so that’s what competent officiating looks like.

December 29
#1 UCLA 91, Nebraska 54
#4 USC 78, #23 Michigan 58
#8 Maryland 72, #19 Michigan State 66
#10 Ohio State 77, Rutgers 63
#24 Iowa 84, Purdue 63

Standings
1. Indiana (10-3, 2-0)
1. Maryland (12-0, 2-0)
1. Ohio State (13-0, 2-0)
1. UCLA (13-0, 2-0)
1. USC (12-1, 2-0)
6. Nebraska (10-3, 1-1)
6. Illinois (11-2, 1-1)
6. Iowa (11-2, 1-1)
6. Michigan (10-3, 1-1)
6. Michigan State (11-2, 1-1)
6. Minnesota (13-1, 1-1)
6. Washington (10-4, 1-1)
6. Wisconsin (10-3, 1-1)
14. Northwestern (7-6, 0-2)
14. Oregon (9-4, 0-2)
14. Penn State (9-4, 0-2)
14. Purdue (7-6, 0-2)
14. Rutgers (8-5, 0-2)

Games for Tuesday, December 31
Washington at Illinois (12:00 PM - BTN)
Oregon at Northwestern (2:00 PM - BTN)
Minnesota at Wisconsin (3:30 PM - BTN+)

Next Nebraska Game - Wednesday, January 1
Nebraska at #4 USC (2:00 PM - BTN)

Looking good so far

January 13
1733 - James Oglethorpe and some 120 English colonists arrived at Charleston, South Carolina, while en route to settle in present-day Georgia.

1794 - President George Washington approved a measure adding two stars and two stripes to the American flag, following the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the Union. (The number of stripes was later reduced to the original 13.)

1898 - French writer Emile Zola publishes his "J'Accuse" letter, accusing the French of a cover-up in the Alfred Dreyfus treason case.

1941 - Author James Joyce died in Zurich.

1941 - A new law went into effect granting Puerto Ricans U.S. birthright citizenship.

1979 - Singer Donny Hathaway died in a fall from a hotel window in New York at age 34.

1982 - An Air Florida 737 crashed into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge and fell into the Potomac River while trying to take off during a snowstorm, killing a total of 78 people, including four motorists on the bridge; four passengers and a flight attendant survived.

1990 - Douglas Wilder of Virginia became the first elected Black governor in the United States.

1992 - Japan apologized for forcing tens of thousands of Korean women to serve as sex slaves for its soldiers during World War II, citing newly uncovered documents that showed the Japanese army had a role in abducting the so-called "comfort women."

2002 - After 17,162 performances, "The Fantasticks" ended its almost 42-year off-Broadway run.

2004 - Joseph Darby, a U.S. soldier at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, reported U.S. abuses of Iraqi prisoners to the Army's Criminal Investigations Division.

2021 - President Donald Trump is impeached by the House of Representatives over the violent January 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol, becoming the only president in U.S. history to be impeached twice; ten Republicans joined Democrats in voting to impeach Trump on a charge of "incitement of insurrection." (Trump would again be acquitted by the Senate in a vote after his term was over.)

Birthdays
25 - Kensington Tillo (model)
28 - Connor McDavid (hockey player)
30 - Natalia Dyer (actress)
35 - Liam Hemsworth (actor)
48 - Orlando Bloom (actor)
59 - Patrick Dempsey (actor)
63 - Trace Adkins (singer)
64 - Julia Louis-Dreyfus (actress)
68 - Mark O'Meara (golfer)

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Today in Sports History - January 13

1962 - Wilt Chamberlain (Philadelphia Warriors) scored 73 points against the Chicago Packers, which was an NBA single-game record at the time.

1968 - Bill Masterson (Minnesota North Stars) was injured when he was checked into the boards. He died two days later. He was the first casualty in the NHL.

1974 - The Miami Dolphins defeated the Minnesota Vikings 24-7 to win Super Bowl VIII.

1982 - Hank Aaron and Frank Robinson are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1984 - Wayne Gretzky extended his NHL consecutive scoring streak to 45 games.

1986 - The NCAA adopted the controversial "Proposal 48," which set standards for Division 1 freshman eligibility.

1998 - The NFL completed a $9.2 billion deal to keep "Monday Night Football" on ABC and the entire Sunday night cable package for ESPN.

