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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3939559, member: 289"]
Nebraska was the one football super power that seemed the most surprising to me. It's a state without a big population and it isn't really near any great recruiting areas. But for 30 years they were as good as anybody. These days I wonder the same thing about Boise State and North Dakota State - why them? But they aren't competing on the same level as the Cornhuskers were.

Their decline began when Tom Osborne retired. Solich actually had a good record there but it was a stop or two down from Osborne's peak. Things fell apart under Callahan. They improved under Pellini but it still wasn't the old days. Riley and Frost haven't been able to put the statue back on the pedestal.

These days they aren't any better than Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, etc. And that's probably where they should be. But you wonder what happened under Devaney and then Osborne to produce such great success.

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