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LINCOLN-The Nebraska football team continued preparations on Wednesday for its matchup against the Wisconsin Badgers this weekend. The Huskers practiced for just over two hours in full pads on the Ed and Joyanne Gass practice field.

The Husker defense is gearing up to face Wisconsin’s offensive attack, which currently ranks sixth nationally in points scored per game. Linebackers coach Ross Els discussed the depth of his linebacker corps and said he is comfortable with his backups as well as his starters.

“It just comes down to ability level and the mental aspect of picking things up, but those kids are doing fine in the second group,” Els said.”I would have no problem if we have an injury, or if we have a situation where we need to give a guy a blow, with putting a backup guy in.”

Secondary coach Corey Raymond elaborated on the status of cornerback Alfonzo Dennard and said the senior is progressing well.

“He’s getting better,” Raymond said. “He’s doing all the little-bitty things to get himself right and shaking all the rust off. He’s got to continue to keep working. He’ll get better.”

When asked about the Badgers’ passing game, Raymond was frank.

“The whole school is good, they’re all really good guys,” Raymond said. “We’ve got to get out there and compete against those guys.”

Despite the great deal of attention the game is receiving, Els says the team is remaining focused.

“A work day is a work day, and it doesn’t matter if we’re preparing for Chattanooga or Wisconsin,” Els said. “I know people have trouble understanding that, but it’s true. We don’t look ahead, we don’t look behind, we look at the next practice. I think our kids had a very good practice today.”

The Huskers will face the No. 7 Wisconsin Badgers at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wisc. The matchup is slated to kickoff at 7 p.m. on Saturday and will be shown nationally on ABC-HD.

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Nebraska continues non-conference play on Saturday night when the Huskers take on Fresno State at Memorial Stadium. Saturday’s matchup will mark the first-ever meeting between Nebraska and Fresno State and kickoff for the game is set for 6 p.m. The Big Ten Network will provide national television coverage of the game.

The Huskers enter the game after a 40-7 victory over Chattanooga in their season opener last Saturday. The win marked the 26th straight season Nebraska has opened the year with a victory, a nation-leading streak. The Nebraska defense was strong against Chattanooga, holding the Mocs to just a third-quarter touchdown and 230 yards of total offense.

Fresno State comes to Lincoln after dropping its opener to California, 36-21, in a game played in San Francisco. The Bulldogs have been a perennial power in the Western Athletic Conference and are in their final season in that league before moving to the Mountain West Conference in 2012. Fresno State has participated in a bowl game in 11 of 14 seasons under Head Coach Pat Hill, winning at least nine games four times in that span.

The matchup with Fresno State is the first in a three-game series between the schools. Nebraska will travel to Fresno in 2014, and the Bulldogs return to Lincoln in 2016.

Nebraska continues non-conference play on Saturday night when the Huskers take on Fresno State at Memorial Stadium. Saturday’s matchup will mark the first-ever meeting between Nebraska and Fresno State and kickoff for the game is set for 6 p.m. The Big Ten Network will provide national television coverage of the game.

The Huskers enter the game after a 40-7 victory over Chattanooga in their season opener last Saturday. The win marked the 26th straight season Nebraska has opened the year with a victory, a nation-leading streak. The Nebraska defense was strong against Chattanooga, holding the Mocs to just a third-quarter touchdown and 230 yards of total offense.

Fresno State comes to Lincoln after dropping its opener to California, 36-21, in a game played in San Francisco. The Bulldogs have been a perennial power in the Western Athletic Conference and are in their final season in that league before moving to the Mountain West Conference in 2012. Fresno State has participated in a bowl game in 11 of 14 seasons under Head Coach Pat Hill, winning at least nine games four times in that span.

The matchup with Fresno State is the first in a three-game series between the schools. Nebraska will travel to Fresno in 2014, and the Bulldogs return to Lincoln in 2016.
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Lincoln, Neb. – Quarterback Taylor Martinez rushed for 135 yards and three touchdowns and Brett Maher enjoyed a perfect debut as Nebraska’s starting kicker in the Huskers’ 40-7 win over Tennessee at Chattanooga on Saturday at Memorial Stadium.

