It has been more than 20 years now, but Sean Beckton, the tight ends coach for the Nebraska football team, still remembers what it felt like to be the opponent playing against Nebraska at Memorial Stadium.
He was an assistant coach for Central Florida coaching wide receivers when the Knights came to Lincoln in 1997. With Scott Frost at quarterback, Nebraska won the game 38-24, and four months later the Huskers were national champions.
“The physicality of Nebraska football, it goes back to my first time being here in 1997, one of the things that I noticed coaching in that game when UCF came up here to play Nebraska was how physical those guys were up front, and then really across the football.