1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Which Team is the Greatest Husker Football Team of All-Time?: August 5th, 12:25pm

Episode Date: August 5, 2025

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40 years strong in business, Shuiso construction. So a big part of what we do and a big part of moving the ticket down to downtown and setting it up as we did was proximity to the university and campus. a thing that happens on a regular basis is folks will walk by and they'll draw their interest. And then you look and you find out that it gives access to student athletes and students on campus. That has happened here. So I want to take the opportunity to introduce a young man that just walked into the studio.

Ty, introduce yourself to the folks. Hello, I'm Ty. Nice to meet everybody. Excited to be here. So what brings you into the ticket today? Well, I am an aspiring sports broadcaster at the University of Nebraska. and I saw all this outside while I was walking by and I thought it was very interesting

and I wanted to come check it up. You have on, you look like you've been in treatment, so you've got the cup treatment. Yes, sir. You've got the look, and then you've got on a Nebraska gymnastics shirt. Yes, sir. Why is that, sir?

I am a freshman at the men's gymnastics team at the university. Now, here's what happens. Where's home? Knoxville, Tennessee. Knoxville. Oh, my goodness. So my family is actually, in Knoxville, David Lipscomb University.

These are all Lipscomb University, folks. My brother's a Hall of Fame track athlete from there. So I know the area well, man, I understand. The fact that a part of what we have done was to give student athletes an opportunity. And we've had past

Sam Phillips, who was who was here a couple of years ago, did a show for us every Sunday. We have Emma Spence currently does a show for us. We've had women gymnasts, gymnasts, do shows for us and you as an aspiring professional in this thing, this is exactly what we're here for to give you the opportunity to do what you, that you aspire to do, the thing that you dream

about. So I mean this when I say it, and I'm saying this publicly so that you can hold me accountable to it. All right. I gave you my number. You call me, you text me this afternoon, and we'll get together and we'll come up with a plan for this to become your profession. All right. Well do. I appreciate it. Thank you, kind, sir. Well done. No, it really is, and Bock will vouch for this, that this is so much a part of what we're trying to do with this station is to give student athletes the opportunity in time to learn the business and to be in the space, to get the reps.

We have a second studio that when you go out there. As a matter of fact, I'm going to have one of my people show you the podcast studio. Actually, Jake right there, find that gentleman, have him show you the second studio. That blonde gentleman, that's Jake Sorensen right there. Yep. do that. But, Bach, that's literally why we move down

here and why we do what we do. Is young men like Ty, come again, as a freshman. Listen, nothing like knowing that we'll have a Husker gymnast on for the next four years to be able to do that. But this is really why we do. Okay, Bot, so I

ask the question and in the space, simply put, that being a Husker fan, and a fanatic, that if you took the apex of the program, now mind you, there are conference champions that didn't win a national championship, or at least a recognized national championship. There are the great teams of the 80s that had as much talent as any team in the country.

But if we talk about the apex, the North Star, the top of the mountain for Nebraska football, What year qualifies as the best that ever was, right? In your opinion. And different folks have said, and I'm a member of the club that I don't have the answer to this, so I'm asking. But I'll say this, that you won't be wrong in what you believe.

And it's very difficult to get it right. So, Bach, if you had to rank any one of, any Husker team in history and put them at the top of the pyramid, top of the mountain top, top of the apex, the great apex for Nebraska football and Nebraska showing,

highlighting Nebraska football at its greatest. What year, what team do you say, sir? I think there are two teams that generally across the country. And so I like to kind of get a national perspective on this that people would say Nebraska football,

these teams could be the best of all time. Of course, you get your five national titles, probably picking from those, right? Though, you know, there's a couple other teams that didn't win that really would have an argument, at least if you're talking about teams that didn't win one. But I think you're talking about 1971, when the Huskers, I mean, their defensive stats were just incredible there. Of course, you had the game of the century.

They beat the teams in Oklahoma and Colorado that ended up number two in three in the nation. They also beat number two Alabama in the bowl game, you know, who's number two at the time. So they've definitely got an argument and then the 1995 Huskers who similarly beat a really good big eight team. I think several of those teams finished in the top 10. And their story is if they're not the greatest team of all time, they're right up there with the most dominant team of all time because nobody, you know, nobody was able to keep a close game with them. It is, this is the thing, right? And you're talking about the Devaney 70 teams and the Osborne 90.