Playing in front of an NCAA-record 312th consecutive sellout of 84,833 at Memorial Stadium and a Big Ten Network television audience in the Huskers’ season opener, Martinez produced the sixth 100-yard rushing game of his career. The sophomore from Corona, Calif., also sprinted for touchdown runs of 47, 43 and seven yards in Nebraska’s new-look offense.

In Nebraska’s first-ever game as a member of the Big Ten Conference, the Huskers rolled to 364 yards of total offense on 68 plays, including 229 rushing yards. Junior I-back Rex Burkhead added 75 yards and one touchdown on 11 carries for NU.

Martinez also completed 11-of-22 passes for 116 yards. Quincy Enunwa led the NU receivers with four receptions for 58 yards, while tight ends Ben Cotton (1-27) and Kyler Reed (1-13) also added key catches for the Huskers.

Maher added a nearly flawless performance in his starting debut in replacing 2010 first-team All-American Alex Henery. The junior place-kicker/punter went 4-for-4 on field goals, including a 50-yarder against the wind on the first attempt of his career. He added a 48-yarder on his second attempt, before connecting on tries from 34 and 21 to close the game. He was also a perfect 4-for-4 on extra points, while booming four punts for an average of 52 yards on the day.

While Martinez and Maher combined to put up 34 of Nebraska’s 40 points, Cameron Meredith, Jared Crick and Lavonte David led the Blackshirts against the Mocs.

Meredith, a junior defensive end from Huntington Beach, Calif., uncorked a pair of sacks for 22 yards in losses of Chattanooga’s B.J. Coleman and intercepted a pass that was deflected at the line of scrimmage by Crick. That interception set up Burkhead’s third-quarter touchdown run to put the Huskers ahead 33-7.

Early in the fourth quarter, Meredith also scooped up a UTC field goal attempt that was blocked at the line by Josh Williams. Meredith ended the game with three tackles.

Crick, a senior preseason All-America defensive tackle from Cozad, Neb., finished with five tackles, including two tackles for loss. David, a senior preseason All-America linebacker from Miami, Fla., closed with a team-leading nine tackles, including a TFL.

The solid team effort in all phases allowed Nebraska to extend its nation-leading win streak in season openers to 26. The last time the Huskers lost a season opener came to Florida State (17-13) in 1985. NU has won every game in the streak by at least 10 points, and the Huskers have scored 40 or more points in 19 of the 26 games. NU has also held their opponents to 14 or fewer points 18 times.

Nebraska continues its three-game season-opening homestand next week when the Huskers play host to Fresno State. Kickoff with the Bulldogs is set for 6 p.m. with a Big Ten Network telecast.

Scoring Summary
Final: #10 Nebraska 40, Tennessee at Chattanooga 7
Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011
Memorial Stadium (Lincoln, Neb.)

First Quarter (NU, 10-0)
NU – 10:08 – Taylor Martinez 7 run (Brett Maher kick) – 4 plays, 63 yards, 1:45, NU 7-0
NU – 1:52 – Brett Maher 50 FG – 7 plays, 27 yards, 3:23, NU 10-0

Second Quarter (NU, 23-0)
NU – 10:11 – Maher 48 FG – 12 plays, 40 yards, 3:53, NU 13-0
NU – 2:07 – Martinez 43 run (Maher) – 10 plays, 76 yards, 4:35, NU 20-0
NU – 0:10 – Maher 34 FG – 8 plays, 40 yards, 0:46, NU 23-0

Third Quarter (NU, 40-7)
UTC – 11:43 – Marlon Anthony 13 pass from B.J. Coleman (Nick Pollard kick) -
7 plays, 72 yards, 3:10, NU 23-7
NU – 8:30 – Maher 21 FG – 7 plays, 38 yards, 3:12 – NU 26-7
NU – 7:28 – Rex Burkhead 3 run (Maher kick) – 1 play, 3 yards, 0:04, NU 33-7
NU – 6:08 – Martinez 47 run (Maher kick) – 1 play, 47 yards, 0:11, NU 40-7

Fourth Quarter (NU, 40-7)
No Scoring

Final: #10 Nebraska 40, Tennessee at Chattanooga 7
Attendance: 85,883
Time of Game: 3:06

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Nebraska football fanswill be hunting for copies of next week’s issue of Sporting News The Magazine because it features a cover photo of someone you’ll recognize. He’s wearing his fabled No. 20 jersey and an old-fashioned facemask. Yes, this cover shows Johnny Rodgers being greeted by Paul Schneider, Nebraska’s late trainer, with a bear hug after “The Jet” returned to the sidelines following another  electrifying touchdown.

