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[QUOTE="NJCuse97, post: 3125308, member: 5058"]
I think the "couple decades of irrelevance" is a bit overstated. They won the championships in '94, '95, '97 and a disputed one in '99. They were in the championship in '01 and '02 was their first non-winning season in 40 years, going 7-7, which they rebounded from with a ten win season the next year. They had a bad AD for a few years in the mid aughts in Steve Pederson who fired Solich and had their worst streak under Bill Callahan. In this time they had their first losing season since 1961 and he was their worst coach in like 45 years based on winning percentage going... wait for it... 27-22. That's Grob level. Once their savior Tom Osborne was back in charge, and he hired Bo Pelini, they were back to being a nine or ten win team. Nebraska didn't fall into genuine mediocrity until 2015.

I used to work for a large AE (really more engineering than architecture) firm in Omaha and the entire company was run by Nebraska grads. It was a bit like being surrounded by Ped State grads (I've experienced that too) in that they all made the weekend pilgrimage to the football game, no matter what. In that way, while I agree with your assessment that the B1G was a mistake, they fit the culture.

I find half the B1G teams to be overrated and given too much credit for beating each other. I'm not saying OSU is bad, but they were given a LOT of credit for beating Nebraska, a .500 team for the last 5 years. Look at the positive press Mich is getting for beating lowly Rutgers. MSU is still getting a lot of positive attention too and they lost to Arizona State at home. It will serve OSU well when they clobber MSU this weekend.
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