IN BRIEF
Revitalized programs
prepare for big games
For decades they dominated col
lege football, one in the Deep South,
one in the Northeast and the other
in the Heartland.
With iconic coaches and power
ful teams, Alabama, Penn State and
Nebraska were Saturday afternoon
staples. If the Cornhuskers, Crimson
Tide or Nittany Lions were on tele
vision, Keith Jackson was probably
calling the game and something big
was on the line.
In recent years, scandals, messy
coaching changes and lots of losses
have marginalized those three mar
quee programs.
But on the first day of the second
month of the 2005 season, rele
vance returned to State College, Pa.;
Tliscaloosa, Ala.; and Lincoln, Neb.
The Lions, Huskers and Tide all re
mained unbeaten with big wins
against conference rivals in what
turned out to be a turn-back-the
clock Saturday in college football.
From 1960-95, Alabama (six), Ne
braska (four) and Penn State (two)
combined to win 12 national titles.
Under former Nebraska coach
Tom Osborne, the Cornhuskers won
84 percent of their games from
1973-97 with a triple-option offense
that set the standard for smash
mouth football. When he stepped
aside, he handed the program to
Frank Solich, his loyal and longtime
assistant.
Solich’s Cornhuskers went 42-7
before a shocking 62-36 loss to Col
orado in their 2001 regular-season fi
nale. It was the beginning of the end.
The Huskers then lost the Rose
Bowl 37-14 to Miami, setting the
stage for a 7-7 season in 2002, the
school’s worst in 40 years. A 10-3
record wasn’t good enough for So
lich in 2002. He was fired with a
0.753 winning percentage.
In came former Oakland Raiders
coach Bill Callahan and out went
the option, replaced by the West
Coast offense. Huskers fans never
realized how good they had it until
Callahan’s team went 5-6 last year.
Nebraska began this season with
three lackluster wins, but Saturday
gave reason for hope. Nebraska beat
then-No. 23 Iowa State 27-20 in
overtime with the flurry of short,
high-percentage passes racking up a
record-setting day.
The win wasn’t enough to get Ne
braska back in the rankings, but it
certainly makes next week’s game
against No. 15 Texas Tech in Lin
coln, Neb. pretty interesting.
Not quite as interesting as Penn
State’s game in State College,
against No. 6 Ohio State.
Joe Paterno and the Nittany Lions
have endured four losing seasons
since 2000 — or three more than Pa
terno had in his first 34 seasons.
With every loss and every out
burst at the officials, critics of Pater
no mounted. It was reasonable to
ask the question: Would Penn State
be better off without the second
winningest coach in major college
football history?
Paterno has answered that ques
tion by guiding the Nittany Lions to
their first 5-0 start since 1999, Joe Pa’s
last national title contender team.
Led by a group of speed-burning
freshmen and maturing multidi
mensional quarterback Michael
Robinson, Penn State pasted Min
nesota 44-14 on Saturday.
That wasn’t the only beating a
ranked team took as Mike Shula’s
Crimson Tide beat Florida 31-3.
The last 23 seasons have seen
some tremendous highs for the Tide
— a national title under Gene
Stallings in 1992, Southeastern Con
ference championships under Mike
DuBose and Bill Curry.
But recently the program has
been known more for NCAA viola
tions and embarrassing scandals.
Shula got the job when Mike
Price was fired for a drunken night
of partying at a strip club. The for
mer Tide quarterback wasn’t a pop
ular choice and a 10-15 record over
his first two seasons did nothing to
help win over finicky fans. After
crushing Florida, the Crimson Tide
(5-0) moved to No. 7 in the AP poll.
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