Link: Full Game Notes (Huskers.com)


WHEN: Saturday, November 16 | 3:00 PM (CT)

WHERE: L.A. Memorial Coliseum | Los Angeles, California

TV: FOX (Jason Benetti, Brock Huard, Allison Williams)

RADIO: Huskers Radio Network (Greg Sharpe, Damon Benning, Jessica Coody)

THIS WEEK'S NUMBERS

16 - USC and Nebraska have combined for 16 national championships, including 11 by the Trojans and five by Nebraska. Each school has twice won back-to-back national championships, including Nebraska (1970-71; 1994-95) and USC (1931-32; 2003-04)

38 - True freshman receiver Jacory Barney Jr. has 38 receptions in nine games this season. He is two receptions shy of the NU record for most catches by a true freshman (Wan'Dale Robinson, 40 in 2019). The overall freshman receptions record is 55 catches by JD Spielman in 2017.

46 - Nebraska senior punter Brian Buschini averages 46.4 yards per punt on the season. Buschini is challenging the Nebraska single-season punting average record, held by Sam Koch who averaged 46.51 yards on 71 punts in 2005.

HUSKERS
Record: 5-4 (2-4 Big Ten)
Last Game: vs. UCLA (L 20-27)
Streak: Lost 3
Rank: NR
Coach: Matt Rhule (10-11, 2nd year NU | 57-54, 9th year overall | 0-0 vs. USC)

TROJANS
Record: 4-5 (2-5 Big Ten)
Last Game: at Washington (L 21-26)
Streak: Lost 1
Rank: NR
Coach: Lincoln Riley (23-13, 3rd year USC | 78-23, 8th year overall | 1-0 vs. Nebraska)

THE MATCHUP
Nebraska returns to action on Saturday when the Huskers travel to the West Coast to take on the USC Trojans. The game is the first between the schools as Big Ten opponents, and will kick off at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum at 3 p.m. CT. The game will be televised on FOX and can also be heard on the Huskers Radio Network and the Huskers App.

The Huskers stand at 5-4 on the season and 2-4 in Big Ten play after a tough 27-20 loss to UCLA in Lincoln on Nov. 2. Nebraska fell behind the Bruins 27-7 midway through the third quarter before rallying to within a single score in the game's final minutes. However, the Huskers; final drive ended in a turnover deep in Bruin territory, capping a second consecutive one-score loss for Nebraska. Three of Nebraska's four losses this season have been by a touchdown or less, including one overtime setback.

USC also comes into the game following a bye week. USC stands at 4-5 overall and 2-5 in its inaugural season in Big Ten Conference play. In its most recent action, USC suffered a 26-21 road loss at Washington on Nov. 2. The Trojans had multiple opportunities to pull out the win but were stopped on downs deep in Washington territory twice in the fourth quarter. Overall, USC's five losses have been by a total of 19 points, including an overtime loss and a one-point loss. Coach Lincoln Riley's team features a high-powered passing attack, as the Trojans average 291.2 passing yards per game to rank in the top 20 nationally in that category.

Saturday's matchup is just the sixth all-time meeting between two of college football's most storied programs. USC holds a 4-0-1 edge in the series between the schools, most recently defeating Nebraska, 45-42, in the 2014 Holiday Bowl.

SERIES HISTORY
Nebraska and USC will meet for the sixth time on Saturday, and the third time in Los Angeles. The Trojans hold a 4-0-1 advantage in the all-time series between the schools.

- The most recent meeting between the schools was at the 2014 Holiday Bowl in San Diego, where the Trojans won a 45-42 shootout.

- USC is the only opponent Nebraska has played more than once and not defeated.

- Saturday's game will mark the first series matchup with neither team ranked. USC has been ranked in each of the first five matchups, including four times in the top 5, while Nebraska was also ranked in the four most recent meetings.

- The 21-21 tie in 1970 immediately preceded Nebraska's 23-game win streak that produced back-to-back national championships in 1970 and 1971.

- USC is set to travel to Lincoln in 2025, with the Huskers set to travel to Los Angeles again in 2028.

ABOUT USC
USC has fielded a football team since 1888 and the Trojans have tallied nearly 880 wins as a program. USC has claimed 11 national championships and 37 conference titles.

The Trojans have made 55 bowl game appearances, claiming 35 wins. USC's last bowl game appearance came last season when the Trojans took on Louisville in the Holiday Bowl. Southern Cal came away with the 42-28 win over the Cardinals.

