The Omaha World-Herald’s Tom Shatel is marking 40 years of sports reporting. The vast majority of that was with the Big Eight and Big 12. Iowa State pops up a couple of times in his memorable moments, including the 1992 Marv Seiler game. I knew that was Osborne’s only loss to a team that would finish under .500; I didn’t know it was Nebraska’s first loss to a team not named Oklahoma or Colorado since 1978.
The 25th anniversary of that game is this fall. In a sign of how much the college football world has changed, in the anniversary month, Iowa State will be playing conference games at West Virginia and Baylor.