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Oklahoma beats Iowa State who beats Missouri who
beats Nebraska who beats Colorado who beats Oklahoma
State who bests Oklahoma . . ad nauseum.
The Big 8 Conference football race for the crown and
a coveted Orange Bowl bid has become a vicious circle of
"kill thy neighbor" this season.
With the exception of oie team-Kansas State Univer
sity (KSU)-very Big 8 school has been rated in the top
20 nationally in news service polls at some point this
season. -- .': . " r.
Big 8 dominance outside the conference was evident
again this season with a 23-6-2 record against non-conference
opponents. Half of those six losses were by Kansas
State, the Big 8s annual doormat. There also are two
more nun-conference games to be played by the Big 8
with Nebraska going to Hawaii and Oklahoma State
(OSU) playing the University of Texas-El Paso.
Conference play this season has echoed Nebraska
coach Tom Osborne's thoughts at the beginning of the
year when he said he feared the Dig 8 schools, would
Mchop each other up. - i '
Goserace
This is the closest race that I can remember,'" Osborne
said. "There are usually two teams that are undefeated
and three or four that are out of it by this time."
Osborne noted that five teams still have a shot at the
Big 8 crown.
The Huskers currently are in a.three-way tie for the
lead with Oklahoma State and Colorado (CU). The fog
which clouds the picture may clear after this weekend's
games between UNL and OSU, and Colorado and Miss
ouri. Colorado head coach Bill MaHory said he thought Okla
homa State would be in the driver's seat should it beat
Nebraska Saturday. A look at the Cowboys schedule
supports Ivory's statement. After the Nebraska game,
OSU finishes the season with Kansas State on the road
and Iowa State (ISU) at home.
Colorado itself would not be in bad shape if they
sports shorts
The Husker women's volleyball team improved its
record to 374), winning the Big 8 Conference tournament
Saturday in Ames, Iowa, and winning a match in Cali
fornia lionday.
The Huskers breezed through the Dig 8, winning 3 six
matches and losing cn!y one game.
Following the tournament, the team flew to Cali
fornia Sunday to play a series of matches this week in
preparation for the National Women's Invitational Tour
nament Friday and Saturday at University of California at
Los Angeles (UCLA) Pauley Pavilion.
- Monday tic Huskers beat California State at FuHerton
15-8, 15-17, 15-11 and 15-10.
UNL played Pepperdine University and UCLA Tues
day. Game results were unavailable at publication time.
The Huskers play Long Beach State University today.
The UNL women's field hockey team raised its record
to 4-7-4," besting Emporia State University Saturday in
Emporia, Kan. A match with the University cf Kansas
scheduled for Friday was canceled because cf snow.
Defending Big 8 champion Kansas University downed
the UNL Soccer Club 5-2 in Lawrence Sunday.
Halfback Dave Arnold and Forward Dave Egr pumped
in UNL's two goals. UNL took no substitutes on the
Kansas trip. The match was never as close as a game be
tween the two teams earlier this season when the Huskers
took the Jayhawks into overtime before bowing by an
identical 5-2 score.
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ball every other Saturday.
Colorado -finishes the season against both Kansas
schools, currently seventh and eighth in the Big 8, after
this week's contest with the Tigers. But this is Missouri's
up" week, if past history is an indicator.
Three-way tie
Of the three teams tied for first in the conference, it
appears that UNL has the toughest road to Miami. The
Huskers must defeat Oklahoma State, which has beaten
Missouri and Oklahoma (OU) this year, Iowa State in
Ames, and perennial power and rival Oklahoma.
It is, however, more than a three-team race, according
to Missouri head coach Al Onofrio.
"It's still up for grabs," Onofrio said. There arc
'teams with one loss in conference play that still may lose
and that includes Nebraska. We carft give up hope because
we have two losses."
Th mnmrntsrv absence of Oklahoma from the Big 8
race is a strange sight. The Soon ers, who lost two straight
games this year for the first time since 1970, dropped out
of the nation's top 20 for the first time in ages this week.
They still may have a shotat some league recognition
as they close their season with games against Kansas
State, Missouri at home, and then the big game at Neb
raska. This year's conference dark horse, Iowa State, also
could play the role of spoiler in its final three games."
ISU plays Kansas State Saturday, Nebraska at home and
OSU on the road. ,
It seems that only the two Kansas schools are out of
the running for the Big 8 championship, and Osborne
said It appears they are in trouble."
1 But upsets by the two teams still could throw the Big
8 picture into deeper doubt.
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on workings of NU-KU fresh game
The atmogphere was lighter at Monday's Extra Point
Club meeting following UNL's 31-3 victory over the Uni
versity of Kansas (KU) than it was a week ago after the
Huskers lost to Missouri 34-24.
Nebraa football coach Tom Osborne took time to
joke about the playing conditions under which Nebraska's
freshmen team lost to KlTs junior varsity last Friday
19-1 8, ending a 14 game frosh win streak.
Te began to wonder a little when we got there and
saw that the field ran downhill, Osborne said. "And we
had to play on grass where it had been raining all day, and .
the lines on the field weren't straight. And then we reaTy
began to wonder when the referees started cheering for
the Kansas team."
Osborne sail he had a few ideas on how next year's
game between the UNL freshmen and the KU junior
varsity would be played.
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first we were just going to cancel next year's
game," he said. "And then we got to thinking we'd just go
out to that big dirt hill out by the airport and water it
down for two days and put some goalposts at the top."
It was the first loss for the freshmen since a 1973 loss
to the University of Missouri junior varsity team.
Osborne termed his the varsity's effort the most
oornpkie game UNL has played this season.
"There were still things we could have done beiter,
Osborne said. Dut most things were on an even keeL"
Osborne said UNL's kicking game was particularly
good against KU and that the defense played well in not
giving up the big play.
Tn the seven or eight years since Warren Powers (de
fensive backs coach) has been here," Osborne said, "we've
always had an outstanding secondary. He has taken some
walk-on athletes, who usually are the athletes who give
the cost effort, and molded thess into great athletes."
UNL only gave up 14 yards in passing against KU.
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surrendered only 170 yards rushing to KU. The Jayhawks
had been the Big 8 Conference's leading rushing team be
fore Saturday's game. -
Oiborae had nothing but praise for Nebraska's upcom
ing opponent Oklahoma State University (OSU) and in
particular. Cowboy running back Terry Miller. Miller ahad
224 yards rushing last Saturday against Missouri.
"Miller is probably a combination of Tony Dorse tt and
Ricky. Cell in that he can run both inside and outside"
Osborne said, "lie made about 60 or 70 of his yards
against Missouri by breaking tackles. He's the type of
player who can hurt you because he can make yards and
score points."
Osborne noted that OSU returns 19 of the 22 starters
that played Nebraska close in last year's 23-20 Husker
victory.
The Oklahoma State name doesnt conjure up images
of national recognition," Osborne said. "But this is a solid
football team. They will be the most complete football
team we play this year. And they have possibly the best
personnel in the Big 8."
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