With The Greatest Of Ease

As for Gill, he can do it all. He rarely drops back because he's equally effective rolling left or right—and forcing the defense to think run. "Roll left, roll right, crawl left, crawl right," said Fryar. "Turner can do anything." And though Gill no longer has 6'3", 290-pound Center Dave Rimington, college football's lineman of the year in 1981 and '82 and now a Cincinnati Bengal, blocking for him, he does have 6'4", 270-pound Right Guard Dean Steinkuhler to clear away prospective tacklers.

Like the other Huskers, Steinkuhler wasn't exactly doing handstands after the game. He had his act together. "It's kind of early to call us an offensive machine," he said. "We can't let this game go to our heads. The difference may have been that we were better conditioned. They were sucking air early."

Right you are, Dean. And late, too. The Classic was no contest.