Indiana has destroyed everyone they've played. I'm not saying they are unbeatable but their closest game is a 14 pt win over Maryland.
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FIU (2-3)
W. Illinois (2-3)
UCLA (1-4)
Charlotte (3-3)
Maryland (3-2)
Northwestern (2-3)
So their crowning achievement is a 14 pt victory over 3-2 Maryland.
Haha!
The only way it is even close to "packed" is if 15k Husker fans show up.
This would be a road game that I would like to go, the fans are nice, they are not going to be lame, they know they suck at FB so they are just there to have fun.
Their tailgating and bar scene seem about as laidback and chill as it could be.
I have not been to Bloomington yet but pregame is totally more tailgating, right? Not so much the bar scene?
Something interesting about Nebraska's run game:
Last season they finished the year with a top 25 rushing offense, but only 16 rushing TDs.
This season they are on pace for 22 to 24 rushing TDs.
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Love this stat. The Frost years and last year were so painful. Take care of the damn ball. Take the ball away. Win the game. Dylan has been so important in making the right decisions and not turning the ball over.
QB run game is also ZERO this year. Last year, I believe it was the majority? or at least a much bigger factor
Yeah def more tailgating, there are large fields across from the stadium and assembly hall. If you get a chance I would encourage everyone to go to a game, Bloomington in a true college town and has a great campus.
With all that said I hope Nebraska wins by 21+. #GBR
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I am totally down for going, wish I would have set it up for this year!
Maryland beat Villanova, UConn, and Virginia. Their remaining schedule will make it very difficult to achieve bowl eligibility. They might be a tad better than NW but it's close. The rest of their games they will be underdogs.
Bottom line is Indiana scored a lot of points but they have played the easiest possible schedule in the Big 10 to get to 6-0.
History also shows that when great offenses go up against great defenses, the defense tends to win. When the statistically incredible OU team of 2008 played the best defense it faced all year by far in Florida in the championship they scored 14 points.
If NU can play a complete game of 4 quarters I like our chances. Hopefully that point spread provides some extra motivation.
I have not looked at stats but isn't IU similar to CU? Just with a worse QB and worse WR's?
I believe Kurtis Rourke is a good QB. Not close to the draft projections of Sanders. Has he faced real pressure this year? No. There is a huge difference between standing in a clean pocket all game and picking apart the opposition versus having to scramble.
Their WR room is also not the level of CU's, which includes Travis Hunter who could be a first round pick as a receiver. I don't think any team on our schedule is as talented at receiver except Ohio State. Actually Sanders is a vastly better passer than Will Howard.
Don’t want to put too much weight on just one game but the whole Rhule 3 yr rebuild narrative is going to be a tough pill to swallow if Indiana who only won a single conf game last yr beats us to go 7-0 with a first year coach whose head coaching resume reads IUP-ELON-James Madison
I agree.
The "rebuild" thing is what a lot of coaches push so that they can get more time. Especially now with the transfer portal it is really hard to pretend that you need 3 years to get good ESPECIALLY if in year 1-2 you are playing a bunch of dudes that are 23 years old.
Years ago when a new HS opened up out by me, this guy I was coaching with who was a fantastic HC and is no retired said that if he took that job, he would pretty much start all 9th and 10th graders on varsity, let them take their lumps and in 3 years, they would beat the shit out of teams. Makes a lot of sense.
NU is playing dudes that should have been gone already. Nash, Robinson, Bullock and so one. Even on the OL you got some old dudes.
Lose this game and we’ll no doubt soon be sitting in the same position we were in last year - 5-3 with four winnable games remaining in November.
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Yep, a lot of folks around here have bought into it as well. Like it's some sort of armor to protect people against criticism. There's no reason for 3 or 5 year plans at this point.
ONE word. SCALPERS. They know Husker fans will pay up for tickets OR some booster decided to keep the Husker fans out by buying up the seats and giving them away to IU fans. We'll see if the stadium is actually full of IU fans.
Nebraska announced the move to the B1G on Sunday July 11th 2010. I was in Bloomington for business the following week and the sports bar across the street from campus already had a Huskers banner hanging with all the other B1G school banners. I always thought that was really cool.
IU doesn’t have a Travis Hunter, but otherwise I’d say they’re pretty comparable. But that’s JMO from watching a few of their games.
Agreed, will ultimately depend on how the rest of the year goes. Win 3 out of OSU, USC, UCLA, Wisconsin and iowa and I think most be ok with year 2 of a 3 year Rhule rebuild. But the knee jerk reaction to an Indiana loss will not be pretty, people will be questioning everything.
I don't think I have seen one play from IU this year. In fact, I am not sure if I can remember the last time I saw them on TV when they were not playing NU...
When was Antwan Randel El at IU????
I watched a few of their games on YouTube. Only cause NU plays them and they’re 6-0. If they were normal 2-4 Indiana I probably wouldn’t have watched a snap outside of highlights on ESPN/B1G Final Drive.
It’s more that the room for error is so low. If they lose against both Indiana and OSU they will be sitting at 5-3. That’s the same record they had entering November of last year, you think UCLA is a win but nothing is guaranteed. Then games against USC, Wisconsin, and Iowa are all pick’em games IMO.
Most of the players that are performing at Indiana are transfers and seniors
Top 2 rushers, one from Wake Forest, the other from JMU. both seniors
QB - transfer from Ohio, also a senior
WR - leading receiver transfer from JMU - a junior
- 3rd leading receiver transfer from Texas Tech - senior
so of the top 6 skill position players on the team, 4 are seniors, 1 junior and 1 soph. Only the sophomore WR was at Indiana last season.
Unless the coach has recruited or has transfers that will pick up where those players leave off, they could very easily not be great next season. The Indiana coach appears to be more of a Deion Sanders type of rebuild in year 1 than what Rhule is doing at Nebraska.
Comparing the 2 styles of rebuild is probably not all that worthwhile.
What if we were to lose to Indiana, but somehow pull off an upset against Ohio State?
Would y'all take that? Or would you rather "beat who we should beat" and take the L against the athletically superior team?
Would y'all take that? Or would you rather "beat who we should beat" and take the L against the athletically superior team?
I'd take that. I take wins. I don't care who they are against. Just keep winning.
I’d take that, but that doesn’t mean I won’t piss and moan the week after Indiana.
Was coming to say this same thing but without the data. Let the season play out. Indiana might win 9 or 10 (or more?) this year, but they will disappear again and will be back to winning 4 games year in and year out starting next year.
Sounds similar to Mel Tucker at MSU. He had one good year with Kenneth Walker and then face planted the next year.
Yeah every time I've blindly held Nebraska up as a comparison to some other Cinderella team it's gone well.
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