(BAND MUSIC) - IT WAS A DRAMA FILLED GAME AND THE WIN OVER MARYLAND, AND NOW A DRAMA FILLED WEEK WITH THE PENN STATE JOB BEING OPEN.

WE'LL BREAK IT ALL DOWN.

COMING UP NEXT ON BIG RED WRAP-UP.

(UPBEAT MUSIC) HI EVERYONE.

I'M MIKE'L SEVERE, AND WELCOME TO BIG RED WRAP-UP ON NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA.

A LOT TO BREAK DOWN THE NIGHT AFTER A CLOSE WIN AND A BUNCH OF DRAMA.

WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU, THE VIEWER AS WELL.

YOU CAN CONNECT WITH US ON FACEBOOK AND X. OUR BIG RED WRAP-UP PAGE WITH QUESTIONS.

YOU CAN ALSO EMAIL OR TEXT US AT NEBRASKAPUBLICMEDIA.ORG.

AND OUR PHONES ARE ALWAYS STANDING BY READY TO TAKE YOUR CALLS.

AT THE END OF THE SHOW WILL ANSWER AS MANY OF YOUR QUESTIONS AS TIME PERMITS.

NOW IT'S TIME FOR OUR SIDELINE SURVEYS.

LAST WEEK WE ASKED YOU WITH NEBRASKA ON THE ROAD, WHICH ARE THE BIG TEN GAME WOULD YOU MOST LIKELY TO WATCH ON SATURDAY?

OHIO STATE AT 32%.

BUT THE WINNER WAS INDIANA AT OREGON.

THE BIG UPSET BY INDIANA OVER OREGON 34%.

THIS WEEK'S QUESTION IS COACH RHULE GOING TO PENN STATE?

WE'RE NOT BEATING AROUND THE BUSH WITH THIS QUESTION.

YES.

NO.

OR MAYBE.

AND RIGHT NOW 55%.

THOSE ARE THE RIGHT PEOPLE ARE SAYING NO.

SO THAT'S WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT COACH RHULE.

WHAT IS HE SAYING?

- I LOVE PENN STATE.

I MET MY WIFE THERE.

IT'S MY ALMA MATER.

FAN SINCE I WAS BORN.

I WAS BORN, I THINK PROBABLY HAD A PENN STATE SHIRT WHEN I WAS BORN.

I LOVE PAT KRAFT.

AND REALLY SAD.

REALLY SAD TO SEE, COACH FRANKLIN GO.

YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT HE DID FOR MY ALMA MATER, I SEE VIDEOS OF PEOPLE, LIKE YELLING AT HIS KIDS.

LIKE, I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY IN OUR COUNTRY, LIKE, WELL, NOW, LIKE, COACHES ARE VILLAINS.

LIKE, YOU KNOW HOW HARD I WORKED IN CAROLINA AND THE THINGS THAT WERE SAID TO ME ARE, YOU KNOW, HOW HARD I WORK HERE AND SOME OF THE THINGS THAT ARE SAID, YOU KNOW, OUR COACHES WORKING.

HOW HARD STAFF WORKED LAST YEAR.

SO I'M JUST REALLY SAD ABOUT THAT PART OF IT.

AND PEOPLE SAY, WELL, YOU MAKE A LOT OF MONEY, MAKE A LOT OF MONEY, DOESN'T MAKE A KIDS FEEL GOOD WHEN THEY'RE HEARING THAT, YOU KNOW, MAKE A IT'S NICE TO MAKE A LOT OF MONEY, DON'T GET ME WRONG.

BUT STILL PEOPLE.

SO I REALLY RESPECT JAMES FRANKLIN.

TROY AND I ARE AN UNBELIEVABLE RELATIONSHIP TOO.

AND TROY AND I ARE IN CONSTANT CONTACT, CONSTANT COMMUNICATION ABOUT THIS PROGRAM WHERE WE'RE HEADED.

YOU KNOW, I CAME HERE FOR TWO REASONS.

I LOVE THE COMMUNITY HERE AND WANTED TO LIVE HERE.

AND I LOVE IT HERE.

AND, I WANTED TO REBUILD NEBRASKA FOOTBALL.

AND, YOU KNOW, TROY AND I UNDERSTAND THE STEPS THAT YOU NEED TO TAKE TO MAKE US BIG TEN CHAMPIONS AND NATIONAL CHAMPIONS.

