First quarter
NEB: Doug Wilkening 9 run (Kevin Seibel kick)
ISU: Dave Archer 3 run (Alex Giffords kick)
Second quarter
NEB: Turner Gill 22 run (Seibel kick
NEB: Todd Brown 49 pass from Gill (Seibel kick)
Third quarter
NEB: Mike Rozier 5 run (Seibel kick)
NEB: Roger Craig 1 run (Seibel kick)
Fourth quarter
ISU: Giffords 32 field goal
NEB: Tom Vergith 7 run (Seibel kick)
NEB: Jeff Smith 1 run (kick failed)
NEBISU
First downs .......... 20 20
Rushes-yards ..... 60-363 49-157
Passing yards ........ 97 116
Comp-Att-Int .... 4-7-0 14-26-0
Total offense .... 67-460 75-273
Return yards ......... 80 0
Punts ............ 3-46.0 7-43.1
Fumbles-lost ........ 0-0 2-1
Penalties-yards .... 4-29 4-30
Possession time ... 29:45 30:15
Third-down conv. ... 8/20 4/10
Fourth-down-conv. ... 0/0 1/2
INDIVIDUAL LEADERSRushing
NEB: Rozier 19-103, Wilkening 7-67, Smith 5-56, Irving Fryar 3-39, Gill 6-38, Mark Schellen 5-26.
ISU: Harold Brown 16-115, Tommy Davis 11-47.
Passing
NEB: Gill 5-3-0-77.
ISU: Archer 26-14-0-116.
Receiving
NEB: Brown 1-49.
ISU: Brown 6-50, Davis 3-23, Doran Geise 2-22, Jason Jacobs 2-10.
ADDITIONAL STATSAttendance: 52,887
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Bill Weber pressures ISU quarterback David Archer. | Courtesy of Nebraska Athletics
Huskers pull away from Cyclones
Nebraska survived a first-quarter scare by Iowa State and scored two touchdowns in each of the final three periods to go from an early 7-7 tie to the Huskers’ second consecutive 48-10 win.
Playing before a packed home crowd on a frigid, blustery day, the Cyclones held the Huskers at bay through the first quarter, and pulled into the tie by putting together an 80-yard, 13-play touchdown drive to score with three seconds left in the period.
However, Turner Gill’s magic steadily turned the game into a rout, and it was the junior quarterback who started the surge by scoring himself on a 22-yard run and passing 49 yards to Todd Brown for another second-quarter TD.
Helped by Mike Rozier’s sixth straight 100-yard-plus rushing game (103), Nebraska rolled up 460 yards of total offense to set up a Big Eight showdown two weeks later against Oklahoma.