No one and I mean NO ONE could call option plays and option style offense like Tom Osborne. The man was simply a genius. I miss these days and I'm not even a Nebraska fan. NIL and the portal has destroyed college football.
They were awesome but I don't think they'll ever have a defensive coach like Charlie McBride. Genius also. Big Red used to play against all these high level qb's that were going to destroy them. Ha. I told my brother don't sweat it. When you're laying on your back the only place you can throw it is straight up. LOL
For my $ the 95 Nebraska team was the best I've ever seen no my lifetime! Im a Seminoles fan and love the 93 team, but they could barely beat the 93 Nebraska team. The 95 team would kill the 93 noles.
100% agree, the 95 Huskers were the best team I ever saw. That's why i found Musberger's & Vermeil's comments late in Nebraska's last regular season game to be so surprising... thinking Ohio State was the most complete team at the time (day before the Mich. game).
@@steelbuck6777 I forgot about that. I do recall the ESPN Gameday team seeming to pick the Gators over the Huskers prior to the Fiesta Bowl. Lee Corso's comments about Nebraska not being able to compete with Florida's speed on grass came back to haunt him.
@@steelbuck6777 *"That's why i found Musberger's & Vermeil's comments late in Nebraska's last regular season game to be so surprising... thinking Ohio State was the most complete team at the time (day before the Mich. game)."* LOL And 55% of the 2656 Heisman voters that voted George over Frazier. Remember the voters are evaluating the body of work of the players. OSU's strength of schedule after the end of the season was 8th, Neb 24th. Meaning at the time of the vote, OSU had an even bigger margin because Neb got a boost by playing a better team than OSU did.
Thank you SteelBuck 6 for this upload! I remember watching this game live. I have always wondered whether Lawrence Phillips would have won the Heisman trophy that year had he kept his temper under control. I agree with Jill Conner's comment below that the '95 Husker team was the greatest college football team that I have ever seen. They had great, calm and very experienced coaching coupled with rare talent, physical and mental toughness, aggressiveness and depth. I love the running game, and Nebraska's power-oriented running attack that mixed in option and play-action passing was the complete package--a running game enthusiast's dream.
Brian Higginbotham is right. The 1995 Nebraska Cornhuskers are the greatest college team ever. That includes 2001 Miami. Or any other team from any other year! The incredible depth of that team is what set them apart. Power speed and insurmountable numbers. Nebraska would have beat the Canes, because of their superiority in the trenches. The ability to grind 💪 it out and wear them out. No team could dictate what they were going to do and do it like the Huskers. Greatest college team ever. Case closed.
@Steve Kovaleski Yeah, too bad MSU didn't realize the caliber of coach he really was and did everything they could've to have held onto him. No matter how good his teams were doing he rarely looked happy. That's a sign of a great coach. It's hard to think of MSU as a NC contender, but I think he would have gotten them there if he'd have stayed a few more years.
@Steve Kovaleski I remember that being the reason he gave for not accepting MSU's match of LSU's offer, but he seemed to be doing alright. MSU beat Michigan his last year there and was a pretty good team in my opinion. I think it was really more of the notoriety of being an SEC coach because being at LSU and recruiting against other SEC teams isn't any easier than being at MSU and recruiting against Michigan. If MSU would have upped the offer and let him know he was their guy, he probably would have stayed and might have ended up hoisting a NC trophy for the Spartans.
Ozzy: 2-0 vs Saban Joe "some clown at Purdue" Tiller: 3-0 Perspective people. Perspective. Like a bad Wisconsin team beat Saban 45-14 after this game and Saban had 7 games under his belt.
This was the last game before Phillips was suspended for the attack on his girlfriend/ex-girlfriend (depending on the source). At the time if I remember right he was averaging like 10 yards a carry, along with the 200 yards in this game. So often the most talented people have the most demons... truly unfortunate.
If rumor is to be believed, Phillips also beat up a certain transfer quarterback who would go on to become a coach. I wasn't there. I don't know it for certain. But, I've heard a consistent version of the same story from multiple, unrelated sources. According to legend, the assault on the QB whose name shall not be spoken, was kept quiet. Apparently, tossing a woman down a flight of steps was an acceptable transgression for public consumption. But a star running back kicking the crap out of a future star quarterback (allegedly, for schtupping the aforementioned running back's girlfriend - then bragging about it) was deemed unsavory. I have no earthly idea whether the story is true. But it does have a ring of plausibility.
