Filed by Mitch Sherman at 2:27 p.m.
For the record, Nebraska beat Kansas State 58-7 in 1989 during Bill Snyder's first year at the school, not 100-0, as he remembered it this week.
“We weren't very good and they were pretty good,” Snyder said.
He was asked if the winner-take-all Big 12 North showdown Saturday reminded him of games against NU from his first stint in Manhattan – not the first time he coached against the Huskers, but Snyder chose to recall that game from 20 years ago.
“I'd probably prefer not to think about the first time we played Nebraska,” Snyder said. “I think it was 100-0, something like that. No, it doesn't take me back to that.”
Snyder steered clear of the suggestion that he ever placed extra emphasis on beating the Huskers, though fans of both programs in the early years of the Big 12 felt differently.
“I haven't said that this was my rivalry,” Snyder said. “Nebraska was the class of the league back when we were in the Big Eight Conference, and they've always had such a storied program that when you line up and play against them, you know you're lining up and playing against a special program. That kind of goes without saying.”
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