In a letter personally addressed to him, Rodgers calculatingly surprised 56 Husker teammates representing 21 states Friday night at Nebraska’s Champions Club. During a speech to celebrate the 40^th anniversary of Nebraska’s first perfect record and second national championship, the 1972 Heisman Trophy winner was interrupted and handed an official letter on Sporting News stationary.

It came from the Editor-in-Chief Garry D. Howard of the Charlotte, N.C.-based national publication. Howard wrote: “While we didn’t intend to announce this until Sporting News the Magazine hit newsstands next week, we just couldn’t miss this special opportunity to announce to you tonight this fact: “The 1971 Cornhusker football team has been named by The Sporting News – in a vote of some of the biggest names in college football - the best team in 125 years of collegiate football … the absolute best … top of the heap …A-No. 1!“

The instant Rodgers started spreading the news, the entire room stood up and gave a rather rousing ovation, especially considering that co-captain Jerry Tagge joked before Rodgers spoke that most had spent the evening talking about grandkids and social security benefits.

On the eve of Nebraska’s first-ever game as a member of the storied Big Ten Conference, NU Athletic Director Tom Osborne hosted the reunion and knew what was coming when Rodgers read the next paragraph from Sporting News letter.

“…the 1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers won this vote quite handily, by the way, placing well ahead of Nebraska’s 1995 team led by All-American quarterback Tommie Frazier … voted No. 4, and in front of some very deserving teams in the 1972 USC Trojans (No. 2), the 1974 Oklahoma Sooners (No. 3) and the 1956 Sooners (No. 5).”

’71 Team Holds Special Place in Osborne’s Heart

When Osborne’s ’95 Husker team was mentioned, there was laughter in the room, causing Rodgers to look at his one-time position coach and offensive coordinator at the head table and say: “Coach, I’m not making this up. I’m reading what they wrote.”

Osborne laughed. The day before, though, in front of a packed Huskers Athletic Club Luncheon at a downtown Lincoln hotel, he choked up talking about the 1971 team. Explaining how Nebraska followed a 35-31 Game of the Century win over Oklahoma with a 38-6 triumph over an unbeaten Bear Bryant-coached Alabama team in the Orange Bowl, Osborne said: “That was a big moment for Bob Devaney, so I will always remember that. We had a heck of an offense, a heck of a defense and a great kicking game. Johnny Rodgers was worth seven to 10 points a game that season in the kicking game alone.”

Osborne was funny and under control Friday night, reminding the now senior citizen Huskers that they were finishing the banquet before 8 o’clock so they could prepare for Saturday’s festivities, which include signing autographs at Husker Nation Pavilion from noon to 1:30 p.m., helping to form a line for Nebraska’s historic Tunnel Walk entrance onto the field and being honored at halftime following a four-minute video that drips with history and nostalgia – one that was warmly received at the banquet.

Forty years after their amazing accomplishment, Husker players know that any “best ever” tag is subjective and can be challenged, but many feel fairly strongly that The Sporting News is right on in its comparative analysis. Here are some members of the ’71 team who came to this weekend’s reunion feeling Nebraska still deserves the “best ever” designation:

Outland Trophy winner Jacobson: “We had 25 guys from that team make it to the pros. We spent 140 total years in the pros with 115 in the NFL; 12 of our 22 starting positions made All-Big Eight (seven on defense; five on offense); five were drafted in the NFL’s first round and four were consensus All-American; Johnny, of course, won the Heisman; two of us won the Outland; to win the national championship game, we had to beat the 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th-ranked teams, not just one or two of them; we shut-out three teams and seven other teams only scored 7 points or less on us; only three teams scored more than one touchdown against us, while our scores ranged from 31 to 55 points;  our lowest scoring game of the season was a 31-7 win over the team that finished third in the final poll; and the only game we trailed in all season was Oklahoma.”

