That is a blow

9 penalties for 89 yards and the two personal foul 15 yard’s were just killers last night.
Timely penalties keep Illini drives alive..

We need to be a lot more disciplined we now have 28 penalties for 273 yards after 4 games..

Was disappointing that Illinois didn’t get any holding calls which were obvious from where I was seating..😡

How is it that both consistently seem to recruit better and have better teams than we do ? Ever been to either of those places ? Just amazing ...

Players and coaches alike unfortunately bought into their own hype, believing Illinois was just going to roll over cause they said boo. There was no sense of urgency in all three phases of the game and that ultimately falls on HCMR. With all that said I don’t think this loss defines the season, the team that beat Colorado was not the team that showed up to play last night.

Let’s hang 60 on Purdon’t.

Earlier in the week their was an X floating around showing 7 of the old Big 8 teams ranked. That didn't last long.

7 Missouri won in OT over Vandy 30-27
13 Kansas State lost to BYU 38-9
14 Oklahoma State lost to 12 Utah 22-19
15 Oklahoma lost to 6 Tennessee 25-15
20 Iowa State won over Arkansas State 52-7
22 Nebraska lost in OT to 24 Illinois 31-24
Previously ranked Kansas lost to West Virginia 32-28
Colorado beat Baylor in OT 38-31

Not a good showing for the old conference.

Pretty straightforward

Just saw the refs call and illegal formation Marshall when they just recovered a muffed punt inside OSU’s 10 yard line. Appeared that the ref threw the flag after the play? WTF? One or two of Marshall’s lineman were slightly off the LOS. But I’ve seen far worse not called. Next play… Judkins for an 80 yd TD.

Marshall ain’t winning this game period. But that call was shady AF…

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We are 4 games into the year and so far:

- Raiola has as many passing yards (967) and one more TD than our leading passer last year, HH

- Dowdell is on pace to pass last years rushing leader, HH, by about the OSU game, working an essentially part time load most of the way

- Neyors 277 yards so far would be second on 2023s team and currently would be the leader in TDs.

- One guy had 60+ tackles last year. We are currently on pace for 4 this year.

- Currently on pace for one more sack this year than last.

- On pace for 3 more ints than last year

Almost all of these are "yeah no shit" stats or projections, but it shows plenty that there is progress being made. It's not going to be a straight line to success, but the team that has lost one game so far to a ranked team is undoubtedly better than the 5 win team we rolled out last year. So relax and wait more than one game to throw out hyperbolic hot takes on the entire season.

About to kick off. Packed house again. Husker ball first.

That's concerning. Without Raiola, we would have been taken to the slaughterhouse. Credit to Bielema for developing his lines better and faster than we can. Altmyer and Pat Bryant are good too. But 2-20 vs ranked teams? Does Rhule need to re-evaluate how he gets his teams emotionally prepared?

We got outplayed by a good team that is well coached. Just trying to get ahead of the Chicken Little festival that’s about to happen. Didn’t finish with a W but this team has more than the last several seasons. We will bounce back and win some of these close games. 3-1 with many winnable games on the schedule. Cut the sh!t. This isn’t a 5 win team. Illinois will lose next week and the Huskers will get a W. Long season. Sleep it off.

What happened to him?
Did he have it when he gave up that first td?

What the heck? Both sides of the ball completely unglued.

I’m sick of seeing those who see us play bad immediately turn on the team, coaches etc. stfu. We have holes in the defense, we have offensive line issues and real concerns on special teams. Those holes will cost us games. Like tonight. But, you can’t fix them overnight. Rhule has already made Nebraska relevant. Dylan is a future NFL pick and our program is headed in the right direction.

Tonight sucked. But, stop being little bitches.

