Found December 03, 2008 on InGameNow: Yardbarker Blogger Network
It is being reported that later today, the representatives of the Gator Bowl will announce that the Clemson Tigers are playing the Nebraska Cornhuskers in the January 1st bowl. The Tigers finished up their 2008 regular season 7-5, with a 4-4 conference record. They won the last 3 games of the year by an average of 17 points. Standing in Clemson's way is a Nebraska Cornhusker team that is starting to regain their strength of old, with an 8-4 season, including a 5-3 record in the tough B...

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  • milehighsalute
    As tough as the Big 12 is, I think Nebraska has this one in the bag!
  • Ronniewoowoo
    Clemson is dead
  • BowlBound
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    Nebraska fans will be out in force for this one. They can't wait to get out of the frozen tundra to someplace warm.
    • giantsrepeat
      Yeah I remember when they came to Arizona one year and played at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, man there was red everywhere you looked.
      • BowlBound
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        The Huskers have a very good traveling fan base. They travel well, no matter where they play.
      • DTRIK19
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        There was red everywhere when I was in Tempe too...5:1 Utah-Pitt fan ratio. We were one of the few Pitt RV's in the parking lot, but repped our school well. Utah fans had never heard of beer pong, keg stands, or deep frying a turkey at a tailgate, but Mormon chicks are HOT. They know how to grow em thats for sure!
  • DTRIK19
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    Gotta say I'm pretty shocked they took Nebraska instead of Pitt. That being said, I didn't want to travel to Jacksonville anyway...I'd much rather visit my friends in Texas. Sun Bowl here I come.
    • your AD peterson is good at keeping teams out of new years day bowls
  • BowlBound
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    El Paso. Good Mexican food and hopefully good weather. Never know what you might get out there at the end of the year. Have fun.
  • how does a 7-5 team and a 8-4 team both of whom have not beat a top 25 tean this year, with the 8-4 team not beating a top 25 tean since 2003 (first game against oka state) get to play a jan 1 bowl?
  • ROGO, it has to do with nothing more than the mighty dollar, the Huskers and Clemson have a Huge fan base, and travel very well. You think Fla St would fill that stadium? not hardly, the bandwagan fans @ Fla St, as well as other teams have dissapeared
    • BowlBound
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      Florida State has a hard time filling their own stadium. I think Oklahoma had more fans than them in Miami at the title game a few years back.
  • Happy to see 2 good, not great teams play on Jan1rst. Even happier to see my Huskers one of them. Should be a good game, Although I think the Huskers will be eatin Tiger meat before this one is over, Huskers 45- Clemson kitty cats 17...................................... GBR!!!!!!!!!!!
    • Dude that a boy GBR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • just one of seven bowl games the big 12 will win. so much offense that it make the defenses look poor, but they are not.
    • BowlBound
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      Hopefully, the Big XII wins a few of them. They have not had good representation on the winning side the last couple of years.
  • Its so nice to see the big red back in a bowl game. Pelini really turned things around in one year.
    • BowlBound
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      Anything has got to be better than that joker, Callahan. He ruined the Raiders and the Huskers.
  • Go Big Red- Husge Husker fan right here never missed a play the whole year, Nebraska has this one in the bag baby, they are pumped and there is good weather for them and they know how to play in the cold so they are on the hunt to kill some little tigers!!!! Huskers have a good traveling fan base and they are back baby and pelini pulled this on off as if he was taking candy from a baby! And the ACC sucks and clemson has a horrible confrence record an the big 12 is the hradest confrence and they are 5-3 and they have the 8th ranked offense in the NATION!!! GOOOOOO BIGGG REDDDDDD
  • Pelini ROckz Husker have this one in the bag and they are back for blood after a bad year last year!
  • I HATE CALLAHAN H DID RUIN US BUT PELINI IS WAY BETTER
  • Haha this game should be funny. It is going to be the entire Nebraska defense chasing CJ Spiller and I highly doubt anyone will be catching him. Good luck though hahaha
    • BowlBound
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      He'll be lucky to get past the line of scrimmage.
    • Tha guy sucks he will not gwt past em
  • Dude THAT guys sucks he will get lucky to get out of the back field and clemsons defense is horrible and nebraskas offense is the 7th ranked in the nation
  • Apparently you cornhuskers do not remember 1982 and the sea of Orange in the Gator Bowl; and lest you not forget the Clemson Defense!!!!!
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