Third-team All-America Offensive Tackle Carl Johnson: I strongly believe we were the best ever and here’s why: When the pre-season ranking came out, we were No. 1. Everybody was gunning for us each week, and we ran the table to go 13-0. At the end of the season, we were still rated No. 1, Oklahoma No. 2 and Colorado No. 3. Nebraska was the only team to beat Oklahoma.  Nebraska and Oklahoma were the only teams to beat Colorado. When we played Alabama in the Orange Bowl, we were matched up with another No. 2 team away from home and we beat them, 38-6. That 1971 team had several first-round draft picks and many others that went on to have excellent careers in the NFL. We had two Outland Trophy winners and one Heisman Trophy winner. Many fans make the argument as to who they believe was the best college football team ever. However, our team was named the “Greatest College Football Team” at least three times from various football writers and/or coaches polls in the 29 years prior to 2000. In 1999, we were voted the Team of the Century. I think we have a pretty good case! We had Coach Devaney’s spunk, Coach Osborne’s dedication and commitment and Coach (Monte) Kiffin’s nastiness.”

Kicker Rich Sanger: I do think our team was the best ever simply by handling all comers, including the second and third best teams (Oklahoma and Colorado).  Only because of the size difference, today’s teams would probably handle our team, but even with the size difference, they would be in for a battle. This entire group of guys was extremely talented and focused. The coaching staff was the best in football, hands down. They probably forgot more football than our competitors knew. In a battle of the wits, the opponents’ coaches were comparatively unarmed! 

Switzer Knew Huskers Would ‘Roll’ Tide

Nebraska had another surprise supporter in the room Friday night – Barry Switzer, the Oklahoma coach that wanted to be “The last man standing” in the Game of the Century, but lost because of star-studded performances from Rodgers, Kinney, Glover and others. Switzer “attended” the reunion via video and declared that both teams knew the 1971 national championship game was played on Thanksgiving Day in Norman.

He reminisced about his Sooners leading Auburn, 32-0, at halftime of the Sugar Bowl that year and telling one of his assistant coaches he wondered what Alabama was thinking watching that game and knowing they had to play Nebraska that night.

“We were a machine in 1971,” walk-on defensive end John Hyland said. “We had a swagger, a confidence, a great defense and a potent offense. They were, for all purposes, both ahead of their time. I mean, Monte Kiffin was our defensive coordinator (Can you say Tampa 2?), and people forget who started the spread offense – our offensive coordinator, Dr. Tom Osborne. He helped make Johnny Rodgers famous and win the Heisman.”

Even though all eyes were on Johnny as a speaker, not to mention his phenomenal punt returns during continuous video highlights, Rodgers defrayed the attention. “You don’t win a Heisman or a national championship without a great team,” he said before being interrupted, then opening an envelope to announce the biggest news of the night.

Rodgers Gave Game Ball to Someone Deserving

In 1971, the Huskers had walk-ons and superstars. They had players who were recruited from across the country, and they had a teammate who was dying yet still gave them strength.

The room got quiet when Rodgers mentioned how Devaney dispatched an ambulance, so the late Rex Lowe could join his teammates in Miami for its last hurrah. It made for an emotional locker room, and Johnny the Jet made sure that Lowe, a wide receiver who was weakening by the day, got the game ball. Two weeks later, he died.

The memory of Lowe and thoughts of seven other deceased teammates live on because they were, are and always will be a big part of a re-anointed best team ever.

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The college football season hasn’t even started and Bo Pelini’s temper is still making news.

Respected baseball reporter Peter Gammons tweeted Monday that Nebraska’s coach went off on and threatened blue-chip quarterback Bubba Starling, who also is a prized baseball prospect.

Starling has a multi-million dollar offer from the Kansas City Royals and needs to decide between football and baseball by next Monday. According to Gammons, Pelini was trying influence Starling with his legendary temper.

Tweeted the reporter: “Bo Pellini going off on and threatening Bubba Starling is great news for the Royals.”

But Pelini denied the accusation, saying he has been nothing but supportive to Starling and his family.

Said Pelini in a statement: “All of our interactions as a staff with Bubba and his family have been nothing but supportive, and have been very respectful from both sides. Any information contrary to that is not accurate. It is disappointing that media would comment on the situation without talking to any of the primary parties involved.”

You can bet the Nebraska coach would like to go “Pelini” on Gammons right about now.