First Year: 1888
All-Time Record: 879-373-54
Bowl Record: 35-20
Conference Titles: 37
National Titles: 11 (1928, 1931, 1932, 1939, 1962, 1967, 1972, 1974, 1978, 2003, 2004)
Stadium: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Capacity: 77,500
Surface: Natural Grass
Location: Los Angeles, California
Enrollment: 47,000
Colors: Cardinal & Gold

ABOUT 2024 TROJAN FOOTBALL

Schedule/Results
vs. LSU (at Las Vegas) (W 27-20)
Utah State (W 48-0)
at Michigan (L 24-27)
Wisconsin (W 38-21)
at Minnesota (L 17-24)
Penn State (L 30-33 OT)
at Maryland (L 28-29)
Rutgers (W 42-20)
at Washington (L 21-26)
Nebraska
at UCLA
Notre Dame

USC holds a 4-5 record this season, picking up wins against LSU, Utah State, Wisconsin and Rutgers.

The Trojans enter Saturday's game averaging 30.5 points and 437.8 yards per game, with 291.2 yards per game through the air and 146.6 yards per game on the ground. Jayden Maiava is expected to make his first start at quarterback this weekend and has completed 8-of-11 passes for 66 yards in limited action this season. Makai Lemon lead USC with 33 receptions for 448 yards and three touchdowns followed by Zachariah Branch with 35 grabs and 404 yards. Woody Marks paces the rushing attack for the Trojans, carrying the ball 155 times for 878 yards and nine touchdowns, followed by Quinten Joyner with 42 rushes for 352 yards and three scores.

Defensively, the Trojans are allowing 22.2 points and 370.8 yards per game this season. Easton Mascarenas-Arnold leads the USC defense with 74 tackles and is tied with a team-high two sacks and two interceptions. Mason Cobb has 52 tackles and two interceptions, while Kamari Ramsey and Eric Gentry each have recorded two sacks on the year.



ABOUT LINCOLN RILEY
Lincoln Riley is in his third season at the helm of USC after spending five seasons as the head coach at Oklahoma.

Riley has developed three of the last seven Heisman Trophy winners and is the only head coach to coach three Heisman-winning quarterbacks, including the only coach to have three players selected No. 1 overall on the common era of the NFL Draft.

In his first season with the Trojans in 2022, Riley led USC to a seven-win turnaround while appearing in the Pac-12 Championship Game and Cotton Bowl.

Riley posted a 55-10 overall record in his five years at Oklahoma, leading the Sooners to four Big 12 titles and four New Year's Six bowls with three College Football Playoff appearances.

Riley began his coaching career at Texas Tech (2003-2009) before coaching the quarterbacks and serving as offensive coordinator and assistant head coach at East Carolina (2010-2014). Riley worked two seasons with the Sooners as an offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in 2015 and 2016 before being named head coach.

Riley vs. Nebraska
Saturday's matchup is the second all-time for Riley against the Big Red. Riley recorded a 23-16 win over the Huskers at Oklahoma in 2021.

LAST MEETING: DECEMBER 26, 2014

HOLIDAY BOWL
#24 USC 45, Nebraska 42

SAN DIEGO - In a high-scoring shootout between two of college football's most storied programs, Tommy Armstrong Jr. racked up 422 yards of total offense, but Nebraska came up short on its final two drives of the fourth quarter in a 45-42 loss to No. 24 USC in the National University Holiday Bowl on Saturday night at Qualcomm Stadium.

Both teams finished their seasons with 9-4 records, while teaming up for 1,040 yards of total offense in the game. Nebraska finished with 525 total yards, including 379 passing and 146 rushing, while the Trojans managed 515 yards, including 321 through the air and 194 on the ground.

Armstrong, Nebraska's sophomore quarterback completed a career-high 32-of-51 passes for a career-best 381 yards and three touchdowns setting NU bowl records for yardage, completions and attempts, but his Hail Mary attempt on the game's final play was batted to the ground to seal the USC victory. Armstrong added 41 rushing yards on 12 carries, including a 15-yard touchdown run on fourth down midway through the fourth quarter. He followed up his scoring run with a two-point conversion pass to Kenny Bell to cut the USC lead to 45-42 after the Huskers trailed 45-27 late in the third quarter.

Armstrong and Bell also connected on Nebraska's first touchdown of the night, an 18-yard connection to give the Huskers a 10-7 lead with 8:23 left in the first quarter. Bell finished his Nebraska career with seven catches for 71 yards to push his school-record totals to 181 receptions for 2,689 yards in his four-year career.

NU had opened the scoring with a Drew Brown 34-yard field goal, before USC's Adoree' Jackson uncorked a 98-yard kickoff return for a touchdown.

After USC tied the game at 10 on 42-yard Andre Heidari field goal, Armstrong sent the Big Red to the second quarter with a 17-10 lead after a nine-yard touchdown pass to De'Mornay Pierson-El.