@Kent Grady I've heard the same story and I do believe it to be true. Phillips was out of line for what he did but I have 0 sympathy for cheaters. That girl was an opportunistic scuz bag, hitting up multiple athletes. She was supposedly still dating philips at that time and they had talked over the phone earlier that day after the game. She was supposed to have been with Phillips that night. If you believe the rumors,instead she took off with scott frost.
Weight room is icing on the cake to a well prepared and wise scheme. Tom Osborn and his staff alone would be enough for this team. Their size, minus the weights, that just supplemented a great scheme like wheels on muscle car, cragers or stock?
Preparation won them the National Title in 1995. The gap between the Gators and Huskers in the National Title game was not due to talent is was due to preparation. The trap, and option are devastating to 4-4 defenses and teams that over-pursue. A high risk-high reward offense that failed only exacerbated the existing problems Florida had. Now one matchup I would have loved to see was 92 Bama and 95 Nebraska. Stallings the defensive wizard vs Osborne the offensive genius. I don't think either team would have been unprepared. It would have come down to who made the mistakes.
@Charles Shankle what about the "gap" between ASU and Neb 2 games after the Neb/FL game. Holding Neb to 0 points when Neb scored 55 the week before and 65 the week after. Was it a "gap" or the fact that Neb didn't show up like FL didnt?
@@mas5867 I saw a combination of the two with Florida. There was complacency, bad game planning, failures to adjust, etc. But, the gap in talent wasn't as staggering as one would be led to believe. Also remember, Nebraska had played in three NCG before the Fiesta Bowl. So, it does make a difference. They knew what to do. Remember, several teams did move the ball on Nebraska that year. But, Nebraska always had answers. In regards to the ASU game, Nebraska made serious mistakes and they got complacent. I cannot name a team that it hasn't happened to at one point or another either recently, in history or sometime in the future.
@@mas5867 Nebraska had something like 6 fumbles in that game, and may of them were on drives when they were going right through ASU. Scott Frost was still learning and had the mostly unforced turnovers not occurred, Nebraska wins that game comfortably. Turnovers are the great equalizer; that game was proof.
@The Fireblaster What would a Neb post without a FING excuse be. The classic, "If Neb makes the FG agianst FSU in 93, they own 4 national championships in 5 years." without ever mentioning the FSU has a what if "missed FG" in that game too. Spt both teams and Neb still FING loses. Again, Frost managed a 55 pt win the game before and 65 pts the game after and you are gonna bring the experience factor. Spt ASU their missed opportunities and where does leave you? Neb, like FL, 2 games earlier was clearly not ready to play.
Yeah, Coach Osborne told Saban "you have a better team than you think" when the game was over. As far as LP is concerned, you could've balanced a quarter on the top of his shoulder when he was motoring. The athleticism, instincts, and footwork were just a thing of beauty.
LOL. Saban had played 1 div 1 school (Navy) at Toledo and that was 5 years before this game. Later in 95, unranked Wisc beat MSU 45-14. Let Wisc have 1st crack vs Saban having 7 games under his belt when he faced Wisc and lets see how badly Wisc beats him.
@@gynandroidhead *"were just a thing of beauty."* Unlike Kate's head after he beat her up. Or Osborne's credibility after not kicking Phillip's off the team. To this day, one of the stupidest decisions ever. It's amazing nobody got in his face and said "what if" you're making the wrong decision, I don't know, like going for 2 when you would have won the NC with a tie.
@@robjohnson8861 to this day, I don't feel like his legacy takes enough of a hit for not kicking him off the team. Winning another NC in 95 was more important. Can you imagine if that shit happens today?! Holy shit!
@@bbryant9455 Once enablers like @gynandroidhead die out, I think history will see the OZ and his accomplishments in a different light. Like OU going 47-0, you never, ever hear that mentioned. I'm guessing bec of the quality of the wins.
That was a young Nick Saban on the opposite sideline. I'm not surprised that they were stagnant. Saban was cutting his teeth and getting a good look at what a dominant coach can do with a dominant team.
You are certainly correct and this is part of the reason I think several teams would have beaten this Nebraska team. the 01 canes, 92 bama are two that would have beaten them in my mind because they had outstanding defenses and would have forced Frazier to pass.
