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Remember your first Nebraska game?

If you still remember your first set of Nebraska football tickets, you can win a unique package that includes tickets to a Nebraska football game this season.
First National Bank of Omaha is sponsoring a contest where fans can go online and write a 300-word essay recalling their first Husker gameday experience. The seven winners will be featured on HuskerVision in Memorial Stadium, and each one will have a chance to stand on the sideline with one of the players they saw during that first game and wave to the crowd of more than 80,000 during a Husker football game this season.
Nebraska football fans can remember their first game, whether it was an early-season contest against a non-conference opponent or a big showdown against some of the Huskers' traditional rivals like Oklahoma, Colorado or Missouri.
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Tickets hot for Nebraska's last year in Big 12

Nebraska football tickets will be especially hot during the 2010 season, as the Huskers close a chapter in their history during their final season as a member of the Big 12 Conference.

With Nebraska moving to the Big 10 Conference in 2011, it will be the last time for Husker fans to witness traditional rivalries with over a century of history, including games against Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, Iowa State and Kansas State.

The big game of the season comes on Saturday, Oct. 19, when Nebraska hosts Texas in a rematch of last year's exciting, and controversial, Big 12 Conference championship game. Big 12 Southern Division foes Texas A&M and Oklahoma State are also on this year's scheduled for the Huskers.

The Huskers have three home games on their non-conference schedule, including Western Kentucky, Idaho and South Dakota State. They will travel to Washington on Sept. 18 to face the Huskies in Seattle.

With Nebraska bidding the Big 12 adieu, you can bet every team in the conference will want to get their last shot in on the Huskers, so every game should be exciting for fans.

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Nebraska football opens with two pay-per-view games

Nebraska football tickets will be a hot item once again in 2010 as the nation's longest consecutive sellout string continues at Memorial Stadium.
Nebraska's first two games of the year will be on pay-per-view television, as the Huskers open with Western Kentucky on Saturday, Sept. 4 at 6 p.m. and host Idaho in an 11:30 a.m. game on Saturday, Sept. 11. Both games will be televised on a pay-per-view basis by Fox sports Net.
This will be the first time Fox Sports Net will broadcast Nebraska football games in high definition. As a result, the price for the pay-per-view games has gone up from $29.95 to $39.95 for the Western Kentucky and Idaho games.
While the Big 12 Conference's assigning of games to TV has yet to be determined, three Nebraska football games are already scheduled for TV appearances. Nebraska will play at Washington on Saturday, Sept. 18 on ABC at 2:30 p.m., they will play at Kansas State on ESPN on Thurdsay, Oct. 7 at 6:30 p.m., and they close out the regular season with their traditional day-after-Thanksgiving matchup with Colorado on Friday, Nov. 26 at 2:30 p.m. on ABC.
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Nebraska jumping ship for the Big 10 in 2011

Nebraska football has more than a century of tradition as a member of the Big Six, Big Seven, Big Eight and Big 12 conferences.
That tradition is going by the wayside, however, after the Big 10 conference formally approved Nebraska's application to join the conference beginning in 2011.
The topic of conference expansion has been a hot item in recent months, and there had been speculation that Nebraska was on the list of teams the Big 10 would be interested in bringing into its 11-team conference.
After the Big 12 Conference held its summer meetings, it became apparent that Nebraska wasn't the only school looking for greener pastures. Texas was being touted as a potential team on the move, possibly going to the Pac 10 or Big 10, but was going to wait and see if Nebraska or Missouri -- maybe both -- would follow through on rumors they were leaving for the Big 10.
In the end, it wasn't even one of those schools that started the chain reaction. While media reports were selling Nebraska's move to the Big 10 as all but a done deal, Colorado broke the ice Thursday by announcing its intention to leave the Big 12 for the Pac 10 Conference, beginning in 2012.
Friday afternoon, the University of Nebraska Board of Regents gave its blessing to make the move, and moments later the Big 10 accepted Nebraska's application to join the conference.
The move will change the Nebraska football landscape, as Husker fans will have to get used to conference matchups against teams like Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio State and others. The days of matchups against Iowa State, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma State and the rest of the Big 12 will come to an end after this season.
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Team draws coach's frustration after 31-10 defeat

The Nebraska football team didn't come to play Saturday in their 31-10 loss to Texas Tech, and if there's one way you can get coach Bo Pelini's blood pressure to skyrocket, you can play the way the Huskers did.

