovable Nebraska."
The game was equal to its buildup. Johnny Rodgers opened the scoring less than four minutes into the first quarter with a 72-yard punt return, and Rich Sanger finished it by kicking an extra point with 1:38 remaining, following a dramatic, 74-yard drive capped by Jeff Kinney's 2-yard run.
Rodgers' punt return is among the most memorable moments of the game, but he also made a key play to keep the winning touchdown drive alive, improvising on a pass route to open on third-and-8, then making a diving catch of a Jerry Tagge pass for a 12-yard gain and a first down.
Cornhusker middle guard Rich Glover, who made 22 tackles that afternoon, put the finishing touches on Nebraska's 35-31 victory, deflecting a fourth-down, Jack Mildren pass with barely a minute left.
Except for the Oklahoma game, Nebraska was never seriously challenged in its quest to repeat as national champion. The Cornhuskers overwhelmed 12 other opponents, including Alabama in the 1972 Orange Bowl, to earn themselves a place among the best teams in college football history.
Coach Bear Bryant's Crimson Tide went to Miami undefeated, untied and ranked No. 2. It left a 38-6 loser, providing proper payback for Nebraska's 39-28 and 34-7 bowl losses to Alabama following the 1965 and 1966 seasons. The first of those losses, in the 1966 Orange Bowl game, cost Coach Bob Devaney's Cornhuskers a perfect season and, most likely, a national championship.
Although Nebraska averaged what was then a school-record 437.7 yards on offense, including a Big Eight-leading 179.3 yards passing, and ranked third nationally in scoring, averaging 39.1 per game, it was defense that set apart the Cornhuskers--as the Sports Illustrated headline pointed out.
Nebraska ranked second in the nation in rushing defense (85.9), third in scoring defense (8.2) and fifth in total defense (202.9). The Cornhusker Blackshirts included seven first-team All-Big Eight selections, four players who would earn consensus All-America recognition during their careers and two Outland Trophy winners: Glover and tackle Larry Jacobson. Glover would win both the Outland and Lombardi awards in 1972. They were joined in the starting lineup by junior end Willie Harper, like Glover, a two-time All-American. John Dutton, an All-American in 1973, was a sophomore backup.
Besides Glover, Jacobson and Harper, the other first-team all-conference defenders were Terrio, Jim Anderson, Bill Kosch and Joe Blahak. Anderson, Kosch and Blahak played in the secondary.
Anderson and Tagge, one of five Cornhuskers on the All-Big Eight first-team offense, were the captains. Both were from West High School in Green Bay, Wis., as was starting monster back Dave Mason, a junior who had sat out the 1970 season as a medical redshirt.
The other first-team offensive players were Rodgers, Kinney, Carl Johnson and Dick Rupert.
The Cornhusker defense was opportunistic as well as immovable, contributing to a school record plus-26 turnovers. Nebraska recovered 20 opponents' fumbles and intercepted 27 passes.
Nebraska was No. 2 in the Associated Press preseason rankings but moved to No. 1 after opening with a 34-7 victory against Oregon at Memorial Stadium. Bobby Moore, now known as Ahmad Rashad, scored the Ducks' lone touchdown with just over three minutes remaining in the game.
Only three opponents scored more than one touchdown against the Cornhuskers. Oklahoma State and Kansas State each managed two touchdowns, and Oklahoma, of course, scored four. The only time all season that Nebraska even trailed during a game was against the Sooners.
The Cornhuskers opened conference play with back-to-back shutouts against Missouri (36-0) and Kansas (55-0), during a stretch in which they posted 12 consecutive scoreless quarters.
In addition to everything else, the Cornhuskers almost always had good field position because of the punt and kickoff returns of Rodgers, a key to their success, according to Tom Osborne, an assistant who designed and coordinated the offense. "As great as that team was, take Johnny Rodgers out of there on kickoff and punt returns, and it probably wouldn't have gone 13-0," Osborne said.
Nebraska extended its winning streak to 23 games and its unbeaten streak to 32 games in 1971. Repeating as national champions "wasn't automatic," Rodgers said.
