November 29
#1 UCLA 97, Tennessee-Martin 37
#6 USC 104, St. Louis 65
#11 Ohio State 87, Utah State 51
#23 Iowa 68, BYU 48
Wisconsin 66, Providence 57
Marquette 59, Rutgers 57
Michigan 68, Belmont 58
Minnesota 61, Houston 44

Standings
Iowa (8-0)
Michigan State (8-0)
Minnesota (8-0)
Penn State (8-0)
Ohio State (7-0)
Maryland (6-0)
UCLA (6-0)
Nebraska (6-1)
Illinois (6-1)
Michigan (6-1)
USC (6-1)
Washington (7-2)
Oregon (6-2)
Wisconsin (6-2)
Purdue (4-2)
Indiana (4-3)
Rutgers (4-3)
Northwestern (2-3)

Games for Saturday, November 30
Purdue vs. #4 South Carolina (at Fort Myers, FL) (10:00 AM)
Minnesota vs. Louisiana-Lafayette (at New Orleans) (11:00 AM)
Wisconsin vs. Virginia Commonwealth (at Cancun, Mexico) (12:30 PM)
Georgia Southern at Rutgers (1:00 PM - BTN+)
#10 Maryland vs. George Mason (at Annapolis, MD) (2:30 PM - ESPN+)
#1 UCLA vs. Fresno State (at Honolulu, HI) (4:00 PM)
Michigan vs. Virginia Tech (at Fort Myers, FL) (6:30 PM)

Next Nebraska Game - Tuesday, December 3
Lindenwood at #25 Nebraska (7:00 PM - BTN+)

December 6
1865 - The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, abolishing slavery, was ratified when Georgia became the 27th state to support it.

1884 - Construction of the Washington Monument was completed.

1889 - Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederate States of America, died in New Orleans.

1907 - The worst mining disaster in U.S. history occurred as at least 361 men and boys died in a coal mine explosion in Monongah, West Virginia.

1917 - More than 1,700 people were killed when an explosives-laden French cargo ship, the Mont Blanc, collided with the Norwegian vessel Imo at the harbor in Halifax, Nova Scotia, setting off a blast that devastated the Canadian city.

1923 - A presidential address was broadcast on radio for the first time as Calvin Coolidge spoke before Congress.

1926 - French impressionist painter Claude Monet died at age 86.

1957 - America’s first attempt at putting a satellite into orbit failed as Vanguard TV3 rose about four feet off a Cape Canaveral launch pad before crashing down and exploding.

1969 - A free concert by The Rolling Stones at the Altamont Speedway in Alameda County, California, was marred by the deaths of four people, including one who was stabbed by a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club that was hired to provide concert security.

1973 - House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew who had resigned.

1992 - The destruction of a mosque in India by Hindu extremists set off two months of Muslim-Hindu fighting that claimed at least 2,000 lives.

1998 - Hugo Chavez is elected president of Venezuela.

2017 - President Donald Trump declared Jerusalem to be Israel's capital, defying warnings from the Palestinians and others around the world that he would be destroying hopes for Mideast peace.

2018 - Kevin Hart announced that he had stepped down as Oscars host following an outcry over anti-gay tweets and comments he had made in the past.

2021 - The Justice Department said it was ending its investigation into the 1955 lynching of the Black teenager Emmett Till, who was killed after witnesses said he whistled at a white woman in Mississippi.

2022 - Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock defeated Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a Georgia runoff election that ensured Democrats an outright majority in the Senate for the rest of President Joe Biden's term.

Birthdays
27 - Sabrina Ionescu (basketball player)
28 - Stefanie Scott (actress)
29 - Molly Gordon (actress)
30 - Giannis Antetokounmpo (basketball player)
32 - Johnny Manziel (football player)
34 - Stormi Henley (model)
39 - Dulce Maria (actress)
52 - Sarah Rafferty (actress)
57 - Judd Apatow (writer/actor)
62 - Janine Turner (actress)
68 - Peter Buck (musician)
69 - Steven Wright (comedian)
71 - Tom Hulce (actor)
76 - JoBeth Williams (actress)

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Today in Sports History - December 6

1939 - Iowa running back Nile Kinnick wins the Heisman Trophy.

1960 - Gene Autry and Bob Reynolds were granted the Los Angeles Angels baseball franchise by the American League.

1961 - Syracuse running back Ernie Davis becomes the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy.

1975 - Ohio State running back Archie Griffin wins the Heisman Trophy.

1986 - Miami quarterback Vinny Testaverde wins the Heisman Trophy.

