Lincoln. Neb. ? Someday Mike Stuntz’s name probably will be the answer to a Nebraska football trivia question.

It might be already, considering it’s been four years since Stuntz threw that 63-yard touchdown pass to Eric Crouch to seal a 20-10 win over Oklahoma.

Stuntz, the nephew of Alvamar Golf Club course superintendent Dick Stuntz, is still around, finishing what has been an otherwise undistinguished career.

But on that special October Saturday in 2001, Stuntz was the freshman called upon to execute the play known as “Black 41 Flash Reverse.”

He lined up at wide receiver, went into motion and took a pitch from I-back Thunder Collins, then lofted the touchdown pass to the eventual Heisman Trophy winner.

For a few weeks, Stuntz enjoyed the celebrity that such a play brings.

“It’s something I’m proud of,” Stuntz said Tuesday. “It’s a great moment in Nebraska football history. It was great to play any part of that at all.”

Ticket to Rose Bowl

The play helped a third-ranked Nebraska team beat a No. 2 Oklahoma squad that was defending national champion, and it kept the Huskers unbeaten in a season that saw them advance to the national title game against Miami in the Rose Bowl.

Take away that one play and Stuntz, signed as a quarterback out of Council Bluffs (Iowa) St. Albert, has been a largely anonymous figure in his five years at Nebraska.

He agreed to play receiver his freshman season, then moved back to quarterback in 2002. He appeared in six games as a backup to Jammal Lord in ’02, redshirted the next year, and took no snaps as a reserve quarterback last season.

He switched to free safety this past offseason and has appeared in four of seven games.

Stuntz said he doesn’t relive his moment of glory very often. He said he doesn’t even has a videotape of the play.

Little else to remember

Stuntz also knows how his career probably will end — with little to remember on the field except “Black 41 Flash Reverse.”

He said the hardest thing for him to deal with is knowing that he didn’t meet his expectations.

He came in with the hope of being the Huskers’ starting quarterback and winning a lot of games.

When he threw that touchdown pass to Crouch, he said, he figured there would be many more big plays to come.

“At the time, I saw it as a jumping off point, if anything, not a pinnacle,” Stuntz said.