USC goes down to the fighting Flecks, Alabama takes it up the ass from Vanderbilt, & Washington gets there revenge against Michigan. Only thing that could’ve made it better is if Sub-Prime didn’t have a bye week, and got smoked by Kansas State this week, rather than next…..

God I love college football !






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After six straight weekends of football, Nebraska is enjoying its first of two bye weeks on the schedule. Matt Rhule is expected to hold his weekly Monday press conference today at around noon. This will "likely" be the only media availability with the football program this week.

I'll provide any notable updates in this thread.

...that is all

After watching 6 games so far in my opinion we really need receivers who can get separation from DB's. We have good wr's just not elite and that's what is needed before Nebraska takes the next big step. Yes we have some nice small receivers who can do well on reverses and short patterns but we need those tall wide outs who are elite. Don't get me wrong I'm happy with the progress this team has made I just hope we can get some seriously gifted wr's soon in order to reach our lofty goals of becoming dominate. jmo

If we are talking high end recruiting/organizational aspects/marketing the "N" brand nationally & consistently - that's Cally

scheming defense & overall in game management of clock & turnovers, etc. - Pelini

"Player's Coach" - good dude, S&C, etc. - Solich

Frost ... thankfully NONE of the body language - in fact the total opposite in every facet, great job AD!

Have your thoughts changed from preseason poll?

Tuesday football returns this week

Sorted by Date/Time. All times Central. All rankings from AP Poll

BYE WEEK
Arkansas
Auburn
Baylor
Boston College
Charlotte
Connecticut (Bye Week)
Duke
East Carolina
Florida State
Houston
#18t Indiana
Kansas
Kennesaw State
#6 Miami (FL)
#24 Michigan
Michigan State
Navy
Nebraska
Oklahoma State
Sam Houston State
South Alabama
#25 Southern Methodist
TCU
Temple
#15 Texas A&M
Texas Tech
Troy
Tulane
Tulsa
Virginia Tech

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TUESDAY - OCTOBER 8

6:00 PM
Florida International at Liberty (CBS Sports Network)

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WEDNESDAY - OCTOBER 9

6:30 PM
New Mexico State at Jacksonville State (ESPN2)

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THURSDAY - OCTOBER 10

6:30 PM
Coastal Carolina at James Madison (ESPN2)

7:00 PM
Middle Tennessee State at Louisiana Tech (CBS Sports Network)
Texas-El Paso at Western Kentucky (ESPNU)

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FRIDAY - OCTOBER 11

6:00 PM
Memphis at South Florida (ESPN)

7:00 PM
Northwestern at Maryland (FOX)

8:00 PM
UNLV at Utah State (CBS Sports Network)

9:30 PM
#16 Utah at Arizona State (ESPN)

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SATURDAY - OCTOBER 12

11:00 AM
Alabama-Birmingham at Army (CBS Sports Network)
Ball State at Kent State (ESPN+)
#10 Clemson at Wake Forest (ESPN)
Georgia Tech at North Carolina (The CW)
#21 Missouri at Massachusetts (ESPN2)
South Carolina at #7 Alabama (ABC)
Toledo at Buffalo (ESPNU)
Washington at Iowa (FOX)
Wisconsin at Rutgers (Big Ten Network)

1:00 PM
Miami (OH) at Eastern Michigan (ESPN+)

2:30 PM
Akron at Western Michigan (ESPN+)
California at #22 Pittsburgh (ESPN)
Cincinnati at Central Florida (ESPN2)
Louisville at Virginia (ACC Network)
Northern Illinois at Bowling Green (ESPN+)
Old Dominion at Georgia State (ESPN+)
#4 Penn State at USC (CBS)
Purdue at #23 Illinois (FOX Sports 1)
San Diego State at Wyoming (CBS Sports Network)
Stanford at #11t Notre Dame (NBC)
#1 Texas vs. #18t Oklahoma (at Dallas) (ABC)

3:00 PM
Arizona at #14 BYU (FOX)
Ohio at Central Michigan (ESPNU)

3:15 PM
Mississippi State at #5 Georgia (SEC Network)

3:30 PM
San Jose State at Colorado State (truTV)

4:00 PM
Southern Mississippi at Louisiana-Monroe (ESPN+)

