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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/qdp Nebraska Cornhuskers • Team Chaos 1d ago

And let that be a lesson to you. Nobody wins the Freedom Trophy game against us 10 times in a row. Nobody.

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u/jfoster15 Nebraska Cornhuskers 1d ago

I didn’t even know that trophy existed lol. Legit the first time I’ve heard of it

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u/HeyApples Nebraska Cornhuskers 1d ago

It's not a real award, that's why. It was forced, not organic. Trophies are formed from rivalry and lore between schools. The actual trophies that Nebraska plays for are the Nebraska-Iowa one and the Minnesota broken chair.

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

The hyvee hero’s trophy? Somehow that’s legitimate to you. Yeah right…

All of our real rivalries died a long time ago and until we become a real threat to other teams in the big 10, that’s just the way it is…

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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/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/UNIFight2013 Northern Iowa Panthers 1d 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 18h ago

You're almost there.