But going into the season, "we were pretty dog-gone confident."
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1994 National Champions 13-0-0
Ahhh! The seasons of all
season's to tell your grandkids about! Nebraska overcame a tremendous amount of setbacks
in 1994. Starting quarterback Tommie Frazier had experienced pain in his calf forcing him
to leave the Pacific vs. NU game prematurely. The pain turned out to be potentially life
threatening blood clots behind his knee. Bring on "back-up" quarterback Brook
Beringer. Brook filled in amazingly for Frazier but in the Oklahoma State game he
experienced a collapsed lung. Bring on #3 QB Matt Turman otherwise known now as the
"Turmanator". The walk on quarterback perfectly executed the ground game giving
Lawrence Phillips a lot of work. Turman also started the KSU vs. NU game. An unimpressive
victory resulted in dropping from #2 to #3 in the polls. After sitting out two games
Berringer was healed enough to play with a chest protector that resembled a
"flack" jacket.
The regular season ended with NU edging traditional rival
Oklahoma by the score of 13-3. The Husker's were on their way back to Miami's 1995 Orange Bowl as the Big 8
champs and their opponent was to be the #3 Miami Hurricanes, the Big East Champion and
playing on their home field. Still fresh in the Husker's minds was what happened to them
almost one year ago on the same field to another Florida team at the 1994 Orange Bowl in which they
lost 18-16, narrowly missing the National Championship. The hype before the game was
incredible. Frazier this, Berringer that. The media just couldn't believe NU didn't have a
"QB controversy", so they tried to construct one.
Putting all the hype aside, NU was focused on the task at
hand: Beating The Miami Hurricanes at home. Now this may seem like an undaunting feat but
the hex of the home win streak was broken by team from Washington earlier in the season.
So many times had Nebraska been here and so many times had it slipped between our fingers.
It was only fitting that NU have another chance. Berringer had shared time with Frazier
throughout the game but the score was an unfavorable 17-9 in the fourth quarter when
Frazier came back in the game. He sparked the team with his confidence and Cory
Schlesinger made a miraculous 15 yard run to the end-zone that even tricked the National
Television Cameraman trying to stay focused on the play. It wasn't over yet. Osborne then
called for the two point play (This was the same end-zone that cost him a lifetime of
anguish 11 years ago when Turner Gill threw an incomplete pass on a two point play that
would have likely given the Huskers the rings in 1983). Much to Osborne's liking the pass
from Frazier to Eric Alford was complete and tied the game. Nebraska was back in it! And
to make matters more favorable NU had worn down the HOME team defense and there star trash
talker Warren Sapp. Frazier drove the team down the field one more time for 58 yards and 7
more points to put the emphasis on a perfect 13-0 season.
It was up to the pollsters now to decide NU's fate.
Evidently they felt the same as all Husker fans this time. Five times prior NU had been in
games where the title was decided and only two times had it gone in Nebraska's favor. For
the first time since 1971, NEBRASKA was next to the #1 spot when the final polls were
released! This caused some debate in the college football world because #2 Penn State had
also won their Rose Bowl game, but over a #12 Oregon team that scored 20 points on them,
they were denied any share of the title.
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1995 National Champions 12-0-0
Quite possibly Nebraska's
best team ever! With Tommie Frazier at quarterback, Grant Wistrom, Jared Tomich, and The
Peter brothers on the Blackshirts how could we go wrong? Well just about anything that
could go wrong (off the field), did. I-back Lawrence Phillips ran into problems with his
temper and an ex-girlfriend late one night after the team returned from whooping up on
Michigan St. 50-10. Then as if national media attention wasn't already focused on NU from
the Phillips incident some other players were implicated in other charges. Now Osborne,
who had just won his first National Championship 9 months prior, was being called a
"win-at-all-costs" coach. In all actuality the problems at NU were the very same
at other colleges around the country but that didn't matter. It happened to the team on
the top.