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There’s no doubting that these are exciting times for Nebraska football. Today’s the day they officially join the Big Ten, the day they officially (as our own Dennis Dodd writes) start new rivalries with the likes of Ohio State, Penn State and — most substantially — their Great Plains brethren at Iowa. Today’s the day they start drawing checks from the Big Ten Network money machine. It’s the day that will, in short, define the future of their football program.

But amidst all that excitement, it’s also a day which ought to be an occasion to remember the Huskers’ past. Because in making the move to the Big Ten, Nebraska is cutting ties with years, decades, even centuries of their gridiron tradition.

Start with the rivalries. Nebraska vs. Kansas was only the longest uninterrupted series in the nation, having been played every year since 1906. The Huskers’ and Jayhawks’ started their annual grudge match so long ago, Oklahoma didn’t even exist–and we’re not talking about the Sooners, we’re talking about the state.

But even that’s not the oldest Nebraska rivalry that will end this season. The Huskers and the Missouri Tigers first met all the way back in 1892 and went on to play each other 102 more times, making it the third-oldest football rivalry west of the Mississippi River.

Because of Nebraska’s dominance over both foes — the Huskers defeated Kansas 36 straight times between 1969 and 2004, and Mizzou 24 straight times from 1979 through 2002 — neither rivalry ever quite ascended to “classic” status, despite each’s longetivity. But that doesn’t mean each didn’t give us classic moments, like this one you knew was coming:

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And even if those series didn’t carry as much weight on the gridiron as some others, the same can’t be said for the Huskers’ showdowns with Oklahoma. The move from the old Big 8 into the Big 12 had already (shortsightedly) brought a halt to the teams’ annual meeting after 70-plus years of uninterrupted battles, but the rivalry that gave us the “Game of the Century” still survived as part of the Big 12 scheduling rotation and in the occasional Big 12 championship game. Now? The two schools might meet again in 2020 and 2021, if we’re lucky.

Go beyond just rivalries and scheduling, though, and the conference switch also represents a complete cultural realignment for Husker football. Since the very beginning, Nebraska football has associated itself first-and-foremost with other heartland schools; their first conference affiliation came in the Missouri Valley Conference with Iowa-based schools like Drake and Grinnell. When they moved to the Big 8, they did so alongside not just the Jayhawks, Tigers and Sooners but schools like Kansas State and Iowa State as well.

From their location to their “Cornhuskers” nickname to the undying, overwhelming support of the Big Red faithful to their regional and national dominance, Nebraska wasn’t just an important part of Great Plains college football; in many ways, the Huskers were Great Plains football.

That’s not going away entirely, of course. And the annual matchup with Iowa promises to be a particularly important game from a regional standpoint. But with a schedule dominated by trips to Midwestern-to-the-bone locations like Minneapolis and Chicago, in a conference long identified first-and-foremost with the Rust Belt pillars at Michigan and Ohio State, there’s no way Nebraska’s identification as the heartland football program won’t erode. Those days are done.

That’s not to say Nebraska should have turned the Big Ten down, of course. Money talks. Academics talks. The Big 12′s Texas obsession most definitely talks. From the Nebraska perspective, there’s no way to spin the jump to a more stable, more lucrative conference as anything other than progress.

But progress almost always comes with a price, whether it’s Colorado ditching its decades of old Big 8 rivalries to head west, Boise State’s leap to the Mountain West finally finishing off the WAC as a meaningful football conference for good, TCU and Utah going their separate ways just when things between them were getting good, or all that Nebraska is giving up in their move to the Big Ten.

Today deserves to be a celebration for the Huskers’ future, and for the future of all the teams and conferences who have been officially realigned today. But this is college football, the sport where tradition and history and all those things that are not money matter more than any other. There should be time enough, even today, to mourn the things the great realignment of 2010 has lost us.

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Remember that time shortly after moving into a new home you left work and … drove to the old residence before realizing you were at the wrong place?

Very soon, Nebraska fans will have to make a similar adjustment — especially when it comes to traveling to see the Hawkeyes, Golden Gophers and other conference opponents.

Welcome to the Big Ten Conference. Yes, the Huskers officially become members Friday, but the real changes for fans begin this fall — when a trip east on Interstate 80 to watch an opponent from Iowa now will mean going straight through Des Moines rather than turning left on I-35.

