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The Big Red Bunch is a special offering between the Nebraska Lottery and the Husker Sports Network (Pinnacle Sports Network).

Benefits include unique knowledge of Nebraska athletics, and a chance to win football game tickets and Nebraska Lottery prizes.

The Nebraska Lottery is proud to sponsor broadcasts of Nebraska athletics, and to share the excitement and fun of each game with Big Red fans everywhere.

SPORTS NIGHTLY AUDIO CONTEST

Fans, listen to Sports Nightly on the Pinnacle Sports Network, and you could get a chance to win tickets to watch the excitement of Nebraska football in person.

Each Monday, a special audio clip from the last Nebraska football game will be loaded here on nelottery.com. Sports Nightly listeners will be asked to identify the clip on Wednesday night for a chance to win great prizes like football tickets and Nebraska Lottery merchandise.

Click here for Sports Nightly information. The program airs weeknights from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. (Central Time).

Here is the contest schedule.

Eleventh installment (11/19) from Nebraska vs Kansas State
--Andrew Epp of Hays, KS correctly identified the clip on 11/19, and won 100 GO Nebraska $1 Scratch tickets
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Tenth installment (11/12) from Nebraska vs Kansas
--Gerald Dobrovolny of Nofolk correctly identified the clip on 11/12, and won 100 GO Nebraska $1 Scratch tickets.
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Ninth installment (11/5) from Nebraska vs Oklahoma
--Seth Gruhn of Grand Island correctly identified the clip on 11/5, and won two tickets to the Kansas State game (11/15), $200 in Ethanol enriched fuel, and 50 GO Nebraska $1 Scratch tickets.
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Eighth installment (10/29) from Nebraska vs Baylor
--Gerald Dobrovolny of Nofolk correctly identified the clip on 10/29, and won 100 GO Nebraska $1 Scratch tickets.
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Seventh installment (10/22) from Nebraska vs Iowa State
--Mike Goodman of Bellevue correctly identified the clip on 10/22, and won two tickets to the 11/1 Nebraska vs Oklahoma road game, $200 in Ethanol enriched fuel to help get there, and 50 GO Nebraska $1 Scratch tickets.
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Sixth installment from Nebraska vs Texas Tech
--Marcus Papenhausen of Colerdige correctly identified the clip on 10/15, and won two tickets to the 11/1 Nebraska vs Oklahoma road game, $200 in Ethanol enriched fuel to help get there, and 50 GO Nebraska $1 Scratch tickets.
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Fifth installment from Nebraska vs Missouri
--Gerald Dobrovolny of Norfolk correctly identified the clip on 10/8, and won 2 tickets to the 10/18 Iowa State game, $200 in Ethanol enriched fuel to help get there, and 50 GO Nebraska $1 Scratch tickets.
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Fourth installment from Nebraska vs Virginia Tech
--Kevin Allen of Lincoln correctly identified the clip on 10/1, and won 2 tickets to the 10/11 Texas Tech game, $200 in Ethanol enriched fuel to help get there, and 50 GO Nebraska $1 Scratch tickets.
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Third installment from Nebraska vs New Mexico State
--Bob Peirce of Council Bluffs, IA correctly identified the clip on 9/17, and won two (2) Section 8 seats for 9/27 Virginia Tech
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Second installment from Nebraska vs San Jose State
--John Willey of Beatrice correctly identified the clip on 9/10, and won two (2) Section 8 seats for 9/13 New Mexico State
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First installment from Nebraska vs Western Michigan
--Keith Shonka of Bellwood correctly identified the clip on 9/2, and won two (2) tickets to the 9/6 San Jose State game. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN.

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UNIQUE POST-GAME ANALYSIS

Jim Rose provides a weekly look at Nebraska athletics. Installments of Jim's blog will appear on this page after each week's gridiron contest.

NU vs COLORADO
by Jim Rose

BUFFALO IS BEST SERVED IN THE LAST 2 MINUTES

Never a doubt right? Thought so. Yessir, with about 1:50 left, we had 'em right where we wanted them.

"Mr. Alex Henery, paging a Mr. Alex Henery...you're shot at mythology is coming up right now. We need you on the field immediately."

There is an age old tradition around here that never seems to die out. When the game is on the line. When Dear Olde Nebraska U needs a guy with an "S" on his chest and a red cape to do something magical, we always get one----and the guy who does it has the letters NE after his home town listing in the game program.

Your honor, may I present the evidence to the jury?

Exhibit A from Friday's double-bypass win over Colorado:
* Mr. Zach Potter of OMAHA, NE swats two passes in the air both of which are intercepted by fortunate teammates (and one of those was a Mr. Tyler Wortman of GRAND ISLAND, NE).

Exhibit B from Friday's chest pounder against CU:
* Mr. Ty Steinkuhler of LINCOLN, NE makes play after play from his defensive line spot on Senior Day in the last 160 seconds or so to keep the Huskers alive for the comeback.

Exhibit C from Friday's momentum builder-in-the-off season thriller over our good neighbors to the west:
* Mr. Alex Henery from Catlin Magnet School, Beverage Middle School and Burke H.S. (all within 5 minutes of each other in OMAHA, NE) who came to Lincoln on an academic scholarship and who more closely resembles the first cello chair in the Burke Symphonic Band than a gridiron hero, calmly drives a school record 57 yard field goal on 4th and 25 with 85,000 customers doing signs of the cross right through the north goal posts....with three feet to spare. By the way, it was his FOURTH field goal of the day and ensured that 1.8 million of us truly have a happy holiday season.

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, the prosecution rests.

If there is one theme to this season, it's that Nebraska is Nebraska again. Those guys played like us. Cared like us. Fought like us. Never quit like us.

8-4 is a good, but not great record. You don't win five national titles and get to 800 wins faster than every school but three on 8-4 seasons. Next year it needs to be nine or 10..then 11 or 12.

But to me, 2008 was much more about whether we could go back. Could we recapture the essence of why there really is no place quite like Nebraska? Would the modern-day, what's-in-it-for-me kid forget that stuff and just want to be a part of, not apart from?

The jury has a verdict.

Somebody get on the phone to central casting. We have quite a comeback story here.

Click here for Jim's impressions of previous games of the 2008 season.

Click here for Jim's thoughts on the games of the 2007 season.

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