I was born and raised in Nebraska and am a big Husker fan. But I live in Arizona now and about 5 years back had the chance to meet Jake Plummer. He was very classy guy and pretty cool, got a nice picture with him.
I could only imagine how bad the beatdown would have been had Tom Osbourne not pull his starters after halftime! Nebraska scored 63 of its 77 points in the first half with over 500 yards total offense.
My brother Jeff Paulk was the fullback #44 for Arizona state. Not sure if he was redshirted this season I was only a baby😂 his roommates used to joke that I was his child
Classy move for the Huskers to throw a long pass for a TD in the final minutes of the game when up big. Jk, super trashy move to run up the score like that. Thankfully trash like that is gone since Husker football has been irrelevant this century.
@Mark Mamola a game that should have never happened for Neb. It is rare for a team to not win their conf and play in the NC game. Winning the conf is a important benchmark that proves a teams worthiness to play in the NC game. Ones I can think of. * MI in 1984 MI was not going to win the NC, but BYU got a pass by playing 6-5 MI. * Neb in 2001 * Bama in 2011 (had they played in the SEC title game, maybe a star goes down for the rest of the season. See Metchie 2021. * Bama in 2017 Same. * Ga in 2021 and of course, all the Independents, which looking back, is a total farce. From 73 to 89 ( in 14 of the 17 yrs), the NC game had an independent playing in the game. Many times a team playing a conf game got knocked out near the end that allowed an independent to play. Since 89, 1 independent has played the NC. 2012 ND.
Yes, GA won the NC in 2021. How many of the other teams prior to GA could say, we lost our conf but didn't get a NC chance like GA did. Game is a shell now.
All they did was awaken a sleeping giant the following season and since I hated Nebraska so much in the 90s, 96 was the first and last time I ever rooted for ASU
Yeah, that's all they did. It's not like they went on to be possibly the greatest team college football has ever seen and won a 2nd straight National Title.
Why would you hate Nebraska in the 90s? Coach Tom Osbourne was one of the most wholesome and genuine human beings ever. The culture, his coaches, and his teams reflected his character. Even the fans reflected his character.
That sounds all good, but facts point to Neb being asleep during the game like FL was 2 games earlier against them. 10 unranked teams all scored against ASU but the #1 team couldn't. Neb suffered 3 safeties, fumbled it 6 times.
@J Day *"Tom Osbourne was one of the most wholesome and genuine human beings ever. The culture, his coaches, and his teams reflected his character."* Lawrence Phillips would say, "what dat sh*t"
@@robjohnson8861 Tom was one of the last people to talk the Phillips while he rotted in prison days before he committed suicide. Tom continued to invest in Phillips life long after he was useful to Tom...Tom was a good man in a bad man profession and so probably not always a good man but he tried. Phillips almost surely had ptsd from a very violent traumatic life, compounded by concussions and brain damage from football and personality damage from drugs and steroids. The 90s were a "what can you do for me" era where guys were used up and tossed aside...glad things are slightly better now.
I'm a DIEHARD Arkansas Razorback fanatic ...57 years of age...this edition of The Big Red was AN ABSOLUTE MONSTER!....no real weaknesses...unholy multiple offense with maybe the most awesome power running game of all time...triple option elite status...terrific pass targets...special teams awesome in all phases...the O-line..ABSOLUTE ROAD GRADERS!...DEFENSE....ruthless pass rush ...active all star linebackers...secondary ball hawks..occasionally burned on deep routes...but rarely ever gave opposition time...a name your score all time TEAM...I'D put this squad up against any team in college football history...and yes I'm talking to you 2019 LSU!...
