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Article hit close to home.

Nebraska is “one of those places that has that history that you can’t buy or invent,” the Cornhuskers’ second-year coach, Mike Riley, said in his office last month. “There’s still that idea of, Can we get that back?”

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In college football, geography is destiny. Much of the recent dominance of the Southeastern Conference and a few other teams can be directly traced to the proportion of top high school prospects concentrated in the region in which they are based. Several teams in Texas owe recent boosts in esteem to increased donations made possible by high energy prices. The Big Ten is known as a run-first conference and the Pacific-12 as a pass-happy one for the same reason: the weather.

Nebraska, meanwhile, is a smaller state in the middle of a lightly populated area. Lincoln is not a flashy place, and usually it is either very hot — sweltering like a steam room on a recent August afternoon — or very cold. There are no scenic beaches or mountain vistas to catch the eyes of recruits.

[URL]http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/16/sports/ncaafootball/nebraska-football-hopes-for-breakthrough.html[/URL]
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