Pierson-El finished the night with his first career 100-yard receiving game, hauling in eight passes for 102 yards.

Although Nebraska led at the end of the first quarter, the second quarter belonged to the Trojans, who put together a pair of long touchdown drives to take a 24-17 lead to the locker room at halftime.

USC pushed its lead to two scores for the first time early in the third quarter when the Trojans' Cody Kessler hit Jackson on a 71-yard touchdown strike to put USC up 31-17 with 12:01 left in the quarter.

But Nebraska showed its fight, answering with a touchdown drive of its own capped by a 20-yard run from senior I-back Ameer Abdullah to make it 31-24 with 9:41 left in the third quarter. Abdullah finished his career as Nebraska's all-time all-purpose yardage leader, rushing 27 times for 88 yards and a score. He added six catches for 61 yards and three kickoff returns for 120 yards including a 49-yarder to finish with 269 all-purpose yards in the game.

Abdullah finished his career No. 11 on the NCAA all-purpose yardage list with 7,168, while closing his illustrious career at No. 2 on the Nebraska rushing list with 4,588 yards.

USC then answered the Javorius Allen's second touchdown run of the game, as he sprinted 44 yards to paydirt to put the Trojans up 38-24 with 8:06 left in the third. Allen finished the game with 152 rushing yards on 26 carries.

The Big Red pulled within 38-27 on Brown's 44-yard field with 2:28 left in the quarter, before the Trojans took their biggest lead of the night just 25 seconds later when Kessler connected with Bryce Dixon on a 20-yard touchdown pass to make it 45-27 with 2:03 remaining in the third.

Kessler finished 23-of-39 for 321 yards with three touchdowns and one Josh Mitchell interception. Dixon finished with four catches for 44 yards, while Nelson Agholor led USC with seven receptions for 90 yards and a score.

Armstrong struck again before the end of the quarter, finding Jordan Westerkamp on a 65-yard touchdown pass to make it 45-34 with 24 seconds left in the quarter. Westerkamp finished the night with three catches for 81 yards.

While Armstrong's run was the only score of the fourth quarter, the Huskers drove near the USC 30 with three minutes left and faced 3rd-and-3. After a timeout, Armstrong's short pass across the middle to Pierson-El was batted down by a USC defender to set up a fourth down. On fourth down, Pierson-El came up short on a solid defensive play by the Trojans.

After gambling measures passed at horse tracks in November, Columbus is building a Harrah’s casino, racetrack and sportsbook.

CFP Rankings (11/12)
1. Oregon (10-0)
2. Ohio State (8-1)
3. Texas (8-1)
4. Penn State (8-1)
5. Indiana (10-0)
6. BYU (9-0)
7. Tennessee (8-1)
8. Notre Dame (8-1)
9. Miami (FL) (9-1)
10. Alabama (7-2)
11. Mississippi (8-2)
12. Georgia (7-2)
13. Boise State (8-1)
14. Southern Methodist (8-1)
15. Texas A&M (7-2)
16. Kansas State (7-2)
17. Colorado (7-2)
18. Washington State (8-1)
19. Louisville (6-3)
20. Clemson (7-2)
21. South Carolina (6-3)
22. LSU (6-3)
23. Missouri (7-2)
24. Army (9-0)
25. Tulane (8-2)

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Bracket as of today

Let’s get the live thread started up.

Some news prior to the 7 p.m. tip: NU will be without Braxton Meah, who’s listed as out.

The Huskers will have a new starting lineup for the first time this regular season.

I just pieced a timeline together that's interesting, if not for just the timing of it all, as USC's Lincoln Riley and Dana Holgorsen have coached together in the past. I think Riley and Holgorsen knowing each other and coming from the same coaching tree is definitely a story line and has been talked about already a bit, but here is a timeline:

• Mike Leach was the OC/OL coach at Iowa Wesleyan 1989-1991.
  
  
• Dana Holgorsen played WR for Iowa Wesleyan 1990-1992.
  
  
• Mike Leach was OC/WR/QB/OL coach at Valdosta State 1992-1996.
  
  
• Dana Holgorsen's first coaching job was QB/WR/ST Valdosta State 1993-1995.
  
  
• Leach went to Kentucky as OC 1997-1998.
  
  
• Holgorsen went to Mississippi College to coach QB/WR/ST 1996-1998 and at Wingate 1999.
  
  
• Mike Leach was OC/QB coach at Oklahoma in 1999 under Stoops, then became head coach at Texas Tech in 2000 (2000-2009).
  
  
• Holgorsen becomes IWR coach Texas Tech 2000-2004, then Co-OC/IWR 2005-2006, then OC/IWR in 2007.
  
  
• Lincoln Riley was QB at Texas Tech in 2002.
  