THIS THIS PLACE IS ELITE AND, I WANT TO BE A GREAT FATHER, AND I WANT TO BE A GREAT COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACH.

AND SO, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT GOING TO, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT GOING TO TALK A LOT ABOUT JOB OPENINGS WHEN THEY COME.

THIS IS MAYBE IT'S BEEN A WHILE HERE, BUT THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU WHEN I'VE DEALT WITH IT.

YOU KNOW, WE'VE WON AT TEMPLE AND I DEALT WITH IT ALL THE TIME.

DEALT WITH BAYLOR.

AND I'M NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT THOSE THINGS EVER.

I'M NOT GONNA TALK ABOUT MY CONTRACT HERE.

I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE TEAM.

BUT, YEAH, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT HERE.

AND, I JUST WANT TO I WANT US TO CONTINUE TO TAKE THE STEPS NEEDED FOR US TO TURN THIS THING INTO A BEAST.

- ALL RIGHT.

WE'RE HERE WITH FORMER HUSKER JAY MOORE AND HUSKER ONLINE'S SEAN CALLAHAN.

IT'S BEEN ALL THE WAY SINCE BO.

WHEN EVERY YEAR IT WAS LIKE HE WAS TALKING ABOUT ANOTHER TEAM.

OR MAYBE THERE WAS RUMORS ABOUT PENN STATE OR GOING TO KENTUCKY OR WHEREVER ELSE.

IT HAS BEEN A WHILE, BUT WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT LISTENING TO COACH AND KNOWING THE JOB IS OPEN FOR YOU?

- OBVIOUSLY, EVEN WHEN FRANKLIN'S, THE WORD GOT OUT SUNDAY AFTERNOON THAT HE'S FIRED, I'M LIKE, WELL, HERE COMES THE NEWS.

AND, A LITTLE BIT OF, I DON'T KNOW IF I WANT TO CALL IT LOW-HANGING FRUIT.

OBVIOUSLY, YOU GOT TO BE A LITTLE CONCERNED AS, NEBRASKA FANS, IT'S BECAUSE OF YOU.

CONNECT THE DOTS.

- YEAH.

- OBVIOUSLY PLAYED AT PENN STATE.

KRAFT WAS HIS A.D.

AT TEMPLE.

GOOD FRIENDS.

YOU'VE SEEN IT.

YOU SEE ALL THAT?

IN KNOWING THAT HE LOVES PENN STATE, YOU GOT TO THINK, IF THE JOB WAS OFFERED, YOU KNOW, DO YOU WANT TO, WOULD HE POTENTIALLY GO HOME.

BACK TO PENN STATE?

MAYBE.

MAYBE NOT.

SO, YEAH, I'M A LITTLE CONCERNED, BUT I DO KNOW, THAT HE DOES LIKE IT HERE.

I DO KNOW HE DOES WANT TO BE HERE, AND HE WANTS TO SEE THIS THING THROUGH, AND HE WANTS TO MAKE IT WORK.

I TRULY TRUST THAT, HE WANTS TO TURN THIS THING AROUND, AND THAT'S WHAT HE GOES TO PLACES AND REBUILDS IT?

AND I KNOW THAT'S WHAT HE WANTS TO DO HERE, AND I KNOW HE'S GONNA DO EVERYTHING HE CAN TO REBUILD IT HERE.

AND, YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK THE CLIPS ARE IN THERE, BUT, YOU KNOW, HIS COMMENTS ABOUT ROSTERS AND DOLLARS AND ALL THOSE THINGS, I THINK HE'S GOING TO USE THIS TO HIS ADVANTAGE.

BUT I ALSO KNOW HE'S GONNA HAVE A HARD DECISION TO MAKE A POTENTIALLY HE GETS OFFER.

DON'T KNOW IF HE WILL.

BUT, YEAH, IT'S, THE TIMING OF IT IS NEVER GOOD.

BUT LIKE YOU SAID, IF YOU WIN AND YOU HAVE A GREAT RESULTS, NOT ONLY HIMSELF, BUT YOU WE SAW IT LAST YEAR WITH TONY WHITE AND SOME OTHER ASSISTANCE.

OTHER TEAMS ARE GONNA COME GET HIM.

