BIG RED: By The NUMBERS
When you're talking about Nebraska football, there just ain't enough numbers to go around. For example, should the numeral 20 be best remembered for the school-record number of victories that Frank Solich racked up in his first two years at the Husker Helm? Or should it be remembered for the jersey number of the greatest Cornhusker to ever play the game -- Johnny Rodgers? Or should it refer to the number of years Solich has been at Nebraska? You can see how this bean, er, corn-counting gets to be quite a task. Hey, has anyone got a calculator? Here are some of our favorite Husker numbers.
| 1 | the final ranking NU has enjoyed five times since 1962.It's also NU's national rank by winning percentage since 1962. |
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wins in school history. Nebraska is one of only seven NCAA Division 1-A schools to post more than 700 wins. |
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schools ever to win back-to-back national titles with perfect records -- Nebraska being one of them, in 1994 and 1995. They're also the second team in history to win at least a share of the title in three out of four years after winning a third in 1997. |
| 40 | consecutive winning seasons at Nebraska, a continuing NCAA record. |
| 33 | years the Huskers have won nine games or more -- also an NCAA record. |
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consecutive weeks that Nebraska has been ranked in the Associated Press poll. The last time they weren't included was October 1981. The Huskers were the only team in the nation to be rated in every poll of the 1990s. |
| 33 | consecutive bowl trips for the Huskers, yet another NCAA record. |
| 247 | consecutive sellouts at Memorial Stadium, a continuing NCAA record. |
| 13 | Top Eight Award winners, including Grant Wistrom in 1997. It's the highest academic honor the NCAA awards to student-athletes. |
| 66 | percent of Husker football players walk out of UNL with a degree in hand. That's tops in the Big 12 and is well ahead of the 52 percent national average. |
| 15 | rushing titles won by Nebraska, including 13 in the last 20 seasons and 7 out of the last 10 years. |
| 4.0 | grade-point average for 1994 All-American and National Champ Rob Zatechka. |
| 1-0 | The score of the 1892 Nebraska-Missouri game, a forfeit Husker win. The Tigers refused to play NU because Nebraska had African-American player George Flippin. |
| 524 | rushing yards, a bowl-game record, set by Nebraska against Florida in the 1996 Fiesta Bowl. |
| 84 | points that The Scoring Explosion put up on hapless Minnesota in 1983. |
| 0 | times Colorado converted on third down against NU in 1994, out of 13 tries. |
| 9 | years in a row that Nebraska humbled the Bluffs, from 1992-2000. |
| .05 | The real margin of victory when it came to Nebraska-Colorado in 2001. Still, it was fun for the Buff fans to riot and cause property damage on Nov. 23. |
| 21 | wins in a row at Memorial Stadium. |
| 23 | pancake blocks made by Josh Heskew in NU's 24-3 win over Cal in '98. |
| 34 | outright conference championships by the Huskers. |
| 9 | shared conference championships by the Huskers. |
| 0 | wins against Tom Osborne by conference foes Kansas, Kansas State, and Oklahoma State. |
| 30 | the jersey number worn by the top two men on Nebraska's single-season rushing charts -- Mike Rozier and Ahman Green. |
| 7 | Outland Trophy winners have played for Nebraska. |
| 3 | Heisman Trophy winners have played for Nebraska. |
| 51 | Huskers honored as first-team All-Americans in the last 26 seasons. |
| 12 | The jersey number of some Husker greats -- Redwine, Gill, Fullman, Newcombe. And the number of conference titles under Dr. Tom. |
| 2148 | yards that Michael Heisman bolted for in 1983. |
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games won during the tenure of the Big Two -- Bob Devaney and Tom Osborne. |
| 5 | National Championships in Nebraska school history -- six if you count the 1915 team. |
| 76 | nation-leading number of GTE Academic Football All-Americans from Nebraska. |
| 66 | points put up by the Cornhuskers in the 2000 Alamo Bowl vs. Northwestern -- a school- and NCAA bowl-game record. |
| 38 | points scored by NU in the first quarter of its 2000 game vs. Baylor ... a school record. |
| 6 | yards that Texas rushed for against the Blackshirts in the '99 Big XII Championship Game, a school low for the Whorns. |
| 30 | first-round NFL picks that have worn the sacred Scarlet and the consecrated Cream. |
| 0 | schools that can compare to the Huskers in terms of sheer excellence, on or off the field. That's as in zip, zilch, zippo, nil, nada, nunca, none. |