1999 - Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls announced his second retirement from the NBA. (He would unretire again in 2001.)

2003 - The NHL's Buffalo Sabres filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

2005 - Major League Baseball adopted a steroid-testing program that suspended first-time offenders for 10 days and randomly tested players year-round.

2005 - The NFL fined Randy Moss (Minnesota Vikings) $10,000 for pretending to pull down his pants and moon the Green Bay Packer crowd during a playoff win the previous weekend.

2008 - The Orlando Magic knock down a then NBA single-game record 23 3-pointers in 37 attempts (62.2%) in a 139-107 win over the Sacramento Kings.

2019 - Houston Rockets guard James Harden scores 38 points in a 116-108 loss to the Orlando Magic, giving him his 16th consecutive game with 30+ points, matching Kobe Bryant's NBA record.

2020 - LSU defeats Clemson 42-15 to win the College Football Playoff national championship.

2020 - Houston Astros manager AJ Hinch and general manager Jeff Luhnow are fired by team owner Jim Crane for their roles in the sign-stealing scandal after MLB suspends both for one year.

Nice bowl win for NU!!!!!

Nice loss for Hawkeyes!!!!!!!!!

January 9
1788 - Connecticut became the fifth state.

1861 - Mississippi became the second state to secede from the Union.

1916 - The World War I Battle of Gallipoli ended with an Ottoman Empire victory as Allied forces withdrew.

1945 - During World War II, American forces began landing on the shores of Lingayen Gulf in the Philippines as the Battle of Luzon got underway, resulting in an Allied victory over Japanese forces.

1964 - Anti-American rioting erupted in the Panama Canal Zone.

1968 - Surveyor 7, the last of America's unmanned lunar probes, landed on the moon.

2005 - Mahmoud Abbas was elected president of the Palestinian Authority, following the death of Yasser Arafat the previous November.

2007 - Apple entered the smartphone world as CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone at the Macworld Conference in San Francisco.

2018 - Downpours sent mud and boulders roaring down Southern California hillsides that had been stripped of vegetation by a gigantic wildfire, more than 20 people died and hundreds of homes were damaged or destroyed.

2022 - Seventeen people, including eight children, died after a fire sparked by a malfunctioning space heater filled a high-rise apartment building with smoke in the New York City borough of the Bronx; it was the city's deadliest blaze in over 30 years.

Birthdays
27 - Lottie Moss (model)
30 - Nicola Peltz (actress)
33 - Shilpa Sethi (model)
36 - Nina Dobrev (actress)
38 - Nicola Coughlan (actress)
43 - Catherine, Princess of Wales (wife of Britain's Prince William)
45 - Sergio Garcia (golfer)
47 - AJ McLean (singer)
47 - Chad Johnson (football player)
58 - Dave Matthews (musician)
60 - Joely Richardson (actress)
60 - Muggsy Bogues (basketball player)
69 - Imelda Staunton (actress)
70 - J.K. Simmons (actor)
74 - Crystal Gale (singer)
81 - Jimmy Page (musician)
84 - Joan Baez (musician)

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Today in Sports History - January 9
1903 - Frank Farrell and Bill Devery purchase the Baltimore Orioles and moved the franchise to New York City, where it would become the Highlanders (and eventually, the Yankees).

1918 - The NHL announced a new rule that permitted goaltenders to leave their feet while making a save. Previously a penalty was called if a goalie sat or lay on the ice to stop the puck.

1930 - The Boston Bruins set an NHL record with 14 straight wins.

1951 - The NBA's Washington Capitals franchise folds.

1958 - University of Cincinnati basketball star Oscar Robertson scores 56 points in a game against Seton Hall in which Seton Hall only scored 54.

1954 - Bert Olmstead (Montreal Canadiens) tied an NHL record when he scored 8 points in a game.

1962 - The NFL approved a new rule banning the grabbing of face masks.

1967 - The new NFL franchise in New Orleans announces the adoption of the nickname "Saints."

1972 - The Milwaukee Bucks defeat the Los Angeles Lakers 120-104, snapping the Lakers' NBA record 33-game win streak.

1977 - The Oakland Raiders defeat the Minnesota Vikings 32-14 to win Super Bowl XI.

1979 - The Boston Bruins retire Bobby Orr's #4.

1981 - Future NHL Hall of Famer Phil Esposito of announced his retirement.