Or where going to a campus near I-35 no longer means taking the Ames exit but continuing to cross the border into Minnesota.

“I imagine there are some people thinking driving distance, (how) ‘I’m going to miss driving to Lawrence or Manhattan or Ames,’” Nebraska executive associate athletic director Marc Boehm says. “But, overall, there’s an excitement, because they’ve never been to that venue. The majority have never been to Madison (Wis.) to see a game, or to Ohio State.”

For the record, Boehm has attended football or basketball games in every Big Ten city but Champaign, Ill., and he highly recommends a trip to Madison, which just happens to be where Nebraska will play its first league football game on Oct. 1.

A word of warning on that, and also if you’re planning a trip to Minneapolis for the Oct. 22 game against Minnesota: You’ll likely need a Plan B to get a ticket, since both schools are strict about the Big Ten’s policy of allotting just 3,000 tickets to league opponents.

That’s 1,000 fewer than what Big 12 schools offer.

“Demand is really high this year and cutting the allotment by 1,000 is huge,” Nebraska athletic ticket manager Holly Adam notes. “We’re encouraging people to be resourceful.”

The other Big Ten schools have an informal agreement to allot 4,000 tickets to league opponents.

Adam said her office will be notifying fans soon whether they made the cut. Road-game tickets are assigned based on donor priority points and if you’re not a heavy hitter, then you’d better know one. NU fans have made 21,000 requests for the Wisconsin game, more than 12,000 for Minnesota, more than 10,000 for Michigan and nearly 7,000 for Penn State.

But Adam has a strong hunch the Huskers will have plenty of support in those stadiums.

“Nebraska fans who live in Big Ten cities are telling people there how they have no idea what it’s going to be like when Nebraska comes into town,” she said. “It’ll be fun.”

That was the Big Ten’s thinking last June 11, when it announced Nebraska as its 12th and newest member. Before then, the last time the league had expanded was when it approved Penn State in 1990.

Since then, NU athletic administrators and coaches have slowly had to acquaint themselves with some new sets of competition rules.

But “to dwell on those changes is not a big deal,” said Gary Bargen, NU’s athletic director in charge of compliance. “It’s been a great transition because they’ve worked with us the whole year and some of their rules have even changed to be the same as NCAA rules. Where they might’ve been above and beyond, now they’re moving back close to the way they are in the NCAA.”

One of the most significant changes involves “oversigning” scholarships in baseball. While the Big 12 had no policy limiting the practice that teams utilize to protect themselves from losing underclassmen to the Major League Baseball Draft or other attrition, the Big Ten allows only one “oversign” scholarship to be used by no more than two players.

The Big Ten does allow partial academic qualifiers to enroll at member schools while they attempt to gain NCAA eligibility — something the Big 12 turned its back on.

But the totality of switching leagues is “not going to be the difference between North Pole and South Pole,” Bargen said.

Boehm did say that expenses to send teams on the road will rise, primarily because most trips now will require air travel. The next academic calendar budget projects the school will spend more than $1 million on such costs. Nebraska also will have to spend some money changing field and sport logos from the Big 12 to the Big Ten.

The Huskers also are likely to have more 11 a.m. kickoffs.

But they and their fans also figure to receive huge benefits from Big Ten Network coverage and being in a league with more top-notch programs.

In basketball, for instance, they’ll play an 18-game league schedule — two more than they did in the Big 12. And in the Big Ten, games are played on more days of the week.

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Deion Sanders once famously said, “If you look good, you feel good. If you feel good, you play good.”

While the teams on this list vary greatly on that final point, they all ace the former.

In the wake of the throwback craze of the early 2000s, the trend in football uniforms of late—due in large part to Nike—is a movement towards modern, non-traditional and, at times, avant garde design.

Such designs have often been the domain of small schools looking to make a name for themselves, but now even the major powers in the BCS conferences have followed.

This has been a divisive movement for a sport second only to baseball in it’s devotion to tradition. Ask any college football fan, regardless of team or conference affiliation, about the Oregon Ducks’ limitless uniform combination, and they will have a strong opinion either way.

Did the Ducks make this list of the 25 best dressed teams in the BCS conferences?