IF YOU'RE IF YOU'RE GOOD AND YOU ARE, YOU'RE GOOD AT WHAT YOU DO.

OTHER TEAMS WILL TAKE INTEREST AND AND TRY TO PLUCK YOU AWAY.

SO NOT SURPRISED.

THE TIMING OF IT JUST ISN'T GREAT.

BUT I THINK AS WE'VE GOT TO WORK THROUGH THIS, AND JUST KIND OF SEE HOW IT ALL SHAKES OUT.

BUT I DO FEEL CONFIDENT THAT HE WANTS TO BE HERE.

AND, AT THE END OF THE DAY, I STILL THINK HE'LL BE THE HEAD COACH EVEN NEXT YEAR AT NEBRASKA.

- AND THE WAY THE SCHEDULE LOOKS AND THE WAY NEBRASKA COULD, I MEAN, LEGITIMATELY COULD BE 11 AND ONE.

BY THE WAY, THE SCHEDULE'S GOING.

THAT WOULD MAKE IT EVEN MORE APPETIZING FOR A TEAM TO WANT TO COME GET HIM.

- YEAH.

PART OF THE EVALUATION FOR MATT RHULE IN PENN STATE WILL BE HOW WILL THIS TEAM DO OVER THE NEXT SIX GAMES?

BECAUSE THEY JUST FIRED A GUY THAT, YOU KNOW, HAD SUCCESS THERE, AND THEY'RE NOT GOING TO REPLACE HIM WITH A GUY THAT WENT SEVEN AND THEY GO SEVEN AND FIVE.

I MEAN, LIKE I THINK FOR NEBRASKA, IF THEY CONTINUE TO PLAY WELL, I MEAN, THIS THING IS GOING TO GO DEEP INTO NOVEMBER.

LIKE THEY'RE NOT GOING TO ANNOUNCE A HEAD COACH AT PENN STATE IN OCTOBER.

THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT OF NAMES UP FOR IT, WHETHER IT'S CURT CIGNETTI, MARCUS FREEMAN, MANNY DIAZ.

I MEAN, YOU GO DOWN THE LINE, THERE'S A LOT OF NAMES THAT ARE GOING TO BE IN THE MIX FOR THIS JOB.

BUT MATT RHULE IS ARGUABLY THE ONE THAT MAKES AS MUCH SENSE AS ANY BECAUSE OF THE RELATIONSHIP TO THE ATHLETIC DIRECTOR AND THE RELATIONSHIP.

OBVIOUSLY, WITH THE SCHOOL BEING A JOE PATERNO GUY, AND THERE IS A CERTAIN LONG THAT KIND OF BRING BACK THAT PATERNO INTO THEIR PROGRAM.

- RIGHT?

- AND HE'S KIND OF THAT GUY THAT ALIGNS ALL THOSE THINGS.

SO THAT'S WHAT'S SCARY IF YOU'RE NEBRASKA FAN, AS YOU WATCH THIS PLAY OUT.

- I WOULD SAY THAT, AND I THINK WE SAW IT HERE.

GOING HOME IS NOT ALWAYS THE BEST THING FOR YOU.

IT'S NOT ALWAYS SOMETIMES IT'S BETTER TO GO OFF AND MAKE YOUR NAME SOMEWHERE ELSE BUT YOU GO TO PENN STATE IT'S NOT A REBUILD.

YOU GO TO PENN STATE, THEY'RE GOING TO EXPECT YOU TO WIN A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP.

- YEAH.

YOU GET YOU'RE GIVEN THE KEYS TO A LAMBORGHINI OR FERRARI AND SO YOU DON'T CRASH IT.

OTHER PLACES.

HE'S BEN TEMPLE, BAYLOR AND NEBRASKA.

IT'S HERE'S A BEAT-UP CAR.

IT'S BEEN THROUGH SOME STUFF.

YOU GOT TO REBUILD THE TRANSMISSION.

NEW PAINT JOB, NEW TIRES, NEW BRAKES.

HE'S BEEN REALLY GOOD AT THAT.

HE'S BEEN REALLY GOOD AT ORCHESTRATING A TOTAL REBUILD.

I THINK HE'S REALLY CLOSE TO GETTING THAT CAR BACK TO RUNNING AT ALL CYLINDERS HERE AT NEBRASKA.

