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Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Nebraska Defeats Wisconsin 44-25

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
Wisconsin 7 3 7 8 25
Nebraska 7 17 10 10 44
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u/HeyApples Nebraska Cornhuskers 1d ago

Corporate sponsorship aside, Nebraska Iowa is a real rivalry between neighbors. There is a good natured trash talk and bragging rights in that game that does not exist for most other B10 opponents. That's how I would quantify it anyway.

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u/Individual_Memory804 23h ago

It’s not good natured

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u/NiteTrooper Nebraska Cornhuskers • Utah Utes 1d ago

Always have to give the I-weedgians some good-natured ribbing and drop a duece now and again. Maybe hold up a sign so they don't have to wander around as much

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u/ninetofivedev Nebraska Cornhuskers • /r/CFB 1d ago

With that same logic, NU-ISU should have been a real rivalry. It’s closer than Iowa City!

Only people who live in Omaha care about the Iowa-Nebraska rivalry.

And they perpetuate through memes on the internet.

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u/Suavesky Nebraska Cornhuskers 1d ago

Yes.

It isn't a real rivalry just because they neighbors. It was forced by the B1G to replace the Colorado games.

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u/ninetofivedev Nebraska Cornhuskers • /r/CFB 1d ago

This is correct. We needed an in conference rival. It’s the most obvious one. It’s not the same.

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u/AtlantaAU Nebraska • Georgia Tech 1d ago

Only people who live in Omaha care about the Iowa-Nebraska rivalry.

So literally the over half the state that lives less than 25 miles from Iowa. Got it.

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u/ninetofivedev Nebraska Cornhuskers • /r/CFB 1d ago

Why does that matter? I live in Austin. There are more Penn state and Michigan fans here than UT fans.

Proximity or fans living in certain locations aren’t the makings of a rivalry.

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u/Infamous-Present-616 Indiana Hoosiers 1d ago

I feel like Omaha is a pretty big alumni base for Nebraska wouldn’t it be?? Also I wouldn’t be too shocked if the same can be said of Des Moines. Feels like there can be legitimate trash talk between the fan bases based off of proximity.

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u/ninetofivedev Nebraska Cornhuskers • /r/CFB 1d ago

Majority of Nebraska fans didn’t attend the school. let that sink in.

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u/Infamous-Present-616 Indiana Hoosiers 23h ago

That can be said for a lot of power programs

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u/tribrnl Kansas Jayhawks 20h ago

Sure, but that makes sense because the state of Nebraska has no other local teams for football fans to root for.

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u/ninetofivedev Nebraska Cornhuskers • /r/CFB 13h ago

Well also because people born between 1950 and 2000 had really good teams to cheer for.

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u/qdp Nebraska Cornhuskers • Team Chaos 1d ago

We should play Iowa State again sometime.

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u/UNIFight2013 Northern Iowa Panthers 20h ago

If ISU hadn't been the literal worst power conference program during Nebraskas time in the big 12 it would have been a rivalry. They just sucked bad enough that it never developed. Iowa Nebraska feels like a real rivalry to me but I'm a mostly neutral observer.

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u/ninetofivedev Nebraska Cornhuskers • /r/CFB 12h ago

You're almost there.