Look at the quality of the presentation, consider this was literally last century and now we're in the third decade of the following century ... combine all of that and tell yourself... This was the last time Nebraska was any good. It's 2021, no 4 and 5 star kids want to go play in the middle of Nebraska for a has been. Nebraska holds the 14th and last place recruiting class for 2022. THEY WERE OUT RECRUITED BY THE LIKES OF RUTGERS, ILLINOIS and NORTHWESTERN !! Northwestern has some of the hardest academic standards in the Div. 1. Why would Scott Frost decide to get out recruited by them ? For the record, I am not a Michigan State fan.. not even close. Just taken aback as to why Nebraska still thinks they're relevant. At least they choose to be pathetic as opposed to a Tennessee or Texas who are just flat out failing on the field. Nebraska plays in one of the worst divisions in the power 5 but yet they choose to be a basement dweller.
No one and I mean NO ONE could call option plays and option style offense like Tom Osborne. The man was simply a genius. I miss these days and I'm not even a Nebraska fan. NIL and the portal has destroyed college football.
They were awesome but I don't think they'll ever have a defensive coach like Charlie McBride. Genius also. Big Red used to play against all these high level qb's that were going to destroy them. Ha. I told my brother don't sweat it. When you're laying on your back the only place you can throw it is straight up. LOL
Better ask Barry
tommy frazier is probably my all time fave college quarterback...dude was perfect for commanding an option offense
You obviously never watched Eric Crouch
Bro, you the man. I love watching ur videos. The '95 Huskers are the GREATEST team ever!!!!
Yea best college football team of all time!
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I liked the 83 Nebraska team Turner Gill Irving Fryer and Mike Rozier
For my $ the 95 Nebraska team was the best I've ever seen no my lifetime! Im a Seminoles fan and love the 93 team, but they could barely beat the 93 Nebraska team. The 95 team would kill the 93 noles.
100% agree, the 95 Huskers were the best team I ever saw. That's why i found Musberger's & Vermeil's comments late in Nebraska's last regular season game to be so surprising... thinking Ohio State was the most complete team at the time (day before the Mich. game).
@@steelbuck6777 I forgot about that. I do recall the ESPN Gameday team seeming to pick the Gators over the Huskers prior to the Fiesta Bowl. Lee Corso's comments about Nebraska not being able to compete with Florida's speed on grass came back to haunt him.
@@davidk6269 Amen
What about the 99 noles or 2013 noles?
@@steelbuck6777 *"That's why i found Musberger's & Vermeil's comments late in Nebraska's last regular season game to be so surprising... thinking Ohio State was the most complete team at the time (day before the Mich. game)."*
LOL
And 55% of the 2656 Heisman voters that voted George over Frazier. Remember the voters are evaluating the body of work of the players. OSU's strength of schedule after the end of the season was 8th, Neb 24th. Meaning at the time of the vote, OSU had an even bigger margin because Neb got a boost by playing a better team than OSU did.
Thank you SteelBuck 6 for this upload! I remember watching this game live. I have always wondered whether Lawrence Phillips would have won the Heisman trophy that year had he kept his temper under control. I agree with Jill Conner's comment below that the '95 Husker team was the greatest college football team that I have ever seen. They had great, calm and very experienced coaching coupled with rare talent, physical and mental toughness, aggressiveness and depth. I love the running game, and Nebraska's power-oriented running attack that mixed in option and play-action passing was the complete package--a running game enthusiast's dream.
Thank you and I agree. This Nebraska team was the best team ever.
You are right about Lawrence Phillips, he was the full package, and yes, he was the favorite to win the Heisman at this time.
Brian Higginbotham is right. The 1995 Nebraska Cornhuskers are the greatest college team ever. That includes 2001 Miami. Or any other team from any other year! The incredible depth of that team is what set them apart. Power speed and insurmountable numbers. Nebraska would have beat the Canes, because of their superiority in the trenches. The ability to grind 💪 it out and wear them out. No team could dictate what they were going to do and do it like the Huskers. Greatest college team ever. Case closed.
RIP Ray Hill #10 MSU😢😢
You know your football and I appreciate it
Nick Saban was taking notes on this day.
Nick Saban's first game as a P5 collegiate head coach.
@Steve Kovaleski Yeah, too bad MSU didn't realize the caliber of coach he really was and did everything they could've to have held onto him. No matter how good his teams were doing he rarely looked happy. That's a sign of a great coach. It's hard to think of MSU as a NC contender, but I think he would have gotten them there if he'd have stayed a few more years.
