I surely would've been watching Wyoming vs Boise if it was the BCS or four team era. Imagine how much better it's going to be when you have a team in the fight. Like a two loss Nebraska vs two loss Iowa.

Both teams down to 2nd or 3rd string QBs and both teams just throwing it around. Dowdle 8 carries for 50 yds but let’s not run it. Make it make sense.

Interesting development just over a week out from Signing Day, 2025 three-star tight end Bear Tenney has backed off his pledge to Nebraska. Had a quiet senior season and from what I've been able to gather, this is a bit of a mutual parting of ways, like Bryson Hayes' was.

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Nebraska at Iowa Game Preview, Prediction
by Pete Fiutak, CollegeFootballNews.com


Okay fine. Is it really a rivalry if one side keeps beating on the other?

Nebraska won three of the first four meetings when these two started playing around Thanksgiving weekend, but Iowa has won eight of the last nine including a 13-10 thriller last year to keep the Huskers out of a bowl game -- again.

That came after the Huskers pulled off a shocker in 2022 to keep the Hawkeyes out of the Big Ten Championship Game.

This time there's no Big Ten title dream for either side to worry about, and for the first time since 2016 there's no bowl game for Nebraska to be stressed about -- it blasted Wisconsin last week to finally get a six-win season.

Now it's about these two jockeying for bowl position -- and bragging rights in one of college football's newest fun rivalries.

Nebraska (6-5) at Iowa (7-4)
Friday, November 29 - 6:30 PM (CT) - NBC

Why Nebraska Will Win
Well that's how it's all supposed to work.

Wisconsin might not be all that great, but who cares? Nebraska showed off a real, live offense with new offensive coordinator Dana Holgorsen kicking it all in.

The 473 yards against the Badgers were by a mile the most the team came up with since the blowout win over UTEP in the season opener.

The biggest key last week was a strong, physical ground game that took the pressure off QB Dylan Raiola. Nebraska is 5-1 when running for more than 4.3 yards per carry, but .........

Why Iowa Will Win
.......Iowa is good at bashing away on teams that aren't used to being bashed on.

It ripped through the Badgers for 329 rushing yards, ran through Minnesota and Washington, and on the year Kaleb Johnson and the Hawkeyes rumbled for 200 yards or more in every game but three -- Iowa lost all of them.

The Huskers have an active defensive front that's great at getting around the ball, but the Iowa is 6-0 when running for 220 yards or more.

What Will Happen
Can the Iowa ground game really get rumbling?

The Iowa defense is still great at forcing takeaways, and it'll come up with at least two, likely three, and Kaleb Johnson will take care of the rest.

Nebraska will keep this close and tight, but once again it'll come down to the final five minutes and a big kick. The Hawkeyes will grind out the big drive needed to pull this out.

Prediction
Iowa 23, Nebraska 17

Spread
Iowa is favored at home by 5.5 points. The over/under is set at 39.5 points.

LINK

Murray wears tape on her left hand during matches. She marks the pinky finger with an “8” to honor Rodriguez, a guiding light for Harper, and the ring finger with “27,” the Murray family number. On the index finger, Harper writes “JC,” the initials of her coach.

We've got a couple of pretty influential captains.

Minnesota def. Illinois (20-25, 25-18, 25-22, 27-25)
Indiana def. Michigan (25-22, 25-27, 25-18, 25-21)
UCLA def. Iowa (25-23, 25-11, 23-25, 25-15)
Michigan State def. Northwestern (25-16, 25-22, 29-31, 25-12)
Wisconsin def. Ohio State (25-23, 25-14, 21-25, 24-26, 15-12)
Penn State def. Rutgers (25-12, 25-22, 25-20)
Purdue def. Oregon (19-25, 22-25, 29-27, 25-23, 15-13)
USC def. Washington (17-25, 25-21, 25-19, 25-10)

Standings
1. Nebraska (28-1, 18-0)
2. Penn State (28-2, 18-1)
3. Wisconsin (22-6, 16-3)
4. Purdue (24-6, 15-4)
5. Oregon (21-7, 13-6)
6. Minnesota (19-10, 12-7)
6. USC (20-9, 12-7)
8. Illinois (18-11, 10-9)
9. Washington (19-10, 9-10)
10. UCLA (14-14, 8-11)
11. Indiana (14-15, 7-12)
11. Michigan (17-13, 7-12)
11. Ohio State (14-15, 7-12)
14. Michigan State (13-17, 6-13)
15. Maryland (13-16, 4-14)
16. Iowa (10-21, 4-15)
17. Northwestern (5-22, 3-16)
18. Rutgers (6-24, 1-18)

Nebraska can win the Big Ten title outright with a win over Penn State on Friday. With a loss to Penn State, the Huskers would have to beat Maryland to claim a co-championship with the Nittany Lions.

