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Nebraska-Oklahoma game in prime time

The Nebraska football team will make at least one more prime-time appearance on national television this season, as this week's matchup with Oklahoma will be a night game.

After posting a 20-10 win at Baylor last week, the Huskers will take on the Sooners in a classic Big Eight matchup at Memorial Stadium. The game is set for 7 p.m. and will be broadcast nationally on ABC.

One other Nebraska football game is confirmed to be a TV game yet this season, as the Huskers' regular-season finale at Colorado on Nov. 27 will be televised. That game is set for a 2:30 p.m. CST kickoff on ABC.

Nebraska's remaining two games, at Kansas and home against Kansas State, could also be televised. An announcement on those games will come about a week before each game.

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Getting over the rated bump

There was once a time when Nebraska was consistently rated among the top teams in the country and had little trouble beating unranked opponents.

These days, the shoes are on the other foot and the Huskers are having a hard time walking in them -- Nebraska takes an 18-game losing streak against opponents ranked higher than 20th into Saturday's road matchup at Texas Tech and is looking to break what is becoming a very difficult losing streak.

The streak got an ugly start in 2001 when the Huskers, ranked No. 2 at the time, walked into Boulder and got waxed by then-No. 14 Colorado 62-36. At the time, it was the most points a team had scored on Nebraska in its long and storied history, but it started a streak that continued Saturday when No. 4 Missouri beat Nebraska 52-17.

In fact, Nebraska has just one win against a ranked team since that time, a 32-28 win over 20th ranked Michigan in the 2005 Alamo Bowl. Nebraska's struggles against ranked opponents since the Nov. 23, 2001 at Colorado is as follows (team rankings in parenthesis):

Nov. 23, 2001 -- (14) Colorado 62, (2) Nebraska 36
*-Jan. 3, 2002 -- (1) Miami 37, (4) Nebraska 14
Sept. 28, 2002 -- (19) Iowa State 36, (20) Nebraska 14
Nov. 2, 2002 -- (7) Texas 27, Nebraska 24
Nov. 16, 2002 -- (11) Kansas State 49, Nebraska 13
Nov. 29, 2002 -- (13) Colorado 28, Nebraska 13
Nov. 1, 2003 -- (16) Texas 31, (12) Nebraska 7
Nov. 13, 2004 -- (2) Oklahoma 30, Nebraska 3
Oct. 8, 2005 -- (15) Texas Tech 34, Nebraska 31
Sept. 16, 2006 -- (4) USC 28, (19) Nebraska 10
Oct. 21, 2006 -- (5) Texas 22, (17) Nebraska 20
**-Dec. 2, 2006 -- (8) Oklahoma 21, (19) Nebraska 7
#-Jan. 1, 2007 -- (10) Auburn 17, (22) Nebraska 14
Sept. 15, 2007 -- (1) USC 49, (14) Nebraska 31
Oct. 6, 2007 -- (17) Missouri 41, (25) Nebraska 6
Oct. 27, 2007 -- (17) Texas 28, Nebraska 25
Nov. 3, 2007 -- (8) Kansas 76, Nebraska 39
Oct. 4, 2008 -- (4) Missouri 52, Nebraska 17

*--2002 BCS championship at Rose Bowl
**--2006 Big 12 championship game at Kansas City
#--2007 Cotton Bowl at Dallas

Nebraska has at least three games remaining against teams that should be ranked in the top 20 when Nebraska faces them -- Saturday at No. 7 Texas Tech, Nov. 1 at top-ranked Oklahoma and the following week at home against 16th-ranked Kansas.

Nebraska to face Cyclones on Versus network

The Nebraska football team will be on TV each of the next two weeks as they continue play in the Big 12 Conference.

On Saturday, Nebraska takes to the road for the first time this season, as they head down to Lubbock, Texas, to take on the seventh-ranked Texas Tech Red Raiders. The game will be televised by Fox Sports Net beginning at 2 p.m.