1989 - Johnny Bench and Carl Yastrzemski are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1990 - Jim Palmer and Joe Morgan are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1991 - A special committee of Major League Baseball authorities officially banned Pete Rose from being elected into the Hall of Fame.

1991 - North Carolina men's basketball coach Dean Smith becomes the sixth to reach 700 career victories.

1998 - The "Hockey News" magazine selected Wayne Gretzky as the best NHL player ever.

2000 - Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino plays in his final NFL game.

2004 - Brian Boucher (Phoenix Coyotes) set a new NHL record with his fifth consecutive shutout. The total time of the streak was 325 minutes and 45 seconds.

2005 - Randy Moss (Minnesota Vikings) pretended to pull down his pants and moon the Green Bay Packer crowd during a playoff win. On January 13 the NFL fined Moss $10,000 for the act.

2012 - Alabama defeats LSU 21-0 to win the BCS National Championship.

2017 - Clemson defeats Alabama 35-31 to win the College Football Playoff National Championship.

2023 - Georgia routs TCU 65-7 to win the College Football Playoff National Championship.

January 8

1790 - President George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address in New York City.

1815 - The last major engagement of the War of 1812 came to an end as U.S. forces defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans, not having received word of the signing of a peace treaty.

1867 - The House of Representatives joined the Senate in overriding President Andrew Johnson's veto of the District of Columbia Suffrage Act, giving Black men in the nation's capital the right to vote.

1918 - President Woodrow Wilson outlined his "Fourteen Points" peace program.

1958 - Bobby Fischer won the United States Chess Championship for the first time at age 14.

1959 - Charles de Gaulle became the first president of France's Fifth Republic.

1964 - In his State of the Union address to Congress, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced his "War on Poverty" initiative.

1982 - The AT&T Bell System telephone monopoly agreed to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies and split itself into seven "Baby Bells."

1998 - The mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York City, Ramzi Yousef, was sentenced to life in prison.

2011 - Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is among 17 shot by a gunman at a meeting outside a grocery store. Six people were killed, including U.S. District Court Judge John Roll, and a young girl. Police would identify the gunman as Jared Lee Loughner, who was sentenced in 2012 to seven consecutive life sentences plus 140 years.

2016 - Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the world's most-wanted drug lord, was captured for a third time in a daring raid by Mexican marines, six months after walking through a tunnel to freedom from a maximum security prison.

2020 - Iran struck back at the United States for killing Iran's top military commander, firing missiles at two Iraqi military bases housing American troops. More than 100 U.S. service members were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries after the attack. As Iran braced for a counterattack, the country's Revolutionary Guard shot down a Ukrainian jetliner after apparently mistaking it for a missile; all 176 people on board were killed.

2023 - Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro who refused to accept his election defeat, stormed Congress, the Supreme Court and the presidential palace in the capital, a week after the inauguration of his leftist rival, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Birthdays
23 - Kaylor Martin (reality star)
24 - Kaash Paige (singer)
30 - Rachel Cook (actress)
30 - Ryan Destiny (singer)
37 - Allison Harvard (model)
38 - Cynthia Erivo (actress)
44 - Genevieve Padalecki (actress)
43 - Gaby Hoffman (actress)
46 - Sarah Polley (film maker)
79 - Robby Krieger (musician)
85 - Cristy Lane (singer)
88 - Shirley Bassey (singer)

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Today in Sports History - January 8

1901 - In Chicago, the first tournament sanctioned by the American Bowling Congress was held.

1945 - The Kentucky men's basketball team sets an NCAA record by holding Arkansas to just six points in a 75-6 win.

1955 - Furman sets an NCAA single-game men's basketball scoring record with 154 points.

1955 - After 130 consecutive home wins, the Kentucky men's basketball team was defeated by Georgia Tech, 59-58. It was the Wildcats first home loss since January 2, 1943.

1957 - Jackie Robinson announced his retirement from baseball.

1960 - The NCAA voted against reviving unlimited substitution in college football.

1962 - Jack Nicklaus makes his PGA Tour debut at the Los Angeles Open.

1972 - The NCAA announces freshman are eligible for varsity competition in the upcoming school year.

1980 - The NCAA votes to begin sanctioning championships in five women's sports.

1984 - The NCAA approves expansion of the Division I men's basketball tournament to 64 teams.

1984 - ABC purchased the remaining 85% of ESPN.

