Article: New Big 12, same No. 1. (new college-football conference; Nebraska Cornhuskers football team)(includes related information on televised games)

Can Nebraska win a third consecutive championship? First they must win their new conference.

Nebraska opened its season Sept.7 against Michigan State ranked No. 1 and favored to do what no college football team has ever done--win three national championships in a row.

But before the Cornhuskers can achieve that lofty goal, they first must win their conference title--the newly formed Big 12--a Midwestern roundtable with enough burly warriors and valiant knights to make King Arthur drool.

Considered by many to be the nation's most competitive conference, the Big 12 is the former Big 8 augmented by four teams--Texas, Texas Tech, Texas A&M and ...

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