Funny how a QB who can throw accurately, a line that can block, receivers who can get open, and multiple players who don't turn the ball over can make a perceived marginal OC look like a good OC. I wasn't too keen on the wide passes to Fidone, but I'm sitting here racking my brain about calls I didn't like and I can't really think of any. It is possible they put the TE passes on film to set Colorado up for faking the throw to the TE and having the wideouts hold a block for a couple counts and race down the field. When HH got in I wished they would have run an option and let him keep, but they probably don't want him to get banged up unnecessarily. I was hard on Satt sometimes last year starting in the Minnesota game (not running when it was working), so I have to give credit where credit is due and say he called a good game.

Did you think it was a TD or INT

I am not sure how the rule is written but

- The ball was pinned to his facemask as he crossed the line. Isn’t the play dead after that? TD

- also they called it a TD on the field, should’ve been harder to overturn

- Brando and Gardner were awful all night

Has been impressive as hell to me, I knew he would be good but not this good. Imagine him at OSU or Georgia . I really hope we can get him what he needs sooner than later. Dude be like ....

Tony White made him look great...

Dylan is fantastic and carried the team yesterday. But I think there are times we can and should use Haarberg. Case in point, that 3rd down where the TE didn't catch up to Raiola's throw. I didn't like the call no matter what. We should have run the ball or gone with a short pass to keep the drive going and use up the rest of the clock. Even with a TD there Illinois gets the ball back. The whole point should be to use up all the clock necessary to get the field goal or TD for the win with no time left.
Why not bring Haarberg in to run an option there? Even just having him come in for a play probably results in Illinois using a timeout because it's an obvious unexpected wrinkle. I could easily see an option run on that 3rd down getting 10+ yards against a defense that was unprepared for it. Haarberg gives us a running QB weapon that we ought to use moe as this season progresses and the weather changes.
Even if that play worked (and I could also see that pass dropped in the endzone) I still did not like the call.

Tony needs to reevaluate how he defends quick passes. Last two opponents exposed the weakness of the defense. Carryover from last year. He is unable to get off the field on 3rd downs. Felt like every 3rd and long resulted in a 12-20 yd pass completion. There was very little pressure on the QB's form the last 2 games. Rhule may want a 4 man rush, but this is not working. The defense made Altmyer look like a Hypesman Trophy player.

DR is the real deal. I tried not to drink the kool-aide on him and wanted to see him in action before commenting. What impressed me most was the anger in his eyes when they settled for the first field goal. He was not happy but there was determination his eyes to not let that happen again. He played a solid game, too bad the defense did not compliment his game play.

The team needs to get over the mental hump of stupid penalties. This rose its ugly head again last night and cost them points, again...

It's still about one to two years away from being a good, consistent team.

Rhule needs to break the defense down and start back from scratch, the opponents have figured out the 335 defense.

It's a process that needs to happen, I just need to be patient.

This loss is on the defense. Illinois much more physical and our defense was soft as Charmin tonight. White out coached all night. Guess we don't have to worry about being rated and signing too many 5 stars.

On the Buschini punt in the fourth quarter...

How does that happen?

Did he simply just make a mental mistake and kick it to the wrong side of the field?

Or, did he do what he was supposed to do and the coverage unit messed up?

This happened in 2021 against Michigan State.

Mind boggling to me that this happens to a P5 team at all let alone twice in the last 3 years.

Wanted to give a shout out to the local kid out of Creighton Prep.

He has really developed into a great player, and is playing his ass off this season for our Huskers.

Love his passion, intensity, and want to on every down. These are the kinds of players and leaders that winning programs can build around as their play becomes infectious among their teammates.

Leads the team in tackles, tackles for loss, sacks, forced fumbles, and pass break ups so far this season and he stuffed the stat sheet once again last night as he was all over the field making physical plays.

So I must not understand the rules correctly because my thought was there was a catch, there was a foot in bounds, and the ball crossed the goal line.....which is a touchdown.

The fact that anything happened after that seems irrelevant.

Isn't the play over when the ball is possessed in the end zone?

What if the ball was rushed into the end zone and then taken away?

What if the receiver had the ball and then crossed the goal line before it was stripped?

I don't see why the play wasn't a TD as soon as his foot dragged in the endzone while it was in the receiver's hands.

Looking for an explanation if you can help.