6:00 PM
Air Force at New Mexico (truTV)
Arkansas State at Texas State (ESPN+)
Florida at #8 Tennessee (ESPN)
North Texas at Florida Atlantic (ESPN2)
Texas-San Antonio at Rice (ESPN+)
Washington State at Fresno State (FOX Sports 1)

6:30 PM
Appalachian State at Louisiana-Lafayette (ESPN+)
#9 Mississippi at #13 LSU (ABC)
#2 Ohio State at #3 Oregon (NBC)
Oregon State at Nevada (CBS Sports Network)

6:45 PM
Vanderbilt at Kentucky (SEC Network)

7:00 PM
#11t Iowa State at West Virginia (FOX)
Marshall at Georgia Southern (ESPNU)
Syracuse at North Carolina State (ACC Network)

8:00 PM
Minnesota at UCLA (Big Ten Network)

9:15 PM
#18t Kansas State at Colorado (ESPN)

10:00 PM
#17 Boise State at Hawaii (CBS Sports Network)

come, kickoff…




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Has been mentally good all year until today. Let’s hope this is a huge learning game for him.

October 8
1869 - Franklin Pierce, the 14th president of the United States, died in Concord, New Hampshire.

1871 - The Great Fire of Chicago started, killing more than 300 and destroying more than 17,000 buildings over three days; the same day in Peshtigo, Wisconsin, the worst forest fire in U.S. history also began.

1934 - Bruno Hauptmann was indicted for the murder of Charles Lindbergh's baby.

1945 - President Harry S. Truman announced the U.S. would share the secret of the atomic bomb only with Great Britain and Canada.

1997 - Scientists reported the Mars Pathfinder had yielded what could be the strongest evidence yet that Mars might once have been hospitable to life.

2002 - A federal judge approved President George W. Bush’s request to reopen West Coast ports, ending a 10-day labor lockout that was costing the U.S. economy an estimated $1 billion to $2 billion a day.

2004 - Martha Stewart began her prison sentence at Alderson Federal Prison Camp.

2005 - A 7.6-magnitude earthquake in Pakistan killed more than 80,000 and injured another 65,000.
2016 - Donald Trump vowed to continue his campaign after many Republicans called on him to abandon his presidential bid in the wake of the release of a 2005 video in which he made lewd remarks about women and appeared to condone sexual assault.

2020 - Authorities in Michigan said six men had been charged with conspiring to kidnap Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in reaction to what they viewed as her “uncontrolled power.”

2022 - An explosion caused the partial collapse of a bridge linking the Crimean Peninsula with Russia, damaging an important supply artery for the Kremlin’s war effort in southern Ukraine.

Birthdays
27 - Bella Thorne (actress/singer)
28 - Kylee Russell (actress)
31 - Angus T. Jones (actor)
31 - Barbara Palvin (model)
39 - Bruno Mars (singer)
44 - Nick Cannon (actor/TV host)
44 - Mike "The Miz" Mizanin (professional wrestler)
54 - Matt Damon (actor)
57 - Teddy Riley (singer)
58 - Karyn Parsons (actress)
63 - Kim Wayans (actress)
69 - Darrell Hammond (actor/comedian)
69 - Bill Elliott (race car driver)
74 - Robert "Kool" Bell (musician)
75 - Sigourney Weaver (actress)
81 - R.L. Stine (author)
81 - Chevy Chase (actor/comedian)
83 - Jesse Jackson (civil rights activist)
85 - Paul Hogan (actor)

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Today in Sports History - October 8

1922 - The New York Giants defeat the New York Yankees in five games to win the World Series.

1927 - The New York Yankees sweep the Pittsburgh Pirates to win the World Series.

1930 - The Philadelphia Athletics defeat the St. Louis Cardinals in six games to win the World Series.

1939 - The New York Yankees sweep the Cincinnati Reds to win the World Series.

1940 - The Cincinnati Reds defeat the Detroit Tigers in seven games to win the World Series.

1956 - Don Larsen of the New York Yankees pitched the first and only perfect game in a World Series in a 2-0 win over the Brooklyn Dodgers.

1957 - The Brooklyn Baseball Club announced that it had accepted a deal to move the Dodgers to Los Angeles.

1959 - The Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the Chicago White Sox in six games to win the World Series.

1975 - The San Antonio Spurs, then members of the ABA, defeat the NBA's Atlanta Hawks 109-107 in the first basketball game ever played in the Louisiana Superdome.

