NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Half a century ago, the Nebraska-Oklahoma rivalry games offered a grand stage for the best Black college football players while the South dragged its feet on integration ...

As for the Big Eight (and later Big 12) rivalry, Oklahoma dominated Nebraska in the late ’70s and into the 1980s until the Cornhuskers beat Switzer three times with Turner Gill -- a Black ...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Half a century ago, the Nebraska-Oklahoma rivalry games offered a grand stage for the best Black college football players while the South dragged its feet on integration ...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Half a century ago, the Nebraska-Oklahoma rivalry games offered a grand stage for the best Black college football players while the South dragged its feet on integration.

After Texas became the last all-white team to win a national title in 1969, Nebraska and Oklahoma won two Associated Press national titles each between 1970 and 1975, with Black athletes playing ...

The 1972 Oklahoma-Nebraska game brimmed with intrigue. It was to be the final home game for Nebraska coach Bob Devaney, who led the Cornhuskers to consecutive national championships in 1970 and 1971.

Nebraska - after many near misses, many due to Oklahoma - finally won a championship under Osborne in 1994. The Cornhuskers won two more before he retired in 1997.

Nebraska and Oklahoma will renew one of college football's greatest rivalries for two seasons. ... "I think it's a great deal," said Johnny Rodgers, the 1972 Heisman Trophy winner from Nebraska.