The Rose Bowl has been our Waterloo. Killed in the 2002 NC game vs a great Miami team — and we’ve been sliding into oblivion ever since, including the recent year stopover at the Rose Bowl for Mora’s schooling of BoBeep.
Just my luck that the Rose Bowl is so close. I have been at every massacre including UCLA/ Aikman’s woodshedding of TO when we were down 28-0 in the first quarter. Now that was shocking. Who knew 28-0 deficits, and much worse, would become a regular occurrence?
Well, at least Osborne held serve at home vs Ucla along with some wins out in LA, including the blowout he dealt the Bruins in 1984, a hard fought win in 1993. 1983 and 1994 saw huge blowouts at Ucla’s expense in Lincoln. 1988 was probably their (Ucla) best team of the past 60 years, but 1987 and 1982 were very good as well.
Bo wasn’t quite so fortunate against them. As for the 2002 Rose Bowl against Miami, I doubt if any team in the country could have hung with them that night, they were totally on and were not going to be beat, just like Nebraska in the 1996 Fiesta Bowl.