@Steve Kovaleski I remember that being the reason he gave for not accepting MSU's match of LSU's offer, but he seemed to be doing alright. MSU beat Michigan his last year there and was a pretty good team in my opinion. I think it was really more of the notoriety of being an SEC coach because being at LSU and recruiting against other SEC teams isn't any easier than being at MSU and recruiting against Michigan. If MSU would have upped the offer and let him know he was their guy, he probably would have stayed and might have ended up hoisting a NC trophy for the Spartans.
Ozzy: 2-0 vs Saban
Joe "some clown at Purdue" Tiller: 3-0
Perspective people. Perspective. Like a bad Wisconsin team beat Saban 45-14 after this game and Saban had 7 games under his belt.
Has to be Lawrence Phillips best game. They unleashed him in the NC game prior and everyone was like…Who is this kid?
How did MSU let Nick Saban go? Osborne said in his book, they were a really good young team.
This was the last game before Phillips was suspended for the attack on his girlfriend/ex-girlfriend (depending on the source). At the time if I remember right he was averaging like 10 yards a carry, along with the 200 yards in this game. So often the most talented people have the most demons... truly unfortunate.
Phillips was given every opportunity and wasted it. The people I feel sorry for are the ones who never had the opportunity.
*"So often the most talented people have the most demons"* You clown! So often?
@@robjohnson8861 - You don't have ANY demons. Roo 277, Rob ZERO, GOT REKT AGAIN LOL!!!
If rumor is to be believed, Phillips also beat up a certain transfer quarterback who would go on to become a coach.
I wasn't there. I don't know it for certain. But, I've heard a consistent version of the same story from multiple, unrelated sources. According to legend, the assault on the QB whose name shall not be spoken, was kept quiet. Apparently, tossing a woman down a flight of steps was an acceptable transgression for public consumption. But a star running back kicking the crap out of a future star quarterback (allegedly, for schtupping the aforementioned running back's girlfriend - then bragging about it) was deemed unsavory.
I have no earthly idea whether the story is true. But it does have a ring of plausibility.
@Kent Grady I've heard the same story and I do believe it to be true. Phillips was out of line for what he did but I have 0 sympathy for cheaters. That girl was an opportunistic scuz bag, hitting up multiple athletes. She was supposedly still dating philips at that time and they had talked over the phone earlier that day after the game. She was supposed to have been with Phillips that night. If you believe the rumors,instead she took off with scott frost.
I was at this game!!!
Weight room is icing on the cake to a well prepared and wise scheme. Tom Osborn and his staff alone would be enough for this team. Their size, minus the weights, that just supplemented a great scheme like wheels on muscle car, cragers or stock?
Preparation won them the National Title in 1995. The gap between the Gators and Huskers in the National Title game was not due to talent is was due to preparation. The trap, and option are devastating to 4-4 defenses and teams that over-pursue. A high risk-high reward offense that failed only exacerbated the existing problems Florida had. Now one matchup I would have loved to see was 92 Bama and 95 Nebraska. Stallings the defensive wizard vs Osborne the offensive genius. I don't think either team would have been unprepared. It would have come down to who made the mistakes.
@Charles Shankle what about the "gap" between ASU and Neb 2 games after the Neb/FL game. Holding Neb to 0 points when Neb scored 55 the week before and 65 the week after. Was it a "gap" or the fact that Neb didn't show up like FL didnt?
@@mas5867 I saw a combination of the two with Florida. There was complacency, bad game planning, failures to adjust, etc. But, the gap in talent wasn't as staggering as one would be led to believe. Also remember, Nebraska had played in three NCG before the Fiesta Bowl. So, it does make a difference. They knew what to do. Remember, several teams did move the ball on Nebraska that year. But, Nebraska always had answers. In regards to the ASU game, Nebraska made serious mistakes and they got complacent. I cannot name a team that it hasn't happened to at one point or another either recently, in history or sometime in the future.
@@mas5867 Nebraska had something like 6 fumbles in that game, and may of them were on drives when they were going right through ASU. Scott Frost was still learning and had the mostly unforced turnovers not occurred, Nebraska wins that game comfortably. Turnovers are the great equalizer; that game was proof.
@The Fireblaster What would a Neb post without a FING excuse be. The classic, "If Neb makes the FG agianst FSU in 93, they own 4 national championships in 5 years." without ever mentioning the FSU has a what if "missed FG" in that game too. Spt both teams and Neb still FING loses.
Again, Frost managed a 55 pt win the game before and 65 pts the game after and you are gonna bring the experience factor. Spt ASU their missed opportunities and where does leave you?
Neb, like FL, 2 games earlier was clearly not ready to play.
