Matt Turman Season 1994

Honors & Awards

• Member of Two Nebraska National Championship Teams (1994, 1995)
• First-Team Academic All-Big 12 (1996)
• Big 12 Commissioner's Fall Semester Honor Roll (1996)
• Two-Time Phillips 66 Academic All-Big Eight Honor Roll (1994, 1995)

Career

Matt Turman appeared in 33 games, starting one during the regular season his sophomore year when Tommie Frazier and Brook Berringer were both out with injuries. He rushed 54 times for 238 yards and scored five touchdowns during his career. He also went 20-44 passing for 295 yards with three interceptions and four touchdowns. Turman finished his career with 533 total yards of offense.

1996 (Senior)

Turman became the No. 2 signal caller his senior year, backing up Scott Frost. Turman appeared in nine games, rushing 21 times for 122 yards and three touchdowns. His career-long run came in the fifth game against Baylor when he scampered 45 yards for a score. Turman scored his second rushing touchdown on a five yard run against Missouri, and his third came against Iowa State a week later when he kept the ball for a one yard score. He completed 9-19 passes for 126 yards with no interceptions and one touchdown (a career-long 30-yard pass to Kenny Cheatham against Michigan State). In the 1996 Orange Bowl against Virginia Tech, Turman rushed once for an eight yard gain. He was a first-team academic All-Big 12 selection and earned a spot on the Big 12 Commissioner's fall honor roll.

1995 (Junior)

Turman was the Huskers' No. 3 quarterback once again, seeing limited action behind All-American Tommie Frazier and Brook Berringer. Turman played in nine games and rushed the ball 13 times for 35 yards and one touchdown (a one-yard run against Missouri). He was 4-12 passing with two interceptions and one touchdown (a 39-yard throw to Lance Brown against Arizona State). His best performances were 2-2 passing for 51 yards and a touchdown against ASU and 6-12 yards rushing against Pacific. He saw limited action in the 1996 Fiesta Bowl against Florida and had one rush for minus two yards, when he knelt down on one knee to run out the clock at the Florida 1-yard line on the last play of the game. Turman was again named to the Phillips 66 Academic Honor Roll with a 3.68 cumulative GPA in pre-education.

1994 (Sophomore)

Turman was a walk-on third string quarterback, behind scholarship signal callers Berringer and Frazier, but for two halves of two conference games, Turman was the man in charge. When Berringer suffered a partially-collapsed lung for the second time and was not allowed to return for the second half against Oklahoma State on Oct. 8, Turman entered the game with NU holding a 9-3 lead. He led the Huskers to two quick touchdowns in the third quarter and another in the fourth, while the defense clamped down for a 32-3 win. With Berringer still questionable up to Thursday before the Kansas State game, Turman became the first walk-on player to start at quarterback for the Huskers since Travis Turner (Scottsbluff, Neb.) started the first and eighth games as a senior in the 1985 season. With Frazier starting the first four games and Berringer the fifth and sixth, Turman became the third starter for the undefeated Huskers when he started game seven. It marked the first time since 1981 that NU used three different starting signal callers in one season. Turman led NU to a 7-6 first-half lead against the No. 16 Wildcats, before Berringer took over the last series before intermission. Turman carried the ball four times for 10 yards, completed 2-4 passes for 15 yards and did not throw an interception. He was not sacked and led the Huskers to a touchdown on their second possession, enough for a 7-6 halftime lead and an eventual 17-6 win. Turman gave the Huskers a huge scare the subsequent week, when at Missouri, he suffered a bruised shoulder with 2:34 remaining in the game, while Berringer was resting on the sideline with a 35-7 lead. Turman's injury, which appeared to be a shoulder separation at the time, forced true freshman walk-on Monte Christo to forgo his redshirt season. In 11 games (playing all but Iowa State), Turman finished the year with 19 carries for 80 yards rushing with a career-best four carries for 37 yards against Pacific. Turman completed 6-12 passes (.500) for 81 yards with no interceptions, one touchdown (a 24-yard strike to Jeff Lake against Pacific) and was never sacked for a 134.2 pass efficiency rating. He was named to the Phillips 66 Academic Honor Roll. He did not play in the 1995 Orange Bowl against Miami.

1993 (Freshman)

Turman played in four games in 1993, against North Texas, Texas Tech, Colorado State and Missouri. He was 1-1 passing with a 15-yard touchdown pass against North Texas in the season opener, while his one rushing attempt was a one-yard TD against UNT.

1992 (Redshirt)

A walk-on, Turman redshirted his first year at Nebraska.

Neumann High School

Playing for his father Tim, Matt was a quarterback and safety and led his team to the state semifinals with an 11-1 record his senior year. Turman threw for 1,040 yards, rushed for 768 and finished as the all-time Neumann leader in passing and tackles and was sixth in rushing. He earned all-state honors from both the Omaha World-Herald and the Lincoln Journal-Star and played in the 1992 Nebraska Shrine Game. A versatile athlete, Turman lettered four times in football, three in basketball and four times in track. Academically, he was a member of the National Honor Society, was his class salutatorian and posted a 4.0 grade point average.

Personal

The son of Tim and Dianne Turman, Matt was born on Dec. 13, 1973. He has one brother and four sisters.

Turman's Career Statistics

.	.	Rushing			Passing.			Total Offense
Year	G/S	Att.	Yds.	TDs	At-Cp-I	Yds.	TDs	Yds.	A/P	A/G
1992	Redshirted
1993	4/0	1	1	1	1-1-1	15	1	16	8.0	4.0
1994	11/1	19	80	0	12-6-0	81	1	161	5.2	14.6
1995	9/0	13	35	1	12-4-2	73	1	108	4.3	12.0
1996	9/0	21	122	3	19-9-0	126	1	248	6.2	27.6
Totals	33/1	54	238	5	44-20-3	295	4	533	5.4	16.2

1996 Fiesta Bowl vs. Florida: Rushing 1-minus 2
1996 Orange Bowl vs. Virginia Tech: Rushing 1-8