1995 McMNC: Nebraska Cornhuskers

AP Top 10: Final Record -- Key Bowl Results

1. Nebraska: 12-0-0 -- W, Fiesta, 62-24
2. Florida: 12-1-0 -- L, Fiesta, 24-62
3. Tennessee: 11-1-0 -- W, Citrus, 20-14
4. Florida State: 10-2-0 -- W, Orange, 31-26
5. Colorado: 10-2-0 -- W, Cotton, 38-6
6. Ohio State: 11-2-0 -- L, Citrus, 14-20
7. Kansas State: 10-2-0 -- W, Holiday, 45-21
8. Northwestern: 10-2-0 -- L, Rose, 32-41
9. Kansas: 10-2-0 -- W, Aloha, 51-30
10. Virginia Tech: 10-2-0 -- W, Sugar, 28-10

This is pretty much the biggest slam dunk to date, I think. The only two teams within a game of Nebraska can't touch the Huskers, by virtue of a head-to-head loss and a non-conference champ status.

But let's discuss some ideas, anyway. Ohio State started this season 11-0 before losing to Michigan in their final regular season game of the year. That could have been interesting ... also, Northwestern came within two points of running the regular season table themselves this season. We were SO close to a four-team scrum at the end for the crown. That would have been a "plus-one" scenario, for sure, except that Northwestern would have been locked into the Rose Bowl, of course.

College football is good and terrible, isn't it?

For the record, the Huskers beat unranked 6-5-1 Michigan State on the road by 40 points, they beat unranked 6-5 Arizona State 77-28 at home (setting up the 1996 upset by the Sun Devils, of course), they beat #7 Kansas State by 24 points at home, they beat #5 Colorado by 23 points on the road, they beat #9 Kansas on the road by 38 points, and they beat #2 Florida by 38 points in the bowl game. See the obvious difference between the Huskers' 1994 and 1995 teams?

This team DOMINATED. And that's all she wrote ...

McMNC Revisions
1. Nebraska
2. Florida
3. Tennessee
4. Virginia Tech
5. Florida State

RUNNING SCORECARD:
Penn State: +1977, +1981, =1982, =1986, +1994
USC: -1962, =1967, +1969, =1972, +1978, +1979
Tennessee: +1938, +1942, +1950, -1951
Washington: +1960, +1991
Georgia Tech: +1952, +1990
Pittsburgh: +1936, -1937, =1976, +1980
UCLA: +1965
Arkansas: +1964
Mississippi: +1962
Iowa: +1956
Illinois: +1951
Michigan: +1947, =1948
Purdue: +1943
Stanford: +1940
California: +1937
BYU: =1984
Syracuse: =1959
LSU: =1958
Texas A&M: =1939
Auburn: -1957, +1983
Georgia: +1946, -1980
Michigan State: -1952, +1953
Ohio State: -1942, +1944, =1954, =1968
Oklahoma: +1949, -1950, =1955, -1956, +1957, =1975, =1986
TCU: -1938
Maryland: -1953
Clemson: -1981
Colorado: -1990
Florida State: -1993
Texas: =1963, -1969
Nebraska: =1970, =1971, -1994, =1995
Army: -1944, -1945
Miami-FL: -1983, =1987, =1989, -1991
Minnesota: -1936, -1940, =1941, -1960
Alabama: +1945, =1961, -1964, -1965, -1978, -1979, =1992
Notre Dame: -1943, -1946, -1947, -1949, =1966, =1973, -1977, =1988, +1993