{{featured_button_text}} The excellence of Ohio State — a football titan — was compounded, Nebraska A.D. Bill Moos said, by NU having to do everything for the first time in a pandemic. ILLUSTRATION BY MATT HANEY/THE WORLD-HERALD Sam McKewon LINCOLN — Andy Means remembers the bus ride and the evening sky. The Bear’s den was aglow and filling with fans. The former Nebraska cornerback — and current Millard South football coach — started his first collegiate game at the hardest Husker opener of them all: Sept. 2, 1978, at No. 1 Alabama. Andy Means is a former Husker cornerback and the current Millard South football coach. MATT DIXON/THE WORLD-HERALD “It was kind of intimidating driving up to that stadium at night,” Means said of NU’s entourage arriving at Birmingham’s Legion Field, which was about to hold a record crowd of more than 77,000. “It was on ABC — ESPN didn’t come out…
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