The following week, the Huskers are on the road again, this time traveling east to Ames, Iowa to meet up with longtime foe Iowa State. That game is going to be televised by the Versus network, with kickoff set at 11:30 a.m.

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Tough stretch ahead for Nebraska

Nebraska was able to get through its first three games in pretty good shape, posting a couple of impressive wins and coming back to win a third.

They take a 3-0 record into what will be a very difficult stretch of games over the next three weeks, and this could very well determine the path the Huskers will travel on the road back to being among the nation's elite.

First up is Saturday's matchup with Virginia Tech, a team that finished in the top 10 and is playing fairly well in spite of a variety of injury and discipline issues. Coach Frank Beamer brings a team in that can mix things up offensively, and this will give Nebraska a different test after facing three teams that feature variances of the spread offense.

Next is the Big 12 opener against Missouri, which will undoubtedly be Nebraska's toughest homecoming game in a long, long time. The Tigers feature 2007 Heisman finalist Chase Daniel and All-American speedster Jeremy Maclin, and the Tigers have been lighting up the scoreboard like a pinball machine early on. They also have a very solid defense, one that absolutely embarrassed Nebraska last year. The only negative working against Missouri is that they haven't won in Lincoln since 1978, and will be looking to end three decades of road frustration when they come to town Oct. 4.

The final game in the trifecta is Nebraska's first road game of the year, and it won't be easy as they'll have to head down to Lubbock, Texas to take on another high-powered offense in the Texas Tech Red Raiders. Coach Mike Leach has developed one of the most potent offensive schemes in all of college football, and Tech knows how to move the ball vertically early and often. Quarterback Graham Harrell has a lot of great targets to throw to, including All-American Michael Crabtree, and they have developed a defense that is doing better at stopping opposing offenses from finding the end zone.

The Huskers do have another tough stretch later in the season with Oklahoma and Kansas in back-to-back weeks, but this three-game run will go a long way to telling us how much this team has improved from last year's train wreck of a 5-7 season. If Nebraska can win one or two games in this stretch, it can position itself for a good finish and a quality bowl game at season's end.

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Huskers a hit on pay-per-view

If you missed seeing the Huksers' first three home games in person, chances are you still got to see them on television.

Early reports from the University of Nebraska's athletic department indicate that Husker fans ordered pay-per-view telecasts of the Huskers' first three home games in record numbers. Fans who missed out on games against Western Michigan, San Jose State and New Mexico State took advantage of opportunities to see the games on television via pay-per-view broadcasts through Fox Sports Network.

Marc Boehm, executive associate athletic director at UNL, told the Lincoln Journal-Star that they have received about one-third of the sales from the opener against Western Michigan and noted that there were almost 50,000 buys of the pay-per-view telecast. Those are amazing numbers considering the Huskers averaged between 35,000 and 40,000 buys for previous pay-per-view broadcasts.

And that means big bucks for the athletic department, the Journal-Star noted. During traditional cable or free TV broadcasts, the host school will get about $275,000. A pay-per-view game with 40,000 buys will bring in about $300,000. Depending on the final numbers -- which won't be known until the end of the season -- the Western Michigan game alone may generate close to $750,000 for the school.

ABC has already picked up Nebraska's matchup with Virginia Tech next week and Colorado at the end of the season, and it's a pretty good bet one of the networks will take games with Missouri, Texas Tech and Oklahoma because those teams are all ranked in or near the top 10. If games with Iowa State, Baylor, Kansas and Kansas State aren't taken by one of the networks, you can probably bet that the university will want to put those games on pay-per-view.

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Wanted: A rushing game

Remember the days of old when the Nebraska football team would pile up the yards on the rushing side of the ledger?

In the old days, the Huskers would roll up 300, 400 or even 500 yards in a game against a poor, helpless defense. To use a well-worn TV sportscasters' line, you couldn't stop the Nebraska ground attack, you could only hope to contain it.

So far this year, the Huskers not only are not averaging 300 yards a game -- they haven't totaled 300 yards ALL SEASON. After two games, the Nebraska rushing attack has accounted for a meager 237 yards in the Huskers' wins over Western Michigan and San Jose State.

