OU, Nebraska might still mark Game of the Century anniversary with home-and-home
Published: 6/1/2012 8:03 AM
Last Modified: 6/1/2012 8:12 AM
News broke this week that Ohio State and Georgia were canceling their football home-and-home scheduled for 2020-21. A shame.
Recall that Oklahoma and Nebraska were thinking about a colossal home-and-home for those two years. Thankfully, that could still happen.
Nebraska AD Tom Osborne indicated to the Lincoln Journal Star this week that there remains interest to renew the rivalry in a 2020-21 home-and-home, an idea that Osborne and Joe Castiglione first kicked around in 2010.
Why the wait? Recall that OU is already locked into marquee nonconference home-and-homes with Notre Dame, Tennessee, Ohio State and LSU through 2019. The Huskers are scheduled to play Miami, BYU and Tennessee.
Besides, and here's the cool reason to wait it out, 2021 marks the 50th annivesary of the Game of the Century. The reunion of the '71 teams that OU hosted four years ago was a wonderful spectacle. Imagine what the two schools might pull off to mark a golden anniversary.
Whether it happens?
"I'd say within the next two or three years we'll have a pretty good idea," Osborne told the Journal Star's Steve Sipple. "We'll certainly try to do it if we can."
Written by
Guerin Emig
Sports Writer
