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The idea was to make the sample size large enough that Nebraska fans could get an appreciation for when Husker football and its traveling army of fans used to roll into Big 12 towns for big games, eat their wings, drink their beer, puff out their chests, fill up their stands and generally pummel their ranked opponents into the AstroTurf.

So, I figured, let's go the last 20 road games against ranked teams. That'll get us there.

It did not get us there.

So I went 25 games. Nope, not really.

I had to go back to the Tom Osborne era, really, to find such dominance. And since we tend to wear out those Osborne glory years — nearly 20 years old now — I thought I'd just give it to you straight and true.

Since 1998, Nebraska is ... 5-23 against ranked teams on the road.

This includes, mind you, some fine Husker teams. The 1999 Husker team, for example, finished 0-1 against ranked road teams — the 24-20 loss to Texas. The day of one meeellion fumbles. The 2000 NU team lost its only two games of the season on the road — 31-14 at Oklahoma and 29-28 at Kansas State, the game where Wildcats made snow angels on the turf.

I told you this was tough.