Was there 98-00. Entire state is die hard fans. Even people who don't even like sports were husker fans, it's just completely embedded in the daily culture.
Of course when I was there they had just won natl championship with Scott frost, and 2 just before that with tommy Frazier, so they all just believed Nebraska was the greatest program ever.
It didn't help when I would bring up that I just spent a semester as a freshman at asu right before I left, as there was still a lot of negative feelings over that 19-0 beat down they got in Tempe the year before.