I was on the wrestling team in '95 for NU. I can tell you with 100% certainty why this beat down happened. Lawrence Phillips was arrested a week before in Lincoln for breaking into his ex-gf's 2nd floor apartment in Lincoln after returning with the team from beating Michigan St 50-10 and running all over MSU. Current Coach Scott Frost was there in the apartment when Lawrence broke into the apartment and I'll leave it at that. The National media ascended upon Lincoln due to this as Lawrence was a Heisman candidate. There was a lot of negative press directed at Coach Osborne as well as the program in general. The players were LIVID. I distinctly remember the (especially Christian team Capt.) Peter Bros. talking about putting down an All-time BEAT DOWN of historic proportions. This negative press was a driving force for the 2nd National championship. To Say ASU was in the wrong place at the wrong time, is kinda like saying I can't get off the tracks with the freight train coming through. They got their revenge the following year in '96 by beating NU in Tempe.
@@mikeliles6166 that sounded good until it didn't. Game 1: won by 43 at OSU Game 2: won by 40 at MSU Game 3: won by 49 at home LOL. The difference is clearly not enuf to support what you said.
ALABAMA, MIAMI, FLORIDA STATE, OHIO STATE, USC, OR GEORGIA NOW. I don't care what team you mention, I have never seen a team to match the 1995 University of Nebraska Cornhuskers!! After retooling his team to add additional speed on defense, the Cornhuskers morphed into a team for the ages. A combination of speed, power and DEPTH unequaled since in College Football. To this day, I haven't seen a team with so many GOOD PLAYERS. Not a handful of stars. Three, four and five deep at every position!! I can recall Nebraska replacing their entire starting Offensive Line against Florida in the Fiesta Bowl. THE ENTIRE LINE. They didn't look any different than the starters!! The same thing with the defensive unit. CBS Announcer Jim Nantz mentioned that players that were normally on the third team depth chart were making plays during one drive. THE THIRD TEAM!! How do you withstand a team that can roll that many players at you in a game? YOU DONT. That was their edge over every College team I've seen. Including this incredible decimation over Arizona State. Greatest college team ever. CASE CLOSED.
I remember when that happened -- and when Coach Osborne got blasted for letting Phillips back on the team. Folks accused him of being win-at-all-costs, but Green et al were perfectly good replacements. I think Osborne was just an idealist, and he figured a young man could be redeemed. I'm not endorsing that point of view, just explaining what I thought was going on. Phillips shouldn't have been allowed back, and in this day and age he wouldn't be. That said, one silver lining at the time from my point of view as a Steelers fan, was the Rams drafting him, which caused the Rams to let go of some guy named Jerome Bettis, who of course went to Pittsburgh. On a side note, I've heard from players at the time that Scott Frost was hated in the locker room after the attack. Obviously this wasn't an excuse for Phillips to commit domestic violence, but I can see people getting upset with him getting into a teammate's business. Personally, my problem was with how Frost appeared to just let it happen -- unless he wasn't there when Phillips broke in. I imagine Frost, an avid hunter, had ways to stop Phillips, or to get him to back off long enough for the woman to take off. With that, and with the way he came to Nebraska because if he'd stuck around at Stanford, he'd have had to play safety -- which he did his entire NFL career -- I never liked Frost as a player. Of course, I ended up not liking him as a coach either.
When Steve Pedersen became Athletic Director, he wanted to put his stamp on the program. Screw all the continuity that made the Huskers perennial contenders, he wanted to make his mark. So he hired Bill Callahan, whom the Raiders fired after realizing he wasn't going back to the Super Bowl without Jon Gruden's playbook, and Callahan changed the offense overnight despite not having the personnel to do it. Callahan then fired Bo Pelini, who arguably should have been hired as Head Coach back then but wasn't a big enough name yet. After a losing season, which no one would have imagined during the Osborne era, the Board of Regents took action. I'd bet money big-time boosters were threatening to stop donating. In any event, they fired Pedersen and hired Osborne as acting AD. Osborne fired Callahan and, eventually, hired Pelini. But, the damage was done. I will say that as much as I loved Nebraska's choice to join the Big Ten -- and I still say it was the right choice -- it made the comeback harder. Pelini and his brother set up the kind of defense necessary to stop the Texas and Oklahome spreads -- but the Big Ten had more power or pro-style offenses at the time, and Nebraska's athletes weren't the right one to stop them.