From the inability to execute offensively to the seemingly endless mental mistakes that led to ill-timed penalties to the inability to stop a solid offense when the situation called for it, the second-year Husker mentor was not at all in the mood for conversation after the game.

Pelini did speak to reporters, but it was clearly obvious he was unhappy with his team's performance.

"I knew what we had coming up in Texas Tech," he said. "I knew the challenge we had and we didn't meet the challenge. We got our butts kicked."

Texas Tech drove down the field on their opening drive and scored, then took a 14-0 lead when Niles Paul failed to cover a lateral pass from Zac Lee and the fumble was returned 82 yards for a touchdown. It was that kind of day for the Huskers, and it never got better.

Even when Cory Green found Khiry Cooper with a touchdown pass early in the fourth quarter, the hope fans of the Nebraska football team were clinging to faded away quickly, as Texas Tech put together a methodical scoring drive on the ensuing possession to quash any hopes of another fourth-quarter comeback for the Huskers.

The Nebraska football team will look to bounce back from last week's loss, which dropped them to 4-2 overall and 1-1 in the Big 12, as they play host to Iowa State Saturday afternoon at Memorial Stadium.

The Cyclones are coming off a rare conference road win and will be looking to make it two in a row this weekend as they come to Lincoln, a place where Iowa State traditionally has had little to no success.

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Suh a finalist for Lombardi award

Nebraska defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh is one of the 12 semifinalists selected for the 2009 Lombardi Award, which is presented to the nation's top lineman.

Suh has been a dominant force for the Nebraska football team, recording a team-best 32 tackles so far this season. Seven of his tackles have been for losses, and he also has three sacks and an interception. His pickoff of Blaine Gabbert helped ignite a 27-point fourth-quarter rally for the Huskers in their 27-12 win at Missouri last week.

Suh has alread earned some weekly honors this season, earning a Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week award and being named defensive player of the week by the Walter Camp Foundation.

The finalists for the Lombardi Award will be announced Tuesday, Nov. 10.

The Nebraska football team returns to action Saturday with a Big 12 home matchup against Texas Tech. Get your tickets to see the Huskers and the Red Raiders now at Ticket Express -- where no Husker football game is ever sold out.

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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Daniel will test Nebraska's defense

Nebraska's defense has been put through some difficult tests early on, but nothing like what they are about to encounter as they open Big 12 Conference play this weekend.

The undefeated and fourth-ranked Missouri Tigers come to town for Saturday's homecoming matchup at 8 p.m. on ESPN, and to say the Tigers have their best team in a long time would be an understatement. This is a very talented bunch that is on the short list of teams that, at this point, could be playing for the national championship come January.

The Tigers are led by Heisman Trophy candidate Chase McDaniel. The senior quarterback threw for over 4,000 yards last year and tore apart Nebraska's defense in a 41-6 demolishing last year in Columbia. To make matters worse, he compared Nebraska's defense -- in that game -- to a high school outfit.

Nebraska's defense has gotten a lot better since then, but this group still hasn't been tested the way the Tigers are going to this weekend. With Daniel and his seemingly limitless options -- led by sophomore sensation Jeremy Maclin -- the Huskers are going to see an offensive assault that is much more potent and multi-talented than any they saw in their first four games.

The Huskers' first big test came last weekend against Virginia Tech, and it was obvious there are still a lot of holes to fill. The secondary allowed far too many open receivers and the Hokies dominated the time of possession and were able to come away with a 35-30 victory. If the Huskers are unable to rebound, Saturday's result against the Tigers could be an ugly one.

Daniel has been dominant so far this season, passing for 1,412 yards and 12 touchdowns while completing 76 percent of his passes. He set a conference record earlier this year by completing 20 consecutive passes against Buffalo. If he gets on a roll Saturday, he could put up numbers similar to last year against a Husker defense that is still working at improving.

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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