• Tom Osborne (255-49-3) (.835) as of 01/15/97:
    • had the best winning percentage of any active coach for years, but is now no longer active.
    • Is now the 1st coach to have 250 victories in 25 years, an average of 10+ games/year. (It took Joe Paterno 28 years)
    • was the 1st coach to reach 200 victories in 21 seasons.
    • was the 1st coach to reach 200 victories at a single school.
    • is ranked 3rd on the active coaches career victories list (after Joe Paterno and Bobby Bowden).
    • is ranked 6th on the all-time coaches career victories list.
    • holds the record for consecutive bowl trips with 25.
    • holds the record for consecutive "major" bowl trips with 17.
  • Tom Osborne's Huskers teams have:
    • won three national championships (two undisputed and one split)
    • been to a bowl game every year. (12 of the last 13 against teams in the top 5, 9 of those ranked higher than NU)
    • never lost more than 3 games in any year.
    • won at least 9 games every year.
    • won at least 10 games in 15 years.
    • won at least 11 games in 8 years.
    • won at least 12 games in 5 years.
    • won 13 games in 2 years.
    • won or shared the conference championship 13 years.
    • been ranked 8 times in the final top 5
    • been ranked 18 times in the final top 10
    • been ranked 87 consecutive weeks in the top 10 as of 01/03/98, an NCAA record.
    • been ranked 24 times in the final top 20
    • been ranked 273 consecutive weeks (every week since 1981), an NCAA record.
    • been ranked in every weekly poll except for 3 since Tom Osborne took over the Huskers in 1973.
    • a record of 164-5 as of 01/02/98 when they rush for over 300 yards!!
    • had a 7-0 start 10 times (or is that 11 now?) as of 10/25/97
    • a +161 turnover margin as of 10/25/97
    • only had a negative turnover margin one year
    • scored over 11,000 points!!
    • been the #1 Rushing Team 11 times since 1980, when they switched to the option offense!!
    • been in the top 4 Rushing Teams every year since 1978!!
    • had 1 Heisman Trophy winner of the 2 the Huskers have had. (Mike Rozier, plus Tommie Frazier should have been - and was the runner up)
    • had 6 Outland Trophy winners.
    • had 3 Lombardi Trophy winners.
    • had 55 All-Americans (49 players).
    • had 6 two-time All-Americans.
    • had 46 Academic All-Americans (37 players) - more than second place Notre Dame's total of 38 since 1952.
    • had 9 two-time Academic All-Americans.
    • had 8 Today's Top Eight winners (NCAA's highest academic award) - an NCAA record.
    • had 25 NCAA Post Graduate Scholarship winners.

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