Nebraska Simply Keeps Rolling, 49-7 : Big Eight: The Cornhuskers remain unbeaten in the conference as the Jayhawks suffer their first league loss.

Nebraska Coach Tom Osborne feared that his seventh-ranked Cornhuskers might not be up to another big-game performance after beating Colorado, 52-7, the week before.

He needn’t have worried.

The Cornhuskers unleashed a quick-hitting offense featuring Tommie Frazier’s three touchdown passes and two touchdown carries by Calvin Jones in rolling past 13th-ranked Kansas, 49-7.

Nebraska, 7-1 overall and 4-0 in the Big Eight, took the inside track on the conference’s automatic berth in the Orange Bowl while Kansas (7-2, 4-1) remained winless in 20 games against Osborne. The Cornhuskers also ensured an NCAA-record 31st consecutive winning season.

“Before the game, I’d have been pleased with any kind of win,” Osborne said. “The thing that was bothering me was whether we’d be able to play hard and play with emotion two weeks in a row. I thought if we played real well, we might beat them by a couple of touchdowns.”

Said Kansas Coach Glen Mason: “Their performance against us tonight was very good, but I didn’t need to see that to know we were playing a good football team. I knew they were a very, very fine football team coming in.”

Frazier combined with tight end Gerald Armstrong on a 36-yard pass play on the fifth play of the game, then passed to the junior receiver from 11 yards out on the first play of the second quarter.

The catches were the fifth and sixth for Armstrong in his career, all for touchdowns and all this season.

Frazier, a freshman making his third start, came back with a 46-yard scoring pass play to split end Corey Dixon on Nebraska’s next possession, and Jones added scoring runs of five and six yards before halftime. Frazier completed six of 11 passes for 161 yards.

Nebraska, which had 351 yards rushing, got 110 from running back Derek Brown during the first quarter. He finished with 156 yards in 15 carries, and Jones, who had a school-record 294 yards and Big Eight-record six touchdowns against Kansas a year ago, added 107 in 13 tries.

“Those two running backs are darn good,” Mason said. “I’ve seen guys on TV that everyone is talking about for the Heisman, and I see these guys in person and they look a little bit better to me.”

Nebraska’s longest of seven first-half scoring drives covered 61 yards in 1:54. Three drives took less than a minute.

“I thought our offensive line played another great ballgame, Frazier played well and our defense played very well,” Osborne said.

Kansas entered Nebraska territory only once during the first half, getting a four-yard touchdown run by Maurice Douglas midway through the second quarter.