1982 - The New Jersey Devils record their first victory, a 3-2 win over the New York Rangers.

1995 - Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino breaks Fran Tarkenton's NFL career completions record.

2009 - The UFL (United Football League) began it's first season with four teams.

2018 - New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees becomes the NFL's all-time passing yardage leader with 71,940 yards, breaking the mark held by Peyton Manning.

I was going over our remaining games and I was trying to figure out what our record would be in those six. I would be more than happy to go 3-3 and end this year with a regular season record of 8-4.

I know we only need one more win in order to go to a bowl but I would be pretty unhappy with a 6-6 record because that would put us in a pretty lame bowl and that's not good enough. I'm not going to break down each game in terms of win or loss because there will be surprises that could go either way.

The MVP of Nebraska's win over Rutgers has been honored as such: Brian Buschini is the Big Ten Special Teams Player of the Week. Fairly rare honor as Buschini is just the second punter to earn the award this season through six weeks. The honor marks Buschini’s first Big Ten Weekly honor and the second of the season for Nebraska, as Dylan Raiola was named Freshman of the Week following NU’s season-opening win against UTEP.

Buschini is the third Husker to earn the Big Ten's Special Teams POTW honor in the last three seasons: Quinton Newsome for his blocked FGA returned for a TD against Purdue in Oct. 2023 and Malcolm Hartzog for his blocked punt returned for a TD against Indiana in 2022.

Buschini, a senior from Helena, Mont., averaged 50.2 yards per punt on five punts, including a pair of 60-yarders in Nebraska’s 14-7 win over Rutgers. Buschini placed two of his punts inside the 20-yard line, including a season-long 69-yard punt that put the Scarlet Knights on their own 11-yard line with 2:17 remaining. It marked his longest punt since the 2022 season. Buschini also completed his first career pass, executing a fake punt for a 30-yard completion to Jaylen Lloyd in the third quarter.

On the season, Buschini is averaging 47.6 yards per punt, including placing eight of his 18 kicks inside the opponent 20-yard line.

From the Big Ten press release (LINK)

Special Teams Player of the Week
Brian Buschini, Nebraska
P – Sr. – Helena, Mont. – Capital

• Averaged 50.2 yards on five punts, including punts of 61 yards (into 25 mph wind) and 69 yards, to help the Huskers defeat Rutgers, 14-7
• His 69-yard punt pinned Rutgers inside their own 15-yard line in the game's final minutes and helped Nebraska secure the victory
• Also chipped in with his arm, throwing a 30-yard completion on a fake punt in the third quarter to extend a Nebraska drive
• Last Nebraska Special Teams Players of the Week: Quinton Newsome (Oct. 30, 2023)

Nebraska (5-1, 2-1) is not ranked in the latest AP Poll. The Huskers had 51 votes, the most outside of USC's 98, so they're at No. 27 now. Indiana comes in at No. 18.

Here are the full rankings:


Nebraska also comes in at No. 27 in the Coaches Poll:

Full rankings:

Insightful episode with @Greg Smith

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The first NCAA RPi rankings came out this morning.

1. Nebraska (14-1)
2. Louisville (12-2)
3. Pittsburgh (14-0)
4. Penn State (14-1)
5. Stanford (11-2)
6. Creighton (13-2)
7. Texas (9-3)
8. Wisconsin (9-4)
9. TCU (11-3)
10. Kansas (12-1)
11. Southern Methodist (12-3)
12. USC (11-3)
13. Oregon (11-2)
14. Auburn (13-2)
15. Baylor (10-4)
16. Purdue (12-3)
17. Kentucky (9-6)
18. Utah (13-2)
19. North Carolina (12-1)
20. Washington (13-1)
21. Florida State (11-3)
22. Texas A&M (11-2)
23. Minnesota (9-5)
24. Dayton (14-1)
25. Arizona State (14-2)
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26. Illinois (9-5)
36. Indiana (9-5)
37. Michigan (13-2)
66. UCLA (7-6)
68. Ohio State (7-7)
87. Michigan State (7-8)
94. Iowa (8-8)
103. Maryland (10-5)
193. Rutgers (5-10)
194. Northwestern (3-9)

Isn't going away anytime soon.
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News:

Analysis:

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Ohio St is #1

There is no clear #2 at this point. Buckle up buttercup! NFM