WATCH: Nebraska opens hype video for Oklahoma game with clip from Scott Frost firing press conference

It’s the first game for Nebraska post-Scott Frost is a big one, hosting Oklahoma, and the team seems ready to move past the former head coach including a clip from the press conference after his firing in the hype video.

It kicks off the video, with Cornhuskers athletic director Trev Alberts at the podium. The quote is about how Nebraska football is more than any one person.

“Every decision we make here is always done with what we think is in the best long term interest of the University of Nebraska and our athletic department,” Alberts said. “And this place will always be bigger than one person.”

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It’s an acknowledgment of Nebraska moving into a new era, but it’s a cold world for fired head coaches.

After cutting from Alberts to a black screen, an unidentified voice says: “This week things are a little different, but also so familiar.”

Oklahoma head coach Brent Venables expects a raucous atmosphere

Coming of age in the Midwest in the 1980s and 90s, Nebraska football was the gold standard for a young Brent Venables. The Cornhuskers, along with the team Venables currently coaches — the Oklahoma Sooners — were fixtures on TVs every weekend.

Nebraska and Oklahoma were, of course, conference opponents and bitter rivals then and until the Cornhuskers were bounced to the Big Ten. The rivalry remains and was recently renewed, and with the Sooners traveling to Lincoln this weekend after playing host in 2021, Venables expects an intense, challenging environment.

“But, really, again, Nebraska, I grew up on Nebraska football,” Venables said. “When I say Nebraska, that was, along with Oklahoma and a few others, those were the programs that were always on TV. Those were the programs that everybody strived to be like. So it’s going to be really exciting and a great, great challenge for us to go to Lincoln, go on the road in a tough environment. I’m really excited to see what our team’s all about. This will be a great opportunity for us to continue to grow and develop as a team.”

Nebraska is not on top of the college football mountain these days — firing head coach Scott Frost this week after a 1-2 start and 16-31 career record there — but a long-time rival coming in and the jolt of energy an interim might bring will certainly prime the Huskers to bring their best shot.

Either way, Venables knows Nebraska fans will show out.

“Well their fans are first class, you know? Every patch of grass in that stadium is going to be full,” Venables said. “You know, they’re some of the most loyal and intelligent fans in all of college football. They’re going to arrive early and stay late. No matter what, they’re going to be there for their team. A lot of pride in that community. One of the cleanest stadiums you’ll see anywhere. Wherever there’s concrete, you don’t see — there’s nothing. No debris. Nothing. That’s always stood out to me.”