In spite of the off field controversy, Nebraska was in prime
condition to repeat as National Champions with the final regular season game which
resulted in NU defeating Oklahoma in the final game of the Big 8 Conference. Nebraska was
on it's way to college football's new Bowl Alliance National Championship game, which
guaranteed #1 vs. #2 as long as the #1/#2 team didn't belong to the PAC 10 or BIG 10. Sun
Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona, home of the Arizona State Sundevils, (a team that NU was
beating 63-21 at HALFTIME. NU went on to win 77-28). The "National Championship"
Tostitos Fiesta Bowl was the name. And Nebraska hadn't lost for 24 straight games. Almost
two years to the day since the last time the Husker's had to experience losing. This
stadium will stick in Husker minds for years to come for two reasons, one, for what was
about to transpire the night of the Jan 2,
1996 Fiesta Bowl, and the other, was what would happen to the Husker's less than a
year later on this same field. But for now the stage was set for glory.
The stadium was awash in the pastel colors of the sponsor
and more than 30,000 Husker fans clad in red had traveled from all over the country in
hopes of seeing their team win yet another National Title. Nebraska's opponent were the
highly touted #2 Florida Gators, headed by alum coach Steve Spurrier. The Gator 'Fun and
Gun' offense was said to be a big threat to Nebraska's traditionally weak secondary. The
game started off with Florida scoring a field goal. NU came back with a pass to Phillips
for 16 yards but missed the kick to go ahead 6-3. Florida then drove down the field and
scored to close out the first quarter leading NU 10-6. A skeptic would think the
prophecies were right, NU couldn't handle this caliber a team from Florida. They were
wrong. The second quarter belonged to Nebraska. Phillips broke off a 42 yard run, then
Ahman Green ran it in from 1 yd out, Brown kicked 2 field goals to help the Huskers cause.
But that was just the offense. The Blackshirts shut down the "Fun-n-Gun" offense
and sacked Gator QB Danny Wuerffel 5 times including one for a safety. Michael Booker
intercepted a Wuerffel pass and returned it for 42 yards. After scoring a record 29 points
in the second quarter, NU led Florida, 35-10. The third quarter was much of the same with
Frazier running for a touchdown from 35 yards out and then 75 on the most awesome play one
could expect, Frazier appeared to be stopped at the line of scrimmage but kept his legs
moving and breaking tackles. After just about every Gator on the field had a chance at
stopping Frazier, he broke free for a touchdown. Wuerffel hit Ike Hilliard for a touchdown
and then succeeded on the two point conversion to make the score 49-18. Brook Berringer
came into the game to add six more to the Husker tally making the score 62-18 after an
earlier run by Phillips. Florida struck one more time with the ensuing kickoff return by
Ridel Anthony. Final score 62-24 Nebraska. Nebraska had demolished the #2 team in the
country, in one of the largest bowl blowout's in history, the largest in Fiesta Bowl
history, and tied the record for most points between #1 and #2 teams. Nebraska wrapped up
their repeat National Championship becoming the first team to be unanimously voted #1 by
all the polls two years in a row since the Oklahoma Sooners did so in 1955-56.
In the off season things were changing. Husker Coach Tom
Osborne asked Phillips to declare himself eligible for the upcoming NFL draft and other
players continued their problems off the field. A celebration honoring Nebraska's National
Champion teams in Football and Volleyball was scheduled in the spring. Tragedy struck just
prior to that event. Nebraska Quarterback Brook Berringer and his fiancée's brother were
killed in a small plane crash outside Lincoln. Brook would likely have been drafted by the
NFL on the coming weekend. Brook will always be remembered by Husker fans for his heroics,
determination, his community participation, and most of all his genuine kindness.