It’s football, and life. Nebraska won a National Championship when I joined the Navy…25 years later they just declined but I got better. They suck until they don’t.
Tommy Frazier completed 45% of his passes and didn't have a run greater than 25 yards until the Fiesta bowl, but the consummate game manager in an offense that needs a wizard at QB
The turn around from this year to the next was amazing. Arizona State goes from giving up 77 points in 1995 to shutting out Nebraska, and even recording three safeties in their 19-0 win over Nebraska in 1996. Maybe Auburn going from a 49-0 loss to Alabama in 2012 to winning 34-28 in 2013 is a more modern comparison. Just interesting the difference a year makes!
I was there that night... and the ASU FANS SUCK Cock!! POS's. To the HELL with the Pussies of ASU!! Glad NU beat there ass here in THIS VIDEO. BTW.. you are a pos too! Timmy
@@mas5867 Years later I think about the opportunity that Arizona State missed when they lost the Rose Bowl to Ohio State. That was a great team that just couldn't finish.
Yes, NU was SHUT OUT the next year at ASU, losing 19-0. Incredible turn around. Going from scoring 63 points still in the 2nd QUARTER, to getting shut out the entire game (and gave up THREE safeties, so the ASU defense OUTSCORED the NU offense!) is truly astonishing. Ended the 26 game win streak after two straight national titles spelled the beginning of the end for the dynasty.
Loved watching Nebraska in 1995 except this game, as an ASU fan and alumni this sucked. We tried to comfort ourselves by saying we scored more on Nebraska than any team that year...while we try to ignore the fact it's due to us being obliterated in the first half so Nebraska wasn't playing starters or trying as hard in the second half.
You watch the multiplicity of this offense-the only reason you don’t run it is that you can’t find quarterbacks this committed to running, and I guess that having 3-4 high quality backs is too hard to find if you aren’t Alabama. But this is as scary as anything urban Meyer ever put together, schematically
@@77jesseday It WOULD WORK...if the service academies can do what they do...nobody in power five has the guts anymore...everybody demands pass, pass, pass...
I somehow doubt some meaninglessness pass at the end of the game truly had any impact what happened the follow year. And they lost to a Texas team late in the season that ended up with 5 losses. They weren't going to play for the title no matter what happened in Tempe that year.
3rd string QB and a bunch of scrubs in there. Matt Turman did what he had practiced to do ... Osborne probably never thought ASU would give up that type of play to a 3rd stringer. ASU coach was not happy at the end of the game, but what was another 7 points ... I get it ... but think about a 5 foot 4 QB from Wahoo Nebraska ... it was his shining moment.
Hey Steelbuck, you said the 96 ASU vs Neb got pulled because of copyright but this 95 video has been up over 2 yrs now. Come on, you don't want to post so we can all see how horrible Neb was in their NO SHOW bec some us will point to FL not showing 2 games earlier.
Or a real person, player and coach will point out that the winner of the game was the better team, made the plays to win the game. I’ve never in my seen one person wanting a game up so badly. Course you do realize other videos do get pulled too right? I got an idea, how about you quit and just delete your channel. No one gives a $hit less what you gotta say.
If only Florida would have prepared for the game. Hell, they didn't even practice. They spent their time time in Tempe sitting around the pool working on their tans. If only Spurrier had taken that game seriously. The players should not have been partying right before the game. Not being drunk/suffering from hangovers they would have beaten the Huskers 390-0. I am impressed how Nebraska faked their way to being "good" for 30 years when in reality they couldn't beat most high school teams.
@Modern Englishman haha Spurrier should of taken game seriously, players partying the night before. You got proof of that? Nebraska was the better team that night and it showed.
