KU chancellor asks Nebraska to stay The Nebraska-Kansas rivalry in football, lopsided as it is with the Huskers holding a 90-23-3 all-time mark, is a survivor.
The teams played in 1919 during the influenza epidemic. They met in 1920 when every team in the old Missouri Valley Conference refused to schedule the Cornhuskers because Nebraska wanted to play its home games in Omaha. The Jayhawks stood by their neighbor and played to a rare nonloss — a 20-20 tie that helped inspire fund-raising for Memorial Stadium in Lawrence.
Now, Kansas is asking Nebraska to keep alive the relationship as conference members.
Kansas chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little told the Associated Press that she had reached out to Nebraska chancellor Harvey Perlman and planned to do the same with Missouri chancellor Brady Deaton, urging them to remain in the Big 12 and spurn a potential offer from the Big Ten.
Meanwhile, Baylor president Kenneth Starr — yes, the same attorney who investigated Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky — spoke with reporters on Monday and said he “emphatically supports” the Big 12.