I googled Nebraska to big ten and this popped up.
Report: Nebraska Accepts Big Ten Invite
Updated: Friday, 11 Jun 2010, 1:35 PM CDT
Published : Friday, 11 Jun 2010, 1:34 PM CDT
LINCOLN, Neb. - Nebraska has officially accepted an invitation to join the Big Ten Conference, according to a report from the Omaha World-Herald.
World Herald sports reporter Brian Norton reported the accepted invite in a live blog from the Nebraska board of Regents meeting at 1:23 p.m. CT Friday. Norton said Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany contacted Big 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe spoke Friday, and that the invitation was officially extended and accepted.
The move means the Big Ten will jump from 11 to 12 teams, allowing the conference to split to two divisions and hold a championship game.
To any University of Minnesota fan, the prospects of having Nebraska enter the Big Ten can be summed up by a single score: 84-13. That was the results of the clinic the Cornhuskers gave to the Gophers in a woefully memorable football game in 1983.
“I think if you’re a fan and if you’re a fan of really good football, I think you gotta be excited about this,” said Gopher football broadcaster Dave Mona. “I think Nebraska has got the potential almost immediately to become a rivalry, I think the paper said this morning that they’ve played Minnesota more than any other Big Ten team.”
In the past 50 years the two teams have played each other 15 times. The Gophers’ only victory came in a 24-16 game in Lincoln in 1960, the same season the Gophers won their first Rose Bowl berth. In every game since, Nebraska has manhandled the Gophers by a combined score of 567-126.
Mona says bringing Nebraska into the Big Ten would certainly add to television revenues that the schools share—Minnesota would get a bigger cut of the money. But most important, Mona says it would increase the level of competition, and the Gopher athletic program would have to step up.