Coach Bo Pelini is disappointed with the offensive output on the ground so far, and he's attributing a lot of that to the occasional blown assignment or blocking breakdown.

"It's more of us not executing. Not having 10 or 11 guys doing their job," he was quoted in the Lincoln Journal-Star.

Hopefully those days are going to come back around soon. Lydon Murtha will be back in the lineup after missing the first two games due to an infection. The Huskers are also looking forward to playing a New Mexico State team that not only has a bunch of question marks on defense, but is also playing just its first game of the season after its opener at Nicholls State was cancelled due to Hurricane Gustav.

The Huskers will get a chance to open things up with their ground game Saturday night when the New Mexico State Aggies come to town for a 6 p.m. battle at Memorial Stadium. You can get your tickets now at Ticket Express -- where no Husker home game is ever sold out.

Glenn makes a good first impression at linebacker

The move from offense to defense was not an easy one, but Cody Glenn sure made a great first impression in his first start at linebacker.

The former running back made the switch last spring and had a good first showing in Nebraska's 47-24 win over Western Michigan on Saturday at Memorial Stadium. The senior got in the Broncos' backfield and made a tackle for a loss on Western Michigan's first play, then later forced a fumble that caused further problems for the Western Michigan offense.

In all, Glenn finished the night with a team-high 12 tackles, three of them for losses, and also had three pass breakups. It was part of an effort that saw the Huskers limit Western Michigan to eight yards rushing, but Glenn told the media after the game that it was far from the defense's best effort, noting the 350 yards passing and 24 points given up.

Fortunately, the Nebraska offense more than made up for it as Joe Ganz threw for over 300 yards and four touchdowns and Alex Henery hit four field goals -- all from 44 yards out -- to help the Huskers continue a tradition of winning season openers that dates back to 1986.

The Huskers are back in action Saturday against San Jose State, and tickets for the game are available now at Ticket Express -- where no Husker home game is ever sold out.

Can we just forget 2007 even happened?

As the Nebraska football team gears up for the 2008 season, the media seems fixated on reliving the past.

If we could go one day without the print hacks, radio blabbermouths and the empty talking heads on TV trying to relive the disaster that was the 2007 season, we're pretty sure the media would be left with nothing more to say (which, when you think about it, doesn't seem like such a bad alternative).

The Nebraska football team is certainly over last year's 5-7 debacle and are moving forward with plans to have a successful season in 2008. And coach Bo Pelini is doing what he knows is best -- preparing for the future.

"As long as you focus on the process to get there and you have a vision of where you're going, then what happened in the past . . . that just becomes for the fans and the media to talk about. Because the players will forget it," Pelini said in a story in the Omaha World-Herald Tuesday.

He's certainly got his team thinking toward the future, a future where the sky is literally the limit for a team looking to recapture the swagger and dominance that made Nebraska football such a special entity for over four decades.

Players told the media Monday that Pelini has the entire team's attention and that last year is forgotten and it's time to get to work.

Nebraska's first two games will be on pay-per-view

Athletic director Tom Osborne announced Friday that Nebraska's first two games of the 2008 season will be shown on a pay-per-view basis.

The Western Michigan game on Saturday, Aug. 30 will kickoff at 6 p.m., while the game against San Jose State on Saturday, Sept. 6 will start at 11:30 a.m. A start time for the New Mexico State game on Saturday, Sept. 13 will be announced at least two weeks prior to the game.

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Huskers Fan Day set for Aug. 17

Husker football fans will be able to meet the Husker players and coaches during a special Fan Day event at Memorial Stadium.

The event will be on Sunday, Aug. 17 beginning at 2 p.m. Fans can meet the players and coaches, who will be on hand to sign autographs and pose for pictures with Husker football fans.

The Huskers Authentic store will be open that day and fans can pick up posters and media guides at the store.

The Huskers kick off the 2008 season on Saturday, Aug. 30 when they host Western Michigan. Get your tickets now at Ticket Express -- where no event is ever sold out.