Nebraska–Oklahoma football rivalry

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The Nebraska–Oklahoma football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Nebraska Cornhuskers and Oklahoma Sooners. The two programs are among the most storied in the sport's history, and their traditional Thanksgiving-weekend meeting often carried conference and national championship implications. They met eighteen times with both ranked in the national top ten, including two AP poll and two BCS No. 1 vs No. 2 games. The teams were conference opponents as early as 1921, but the annual meeting did not immediately gain prominence – Nebraska's domination of the MVIAA prior to World War II was followed by sixteen consecutive Oklahoma conference championships from 1946 to 1959. The rivalry became nationally significant as Bob Devaney built NU into a power in the 1960s, culminating in a 1971 meeting (the "Game of the Century") that is often considered the best game in college football history. Tom Osborne and Barry Switzer, both promoted to head coach in 1973, entrenched the...

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