1990 - The National Hockey League granted a membership to the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Ottawa Senators.

1992 - San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Jerry Rice catches his NFL record 101st career touchdown pass.

1992 - Barry Bonds signs a record $43 million contract with the San Francisco Giants.

2018 - Tennessee Titans running back Derrick Henry rushes for 238 yards and four touchdowns in a win over the Jacksonville Jaguars; included in that total was a 99-yard touchdown run, tying Dallas Cowboys hall of famer Tony Dorsett for longest rush in NFL history.

QB or OL Coach?!?!?

Curious minds want to know…,

November 5
1776 - The first scholastic fraternity in America, Phi Beta Kappa, was organized at the College of William and Mary and Williamsburg, Virginia.

1791 - Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died in Vienna, Austria at age 35.

1848 - President James K. Polk triggered the Gold Rush of 1848 by confirming that gold had been discovered in California.

1872 - Having left New York on November 5, the brigantine Mary Celeste was found adrift off the coast of Portugal with everyone aboard mysteriously missing.

1933 - National Prohibition came to an end as Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the Constitution, which repealed the 18th Amendment.

1952 - The Great Smog of London descended on the British capital; the unusually thick fog, which contained toxic pollutants, lasted five days and was blamed for causing thousands of deaths.

1955 - The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merged to form the AFL-CIO.

1994 - Republicans chose Newt Gingrich to be the first GOP speaker of the House in four decades.

2002 - At Sen. Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday celebration, Senate Republican leader Trent Lott praised Thurmond's 1948 segregationist presidential bid. Lott subsequently resigned his leadership position.

2004 - Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan's first popularly elected president.

2009 - A jury in Perugia, Italy, convicted American student Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, of murdering Knox’s British roommate, Meredith Kercher, and sentenced them to long prison terms. (After a series of back-and-forth rulings, Knox and Sollecito were definitively acquitted in 2015 by Italy’s highest court.)

2013 - Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who became South Africa’s first Black president, died at age 95.

2017 - Democratic Congressman John Conyers of Michigan resigned from Congress after a nearly 53-year career, becoming the first Capitol Hill politician to lose his job amid the sexual misconduct allegations sweeping through the nation’s workplaces.

2019 - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that she had asked the relevant House committee chairs to begin drawing up articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, saying his actions left them “no choice” but to act swiftly. (Trump would be impeached by the House on charges of obstruction and abuse of power, but the Senate voted to acquit in the first of two Trump impeachment trials.)

Birthdays
22 - Becky Armstrong (actress)
27 - Maddie Poppe (singer)
28 - Georgia Hassarati (TV personality)
30 - Alexandra Beaton (actress)
39 - Frankie Muniz (actor)
40 - Lauren London (actress)
42 - Keri Hilson (singer)
49 - Paula Patton (actress)
51 - Shalom Harlow (model)
55 - Catherine Tate (actress)
56 - Margaret Cho (actress/comedian)
57 - Gary Allan (singer)
67 - Art Monk (football player)
75 - Lanny Wadkins (golfer)
77 - Jim Messina (musician)

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Today in Sports History - December 5
1908 - At the University of Pittsburgh, numerals were first used on football uniforms worn by college football players.

1970 - The Stanley Cup, Conn Smythe Trophy and the Bill Masterson trophy were stolen from the NHL Hall of Fame.

1972 - Nebraska wingback Johnny Rodgers wins the Heisman Trophy.

1973 - Ron Santo became the first major league player to veto his trade.

1978 - Pete Rose signed with the Philadelphia Phillies. The contract was for four years and $3.2 million making Rose the highest paid athlete in team sports.

1981 - USC running back Marcus Allen wins the Heisman Trophy.

1983 - The video arcade game "NFL Football" was unveiled in Chicago. It was the first video arcade game to be licensed by the National Football League.

1987 - Notre Dame wide receiver Tim Brown wins the Heisman Trophy.

1995 - Dan Marino (Miami Dolphins) passed for 300 yards in a game for the 52nd time to set an NFL record.

2000 - Karl Malone (Utah Jazz) moved past Wilt Chamberlain into second place on the NBA's all-time scoring list.

2002 - Michal Handzus (Philadelphia Flyers) became only the second NHL player to score an overtime goal on a penalty shot. The Flyers beat the New York Rangers 3-2.

2006 - Pitcher Greg Maddux signs a one-year contract with the San Diego Padres worth $10 million.

2009 - Texas defeats Nebraska 13-12 in the Big 12 Conference championship game.

