Official Site of the Huskers · Sep 5, 2018
Going Deep: Sellout Streak Picks Up Against CU
Photo by Allyssa Hynes/Nebraska CommunicationsOf the many questions lingering in light of Nebraska’s canceled football game against Akron, one involves an ongoing NCAA record.
That, of course, is the coveted Memorial Stadium sellout streak, which sits at 361 games through the 2017 season.
Another sold out crowd reveled in an electric Tunnel Walk entrance for the debut of head coach Scott Frost on Sept. 1, and it roared as the opening kickoff sailed through the back of the end zone.
Then lightning struck, and teams trotted to their locker rooms, never to return. For the first time in history, weather had canceled a Nebraska football game.