Jared Tomich figures he's got "two or three closets" stuffed with memorabilia from his college football days at one-time powerhouse Nebraska.

But if you know the 1992 Lake Central grad and former NFL star, you know humility has always been his strong suit. So all those souvenirs from the Cornhuskers' 1994 and '95 national championship teams remain stashed away.

That includes the two championship rings he never wears.

Nebraska knocked off Miami (24-17) and then Florida (62-24) in back-to-back title games while extending its school-record winning streak to 25 games.

Tomich, the starting left defensive end, said the hype was incredible even though there was very little sports talk radio or Internet saturating the market.

"I remember going to those big press conferences and having to fly to a couple of different places because I was one of the captains," Tomich said. "It was awesome at the time. You literally felt like there were cameras following you around campus.

"After we won it the first year and then when we were up for it the second year, right before that (Fiesta) bowl game, it was a total media blitz. You were on top of the world, with all the media you got."

Top-ranked Florida (12-1) and No. 2 Oklahoma (12-1) have been there, done that, all season.

With their respective Heisman winners Tim Tebow and Sam Bradford, the two grid giants slug it out tonight to decide who sits atop college football's throne in the BCS National Championship game at Dolphin Stadium in Miami.

Oklahoma defensive back Dominique Franks provided plenty of bulletin board material earlier this week when he said Tebow would be only the fourth-best quarterback in the Big 12. Florida linebacker Brandon Spikes fired back, calling Big 12 defenses an embarrassment because of the many basketball-type scores.

When Tomich played, Tom Osborne forbid his players to shoot off their mouths.

"Coach Osborne did a great job of teaching us how to talk to the media and always keeping it very professional with not a lot of jabber-jawing going on," Tomich said. "We didn't talk smack. We usually talked about how good our opponents were and what problems they posed for us."

Osborne's 25-year coaching career included a 255-49-3 record and .836 winning percentage.

Nebraska has five national titles and Tomich believes his high-scoring '94 and '95 Huskers could've hung with Florida or Oklahoma.

"I don't think things have changed that much in the past 10 years," he said. "Most of the time, if you're in the hunt for the national championship, you've got such a good program and your players are clicking so well that you can always compete with teams from years before."

The 1994 squad featured several walk-ons and Prop 48 players, one of which was Tomich, who was redshirted in '93 and went on to be a two-time all-American.

"We thought of ourselves as a bunch of scrubs that were at the same place at the right time," he said. "To this day, we're still very close and do a lot of benefits together."

In 1995, the veteran Huskers were determined to keep their two-year winning streak intact.

"That's a different area out there as far as sports go and we didn't want to let the fans down by losing that first game," Tomich said. "(Football) is all they have in Nebraska. For me, it was like being a big star on a pro team in a big city.

"It got to a point where you'd go to the mall and be inundated with autographs. It was a great time to be in school."