  
• Lincoln Riley gets first coaching gig at Texas Tech (SA) 2003-2005, GA 2006, WR 2007, IWR 2008-2009.
  
  
• At this point there was a moment where: Leach is HC, Riley was WR coach, and Holgorsen was OC/IWR coach.
  
  
• Holgorsen goes to Houston as OC/QB in 2008-2009.
  
  
• Holgorsen then goes to Oklahoma State OC/QB for 2010 before becoming West Virginia HC 2011-2018.
  
  
• Riley got his first OC job at East Carolina in 2010-2014.
  
  
• Riley becomes Oklahoma OC/QB 2015-2016, HC 2017-2021.
  
  
• Holgorsen Houston HC 2019-2023.
  
  
• Lincoln Riley HC at USC in 2022.
  
  
• And here we are.

there are endless parallels here ... and explained well in this article ... "What I wanted to do at this stage in my career ..." (Kelly on leaving a HC position with UCLA to take an OC position at a blue blood like Ohio State):

With today being the first day of the early signing period of college basketball, Quentin Rhymes is officially becoming a Husker. Caught up with Rhymes to talk about his basketball life and how he wound up at Nebraska:


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AVCA Division I Top 25 (11/11)
1. Pittsburgh (49) (23-1) - 1,513 pts
2. Nebraska (12) (24-1) - 1,475
3. Louisville (21-3)
4. Penn State (23-2)
5. Creighton (23-2)
6. Wisconsin (18-5)
7. Stanford (19-4)
8. Purdue (20-5)
9. Arizona State (24-2)
10. Southern Methodist (19-6)
11. Oregon (18-5)
12. Kansas (20-3)
13. Kentucky (16-7)
14. Texas (13-6)
15. Georgia Tech (18-5)
16. Minnesota (16-8)
17. Baylor (17-6)
18. TCU (17-5)
19. Dayton (26-1)
20. Utah (19-5)
21. Florida (18-5)
22. Florida State (18-6)
23. USC (17-7)
24. BYU (14-8)
25. Missouri (18-5)

Others Receiving Votes
North Carolina, Washington, Miami (FL), Texas A&M, Marquette, South Dakota State, Western Kentucky

Is it just me, or have these two all but completely disappeared? I cant remember a single game where I heard ANYTHING from Lenhardt, and barely any more from Princewill. I had high hopes that they would be forces this year as they got stronger and more comfortable with D-1 football.

Looks much better after sitting and watching for a few games. ARE YOU WATCHING SATTERFIELD? (And Matt).

Going full Nebraska to end the game

He has the balls to do what Callahan was unwilling to do. Satterfield was Rhule's Cosgrove. Just too bad it wasn't recognized at the end of November 2023.

The irony is that Bill Callahan probably would still be our coach had he brought in a competent defensive staff.

I have a son who is 11 and is interested in starting to play tennis. I have no familiarity with the tennis community. How do you get started, call a club, get a coach...? Any advice would be appreciated.

Where do we stand?

Haven’t seen much last couple games

the full 7 rounds of Cassius Clay vs Sonny Lister fight for the HWCW in b&w. Lister was the 30 year old "unbeatable" Champion and Clay was an exuberant 22 year old Olympic champion that guaranteed he would take Sonny out in the 8th. Lister said Clay would be done after 3 then later updated too the 2nd.
Cassius Clay created the energy and money that night into sports as we know it today. No one else comes close.

I hate the way Women's sports are marketed or talked about in media. They are all lumped together.

I'm a Women's College Volleyball fan. Obviously that stems from being a Nebraska fan and Nebraska being very good for a very long time. My interest in the game has grown and I watch some other high profile matches or matches with our opponents or matches with former Nebraska players. I don't do this to support women, I do this because I am interested in the matches and I find them entertaining.

I hate the way that volleyball is lumped in with all other women's sports, as if they are the same thing and have the same entertainment value to people. I hate Women's Basketball, I find it awful to watch and a vastly inferior entertainment product compared to Men's Basketball, which I enjoy watching. It should not be assumed that being a volleyball fan means a person wants to watch all Women's sports.

I don't appreciate the way Women's sports are force fed to the public, where is is insinuated that you are a bad misogynistic person if you prefer Men's sports to Women's. Sports at the college level and professional level is about being entertaining, they all are vying for people's free time and spendable income. It is not misogynistic to prefer Men's sports over Women's, if you find them more entertaining as they involve better athletes. Each sport should be evaluated on it's own entertainment merit, not on a virtue signal merit.