BUT THAT'S DEFINITELY NOT THE CASE.

AND SO DOES THAT FIT WHAT HE WANTS?

TAKE THE, HE'S PLAYED THERE, TAKE HIS HISTORY THERE, TAKE THE RELATIONSHIPS HE HAS ARE OUT OF IT.

IS THAT WHAT HE WANTS TO DO?

DOES HE.

AND I STILL THINK THERE'S OTHER THINGS THAT'S GOING ON AT PENN STATE.

WHY?

YOU KNOW TO ME, I WANT TO KNOW YOU LOST ONE GAME IN OVERTIME AGAINST A REALLY GOOD FOOTBALL TEAM AND ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU COLLAPSED.

- YEAH.

- YOU LOSE AT UCLA AND HE'S LOST.

TO ME, ARGUABLY LOST TO THE WORST TEAM AT THE TIME.

TWO WORST TEAMS IN THE BIG TEN IN BACK-TO-BACK WEEKS AND NORTHWESTERN AT HOME.

I KNOW YOUR QUARTERBACK GOT HURT.

BUT THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE GOING ON THERE TO ME INTERNALLY THAT YOU LOSE ONE GAME.

YOU'RE SO FRACTURED.

SO TO ME I'D WANT TO KNOW THE INTERNAL THAT AS WELL TO SEE YOUR CULTURE OF YOUR PROGRAM.

BUT YEAH, IT'S THE TIME LIKE I SAID, THE TIME'S NOT PERFECT BUT I COULDN'T.

IF YOU DID TAKE THE JOB I CAN'T BLAME I CAN'T BLAME THE GUY.

BUT, I DEFINITELY WANT HIM TO BE HERE AS LONG AS POSSIBLE.

- SEAN WE TALK ABOUT ALL THE CONNECTIONS TO PENN STATE.

HIS WIFE HAS A BUSINESS.

RIGHT?

OBVIOUSLY, HIS KIDS ARE IN SCHOOL, HIS SON'S AT NEBRASKA, AND HE MOVED HIS PARENTS DOWN HERE.

I KNOW HIS DAD HELPS COACH AT A CHURCH WHERE A FRIEND OF MINE'S KID PLAYS.

SO EVERYTHING'S HERE FOR HIM RIGHT NOW?

- YEAH, THEY OWN THREE PROPERTIES AND A BUSINESS.

AND, YOU KNOW, SO THEY ARE THEY ARE AS DEEPLY ENTRENCHED IN THIS COMMUNITY REALLY, AS ANY COACH I'VE BEEN AROUND AT NEBRASKA.

I MEAN, YOU SEE THEM OUT AND ABOUT AT A LOT OF PLACES.

I MEAN, I HAVE DAUGHTERS OF THE SAME AGE AS HIS, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE SWIMMING AT MY DAUGHTER'S SWIM CLUB.

I MEAN, YOU SEE THEM AROUND AT PLACES, DOING THINGS.

SO, YEAH, THEIR PRESENCE AND HIS PRESENCE IN THE COMMUNITY IS AS STRONG AS WHERE LIKE, BO PELINI WAS A GUY THAT DIDN'T REALLY LIKE THE SPOTLIGHT.

RHULE AND HIS FAMILY ENJOY, YOU KNOW, BEING A PART OF THE COMMUNITY.

SCOTT FROST IS NO, IT'S NOT A BIG GUY LIKE TO BE OUT AND ABOUT.

SO THAT'S WHAT MAKES RHULE UNIQUE.

HE'S BEEN AS GOOD AT EMBRACING NEBRASKA AS ANY COACH THAT WE'VE BEEN AROUND.

- SO LET'S GO TO WHAT GOT KIND OF BURIED WAS A GREAT WIN OVER MARYLAND.

THEY DID SOMETHING THEY HADN'T DONE SINCE BUT 2006 OR WHAT?

NO.

EXCUSE ME, THEY HAVEN'T DONE IT SINCE THE LAST TIME THEY WON A GAME ON THE ROAD WHEN THEY HAD THE SCORE THE LAST TIME GOES ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE TOUCHDOWN THAT TANNER LEE THREW TO STANLEY MORGAN.

- AT PURDUE.

- AGAINST PURDUE RIGHT?

