How did we get here? How did Nebraska Football get to this point? How did a program with five National Champions and 46 conference championships has fall so far? It’s been a decade since Nebraska even played for a conference title and over two decades since they won one. ESPN’s Bill Connelly did some of the heavy lifting and has listed the ten games that he believes best explain the downfall of Nebraska Football.
Connelly believes that the program has been unable to build an effective plan for its future and has been unable to build a modern program as a result.
Nebraska has attempted many resets and fresh starts since the retirement of the legendary Tom Osborne. But it has lacked a cogent plan, it has been torn between the distinct style of its past winners and the modern style of the day, and it has lots of former players hovering around and pointing out everything it is doing wrong at all times.
Here are the ten games that show how and why the fall of Nebraska football has taken place.