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Fiesta Bowl after the 1 995 sea
son, according to published re
ports.
Commissioners of college
football franchises have decided
to unanimously recommend the
rotation, the Miami Herald re
ported Tuesday.
The deal still needs to win
approval from the conferences’
athletic directors, but commis
sioners don’texpect them to veto
the plan, the paper said, adding
that the final decision could be
announced today.
The paper quoted sources as
saying that the Orange Bowl
was chosen over the Gator Bowl,
despite the Gator Bowl’s higher
bid, because the Orange Bowl
has produced six of the past 11
IlamoiiparaiH
The Fiesta Bowl (Phoenix)
bid $U 8 raillkxuhe Sugar Bowl
(New Orleans) bid $ 108 million
rod the Orange Bowl bid 110$
million, the paper said The
GatorBowlf Jacksonville) made
thus second* highest bid, 1116
million* - l r S *,
The current bowl alliance in*
eludes the Orange* Sugar and
ffeit* bowls, pins the Cotton
Bowl (Dallas). The Cotton Bowl
bid $100 million, the paper said.
%. Donn Bernstem, spokesman
for the bowl coalition, said he
could not confirm the report. He
laid foe commissioners W met
last weekend in Dallas but he did
' not know the resultsof that meet*
ing. : ' '
Meanwhile.an advisory pan
el to the Orange Bowl Commit*
tee recommended late Tuesday
that the national championship
fame be moved to foe Hobble
tadium —a move that Miami
officials vow to contest vigor
ously, and one long advocated
by several committee members.
NU is No. 2 in composite ranking
By Mitch Sherman
Staff Reporter _
The votes have been tallied and,
according to 11 preseason football
publications, Nebraska is the No. 2
college football team in America.
Even though the first kickoff of
the 1994 season is still 24 days
away, most of the college football
preseason magazines are already
on the newsstands.
And almost everybody seems to
think the Huskers will walk away
with their fourth straight Big Eight
title and contend for the national
championship on Jan. 2.
Depsite the fact that the
Comhuskers have yet to begin fall
practice, Nebraska is tied with Flor
ida State at the No. 2 spot, trailing
top-ranked Florida by a mere two
points.
Nebraska was the only team to
be ranked in the top five by all 11
publications.
“I guess it’s more good than
bad,” Nebraska coach Tom Osborne
said. “If you are able to win and
you’re ranked high to begin with,
then you don’t have as far to go to
the top.”
The Associated Press and USA
TODAY/CNN Coaches polls —
which combine to form the all
important Bowl Coalition Poll —
will not be released until Aug. 21, one
week before Nebraska takes on West ]
Virginia in the Kickoff Classic at East
Rutherford, N.J.
All indications show that the Husk
ers will be ranked among the top five
when the first Associated Press poll is
made public. 1
It has been five years since Nebras
ka last owned a top five ranking head
ing into a season. In 1989, the Huskers
were ranked No. 4 when they opened
the season with a 48-17 victory over
Northern Illinois. Last season, Ne
braska was ranked eighth in the pre
season AP poll.
Osborne warned that high place
ment in the polls didn’t guarantee a
successful year.
“The higher you’ re ranked, the more
pressure there is to win,” Osborne
said. “A high ranking may cause peo
ple to expect more of you and set
unrealistic goals.”
For many Husker fans, no goal is
unrealistic this season. But the players
are usually able to keep from getting
caught up in the excitement, Osborne
said.
“I don’t know if too many players
think about (rankings),” he said. “They
understand that there is really nothing
you can do about the polls except go
out and play your best.”
Earlier this week, the Husker coach
ing staffbegan its quest to four-peat as
3ig Eight cham
pions. Coaches
first formally met
ast Sunday.
Osborne said
be staff had been
ooking at films
pf opponents, re
viewing spring
ivorkouts and
:hecking note
books in prepara
tion for the start
af practice.
Scholarship
freshmen report
ed Wednesday.
They will run
through tests and
drills Thursday
TEAM
POINTS
1) Florida (3) 36
2) Florida St. (4) 34
tie Nebraska (1) 34
4) Notre Dame (2) 28
5) Miami (1) 13
•First-place votes in parentheses
•Poll based on a composite of 11 pre-season magazines
•Points awarded on following scale :
5 pts = #1,4 pts ■ # 2, 3 pts = #3, etc.