I’m case anyone was wondering how Saban would do vs the 95 huskers.😂
Nebraska(B1G) vs. Michigan State(B1G) in 1995
I saw in the Laurence Phillips documentary that this is the worst loss Nick saban has ever had as a coach to this day.
Yeah, Coach Osborne told Saban "you have a better team than you think" when the game was over.
As far as LP is concerned, you could've balanced a quarter on the top of his shoulder when he was motoring. The athleticism, instincts, and footwork were just a thing of beauty.
LOL. Saban had played 1 div 1 school (Navy) at Toledo and that was 5 years before this game. Later in 95, unranked Wisc beat MSU 45-14. Let Wisc have 1st crack vs Saban having 7 games under his belt when he faced Wisc and lets see how badly Wisc beats him.
@@gynandroidhead *"were just a thing of beauty."* Unlike Kate's head after he beat her up. Or Osborne's credibility after not kicking Phillip's off the team. To this day, one of the stupidest decisions ever. It's amazing nobody got in his face and said "what if" you're making the wrong decision, I don't know, like going for 2 when you would have won the NC with a tie.
@@robjohnson8861 to this day, I don't feel like his legacy takes enough of a hit for not kicking him off the team. Winning another NC in 95 was more important. Can you imagine if that shit happens today?! Holy shit!
@@bbryant9455 Once enablers like @gynandroidhead die out, I think history will see the OZ and his accomplishments in a different light.
Like OU going 47-0, you never, ever hear that mentioned. I'm guessing bec of the quality of the wins.
I miss the triple option offense.
Lawrence Phillips what a wasted talent..So sad how it turned out for him
No mention of Kate or his other victims like the ones he drove over with his car. You a brother?
I think Nick Saban coached this Michigan State team!
Flozell Adams doing what he did at Dallas-false starts.
Saban got shellacked.
Back when Nick Saban wasn't the greatest coach and before Nebraska was a women's volleyball school.
Lol
Crazy how Nebraska's offense was actually a little stagnant, then they just decided to rip off 4 TDs in the second half like it was nothing
That was a young Nick Saban on the opposite sideline. I'm not surprised that they were stagnant. Saban was cutting his teeth and getting a good look at what a dominant coach can do with a dominant team.
@@matthewmccann7108 LOL. Ozzy 2-0 against Saban. Some knee jerk at Purdue was 3-0 against Saban (MSU) too. Always drill down.
@@robjohnson8861 your dad should have pulled out instead of drilling down... hahaha roo 305 Rob 0!
@@rooh5825 never anything of value little troll man. Why?
@@robjohnson8861 you lose again! Go get that prescription refilled lolol
Nick Saban got his butt kicked.
Nebraska would be better if they went back to the big 12
Frazier was great at running the option, but wasn’t a particularly talented passer.
You are certainly correct and this is part of the reason I think several teams would have beaten this Nebraska team. the 01 canes, 92 bama are two that would have beaten them in my mind because they had outstanding defenses and would have forced Frazier to pass.
Could an offense like the 95 Huskers be successful today? 03 Jan 2024
Yes, because it works. No, because it won’t get you into the NFL. I think Steve Taylor should have gotten a solid NFL look. Frazier had health issues.
Look at the quality of the presentation, consider this was literally last century and now we're in the third decade of the following century ... combine all of that and tell yourself... This was the last time Nebraska was any good. It's 2021, no 4 and 5 star kids want to go play in the middle of Nebraska for a has been. Nebraska holds the 14th and last place recruiting class for 2022. THEY WERE OUT RECRUITED BY THE LIKES OF RUTGERS, ILLINOIS and NORTHWESTERN !! Northwestern has some of the hardest academic standards in the Div. 1. Why would Scott Frost decide to get out recruited by them ?
For the record, I am not a Michigan State fan.. not even close. Just taken aback as to why Nebraska still thinks they're relevant. At least they choose to be pathetic as opposed to a Tennessee or Texas who are just flat out failing on the field. Nebraska plays in one of the worst divisions in the power 5 but yet they choose to be a basement dweller.
This was not the last time we were good idiot
phillips wasn’t the only thug on that nebraska team. sure when you recruit arch criminals you’ll have an advantage in such a violent game.
Ahhh, someone is sour grapes hahaha
@@rooh5825 Win at any costs, right Roohoo!
@@robjohnson8861 Roo 375, Rob ZILCH, rekt like usual.
Rob the loser still stalking Husker video’s, hilarious. 🤣