2017 - Russia is banned from the Winter Olympic Games for state-sponsored doping.

I’m so glad that wasn’t to get bowl eligible because I think that would have broke me for good.

“Name the Nebraska QB who finished his career as one of just three QBs in NCAA history to pass for at least 4,000 yards and rush for at least 3,000 yards. He also had more 100-yard rushing games than any QB in NCAA history.

“What were his career passing and rushing yardage totals?”

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Answers:

Eric Crouch (43 career games)

4,481 career passing yards (and 29 career passing TDs)

3,434 career rushing yards (and 59 career rushing TDs)

December 4

1783 - George Washington delivered his farewell address to his officers at Fraunces Tavern in New York City.

1816 - James Monroe of Virginia was elected (by electors) the fifth president of the United States.

1875 - William Marcy "Boss" Tweed of New York's Tammany Hall escaped from jail and fled the country.

1945 - The U.S. Senate approved U.S. participation in the United Nations.

1956 - Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins, dubbed the “Million Dollar Quartet,” gathered for the first and only time for a jam session at Sun Records in Memphis.

1964 - Police arrested some 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, one day after the students stormed the administration building and staged a massive sit-in.

1965 - The United States launched Gemini 7 with Air Force Lt. Col. Frank Borman and Navy Cmdr. James A. Lovell aboard on a two-week mission. (While Gemini 7 was in orbit, its sister ship, Gemini 6A, was launched on Dec. 15 on a one-day mission; the two spacecraft were able to rendezvous within a foot of each other.)

1969 - Fred Hampton and Mark Clark of the Black Panther Party were shot and killed during a raid by Chicago police.

1978 - Dianne Feinstein became the first female mayor of San Francisco.

1991 - Associated Press news correspondent Terry Anderson is released after having been held hostage in Lebanon for seven years.

1993 - Rock musician Frank Zappa died at age 52.

2003 - Interpol put the former president of Liberia, Charles Taylor, on its most-wanted list.

2016 - A North Carolina man armed with an assault rifle fired several shots inside Comet Ping Pong, a Washington, D.C., pizzeria, as he attempted to investigate an online conspiracy theory that prominent Democrats were harboring child sex slaves at the restaurant; no one was hurt, and the man surrendered to police. (He was later sentenced to four years in prison.)

2018 - Long lines of people wound through the Capitol Rotunda to view the casket of former President George H.W. Bush.

Birthdays
26 - Layton Greene (singer)
28 - Millie Court (reality star)
30 - Niykee Heaton (singer)
33 - Kate King (model)
40 - Jelly Roll (singer)
40 - Joe Thomas (football player)
51 - Tyra Banks (model/TV host)
55 - Jay-Z (rapper)
58 - Fred Armisen (actor/comedian)
60 - Marisa Tomei (actress)
61 - Sergei Bubka (track & field athlete)
67 - Lee Smith (baseball player)
68 - Bernard King (basketball player)
69 - Cassandra Wilson (singer)
73 - Patricia Wettig (actress)
75 - Jeff Bridges (actor)
82 - Gemma Jones (actress)
87 - Max Baer Jr. (actor)
91 - Wink Martindale (game show host)

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Today in Sports History - December 4

1909 - The first Grey Cup was awarded as the University of Toronto defeated Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club, 26-6.

1909 - The Montreal Canadiens hockey franchise is founded, the oldest still operating member of the NHL.

1943 - Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis announced that any club was free to employ black players.

1945 - Army running back Doc Blanchard wins the Heisman Trophy.

1956 - Notre Dame quarterback Paul Hornung wins the Heisman Trophy.

1964 - Major league baseball established a free-agent draft that would take effect in 1965.

1977 - Tony Dorsett (Dallas Cowboys) rushed for 206 yards against the Philadelphia Eagles. He became only the third rookie to rush for more than 200 yards in a game.

1982 - Georgia running back Herschel Walker wins the Heisman Trophy.

1987 - Kareem Abdul Jabaar's was held to only 7 points in a game establishing an NBA record of 787 straight games with double digit points.

1996 - The Orlando Magic tie the NBA record for fewest points scored since the inception of the 24-second shot clock in a 84-57 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers.

1997 - The NBA suspended Golden State Warriors guard Latrell Sprewell for one year after Sprewell attacked Warriors coach P.J. Carlesimo three days earlier.

1997 - John Elway (Denver Broncos) surpassed 3,000 yards for the season. It was his 12th consecutive season to pass for more than 3,000 yards.

