First, the football-only reaction:

This was easily the best performance by the Huskers under Callahan. You need good coaching and good talent to succeed. My argument all along has been that Nebraska has sufficient talent right now to win the Big 12 North. They proved it against Colorado. The coaches put together a brilliant, almost perfect gameplan and the players executed it extremely well. However, let's not forget that these are the exact same players that Callahan referred to after the KU loss 3 weeks ago with "you do the best you can with the players you have". These players didn't suddenly become more talented in the past three weeks. The coaches did a better job against CU than they had in any other game and they got the most out of the talent on hand. I think the coaches get most of the credit for the CU win, just as they deserved most of the blame for the Missouri loss. After KU's win over ISU, even the Huskers' loss to the Jayhawks wouldn't look so bad if now if the final margin hadn't been 40-15. Let's give the coaches credit for the CU win...but you can't have it both ways. These are the same players supposedly "weren't talented enough" just 3 weeks ago. Perspective and balance, people.

As for the "non-football" reaction:

I've been shocked by the reaction to the Colorado game from Husker fans, and not just on this board. There's been as much gloating at our own than at Colorado. I backed off interacting with Husker fans (including on the Husker Forum) since the win because I just wanted to enjoy the win instead listening to us attack each other. I can somewhat understand such frustration after a loss...but after winning at Colorado? Both sides have been guilty of doing this. Within minutes of the game, I noticed posts about how Callahan or Pederson should still be fired or how it was too bad the win would save Cosgrove's job. While I'm not a big fan of Coz's and I happen to agree with the need for Pederson's removal, these were simply not appropriate comments, IMO, minutes after the biggest Husker win since 2003. On the other hand, I also noticed several posts "taunting" any Husker fans who have been critical, as if critical Husker fans didn't celebrate the Husker victory. Furthermore, I enjoyed the win as much as anybody (I was hoarse from celebrating!), but since when does a win over an unranked, 7-3 team vindicate anybody at Nebraska? I'm not sure why Steve Pederson feels "vindicated".

In short, we should use the reaction to this game as a lesson: we are all on the same side. In the future, I'd advice we keep our reactions to Nebraska games (win or lose) away from taunting fellow Husker fans.

Now comes the fun part: what bowl will Nebraska play in and what opponent will they play? I hope it's either Iowa, Michigan, or Florida State in that order. The Alamo Bowl would be nice, as would a trip to Orlando (Champs) or San Diego (Holiday) for the players. They've earned it. :-)