Amy Schmidt / DN
and Friday, before taking Saturday ott
because of photo day.
Fans wishing to get a closer look at
the players will be allowed on the
Memorial Stadium turf Saturday from
12:30 until 2 p.m.
Sunday, the entire team will hold
its first practice at Memorial Stadium.
NCAA rules state the a team must
practice in sweats during its first three
workouts of the fall.
Nebraska will hold 29 practices be
tween Sunday and the Kickoff Classic.
The NCAA allowed the Huskers to start
practices approximately one week earl i
1 • ~tr ~w
er m order to prepare tor tneeany game.
NOTE:
• Ahman Green, a 6-2, 200-pound
senior-to-be from Omaha Central High
School has been named as the pre
season offensive player of the year by
National Recruiting Advisor based in
Austin, Texas.
The running back, who attends the
same high school as former Husker I
backs Keith Jones, Leodis Flowers and
Calvin Jones, shattered several records
at Nebraska’s summer football camp.
He is reportedly considering Nebras
ka, along with several other schools.
1 •
lough schedule could stand in riusKers way
Finally, football is back.
With the opening of the NFL pre
season last weekend, a real sport has
returned — sorry soccer fans, but at
least the Super Bowl doesn’t end in a
0-0 tie — and once again, the expec
tations are sky-high around this state.
After last season, anything short of 1
a national championship for Nebras
ka would be a disappointment for
Husker fans.
But this year, capturing that elu
sive national championship will be no
easy task.
First, the Huskers’ schedule is the
most difficult a Nebraska team has
seen in recent years.
Some Nebraska fans seem to forget
Nebraska’s Kickoff Classic opponent
—West Virginia—went undefeated
in the regular season last year and will
be playing in its backyard.
That brings me to my next point.
How does every game Nebraska
plays that is at a supposed neutral site
always end up like an away game?
In four of the past six years, Ne
Derek
Samson
Draska has faced a Florida school in
the Orange Bowl. The Huskers’ last
two bowl victories were against Lou
isiana State in the Sugar Bowl of New
Orleans.
Now, the Huskers play West Vir
ginia in New Jersey—only a hop, skip
and swig of moonshine away for Moun
taineer fans.
For once I would like to sec Florida
State travel to Lincoln on Jan. 1, play
in the #$%&*$!@ Cold Bowl and
watch Bobby Bowden’s chubby little
cheeks get frostbitten.
Nebraska follows up the game with
the Mountaineers by traveling to Tex
as Tech for a Thursday night, ESPN
televised game.
Sure, Oklahoma stomped the Red
Raiders 41-10 in last year s John
Hancock Bowl, but strange things can
happen on these Thursday nights.
It was a Thursday night game last
year when Nebraska had to rally late
to beat Oklahoma State 27-13 in
Stillwater.
And this was the same Cowboy
team that couldn’t even beat Iowa
State and went winless in conference
play.
Anyway, playing in Lubbock is a
scary thought in itself, since the state
of Texas doesn’t get good football
teams to pass through it very often.
Finally, Nebraska returns home
Sep. 17, only to have UCLA waiting to
greet them.
Throw in 1993 Copper Bowl loser
Wyoming, which comes to Lincoln
Oct. 1, and Nebraska may have its
toughest non-conference schedule
since 1981 when it played Iowa, Flor
ida State, Penn State and Auburn.
Another thing which could hinder
NU’s chances to go unbeaten is that
last season the Huskcrs were able to
sneak up the polls and fend ofTthe lack
of respect..
Don’t expect any of that this sea
son, as Nebraska should be in the top
three in the preseason polls. ^
That could be what Nebraska needs,
though.
And maybe Tom Osborne can get a
campaign started this year similar to
Bowden’s “Its my turn, whether wc
deserve it or not," campaign of last
season.
It worked so well for Bowden and
it also robbed West Virginia of a shot
toplay for the national championship,
but for some reason I can’t see Osborne
adopting the same scheme.
Opportunities 1 ike last season don ’ t
come very often, but ifNebraska could
make it through this season undefeat
ed again, this time the Huskers won’t
be denied Jan. 1.
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