1997 - Barry Sanders (Detroit Lions) set an NFL record when he rushed for over 100 yards in 12 consecutive games.

2010 - Oklahoma defeats Nebraska 23-20 in the Big 12 Championship Game.

2011 - Pedro Martinez announces his retirement from baseball.

2018 - The NHL Board of Governors awards a franchise to Seattle, which will ultimately become the Seattle Kraken.

2023 - Iowa basketball star Caitlin Clark records 22 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists in a game against Wisconsin to establish a new Big Ten Conference record for career triple-doubles with seven.

“Name the former Nebraska women’s basketball player – and the number she wore as a Husker – who had her jersey number retired in 2014.”

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Answers:

Kelsey Griffin

No. 23

I can’t think of anything in this moment.

How many different ways does Nebraska figure out how to lose a close game. It has to be statistically impossible for this team to lose by one score or less this many times in the past 5 years.... yet here we are.

Unreal...

November 28

1520 - Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan passed through the strait which bears his name to the Pacific Ocean.

1919 - American-born Lady Astor became the first woman to take a seat on the British Parliament.

1925 - The Grand Ole Opry (known then as the WSM Barn Dance) debuted on radio station WSM in Nashville, Tennessee; it continues today as the longest-running radio broadcast in U.S. history.

1942 - Almost 500 people died in the Coconut Grove nightclub fire in Boston.

1943 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran, Iran to strategize during World War II.

1964 - The U.S. spacecraft Mariner 4 was launched, and would become the first successful mission to Mars.

1990 - Margaret Thatcher resigned as prime minister of Great Britain; John Major then succeeded her.

2001 - Enron Corp., once the world’s largest energy trader, collapsed after would-be rescuer Dynegy Inc. backed out of an $8.4 billion takeover deal. (Enron filed for bankruptcy protection four days later.)

2022 - Payton Gendron, a white gunman who massacred 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket, pleaded guilty to murder and hate-motivated terrorism charges in an agreement that gave him life in prison without parole.

Birthdays
22 - Gela Walter (model)
23 - Stella Quaresma (actress)
31 - Bryshere Gray (actor)
37 - Karen Gillan (actress)
40 - Mary Elizabeth Winstead (actress)
41 - Summer Rae (professional wrestler/model)
42 - Alan Ritchson (actor)
46 - Aimee Garcia (actress)
55 - Colman Domingo (actor)
62 - Jon Stewart (comedian/TV host)
65 - Judd Nelson (actor)
74 - Ed Harris (actor)
75 - Paul Shaffer (band leader)
82 - Paul Warfield (football player)
95 - Berry Gordy Jr. (music executive)

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Today in Sports History - November 28

1929 - Ernie Nevers (Chicago Cardinals) set an NFL record when he scored 40 points in a game. He scored six touchdowns and kicked four extra points.

1938 - TCU quarterback Davey O'Brien wins the Heisman Trophy.

1961 - Running back Ernie Davis of Syracuse became the first Black college football player to win the Heisman Trophy.

1967 - UCLA quarterback Gary Beban wins the Heisman Trophy.

1969 - The New York Knicks set an NBA record when they won their 18th consecutive game.

1978 - Oklahoma running back Billy Sims wins the Heisman Trophy.

1979 - Billy Smith (New York Islanders) became the first goalie in NHL history to get credit for a goal. Smith was the last Islander to touch the puck before Rob Ramage (Colorado Rockies) put it into his own net.

1981 - Alabama football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant wins his 315th game to pass Amos Alonzo Stagg as college football's winningest coach.

1982 - Ron Sutter began his NHL career as a Philadelphia Flyer. With his start a record was set when 5 brothers all played in the NHL. His brothers were Brian (St. Louis), Darryl (Chicago), Brent (Islanders) and Duane (Islanders). Ron's twin Rich signed with Pittsburgh a year later to make it six Sutters brothers in the league at one time.

1989 - Rickey Henderson signs a contract with the Oakland Athletics that pays him a record $3 million per year.

2002 - Michael Jordan (Washington Wizards) announced that he would retire for the third and final time at the end of the NBA season.

2015 - British boxer Tyson Fury defeats Ukrainian Vladimir Klitschko by unanimous decision to win the WBA, WBO, IBF, IBO, The Ring Magazine and lineal heavyweight titles; it ends Klitschko's nine-year reign as champion.

“Fill in the blanks: The Nebraska football team finished the 2022 season with a streak of __________ consecutive games without being shut out. The last time the Huskers went scoreless in a game was in ______.”

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Answers:

339

1996