1986 - Willie McCovey becomes the 16th player to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility.

1991 - Gaylord Perry, Ferguson Jenkins and Rod Carew are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1993 - Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls became the 18th player in NBA history to score 20,000 career points and becomes the second-fastest (620 games) player to ever reach the milestone, behind only Wilt Chamberlain (499 games).

1994 - Dino Ciccarelli of the Detroit Red Wings became the 19th player in NHL history to score 500 career goals.

1995 - Mike Schmidt is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1996 - For the first time in 25 years, no one is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

2000 - In what has been dubbed the "Music City Miracle," the Tennessee Titans defeat the Buffalo Bills 22-16 in a wild AFC wild card playoff game that saw Kevin Dyson run the length of the field in the final 16 seconds to score the game-winning touchdown for the Titans.

2007 - Florida defeats Ohio State 41-14 to win the BCS National Championship.

2009 - Florida defeats Oklahoma 24-14 to win the BCS National Championship.

2012 - In an AFC wildcard playoff game dubbed "The 3:16 Game", the underdog Denver Broncos defeat the Pittsburgh Steelers 29-23 which saw Tim Tebow connecting with Demaryius Thomas on an 80-yard touchdown pass on the first scrimmage play in overtime.

2013 - Steve Nash becomes the fifth player in NBA history to record 10,000 career assists.

2018 - Alabama defeats Georgia 26-23 to win the College Football Playoff national championship.

And here we are: The very last DNT/F of the year…made it all the way through!

“On New Year’s Eve 2020, who scored the game-winning, buzzer-beating putback as time expired to give the Nebraska women’s basketball team a 65-63 win over No. 15-ranked Northwestern? It was named the ESPN SportsCenter Top Play of the Day and capped an effort in which she had 19 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists.”

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Answer:

Sam Haiby

Quotebook: Bowl game edition.

>> Rhule
>> Raiola
>> Rahmir
>> Robinson

Good discussion with Steve on what the Pinstripe Bowl victory means for the 2024 season and beyond
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$55mil/year to the second best QB on their roster?

Tough to see, their coach deserves better roster management.

January 7
1610 - Astronomer Galileo Galilei observed four of Jupiter's moons for the first time.

1896 - Fanny Farmer published her first cookbook.

1927 - Transatlantic commercial telephone service began between New York and London.

1953 - President Harry S. Truman announced that the United States had developed the hydrogen bomb.

1955 - Singer Marian Anderson became the first Black American to sing with the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

1979 - Vietnamese forces captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, overthrowing Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge government.

1989 - Japan's Emperor Hirohito died.

1999 - The impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton began in the U.S. Senate.

2015 - Masked gunmen stormed the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French newspaper that had caricatured the Prophet Muhammad, methodically killing 12 people, including the editor, before escaping. (Two suspects were killed two days later.)

2022 - Three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery were sentenced to life in prison; a judge in Georgia denied any chance of parole for the father and son who armed themselves and initiated the deadly pursuit of the 25-year-old Black man after spotting him running in their neighborhood.

2023 - Republican Kevin McCarthy was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives on a historic post-midnight 15th ballot, overcoming holdouts from his own ranks after a chaotic week that tested the new GOP majority's ability to govern.

Birthdays
21 - Sofia Wylie (actress)
25 - Kerri Medders (actress)
25 - Marcus Scribner (actor)
28 - Lamar Jackson (football player)
35 - Camille Rowe (model)
37 - Robert Sheehan (actor)
40 - Lewis Hamilton (race car driver)
42 - Brett Dalton (actor)
43 - Lauren Cohan (actress)
51 - John Rich (singer)
54 - Jeremy Renner (actor)
61 - Nicolas Cage (actor)
68 - Katie Couric (TV host/journalist)
69 - David Caruso (actor)
74 - Helen Worth (actress)
77 - Kenny Loggins (musician)

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Today in Sports History - January 7

1899 - Walter Camp publishes his first All-American college football team.

1920 - Joe Malone (Quebec Bulldogs) scored two goals and became the NHL's all-time leading goal scorer with 59.

1927 - In Hinckley, Illinois, the Harlem Globetrotters played their first game.

1961 - The first NFL Playoff Bowl (3rd place game) is played, with the Detroit Lions defeating the Cleveland Browns 17-16.