Matches for Friday, November 29
Oregon at UCLA
Nebraska at Penn State (4:00 PM - BTN)
Ohio State at Minnesota
Illinois at Indiana
Maryland at Rutgers
Northwestern at Michigan
Purdue at Washington
Iowa at USC

Matches for Saturday, November 30
Michigan State at Wisconsin
Nebraska at Maryland (6:00 PM - BTN)

GBR!!!

From listening to Dana describe the scenario with coming in to fix things, he basically said we were doing too much and trying to be so complex that nothing could be worked on enough to become good at it.

Smaller playlist with the ability to run things well seems to be the reason for a major part of the improvement. You could see Raiola overthinking things for sure holding the ball and taking sacks.

His quote of saying I have a one page play sheet and if it isn’t run well in practice it doesn’t make the list was awesome.

Play 6 regular season games to determine the seeding for a 134 team playoffs. No one can complain about being left out.

They rushed the ball 57 times! last week ... we HAVE to be sharp in the run game

Can our offense pass block again like they did against Wisky, Iowa will blitz Raiola early & often IMO ...

looking for others thoughts on this ... haven't watched Iowa much this year

GBR

2026 DB with speed, length and ball-hawk ability

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Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours! Hope it’s a great day for all of you bowl-bound Husker fans…

If you’re celebrating with family and would like discussion points between bites, if you’re flying solo throughout the day, if you’re at your in-laws and would like an excuse to interact with them minimally as to not put your foot in your mouth — and all situations in between — here’s some Thanksgiving Day content for the lot of ya’s:

Login to view embedded media -The team had flu and strep throat going around last week-Ceyair Wright was struggling physically vs. Wisconsin due to illness-Tomorrow we will practice like it’s a Wednesday-Hopes the team is hungry to get another win-Iowa is a difficult opponent to prepare for-Lessons of the game are lessons of the season - can’t fumble the ball on the 20-yard line vs Iowa-The guys who practiced the best last week played-If guys didn’t execute in practice, Dana took them out-“Dana is demanding they execute if they want to get on the field”-He also scaled back what we were doing, making it less complex for the offense-Iowa has always been the premier outside zone run team-There hasn’t been a game our guys haven’t wanted to win-Never doubted their effort-Offensively, our guys were relaxed vs. Wisconsin-We’re giving up too many big passing plays-The game vs. Iowa will come down to football, not the weather-Dylan Raiola was better this game as he was healthy and able to move around more effectively-“Playing as a freshman is really really hard”-He has gotten better every week, and this week it was really easy to see-It’s hard to believe when it hasn’t worked, and now it’s starting to work-Thomas Fidone’s 2 total snaps was a result of coaches decision, not injury related-Luke Lindenmeyer has accelerated since Dana arrived-Fidone had a great practice out there today-Dana is blunt with every position, you aren’t going to play if you don’t execute-Malcolm Hartzog was out there today and ready to go-Malachi Coleman will enter the transfer portal-Turner Corcoran will likely be ready for bowl practice-Dana Holgerson is thoughtful, insightful, and methodical-Want to allow our guys to go out there and execute-When the grass fields are workable, we always try and practice outside-“We’re not going to hand the football to Ty Robinson any time soon”-Ty Robinson has been dominant and should be up for every accolade - “he’s the total package”-Coach Rhule is unsure what happened with Donovan Raiola and the cop during postgame Wisconsin

“Fill in the blanks: The Nebraska football team finished the 2022 season with a streak of __________ consecutive games without being shut out. The last time the Huskers went scoreless in a game was in ______.”

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1996

Auburn-Bama? Yawn.
Kansas State-Iowa State? tired

UConn-UMass? Yes.
New Mexico-Hawaii? WIRED

Our CFB Week 14 staff picks ATS + final score predictions for Nebraska’s win against Iowa.

Ope, sorry, Nebraska’s game against Iowa 😏

Nebraska. Iowa.

Black Friday. Bold Predictions.

Enjoy the three "Fs"..watching Football, eating Food, and hunting Feasants!

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No Whorns.
Iowa still sucks!!

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