- 2017.

- SO THEY DID THAT.

WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT THAT.

LET'S TALK ABOUT THAT NOW AND TALK ABOUT THE OFFENSIVE PERFORMANCE AT NEBRASKA.

- YEAH.

WELL IT WAS JUST AGAIN IT'S WE'VE KIND OF SEEN THIS THROUGH THE FIRST COUPLE GAMES.

YOU KNOW GET OFF TO A GOOD START.

- YEAH.

- SO MISTAKES HAPPEN.

OBVIOUSLY WE WE SAW THE INTERCEPTIONS BY DYLAN THE PICK SIX.

THEY KIND OF YOU SAW AGAINST MICHIGAN STATE.

MICHIGAN BUT THIS TEAM JUST HAS THE ABILITY I CALL THIS IS THAT NEXT NEXT PLAY MENTALITY.

DOESN'T MATTER WHAT HAPPENED PREVIOUSLY THIS NEXT PLAY WE MADE A MISTAKE.

SURE.

LET'S GET IT FIXED.

WE CAN CORRECT IT.

WE'RE NEVER OUT OF THIS THING.

THEY KEEP FIGHTING, THEY KEEP SWINGING, AND YOU GOT TO.

YOU GOT TO LOVE THAT MENTALITY IN THE CULTURE OF THIS TEAM RIGHT NOW.

BECAUSE GOING FOR BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I DON'T CARE IF IT'S MINNESOTA.

NORTHWESTERN.

WHO ARE THESE GUYS GONNA BE CLOSE?

THERE'S GONNA BE TOUGH BATTLES.

AND YOU GOT TO KEEP FIGHTING TO KEEP BATTLING.

THEY DID.

AND YOU GET YOU CAN MAKE PLAYS ON DEFENSE.

YOU GET THE KICK RETURNS ON SPECIAL TEAMS, AND THEN BOOM, YOU GET A CHANCE TO GO DOWN AND WIN ON THE FINAL DRIVE.

AND THEY DO THAT.

BUT THE THING IS DEFENSE CAME IN WON IT, AS WELL.

NEBRASKA'S DONE THAT BEFORE.

THE DEFENSE TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO STOP, WASHINGTON IN THAT REALLY GOOD OFFENSE THAT, MARYLAND HAD AND GOT THAT FOURTH DOWN PLAYING.

THE GAME'S OVER.

AND, WE HAVEN'T DONE THAT IN A WHILE.

AND THAT WAS JUST ITS NICE TO SEE REASSURING TO SEE THAT, A LOT OF WHILE THESE GAMES IN NEBRASKA HAS BEEN THE PAST, THEY'VE FOUND WAYS TO LOSE THEM.

AND NOW THEY'RE STARTING TO FIND WAYS TO WIN.

IT'S DEFINITELY SOMETHING YOU BUILD ON.

- TWO TIMES THIS SEASON NEEDED AN OFFENSIVE STOP IN THE GAME.

EMMETT JOHNSON, WHAT A GAME.

WHAT A PERFORMANCE.

AND WE TALK A LOT ABOUT NEED ANOTHER BACK.

BUT IN THE MEANTIME HE'S SECOND IN TERMS TOTAL CARRIES.

HE'S LIKE FOURTH IN RUSHING.

HE'S HAVING A GREAT YEAR.

- YEAH.

HOW DO YOU OVERCOME A MINUS THREE.

HAVE A RUNNING PERFORMANCE LIKE EMMETT JOHNSON.

MINUS THREE TURNOVERS FOR NEBRASKA 176 YARDS A CAREER GAME.

AND MIKE'L I DIDN'T KNOW IF THERE WAS A WAY NEBRASKA COULD GET 200 SACK ADJUSTED RUSH YARDS.

IN A GAME.

- RIGHT.

- JUST WITH THE PERSONNEL, I, EMMETT LIKE, OH, HE CAN GET YOU MAYBE 140, 150 BUT THEY GOT 200.

AND IF THEY CONTINUE TO HAVE THIS KIND OF BALANCE AND GET PLAYS LIKE THIS OUT OF EMMETT JOHNSON.

THEY'RE GOING TO BE HARD TO BEAT BECAUSE TEAMS ARE NOT REALLY RESPECTED NEBRASKA'S RUN.

