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Nebraska Postgame Notes
vs. Kansas
Saturday, Sept. 30, 2006
Memorial Stadium
Lincoln, Neb.
- Cody Glenn’s one-yard touchdown run in overtime broke a 32-all tie, as No. 21 Nebraska pulled out a 39-32 victory over Kansas Saturday evening. Nebraska quarterback Zac Taylor completed 15-of-33 passes for 395 yards and four touchdowns, including three scoring strikes of at least 75 yards. With the win, the Huskers improved to 4-1 on the season and 1-0 in the Big 12, while Kansas dropped to 3-2 overall and 0-1 in the Big 12. Nebraska travels to Iowa State next Saturday evening in a game carried regionally by ABC.
- Nebraska improved to 4-1 with tonight’s victory, and recorded its 31st win in its last 32 conference openers, and was the Huskers’ 29th straight win in a conference home opener.
- Nebraska improves to 5-0 in overtime games since the overtime format was adopted a decade ago, scoring touchdowns on all six of its overtime possessions in school history. Nebraska defeated Missouri in 1997; Colorado in 1999; Notre Dame in 2000 and Iowa State in double overtime in 2005. Tonight's overtime game marks the second consecutive year that NU's Big 12 opener has gone to overtime.
- Nebraska defeated Kansas for the 19th straight time in Lincoln, dating back to a Kansas win in 1968. Nebraska has won 37 of the last 38 meetings with the Jayhawks.
- Nebraska’s victory was its 798th all-time victory and moved Nebraska within two wins of joining Michigan, Notre Dame and Texas as the only Division I programs with 800 wins.
- Nebraska improved to 24-2 all-time in home night games at Memorial Stadium, including five wins over Kansas.
- Nebraska quarterback Zac Taylor had the three longest pass plays of his Nebraska career in tonight’s game. On the game’s second play Taylor connected with Terrence Nunn on a 75-yard scoring strike, bettering his previous career-long of 73 yards to Frantz Hardy last season. The career long lasted one quarter, as Taylor hooked up with Hardy on a 78-yard touchdown pass in the second quarter. Taylor then connected with Hardy on a 75-yard touchdown pass in the fourth quarter to put NU ahead 32-25.
- Taylor has 10 passes of 20 yards or longer in the past two weeks, including four of the longest five pass plays of his career. Taylor’s average of 26.33 yards per completion against Kansas was a school record, breaking the previous mark of 26.31 set by Joe Dailey against Baylor on Oct. 16, 2004 ( 342 yards, 13 completions).
- Taylor threw for 395 yards in tonight’s game, marking a season high. That surpassed a 287-yard passing effort against Louisiana Tech in the season opener. Tonight’s passing output was the second-highest passing total of Taylor’s career, trailing only his school-record 431 yards vs. Iowa State last season. He now has the three highest single-game passing totals in school history, as his 392 yards against Colorado now ranks third in school history
- Taylor’s four touchdown passes matched his career high, set against Nicholls State on Sept. 9. Taylor has thrown for least three touchdowns in three of Nebraska’s five contests.
- Junior wide receiver Frantz Hardy hauled in three catches for 159 yards and two touchdowns, scoring on touchdown passes of 78 and 75 yards. Hardy’s evening ranks fourth in single-game yardage in school history and is the most receiving yards by a Husker since Matt Davison totaled a school-record 167 yards at Texas A&M on Oct. 10, 1998. Hardy is the first Husker in school history to have two games of at least 150 yards receiving, as he had 152 receiving yards against Maine on Sept. 3, 2005. The previous season best by a Husker receiver this season was 102 yards by Terrence Nunn against Troy last week.
- Senior safety Andrew Shanle intercepted two passes in the first quarter of tonight’s game. The second of those interceptions was returned 19 yards to the KU 6 and Nebraska scored one play later for a 14-0 lead. Shanle’s two interceptions marks the first time a Husker has had two interceptions in a game since Josh Bullocks had two interceptions against Oklahoma State in 2003. Shanle had picked off his first career pass last week against Troy.
- Nebraska junior wide receiver Terrence Nunn caught three passes for 98 yards, including the 75-yard touchdown on the game’s second play. Nunn moved into fourth place on the Nebraska career receptions chart with 76. He passed Guy Ingles (74, 1968-70) in tonight’s game and is eight receptions behind Jeff Kinney who sits in third place on the career list at 84 receptions.
- Nunn has now had at least one reception in 18 straight games, the third-longest streak in Nebraska history, trailing Johnny Rodgers (37) and Matt Davison (20).
- A week after rolling up 10 plays of 20 yards or more, Nebraska had six in tonight’s game, including three in the first quarter.
- In last year’s loss at Kansas, Nebraska had 138 yards of total offense. The Huskers had racked up 205 yards of offense after the first quarter of tonight’s game.
- Nebraska was a plus-1 in turnover margin in tonight’s game, and is now plus-5 for the season
- Junior wideout Maurice Purify caught three passes for 91 yards in tonight’s game, marking career highs in both categories. Purify entered tonight’s game with five catches for 134 yards.
- Sophomore place-kicker Jordan Congdon connected on a 21-yard field goal in the second quarter of tonight’s game for his second field goal of the year and the 21st of his Nebraska career. Congdon also hit on all four of his PAT attempts in tonight’s game, is a perfect 28-28 on the season and has connected on 59 consecutive PAT attempts since last season
- Nebraska scored 39 points in tonight’s game and has now scored at least 24 points in eight straight home games dating back to last season. Nebraska scored 17 points in the first quarter of tonight’s game, giving Nebraska 10 straight quarters at home with at least 14 points.
- Kansas’ 574 yards of total offense tonight ranks sixth all-time against a Nebraska defense, while the 94 plays KU ran were the most ever by a Husker opponent, topping the 92 plays that Oklahoma ran against Nebraska in 1948. KU’s 405 passing yards also ranks sixth all-time against a Husker opponent.
- The 32 points scored by Kansas marked their highest total in Memorial Stadium and most in Lincoln since scoring 36 points in 1899. KU was held to single-digits in four of its last five appearances in Lincoln.