1972 - The Los Angeles Lakers set an NBA record with their 33rd consecutive win; it is also the longest such win streak in all of North American major professional sports.

1980 - The Philadelphia Flyers set an NHL record, playing 35 consecutive games without a loss.

1985 - Lou Brock and Hoyt Wilhelm are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1989 - The Cleveland Cavaliers tie an NBA record with 21 blocked shots against the New York Knicks.

1991 - Pete Rose left an Illinois federal prison and checked into a halfway house in Cincinnati. He was completing a sentence for cheating on his taxes.

1992 - Tom Seaver and Rollie Fingers are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1994 - Nancy Kerrigan withdrew from the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit. The previous day her right leg was severely bruised in an attack following a practice session; the championship was won by Tonya Harding.

1995 - The NHL Board of Governors threatened to cancel the regular season if the striking players did not agree with raising unrestricted free agency from 30 years to 32 years of age.

1998 - Los Angeles Lakers center Shaquille O'Neal records his 1,000th career blocked shot in a game against the Milwaukee Bucks.

2007 - Phil Jackson becomes the fastest head coach in NBA history to record 900 career wins.

2008 - LSU defeats Ohio State 38-24 to win the BCS National Championship.

2010 - Alabama defeats Texas 37-21 to win the BCS National Championship.

2013 - Alabama defeats Notre Dame 42-14 to win the BCS National Championship.

2019 - Clemson defeats Alabama 44-16 to win the College Football Playoff National Championship.

January 10
1776 - Thomas Paine's "Common Sense," which argued for independence from British rule and greatly influenced the authors of the Declaration of Independence, was published.

1860 - The Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts collapsed and caught fire, killing as many as 145 people.

1861 - Florida became the third state to secede from the Union.

1863 - The first underground passenger railway, the Metropolitan, opened in London.

1920 - The League of Nations came into existence after the Treaty of Versailles went into effect.

1946 - The General Assembly of the United Nations met for the first time, in London.

1967 - The first African-American U.S. senator elected by popular vote, Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, was sworn in.

1984 - The United States and the Vatican re-established diplomatic relations after a 117-year break.

2003 - North Korea announced it was withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Birthdays
25 - Renee Rapp (singer)
39 - Marcus Freeman (football coach)
44 - Jared Kushner (son-in-law of President Donald Trump)
45 - Sarah Shahi (actress)
47 - Tamina Snuka (professional wrestler)
51 - Jemaine Clement (actor/comedian)
72 - Bobby Rahal (race car driver)
72 - Pat Benatar (singer)
76 - George Foreman (boxer)
77 - Donald Fagen (singer)
80 - Rod Stewart (singer)
86 - Bill Toomey (track & field athlete)

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Today in Sports History - January 10
1962 - The NFL entered into a single-network agreement with CBS for telecasting all regular-season games for $4.65 million annually.

1982 - San Francisco 49ers tight end Dwight Clark caught a touchdown pass from Joe Montana with 58 seconds remaining in the NFC championship game in one of the most famous plays in NFL history. "The Catch" led the 49ers to a 28-27 victory over the Dallas Cowboys and a berth in Super Bowl XVI, where they would pick up their first Super Bowl victory over the Cincinnati Bengals.

1984 - Luis Aparicio, Harmon Killebrew and Don Drysdale are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1985 - Lenny Wilkens becomes the first to coach in 1,000 NBA games.

1986 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar of the Los Angeles Lakers scores his 34,000th career point, an NBA record at the time.

1990 - The NCAA approved a random drug testing program among college football players and harsh penalties for drug use.

1995 - NHL owners rejected the players unrestricted free agency proposal (one year at 32, five years at 31) and countered with three years at 32 and three at 31.

1998 - Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan wins his 600th career NBA game.

2003 - The NBA announces that expansion franchise has been awarded to Charlotte, North Carolina, to be known as the Bobcats, who will begin play in 2004-05. (The franchise would change its name to Hornets in the 2014-15 season.)

2011 - Auburn defeats Oregon 22-19 to win the BCS National Championship.

2022 - Georgia defeats Alabama 33-18 to win the College Football Playoff national championship.

2024 - Kawhi Leonard signs a record three-year, $153 million contract extension with the Los Angeles Clippers.

Rhule and BoB had their final pregame media availability this afternoon. Tap the link for full presser videos of both head coaches.