I appreciate the way Nebraska volleyball has grown. It wasn't forced on people or grown through guilt tripping people into watching. It was organically grown by providing a good and entertaining team that people could support and grow an interest in. It has grown into a program that has created a revenue stream that is self sustaining. It has done this by being a good product for entertainment dollars and not done with rules or guilt shaming. Nebraska volleyball continues to grow, setting attendance records at 3 schools in our last 4 road games. This isn't media driven or a desire to grow Women's sports, this is done because of fan interest in the program.

The media's fascination with Women's basketball is weird. It's simply a horrible game in my opinion, the biggest money loser at most major schools and the only Women's sport that FBS schools are mandated to have. Women's basketball is pushed by the media excessively compared to the fan interest in the sport. Where volleyball is not pushed near as much, yet volleyball attendance is growing annually at the collegiate level. Volleyball has been growing at the HS level for years where Women's basketball participation has been shrinking. I don't understand why Women's basketball is promoted so aggressively over volleyball, when volleyball is growing so many more fans based on actually liking the product.

I'm not a Women's sports hater, but I'm realistic with what I enjoy watching. I think Title IX was a good thing at the time, same with affirmative action, but that time has passed. College teams or clubs should be a reflection of the interests of the student body and should be supported with the according booster interest and revenue generation. Losing millions on Women's basketball annually is just wrong. If the fans or some boosters want to pay for the expense then it's fine, volleyball fans pay for highest paid coach and best arena, if there is interest then the money will come. I do believe that competitive team activities are good for the development of young people, but that teamwork, hard work, dedication can be fostered without spending a million dollars on a coach and flying all over the country. Those attributes can be built with a $30k coach and an intramural/intra state league.

It's time for college sports to reflect the interests of the student body and spending on those sports reflect the interest people have in watching them. The new revenue sharing will reflect some of that and I hope that there aren't too many rules to continue to prop up the excessive waste on sports, Men's and Women's, that fans don't want to support. It's time for individual college sports to stand up on their own merit.

November 13
1775 - U.S. forces, under the command of Gen. Richard Montgomery, captured Montreal during the American Revolution.

1909 - An estimated 259 men and boys were killed when fire erupted inside a coal mine in Cherry, Illinois.

1927 - The world's first long, mechanically ventilated underwater tunnel, the Holland Tunnel, opened between New York and New Jersey.

1940 - Walt Disney's "Fantasia" debuted in theaters.

1942 - The minimum draft age was lowered from 21 to 18.

1946 - Vincent Schaefer produced artificial snow from a natural cloud for the first time at Mount Greylock in Massachusetts.

1956 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on buses.

1971 - The U.S. space probe Mariner 9 went into orbit around Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet.

1982 - The Vietnam War Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C.

1985 - Some 23,000 residents of Armero, Colombia, died when a volcanic mudslide buried the city.

2001 - The Taliban abandoned Afghanistan's capital of Kabul when the Northern Alliance entered the city.

2015 - Islamic State militants carried out a set of coordinated attacks in Paris at the national stadium, in a crowded concert hall, in restaurants and on streets, killing 130 people in the worst attack on French soil since World War II.

Birthdays
22 - Emma Raducanu (tennis player)
22 - Nikki Hahn (actress)
23 - Son Hye-ju (singer)
29 - Lucy Fallon (actress)
29 - Stella Hudgens (actress)
31 - Julia Michaels (singer)
33 - Devon Bostick (actor)
37 - Dana Vollmer (swimmer)
44 - Monique Coleman (actress)
45 - Ron Artest (basketball player)
49 - Aisha Hinds (actress)
53 - Noah Hathaway (actor)
55 - Gerard Butler (actor)
57 - Steve Zahn (actor)
57 - Jimmy Kimmel (TV host)
64 - Neil Flynn (actor)
69 - Whoopi Goldberg (actress/TV host)
70 - Chris Noth (actor)
72 - Frances Conroy (actress)
74 - Gilbert Perreault (hockey player)
77 - Joe Mantegna (actor)

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Today in Sports History - November 13
1900 - The Baltimore Orioles (now the New York Yankees) entered major league baseball's American League.

1934 - Ralph "Scotty" Bowman (St. Louis Eagles) scored the first penalty shot goal in NHL history.

1958 - New York City Mayor Robert Wagner announces plans to begin a new baseball league called the Continental League, to fill the void created by the city's Giants and Dodgers moving to the west coast.

1982 - WBA lightweight champion Ray Mancini defeats South Korean challenger Duk Koo Kim by TKO in the 14th round in Las Vegas; Kim collapsed after the fight, fell into a coma and died four days later. As a result, the WBC shortens title bouts to 12 rounds. (The WBA and WBO would follow in 1988, and the IBF in 1989.)

1991 - Roger Clemens won his third Cy Young Award for the American League.

1995 - Greg Maddox (Atlanta Braves) became the first pitcher to win four consecutive Cy Young Awards.