THEY PLAY THE SAFETIES VERY DEEP.

AND DARE NEBRASKA TO RUN.

AND FINALLY WE SAW THEM TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT.

AND THE 50 YARD RUN WAS ONE OF THE BETTER RUNS THAT WE'VE SEEN OF A RUNNING BACK, MAYBE SINCE AMEER ABDULLAH.

I MEAN IT WAS AN OUTSTANDING PLAY IN THE OPEN FIELD.

HE MADE TEN TACKLERS.

MISS IN THIS GAME ACCORDING TO THE DANA HOLGORSEN.

WHICH IS AN OUTSTANDING.

NO, I DON'T KNOW THE LAST TIME NEBRASKA HAD A BACK DO THAT IN A GAME.

- AND NOT TO DISPUTE HIS.

I HAVE 11.

THAT'S HOW MANY I THOUGHT HE HAD.

- PRO FOOTBALL FOCUS HAD 11.

- I THINK 11.

RIGHT, HE SAYS TEN.

THAT'S FINE.

YOU BROUGHT UP AMEER ABDULLAH.

AMEER DIDN'T HAVE TOP END SPEED EITHER, BUT HE DID THE THINGS THAT EMMETT DID.

WHAT ABOUT THE WIDE RECEIVERS?

BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT GETTING TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH?

I DON'T THINK THIS WEEK BECAUSE THEY CONTINUALLY MAKE BIG PLAYS.

- THEY DO.

I MEAN, HUNTER AGAIN, ANOTHER HUGE GAME JUST SAW THE EXACT SAME TUNNEL SCREEN PLAY THAT WE SAW WEEK PREVIOUSLY AGAINST MICHIGAN STATE FOR THE FIRST TOUCHDOWN OF THE GAME.

AND IT'S JUST THERE YOU GO I MEAN EXCELLENT I MEAN PRITCHETT SECOND LEVEL JUST LIKE MICHIGAN STATE.

GREAT EXECUTION.

EXCEPT HE HAS TWO SHOES ON THIS TIME PAST.

SO BUT YOU KNOW AGAIN BACK HERE THE FADE ROUTE TO HUNTER.

YOU KNOW, THE OLD HEAD TAP.

AS MY SON SAYS, WHEN YOU'RE WATCHING THESE TYPE OF GAMES, HE GIVES YOU RIGHT THERE.

SO, JUST GOOD.

AND THEN YOU GET DANE KEY THROWN IN THE MIX, RIGHT?

HE MAKES A BIG ONE HANDED PLAY DOWN IN THE SLOT FADE, FOR THE GAME WINNING TOUCHDOWN.

SO JUST YOU HAD THIS.

I MEAN, IF, YOU KNOW, DYLAN MAYBE DOESN'T EVEN CATCHES, YOU KNOW, CLEAT ON THE GROUND.

HE MIGHT SCORE THERE MORE AIR UNDER IT.

BUT AGAIN, EVERYONE'S CONTRIBUTING.

IN YEARS PAST, YOU JUST KIND OF HAD MAYBE ONE GUY, TWO GUYS, BUT ALL YOUR RECEIVERS ARE CONTRIBUTING, TIGHT ENDS.

- YOU'RE TIGHT ENDS.

- LINDENMEYER, HAARBERG BIG CATCHES, BIG TIME CATCHES IN HIGH RED ZONE.

THAT'S WHAT YOU KIND OF THOUGHT THIS OFFENSE WOULD BE WOULD BECOME YOU CLEAN UP THOSE TURNOVERS BY THE QUARTERBACK.

I MEAN THEY WON THAT GAME MUCH EASILY.

BUT AGAIN, TO HAVE THOSE WEAPONS TO TAKE CARE OF THE THINGS YOU DO ON THE ROAD AND GO ON THE ROAD TO WIN IN THAT FASHION, YOU CAN YOU CAN DEFINITELY BUILD ON THAT.

- YEAH.

THE TURNOVERS LED TO 17 POINTS OBVIOUSLY A BIG DIFFERENCE.

OFFENSIVE LINE.

WE TALKED A LOT ABOUT ADJUSTMENTS OR GOING AGAINST TWO OF THE BEST PASS RUSHERS IN THE BIG TEN.

AND FOR THE MOST PART, THEY CONTAIN THEM.