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1997 National Champions 13-0-0
After a 1996 season of highs
and lows the 1997 Husker squad was expected to be better. Now senior quarterback Scott
Frost had experienced a full season with the Huskers which had lost embarrassingly to
Arizona State 19-0 and then again to Texas in the inaugural Big 12 title game. He
transferred back to his home state from Stanford and was tired of playing second to
Stanford QB Steve Stenstrom. NU opened the season against the lowly Akron Zips in which
the score wound up being 59-14. On Akron being on Nebraska's schedule Coach Tom Osborne
said "These kind of games don't give me any great joy or pleasure, but we have to
play whoever's on our schedule. Akron did the very best it could." In this game 4
Husker players scored 2 touchdowns. Next up, the University of Central Florida with highly
rated QB Duante Culpepper. This game was much closer than first anticipated. UCF tore up
the Nebraska secondary for 318 yards passing. In the second quarter NU trailed UCF 7-10
prompting Tom Osborne to put in backup QB Frankie London who marched the Huskers 65 yards
down the field to score. But UCF scored one more time to lead at the half 17-14. Husker
fans were still bitter at senior Q-back Scott Frost from his apparent lack of talent. When
he came back in the game fans booed him. But it was Frost who took care of the game for
the Huskers when the Golden Knights came within 7 points of evening the score.
Next on the Husker schedule was a road trip to the
Washington Huskies house. This game was supposed to be all Washington. Their star QB Brock
Huard was a Heisman Contender. Scott Frost ran for two touchdowns in the first quarter for
a quick 14-0 lead. Then it was Ahman Green from 4 yards out making it a 21-0 ballgame.
From there the offense shut down and left it up to the defense. The Blackshirts knocked
Huard out of the game bringing in UW backup QB Marques Tuiasosopo who went to work
throwing a pair of TD passes to make the lead 21-14 in the third quarter. Washington tried
to kick an onside kick but the Husker special teams were all over it. Frost marched the
offense down the field resulting in a Kris Brown field goal increasing the lead to 10.
Then after an unsuccessful Washington drive the Huskies pinned NU on their own 3 yard
line. NU drove down the field one more time giving Kris Brown another shot at 3 points.
The kick was good and the final score was 27-14.
The next game opened up conference play against KSU. Ahman
Green lit up the scoreboard with 4 touchdown runs of 25, 7, 59,and 50 yards leaving him
with 193 yards on the day. The game's other highlights were Frost running for 98 yards and
throwing for 94. Joe Walker intercepted KSU QB Michael Bishop and ran it back 71 yards for
a touchdown. The Blackshirts also tacked on a couple points with a safety in the fourth
quarter. Final score 56-26.
Nebraska's following game against Baylor was an offensive
explosion. Green had 4 more touchdowns with 158 yards. The offense scored 28 points in the
second quarter alone. Frost ran for 71 and threw 5 of 8 for 103 yards and a final score of
49-21. The following weekend saw Penn State lose to Minnesota leaving the door open for
the Huskers to move into the #1 spot. Nebraska blanked the Texas Tech Red Raiders. The
offense produced 400 yards rushing on the day but the defense stole the show sacking Texas
Tech QB Zebbie Lethridge 4 times for a combined loss of 30 yards with the final score of
29-0. Kansas hosted the newly appointed #1 Huskers and paid dearly with a measly 48 yards
of total offense and only 4 first downs. The Jayhawks found out just how the Husker's
achieved their lofty perch. When it was all over the Huskers had blanked the Jayhawks as
well.
The next game on the Husker schedule was a special one in
Husker History. It would be Osborne's 250th victory and was fitting that it be against
arch-rival Oklahoma of whom were traditionally the last game of the season for the
Huskers. The Sooners were not the same Sooners of old, scoring only 7 points and giving up
69 to the Big Red for their worst defeat ever. It has been a long fall for the Sooners
from the perennial powerhouse their program used to be. The Blackshirts were at it again
forcing Oklahoma to cough up the ball 7 times and recovering 4, while sacking the opposing
QB 5 times. Frost had two touchdowns on the day hitting Bobby Newcombe for 40 yards and
running it himself from 12 yards out.
The Husker's next road game was against the Missouri
Tigers. This became the first close game of the season. It will forever be known as the
Miracle in Missouri. The game was a see-saw battle that saw the Husker's trailing at the
half 21-24. Missouri QB Corby Jones threw for three touchdowns and ran for another.