“Name the Nebraska women’s volleyball outside hitter and setter who led Nebraska to sweeps of the Big Eight Conference regular-season and tournament titles from 1981-84. She also became the only player in conference history to become a three-time Big Eight Tournament MVP.”

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Answer:

Cathy Noth

Amid all the doom and gloom on this board (and I admit, I am one of the doom and gloomers right now) there are still 3 games left. We can still make a bowl. USC next week is a winnable game if our defense plays like it did against OSU or CU.

Rhule has an opportunity here to stick it to his critics and shut them up. He has an opportunity to show that “here we go again” Nebraska is a thing of the past. He can show the world that he is not just one more failed Nebraska coach.
He can go to LA and beat USC. How sweet would a victory over the Trojans be right now? It might even give us the momentum to win our last two games as well.

Will we? Personally, I think the program is in internal chaos right now. It can’t be in a good place. Lost 3 in a row. Brought in outside analysts to look over the shoulders of our coordinators which cannot sit well with them no matter what they say publicly. Bringing in analysts is a tacit vote of no confidence or, at the very least, a public relations gesture meant to make the coach look good at the expense of his assistants. Or worst of all, it signals to his assistants (especially Satt) that Rhule is slowly moving into place the factors needed to eventually fire him. None of which signals a healthy program.

None of this is lost on the players either. They too read social media. They understand football. They know what is going down. Player morale cannot be very high right now. All the vibe is negative. All the talk is negative. That hurts morale and I don’t care what the sunshine pumpers say.

There is only one way to flip this script. WIN. And we can start with USC. Will we? I doubt it. But who knows? And winning would be huge for this program right now. Nebraska football cannot afford yet another 5-7 season. Rhule needs to put up or shut up.

The 56-game baseball schedule for the Nebraska Cornhuskers begins in Arizona in February

The top ten, the Huskers, the Trojans and the bottom-ranked team

TOTAL OFFENSE
1. Miami (FL) - 544.8 ypg
2. Mississippi - 539.5
3. North Texas - 500.4
4. Boise State - 496.2
5. Arkansas - 483.6
6. New Mexico - 479.6
7. Clemson - 473.4
8. Tennessee - 471.6
9. Texas - 465.2
10. Central Florida - 464.6
31. USC - 437.8
96. Nebraska - 354.1
133. Kent State - 235.7

RUSH OFFENSE
1. Army - 334.9 ypg
2. Boise State - 268.6
3. Central Florida - 262.8
4. Jacksonville State - 260.9
5. Navy - 259.1
6. UNLV - 248.7
7. Liberty - 242.4
8. New Mexico - 237.8
9. Tennessee - 235.1
10. Tulane - 227.8
78. USC - 146.6
101. Nebraska - 124.9
133. Kent State - 74.3

PASS OFFENSE
1. Miami (FL) - 368.2 ypg
2. Mississippi - 365.7
3. North Texas - 354.1
4. Syracuse - 353.8
5. San Jose State - 332.3
6. TCU - 329.6
7. LSU - 322.3
8. Colorado - 320.2
9. Maryland - 302.4
10. Texas - 301.1
13. USC - 291.2
66. Nebraska - 229.2
133. Army - 85.0

SCORING OFFENSE
1. Miami (FL) - 45.0 ppg
2. Indiana - 43.9
3. Boise State - 43.8
4. Tulane - 41.0
5. Mississippi - 40.7
6. Southern Methodist - 40.1
7. UNLV - 39.8
8. Washington State - 39.3
9. Jacksonville State - 39.2
10. Texas - 38.9
48. USC - 30.2
99. Nebraska - 23.6
133. Florida State - 13.3

COMPLETION PERCENTAGE
1. Oregon - 73.9%
2. Colorado - 72.0
3. Ohio State - 71.3
4. Washington - 71.1
5. Penn State - 70.8
6. Indiana - 70.1
7. Fresno State - 69.9
8. Mississippi - 69.2
9. Louisiana-Lafayette - 68.6
10. Texas - 68.5
31. USC - 64.3
36. Nebraska - 63.7
133. Air Force - 42.5

TURNOVERS LOST
1. Army - 3
2. Louisiana-Lafayette - 4
3. Clemson - 5
3. UNLV - 5
5. Arizona State - 6
5. Boise State - 6
5. California - 6
5. Georgia Tech - 6
5. James Madison - 6
5. South Alabama - 6
5. Vanderbilt - 6
54. Nebraska - 12
77. USC - 14
133. Southern Mississippi - 25

