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Updated at 10:19 a.m., Saturday, October 13, 2007

CFB: Nebraska suffers worst home loss since 1958

By Eric Olson
Associated Press

LINCOLN, Neb. — On a day players from Nebraska's greatest era returned to Memorial Stadium to be honored, the Cornhuskers suffered their worst home loss in almost 50 years.

With Tom Osborne and the rest of the undefeated 1997 team that won a share of the national championship watching, Oklahoma State handed Nebraska a 45-14 loss today, the largest rout of the Huskers at home since Missouri's 31-0 shutout in 1958.

This embarrassment came after a 41-6 loss at Missouri last week.

The Cowboys (4-3, 2-1 Big 12), who had lost 20 straight games in Lincoln since 1960, scored on their first six possessions while getting out to a 38-0 halftime lead. That marked a stretch of six quarters that had seen Nebraska outscored 79-6.

Dantrell Savage rushed for 212 yards and a touchdown, Julius Crosslin scored twice, and Zac Robinson ran and passed for touchdowns.

Nebraska (4-3, 1-2) now has given up 40 or more points four times in a season for the first time in the program's 118-year history.

It was Oklahoma State's second-most lopsided Big 12 win, topped only by a 66-24 victory over Baylor last year.

The Cowboys averaged 8.5 yards a play in the first half, then scaled back their offense after the game was safely in hand. They finished with 551 yards to Nebraska's 335.

Sam Keller passed for Nebraska's touchdowns, a 13-yarder to J.B. Phillips and a 1-yarder to Thomas Lawson. Nebraska freshman Quentin Castille rushed for 102 yards. Keller was 10 of 18 for 129 yards, with two interceptions.

Robinson completed 12 of 19 passes for 234 yards, with Adarius Bowman catching six for 100.