Nebraska was losing ground and found themselves behind 31-38 with a little over 1 minute
remaining in the game. Frost drove the Huskers down the field and on 4th and 8 on the 12
yard line with the clock winding down Frost threw a last chance pass into the end-zone
that deflected off intended receiver Shevin Wiggins into the arms of Matt Davison giving
Kris Brown the opportunity to tie the game sending Nebraska into it's first overtime
period in team history. Nebraska had it's chance to score first. Scott Frost called his
own number tiptoeing up the sideline and diving into the end-zone for 6. Brown added one
more to make the lead 45-38. Now came Missouri's turn. Jones threw a quick incompletion,
then ran for 3, and threw another incompletion leaving the Tigers with a long 4th and 7.
On the next play Wistrom and Rucker sacked Jones ending the threat. Nebraska had narrowly
escaped a devastating defeat but the pollsters took it out on NU dropping them from 1st to
3rd in the polls behind unbeatens Michigan and Florida State.
Iowa State took the brunt of Nebraska's frustration
following the Missouri game. NU took it out on the cyclones alright, leading 63-7 at the
half. The third and fourth position backup's played the second half adding two more
touchdowns and allowing only one for a final score of 77-14. The win gave NU an assured
end-zone in the Big 12 title game. But the Huskers had to think about events in the near
future like taking on the Colorado Buffaloes in Boulder. The Buffaloes held tough against
the Huskers holding them to a 10-3 halftime lead but NU came back charged after halftime
scoring 17 points and leading now by as much. The touchdown well ran dry for the Big Red
in the fourth quarter while the Defense allowed the Buffs into the end-zone twice. The
Husker's were nervous wondering where their cushy lead had gone. It was up to the defense
to make a crucial stop. After CU missed recovering a second onside kick they quickly
forced NU to punt. CU quarterback John Hessler lead his team downfield but an untimely
offensive pass interference call cost the Buffs big. On 4th and 25 Erwin Swiney ended the
Buff threat by downing CU receiver Phil Savoy 4 yards short of the first down marker with
only 12 seconds remaining.
Finally the Huskers chance had come again to lay claim to
the Big 12 title that had eluded them the previous season. All that stood in the way were
the Texas A&M Aggies, the third Texas school of the season for the Huskers. A win
would send the #2 Huskers to the Orange Bowl against #3 Tennessee, whom would win the SEC
title later that day. The Husker's, still stinging from last year's title game, vented on
the Aggies scoring on their first seven possessions leading 37-3 at the half. Ahman Green
scored 3 times and rushed for 179 in which became his 11th straight game rushing over 100
yards. NU ended up winning the game 54-15.
Just 4 days later Nebraskan's would be rocked by what Coach
Osborne said. He announced that following the 1998 Orange Bowl game
against Tennessee he would step down as head coach naming Frank Solich as his heir. With
this in mind the players looked knew what they had to do to send their coach out on top.
The Huskers went into the game ranked #2 in both the AP and
USA Today/ESPN coaches poll. They needed to play an immaculate game against the Volunteers
to have any chance at a #1 spot knowing that #1 Michigan had narrowly defeated a feisty
Washington St. team in the Rose bowl. They would do just that. The Husker's struck first
with Ahman Green scoring from the goal line in the first quarter and then Shevin Wiggins
scored in the second to put the Big Red up 14-0. Tennessee put up a 44 yard field goal and
at half time the Huskers actually had more yards passing than they did rushing. The third
quarter was more of the same with NU scoring 3 touchdowns while Tennessee QB, and Heisman
Runner-up, passed to Peerless Price for 6. The game was almost over as the final seconds
began to tick off the clock Scott Frost and other players began 12th hour lobbying on
National television to try to sway the Coaches toward Nebraska's favor. At 2 a.m. The AP
poll results were announced and they had Michigan as the #1 team. At about 2:30 a.m. the
coaches poll came out with their results... Nebraska #1, Michigan #2. The coaches had
taken a second look at the Huskers and felt differently about it. Osborne would go out on
top as the sixth winningest coach in Division I football with 255 victories and three
National Championships. Thanks for the memories! We'll miss you Dr. Tom!
