The first field goal attempt of Ryan Bailey’s career with 23 seconds left in the game gave No. 5 Texas a 22-20 victory over the No. 17 Huskers.
With three minutes left, Nebraska had the ball and a 20-19 lead. But a fumble after a third-down pass completion gave Texas the ball in Husker territory. Texas drove to the Husker 5, and Bailey kicked the 22-yard game-winner.
Nebraska drove to midfield in the waning seconds, but two last-ditch passes into the end zone were incomplete.
Nebraska had taken a 20-19 lead with a 25-yard pass from I-back Marlon Lucky to Nate Swift with 4:54 left in the game. The Huskers’ other scores came on a 63-yard pass from Zac Taylor to Maurice Purify in the first quarter and a 49-yard catch and run by Brandon Jackson on the first play of the fourth period.
Remember this game. Remember it as the one that almost broke the Texas hexes, the one with the snow. Remember it as the day Nebraska got its mojo back.