Andy Staples fawns over Nebraska’s move to the Big Ten:
If Nebraska and Oklahoma could somehow find a way to play an annual out-of-conference game, I’d bump this move to an A-plus. That was the best game in the Big 8 and pretty much the only thing anyone misses about Nebraska being in the Big 12. With the playoff coming, it might be worth it to both schools. Oklahoma has never been scared to play anyone. Neither has Nebraska. So let’s make it happen every year.
“The only thing anyone misses.” You know, aside from the five teams in four neighboring states, many with more than 90 games played against Nebraska, who may never get to face the Huskers again. But who cares if the teams partially responsible for making Nebraska what it is today never get another shot?
He also writes that loss of the Texas-A&M game is “a needless consequence” and could be played “if their leaders quit being babies about it.” Hogwash (actually, another, more serious word). Notably, he does not say the same thing about Missouri-Kansas.