TACKLES FOR LOSS ALLOWED (per game)
1. Army - 2.44
2. Penn State - 2.56
3. New Mexico - 2.60
4. Navy - 2.89
5. Louisiana-Lafayette - 3.00
6. LSU - 3.22
7. Kansas - 3.44
8. Boise State - 3.56
8. Jacksonville State - 3.56
8. Ohio State - 3.56
8. Texas A&M - 3.56
31. USC - 4.44
100. Nebraska - 6.22
133. Stanford - 9.22

SACKS ALLOWED (per game)
1. Army - 0.33
2. Georgia Tech - 0.40
3. New Mexico - 0.50
4. LSU - 0.67
5. Boise State - 0.78
5. Coastal Carolina - 0.78
5. Navy - 0.78
8. Rice - 0.80
9. Colorado State - 0.89
9. Kansas - 0.89
21. USC - 1.11
94. Nebraska - 2.33
133. Oklahoma - 4.10

THIRD DOWN CONVERSION PERCENTAGE
1. Miami (FL) - 56.5%
2. Army - 53.5
3. Tulane - 53.2
4. Kansas - 51.8
5. Boise State - 51.3
6. Penn State - 51.0
7. Oregon - 50.8
8. Louisiana-Lafayette - 50.5
9. Syracuse - 49.6
10. Indiana - 49.1
18. USC - 46.9
43. Nebraska - 43.3
133. Kent State - 19.7

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TOTAL DEFENSE
1. Ohio State - 250.8 ypg
2. Texas - 251.0
3. Indiana - 255.5
4. Penn State - 269.3
5. Tennessee - 271.6
6. Army - 273.9
7. Notre Dame - 274.6
8. Northern Illinois - 287.7
9. Oregon - 293.5
10. Missouri - 294.9
16. Nebraska - 308.1
72. USC - 370.8
133. Kent State - 526.9

RUSH DEFENSE
1. Indiana - 72.2 ypg
2. Mississippi - 79.9
3. Army - 82.6
4. Texas-San Antonio - 88.6
5. Southern Methodist - 90.0
6. Ohio State - 95.2
7. UCLA - 98.1
8. Kansas State - 99.4
9. Tennessee - 100.0
10. Penn State - 100.1
13. Nebraska - 102.6
51. USC - 133.4
133. Kent State - 263.8

PASS DEFENSE
1. Texas - 135.3 ypg
2. Notre Dame - 148.6
3. Washington - 148.8
4. Ohio State - 155.6
5. Alabama-Birmingham - 158.7
6. Wisconsin - 158.9
7. Rice - 159.2
8. Missouri - 161.4
9. Iowa State - 163.1
10. Massachusetts - 164.7
50. Nebraska - 205.6
96. USC - 237.3
133. Tulsa - 308.6

SCORING DEFENSE
1. Army - 10.3 ppg
2. Ohio State - 10.7
3. Notre Dame - 11.1
4. Texas - 12.1
5. Tennessee - 12.6
6. Mississippi - 12.9
7. Indiana - 13.8
8. Penn State - 14.0
9. Oregon - 16.0
10. James Madison - 16.4
21. Nebraska - 19.1
46. USC - 22.2
133. Kent State - 46.0

TURNOVERS GAINED
1. James Madison - 24
2. Duke - 23
3. California - 22
3. San Jose State - 22
5. Alabama - 21
5. BYU - 21
7. Iowa - 20
7. Minnesota - 20
7. Notre Dame - 20
7. Texas - 20
64. Nebraska - 12
64. USC - 12
133. Florida State - 3

TACKLES FOR LOSS (per game)
1. Mississippi - 10.3
2. Duke - 8.5
3. Texas-San Antonio - 8.4
4. Boise State - 8.3
5. Pittsburgh - 8.1
6. Oklahoma - 8.0
7. Central Michigan - 7.9
7. Tennessee - 7.9
9. East Carolina - 7.8
10. South Carolina - 7.7
10. South Florida - 7.7
38. Nebraska - 6.3
111. USC - 4.4
133. Temple - 3.2

SACKS (per game)
1. Mississippi - 4.60
2. Boise State - 4.44
3. South Carolina - 3.67
4. North Carolina - 3.56
5. Pittsburgh - 3.33
6. Colorado - 3.22
6. San Diego State - 3.22
6. Texas State - 3.22
6. Texas-San Antonio - 3.22
10. Oklahoma - 3.20
23. Nebraska - 2.78
107. USC - 1.44
133. Oregon State - 0.56

THIRD DOWN CONVERSION PERCENTAGE DEFENSE
1. Utah - 23.8%
2. Tennessee - 24.2
3. Northern Illinois - 25.2
4. Notre Dame - 28.2
5. Marshall - 28.6
5. Georgia - 28.6
7. Missouri - 28.7
8. Wyoming - 28.8
9. Georgia Tech - 29.6
10. Connecticut - 29.7
19. USC - 31.9
47. Nebraska - 36.0
133. UCLA - 53.4