- YEAH ELIJAH PRITCHETT HURT HIS FOOT IN PRACTICE DURING THE WEEK.

AND HE WAS ACTUALLY LISTED QUESTIONABLE PREGAME.

SO THEY DIDN'T KNOW IF HE'S GOING TO PLAY.

AND I KNOW HE'S AN EASY TARGET BECAUSE THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS HE'S GIVEN UP SOME PLAYS.

BUT PRITCHETT BATTLED GAVE UP A SACK.

AND THEN THEY MADE THE MOVE TO CORCORAN.

THEY HELD IN THERE.

AND YOU KNOW, THE SACKS WERE NOT AS BAD AS WE'D SEEN AGAINST MICHIGAN.

AND MARYLAND WAS A TEAM THAT LED THE COUNTRY OR LED THE CONFERENCE ON SATURDAY PER GAME.

SO I THOUGHT THAT WAS, YOU KNOW, CONSIDERING DYLAN RAIOLA, DROPPED BACK, A TON, YOU KNOW, IN THIS GAME AND HAD THE THREE TURNOVERS.

BUT THEY DID A REALLY GOOD JOB, OF DOING WHAT THEY NEED TO DO IN THE RUN GAME TOO.

I THINK EMMETT JOHNSON MADE A LOT OF THAT HIMSELF HAPPEN.

BUT I THINK THIS GAME WILL GIVE THEM A LOT OF CONFIDENCE MOVING FORWARD.

- YOU CERTAINLY HEARD HOLGORSEN SAY THAT, TOO IN THE PRESSER TODAY.

HE SAID THE RUN GAME WAS ABLE TO SLOW THEM DOWN.

HE SAID HE WISH HE KIND OF WOULD UTILIZE THIS EARLIER IN THE YEAR TO HELP PROTECT DYLAN.

SO IT'S SOMETHING WHEN YOU GET SOME GOOD RESULTS LIKE THAT, YOU CAN BUILD OFF OF THAT.

AND YOU I WOULD FORESEE NEBRASKA AGAINST MINNESOTA TAKING GETTING E.J.

HOME TO A HOME STATE, CONTINUING ON THAT FOOTBALL TO HELP DYLAN AND HELP THIS OFFENSE KEEP CONTINUING TO TO BUILD LIKE WE SAW AGAINST MARYLAND.

- LET'S GO TO THE BLACKSHIRTS NOW.

IT WASN'T THE THE GREATEST PERFORMANCE.

THERE WASN'T A LOT OF HAVOC INVOLVED.

THEY DIDN'T GET A LOT OF CONTACT ON MALIK WASHINGTON, BUT IN GENERAL, THEY MADE SOME REALLY GOOD PLAYS.

THEY TACKLE A LITTLE POORLY.

THAT WAS THE ONE THING THAT YOU REALLY.

- YEAH.

THEY YOU KNOW, WASHINGTON DID GET A JOB, GET THEM IN SPACE.

NEBRASKA KIND OF SAT BACK THERE IN SOME, YOU KNOW, DEEP ZONE COVERAGES.

PASS IT OFF DECENTLY KEPT PLAYS IN FRONT OF THEM.

YOU KNOW, NOT A TON OF BIG PLAYS.

I MEAN, MALIK WASHINGTON PUT SOME BALLS IN SOME GREAT SPOTS AND ONLY HIS WIDE RECEIVERS COULD CATCH.

SO YOU KNOW, HE HE WAS I WAS VERY IMPRESSED WITH HIM.

BUT YEAH I THINK NEBRASKA PLAYED PRETTY BASIC.

YOU KNOW THREE, FOUR MAN FRONTS DID NOT BRING PRESSURE A TON.

HIT THEM YOU KNOW GOT TO THE QUARTERBACK ONCE WHERE THEY WERE ABLE TO GET TO CHILES FIVE TIMES IN THE MICHIGAN STATE GAME.

- IT WAS A HUGE PLAY RIGHT THERE BY MCCULLOUGH.

- BUT AGAIN, YOU JUST YOU KIND OF PICK AND CHOOSE YOUR BATTLES I THINK THEY KIND OF SAID LET'S SEE WHAT THIS YOU KNOW FRESHMAN QUARTERBACK CAN DO.

