Editing Nebraska Cornhuskers (section)

==Fan support==
[[File:BIG SPORTS EVENT OF THE YEAR IS THE SPRING FOOTBALL GAME AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, AN INTRA-MURAL EVENT. THESE... - NARA - 547441.jpg|thumb|right|175px|A fan attends a football game at Memorial Stadium in 1973]]
Decades of high attendance and well-traveling crowds across all sports have earned Nebraska fans a reputation for being fiercely loyal and dedicated. The school's athletic department proclaimed their fans "the greatest fans in college football" in an inscription above each of the twenty-four gates at [[Memorial Stadium (Lincoln)|Memorial Stadium]].<ref name="ia_football_past_champs">{{cite web |title=Past Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (Division I FBS) National Champions (formerly called Division I-A) |work=ncaa.org |publisher=National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) |year=2007| url=https://www.ncaa.org/champadmin/ia_football_past_champs.html |access-date=March 10, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070224190615/http://www.ncaa.org/champadmin/ia_football_past_champs.html |archive-date=February 24, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huskers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=440&SPID=22&DB_OEM_ID=100&ATCLID=525198|title=Greatest Fans in College Football|access-date=October 8, 2017}}</ref> In 2001, President [[George W. Bush]] stated that he "can't go without saying how impressed I am by the Nebraska fan base. Whether it be for women's volleyball or football, there's nothing like the Big Red."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/05/20010531.html|title=President Bush Welcomes University of Nebraska Volleyball Champions to the White House|website=georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov|access-date=October 8, 2017}}</ref>

Memorial Stadium is sometimes referred to as ''The Sea of Red'' due to the home crowd's propensity to wear the color. Nebraska has sold out every home football game since November 3, 1962; at 389<!-- through 2022 season --> it is the longest sellout streak in college athletics history.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2003/sioncampus/09/10/road_trip0916/index.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030919034021/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2003/sioncampus/09/10/road_trip0916/index.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=September 19, 2003 |work=CNN |access-date=May 20, 2010 |title=Road Trip}}</ref> The streak, historically a source of pride for the school and its fans,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cornnation.com/2022/9/28/23377256/why-the-nebraska-sellout-streak-is-important-and-why-you-should-keep-going-to-games|date=28 September 2022|access-date=15 June 2023|title=Why The Nebraska Sellout Streak Is Important (And Why You Should Keep Going to Games)|author=Jon Johnston}}</ref> has been scrutinized in the decades following [[Tom Osborne]]'s retirement as NU's athletic department has occasionally been forced to sell a large number of tickets at a discounted rate to keep the streak alive.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.si.com/college/nebraska/football/dave-feit-not-like-this-husker-football-sellout-streak-continues-at-a-deep-discout|date=11 October 2022|access-date=15 June 2023|title=Dave Feit: Not Like This|author=Dave Feit}}</ref> Cornhuskers fans are noted for often applauding the visiting team as they leave the field at the end of the game.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.msnbc.com/modules/sports/collegefootballstadiums/nebraska.asp?cp1=1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011014145410/http://www.msnbc.com/modules/sports/collegefootballstadiums/nebraska.asp?cp1=1|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 14, 2001|title=MSNBC — Breaking News, Top Stories, & Show Clips|website=MSNBC|access-date=October 8, 2017}}</ref> Nebraska is considered to have one of the best-traveling fanbases in the country – the most famous example of this occurred in 2000, when an estimated 35,000 Nebraska fans watched No. 1 [[2000 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team|Nebraska]] defeat No. 25 [[2000 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team|Notre Dame]] at [[Notre Dame Stadium]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/colleges/cottonbowl/stories/010107dnsponeblede.3243fd8.html|title=Cotton Bowl News -Sports News -Dallas Morning News -News for Dallas, Texas|access-date=October 8, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/writers/john_walters/11/30/willingham/index.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041207025935/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/writers/john_walters/11/30/willingham/index.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=December 7, 2004 |work=CNN |date=November 30, 2004 |access-date=May 20, 2010 |title=Three and out}}</ref>

Nebraska's volleyball program has sold out 303<!-- through 2022 season --> consecutive matches between the [[Nebraska Coliseum]] and [[Bob Devaney Sports Center|Devaney Center]], the longest streak of its kind in women's college sports. The Cornhuskers have led the country in attendance for nine straight seasons,{{efn|This does not count the spring 2021 season in which many schools, including Nebraska, did not host fans due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United States|COVID-19 pandemic]]}} and have played in nine of the ten [[Nebraska Cornhuskers women's volleyball#Highest-attended matches|highest-attended college volleyball matches]] ever played. Nebraska's five-set loss to [[Wisconsin Badgers women's volleyball|Wisconsin]] in the [[2021 NCAA Division I women's volleyball tournament|2021 national championship match]] broke college volleyball records for both attendance and viewership.<ref>{{cite web|title=Record attendance, viewership for Wisconsin-Nebraska NCAA volleyball championship|publisher=VolleyballMag|date=22 December 2021|access-date=1 April 2022|author=Lee Feinswog|url=https://volleyballmag.com/ncaa-volleyball-attendance-viewers-122221/}}</ref>