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NET PUNTING
1. USC - 45.57 ypk
2. Florida State - 45.24
3. Arkansas - 44.91
4. Alabama - 44.72
5. Baylor - 44.39
6. Mississippi - 44.38
7. Georgia - 44.29
8. Florida - 44.08
9. Indiana - 43.13
10. South Carolina - 42.85
123. Nebraska - 35.34
133. Tulsa - 33.67

PUNT RETURNS
1. Alabama-Birmingham - 22.29 ypr
2. Baylor - 20.71
3. Colorado State - 19.40
4. Troy - 19.38
5. South Alabama - 17.50
6. Florida - 17.33
6. Vanderbilt - 17.33
8. Arizona State - 17.14
9. North Carolina - 17.09
10. Iowa State - 16.50
99. Nebraska - 5.45
100. USC - 5.40
133. Akron - (-0.17)

PUNT RETURN DEFENSE
1. Georgia - (-1.60) ypr
2. Alabama - 0.71
3. North Texas - 1.20
4. UNLV - 1.75
5. Western Michigan - 2.13
6. Bowling Green - 2.20
7. Texas-San Antonio - 2.54
8. Colorado State - 2.92
9. Army - 3.00
9. Georgia Southern - 3.00
9. Indiana - 3.00
77. USC - 7.90
111. Nebraska - 11.60
133. Marshall - 26.00

KICKOFF RETURNS
1. Oregon - 34.67 ypr
2. North Carolina State - 31.33
3. James Madison - 31.18
4. Northern Illinois - 29.25
5. BYU - 27.00
6. Rice - 26.44
7. Jacksonville State - 26.00
8. Florida International - 25.94
9. Connecticut - 25.91
10. East Carolina - 25.70
34. USC - 22.47
118. Nebraska - 16.65
133. Army - 11.83

KICKOFF RETURN DEFENSE
1. Arizona - 0.00 ypr
2. Memphis - 11.33
3. Tennessee - 12.25
4. Baylor - 12.58
5. Virginia - 13.81
6. Hawaii - 14.28
7. Central Michigan - 14.67
8. Arizona State - 15.67
8. Mississippi - 15.67
10. TCU - 15.74
74. Nebraska - 19.94
129. USC - 27.50
133. Massachusetts - 31.64

TURNOVER MARGIN
1. James Madison (+18)
2. California (+16)
3. Minnesota (+12)
3. UNLV (+12)
3. Notre Dame (+12)
6. Tulane (+11)
6. Duke (+11)
6. Clemson (+11)
6. Army (+11)
62. Nebraska (0)
81. USC (-2)
133. Southern Mississippi (-17)

PENALTY YARDS PER GAME
1. Rutgers - 29.56 ypg
2. Iowa - 29.70
3. Iowa State - 30.22
4. Wisconsin - 30.67
5. West Virginia - 32.22
6. Kent State - 32.44
7. Air Force - 35.11
8. Oklahoma State - 37.40
9. Illinois - 38.22
9. Western Kentucky - 38.22
48. USC - 48.22
92. Nebraska - 58.67
133. Texas-San Antonio - 86.67

AVERAGE TIME OF POSSESSION
1. Oregon State - 35:06
2. Army - 34:52
3. Tulane - 34:49
4. Syracuse - 33:16
5. Memphis - 33:10
6. Miami (FL) - 33:09
7. Utah - 33:07
8. Air Force - 33:01
9. Massachusetts - 32:46
10. Northern Illinois - 32:42
24. Nebraska - 31:47
54. USC - 30:37
133. East Carolina - 24:26

November 12
Oregon 80, Portland 70 (OT)
#1 Kansas 77, Michigan State 69
Penn State 92, St. Francis 62
Northwestern 83, Illinois-Chicago 74
Iowa 96, South Dakota 77

Standings
Iowa (3-0)
Maryland (3-0)
Oregon (3-0)
Penn State (3-0)
Purdue (3-0)
Wisconsin (3-0)
Nebraska (2-0)
Illinois (2-0)
Indiana (2-0)
Minnesota (2-0)
Ohio State (2-0)
Rutgers (2-0)
USC (2-0)
Michigan State (2-1)
Northwestern (2-1)
UCLA (2-1)
Michigan (1-1)
Washington (1-1)

Games for Wednesday, November 13
North Texas at Minnesota (7:00 PM - BTN+)
Fairleigh Dickinson at Nebraska (7:00 PM - BTN+)
Oakland at Illinois (8:00 PM - BTN)
Texas-Arlington at USC (10:00 PM - BTN)