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Nebraska 7, Oklahoma 21 (Final)

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I am actually looking forward to this one. One of the better rivalries in college football, and it isn't been played for a few years. It's things like this that make me hate divisions in college football.
 
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DSA

Differential Statistical Analysis for the Oklahoma Nebraska game:

Quick Explanation (skip if you're familiar with DSA):

DSA provides a pair of predictions for a game based on statistics. If the predictions were good for anything other than discussion, I wouldn't post them here, but would rather keep them a closely guarded secret and use them to make lots of money. In short, this is "For Entertainment Purposes Only".

The first step in DSA is to find each teams Differential Offense and Differential Defense. Differential Offense (Defense) is how well you do offensively compared to your opponents' average defense (offense). It is expressed as a percentage.

As an example, USC's Differential Total Defense (DTD) is 86%. This means that USC hold teams to 86% of their average Total Offense. By comparison, USC's Differential Scoring Defense (DSD) is 75%, indicating that they hold teams to 75% of their average Scoring Offense.

The second step of this two-step process is to multiply each team's average offense by the other team's differential defense; and to multiply each team's average defense by the other team's differential offense. This gives two sets of predictions for the game.
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The Numbers

Oklahoma Yards: 372 - 384
Nebraska Yards: 319 - 333

Oklahoma Points: 22 - 23
Nebraska Points: 20 - 21

Note: All numbers, with the exception of 3rd down performance, were calculated after all games involving Div. IA and Div. IAA teams have been factored out for every Div. IA team.
 
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txbuckeye1983;671987; said:
I am actually looking forward to this one. One of the better rivalries in college football, and it isn't been played for a few years. It's things like this that make me hate divisions in college football.
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Back in the 70's people debated whether this game was bigger than The Game. The destruction of this rivalry proves that conference expansions and CCGs can destroy ANY rivalry. Any suggestion that The Game is immune to the effects of this disease would be borne of an ignorance of history.

And don't talk to me about the Iron Bowl. The SEC Championship Game trumps it big time.

Every conference that has expanded and added a CCG has seen the diminution of its rivalries.

So yes, for us old-timers it is great to see Oklahoma-Nebraska as the Big 12 Championship Game. It's great for nostalgia.

But it's not even the biggest game to be played on Saturday.
 
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Huskers are one win away from a BCS bowl bid! Who would of thought that when the season started. As far as the game against the Land Thieves, it use to be one of the better rivalries out there. The landscape has changed in that part of the country.
 
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Oklahoma blocked a FG and returned it for a TD, but Nebraska got called for delay of game, so it didn't count.

Still 14-7 in the third quarter.
 
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