Frost and Huskers AD Bill Moos told The Post they’re working on trying to set up a permanent rotation with their old Big Eight football rivals.
“I’d love to see us, if we’re going to play one Power 5 non-conference (game), to have it be one of the old Big Eight rivals,” the Huskers football coach told The Denver Post. “It’s great playing teams like Colorado.”
Frost’s boss, athletic director Bill Moos, doubled down on the sentiment. The Buffaloes host Nebraska on Sept. 7 to complete the second part of a four-part home-and-home series that picks back up again in 2023 (Boulder) and 2024 (Lincoln). The Big Red’s coach and athletic director say they’ve talked extensively about keeping CU on a rotation that would include series, ideally, with former Big Eight rivals such as Oklahoma, whom the Huskers meet in 2021, 2022, 2029 and 2030; as well as with Kansas State, Kansas, Missouri and Iowa State.
“What Scott and I would really like to do, for our home-and-home series — we’d have to go out a ways or drop some games — is play our rivals from the Big Eight days,” Moos explained. “Then we’ve got a presence in three conferences: the SEC (Missouri), the Pac-12 (Colorado), and the Big 12. So that’s all good, and those rivalries are strong with us.
“Well, obviously, I’m not the one that sets the schedule,” Frost said of the Buffs, who began play in the Pac-12 in 2011, the same season Nebraska flipped to the Big Ten. “But rather than traveling all over the country, there’s a lot of fans that still remember those Big Eight games. And we have Colorado on the schedule and Oklahoma on the schedule. But we’d love to have that be our marquee (non-conference) matchup every year, with Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Colorado, (a rivalry) game that both sets of fans could travel to and maybe reminisce a little bit.”