Danny Canopy says 83 because I'm not sure there's a more talented football team in the country than that 83 Husker football team. I mean, Miami will tell you. Miami will tell you Florida State to tell you those 80s teams were special. I mean, again, which backfield would you take? What's the, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, which backfield would you take? Again, this should be a poll that the taggy, Kenny Rogers backfield versus the Gil, Rosier, Craig, right? Or the Fraser L.P. L.P. Amon. Like, what backfield would you take?

Like, which, which one? Like, you can only take one. Which? Bach, which one? Now that's a difficult question. Oh, look, we're doing easy questions today, man. We are not, we are not doing easy questions here. I mean, for me, I would go with the, with the 90s,

right, Fraser, maybe the, maybe the best, uh, Oscar football player of all time. LP had all the talent in the world. And I'm on green ended up being pretty good if I, if I recall. Yeah, I don't know. So in, and I always say he's a little bit underrated. as a college football player because he helped win two national titles. I don't think he gets as much credit for that as maybe he should. But in any case, I'd probably lean toward them, but it's not by, not by much.

I don't know. I don't know how you do this. Here's what I found out about the 71 team, right? The 71 team is a record setting team. And I'll give you the read because this is that. that that 71 team won its first 11 games by at least 24 points. 11. Can you imagine Lincoln if the Husker football team won its first 11,

when 11 straight games by 24 plus points? Can you imagine the insanity, the collective insanity, that would happen in the day and era of social media and access? And then that team playing in the game of the century against number two, Oklahoma. They say that at that point, it was the largest college football audience ever. 55 million people watched that game.

And then to go on, this is the first champion to defeat the number two, number three, and number four, finishers in the AP poll. It's the first. The 71 Huskers knocked off the number two, number three,

and number four teams that finished in the poll. Everybody that finished at the top of the poll got beat by Nebraska. Pretty exceptional. Pretty exceptional along the way. Now, the 95 team, again, here's the thing. Average and set a record.

Averaging 50. 53.2 points a game and is the only national champion to win every game by at least 14 points. The only one. So, Bach, you get to set the table. Those two teams based on those credentials. Who's your pick? Yeah, again, I mean, it's tough. I think it's almost kind of generational.

I'm sure some of the older folks would argue 70 or 71 and they've got a heck of an argument. And, you know, to go along with that, by the way, Bob Vanney as the head coach, Office of Coordinator, Tom Osborne, defensive coordinator, Monte Kiffin, pretty good coaching staff they got put together there. Again, I mean, I might lean toward the 95 Huskers because I'm more familiar with it. And obviously, I mean, not just because, you know, they didn't give up a second. all year. They, you know, obviously just kind of blowing everybody out,

Steve Spurrier in Florida being, of course, the end all be all that year. And I guess I do a show with the leading tackler of that team as well. So maybe a little biases as well. A little bit. I mean, I think of 95 as the most dominant team of all time, but 71 has a heck of an argument. Again, when you do this nationally and you include all teams of college football history, most lists nationally will have both teams at least in the top 10. Yeah, it's also a thing in that, and I miss it sometimes at the 70 team.

Devaney's 70 team had a quarterback rotation that isn't talked about. I could fully say this that that we don't talk enough about Van Bronson. We don't. That taggy is on the Mount Rushmore or Nebraska. quarterback. And that Van Branson, those two combined led Nebraska to nine consecutive wins. They had a tie at USC, which that 70 U.S.C. team was kind of good. It's kind of talented. That 70s team in USC changed college football. It changed the politics of college football. It changed the way the game was played. And then that team went on.

team, the 70 team, uh, battled on, right? It battled up. And they go and win their orange ball with a win over LSU. Uh, they chill that game 12, 10 in the fourth quarter. And Taggila at a 7, uh, 67 yard drive, uh, that, that would give Nebraska the lead and they would, uh, pretty crazy. Pretty crazy.

Um, but one of my favorite lines, Bob Devaney after, after that 70s, he's, even the Pope uh, would have to, uh, would have to. to vote us number one. Sometimes you got a campaign, but pretty good stuff. All right, we'll throw the break. We'll come back. We'll close out one-on-one

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