With 5 seconds remaining and the ball inside the Huskers’ 1-yard line, the No. 2 Nebraska football led Oklahoma State 24-17 in the 1998 Big 12 opener at Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium.
Bob Simmons, the coach who led the Oklahoma State Cowboys from the Big 8 Conference to the Big 12 Conference, died on Tuesday. He was 77 years old. Oklahoma State posted a remembrance of Simmons on its social media page.
Bob Simmons, one of California’s earliest board builders, is credited with being the first person to slot two fins under a surfboard sometime in the 1940s.