University of Nebraska-Lincoln

mascot, NU officially became the "Cornhuskers" in 1900; the nickname was later adopted by the state of Nebraska itself, which became "The Cornhusker State" in 1946.
Nebraska was a founding member of the short-lived Western Interstate University Football Association in 1892 and helped form the Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association fifteen years later. The MVIAA, which became the Big Eight in 1964, served as Nebraska's primary conference for the next eighty-nine years, with a brief hiatus during World War I. In 1996, the Big Eight merged with four Texas schools from the Southwest Conference to form the Big 12. Nebraska joined the Big Ten in 2011, a lucrative transition that separated the school from most of its traditional rivals.
Nebraska's varsity athletic programs have won thirty-two national championships (eleven in bowling, eight in men's gymnastics, five each in football and volleyball, and three in women's track and field) and 359 combined conference regular-season and tournament championships. The …