Inside College Football: Nebraska Cornhuskers

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He did not have to wait long ORANGE BOWL Nebraska players nicknamed the BEATINGS 1994 season Unfinished Business For the second consecutive year they After a dominant run from 1970 to 1972 during which they won went undefeated during the regular three straight Orange Bowls the season And on January 1 1995 the Cornhuskers lost seven of their Cornhuskers found themselves in the next eight Orange Bowl games same position as the year before This That included three losses to time they faced the Miami Hurricanes Miami and two to Florida State in the Orange Bowl They even lost three in a row from 1991 to 1993 before facing The game was played in front of a Miami in the January 1 1995 then record 81,753 fans The stadium Orange Bowl which was also called the Orange Bowl was the Hurricanes home field Miami had only lost once in its previous 63 games there Nebraska was ranked number one in the nation Miami was ranked third Just like the previous year if Nebraska won the game it would almost certainly be named the national champion The Cornhuskers had overcome many obstacles during the 1994 season They started the season 4-0 But junior quarterback Tommie Frazier one of the team's best players developed a blood clot in his knee Nebraska turned to junior Brook Berringer But he suffered a partially collapsed lung and missed parts of two games So Nebraska was forced to use a third quarterback sophomore Matt Turman Still the Cornhuskers kept on winning all the way to 6