LET'S FORCE HIM TO BEAT THEM WITH OR WITH HIS ARM.

AND I MEAN THIS WAS THE MOST PASSING OR JUST DEFENSES GET HIM UP ALL YEAR.

BUT HE WAS GOOD.

BUT I THINK YOU HEARD COACH BUTLER EVEN SAID HE SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT MORE PRESSURE.

GET THIS FRESHMAN A LITTLE MORE FLUSTERED.

BUT AGAIN, YOU LEARN AND YOU PICK AND CHOOSE YOUR BATTLES.

BUT AGAIN, YOU COME OUT TO THIS, YOU DID ENOUGH THINGS TO WIN ON THE ROAD.

BUT NOW HE'S GOT A AGAIN NEXT GAME MENTALITY.

NOW BECAUSE THEY'RE COMING OFF A SHORT WEEKEND TO MINNESOTA.

- WELL, THEY LIMITED THEIR BIG PLAYS.

AND IN GAMES EARLY IN THE SEASON WHEN TEAMS DID BLITZ HIM, HE MADE SOME BIG PLAYS.

SO MAYBE HE WAS YOU KNOW GOOD MIXTURE.

- YEP.

PICK AND CHOOSE RIGHT.

- YEAH EXACTLY.

LET'S TALK ABOUT NWANERI AND THAT DEFENSIVE LINE.

WE SAW THE SACK BY PIETRZAK OUT THERE.

BUT NWANERI'S REALLY IMPRESSIVE AND THE THING HE'S DOING WITH THE GAME IN THE GAME.

- YEAH I THINK HE'S CREATED I BELIEVE 14 PRESSURES IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS WHICH IS AS GOOD AS ANY PLAYER IN THE CONFERENCE.

NOW JOHN BUTLER WAS QUICK TO POINT OUT I DON'T GET INTO THE HURRY STATS.

I GET INTO THE SACK AND THE QB HIT, SO I THINK THAT'S THE ONE MISSING PIECE.

CAN THEY GET HIT THE QUARTERBACK MORE?

BUT WHEN THEY'RE RUSHING JUST FOR WILLIAMS NWANERI, HAS BECOME A REAL WEAPON FOR THEM AND WHAT YOU HAD HOPED HE'D BE.

I DON'T KNOW IF WE COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS QUICKLY THAT HE WOULD GET GOING, ESPECIALLY AFTER THE SPRING WHERE IT APPEARED MAYBE HE WAS OFF TO A SLOWER START, BUT HE'S GIVEN THEM A REAL WEAPON.

ALONG WITH MCCULLOUGH ON THE EDGE.

AND, THEY DID A GREAT JOB.

MARYLAND HAD A GOOD OFFENSIVE LINE, THOUGH.

I MEAN, I FELT LIKE THEIR OFFENSIVE LINE STOOD UP FOR A LOT OF THE DAY AND MADE NEBRASKA REALLY WORK FOR ANY TYPE OF PRESSURE THEY GOT.

AND GRANTED, THEY WEREN'T BLITZING.

SO, YOU KNOW, THE NUMBERS WERE AGAINST THEM A LITTLE BIT.

- GOT TO AFFECT THE QUARTERBACK.

THAT'S WHAT THAT'S WHAT HE SAID.

AND HE GOT TO DO THAT FOR SURE.

THIS WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS SAW A LOT OF EXCELLENT SPECIAL TEAMS AND SOME TURNOVERS OF COURSE.

AND THE O FINALLY GETTING IT GOING IN THE SECOND HALF.

LOOK AT THAT.

LOOK KIND OF EXCITED RIGHT THERE.

LOOK AT THAT LITTLE ANGER COMING FROM MATT RHULE.

LET'S GET INTO THE FIRST QUARTER.

AND THE FIRST QUARTER WAS EMMETT JOHNSON COMING OUT EARLY AND ESTABLISHING THE RUNNING GAME.

- YEAH.

OPENING PLAY OF THE GAME.

I MEAN YOU'RE LIKE OKAY, IT'S GOING TO BE THERE, GUYS.

- GET TO THE FOURTH DOWN THOUGH.

KIND OF A PREDICTABLE CALL.

I DO NOT LIKE THE OTHER SHOTGUN.

I DO NOT LIKE THAT PLAY CALL, BUT.

- THE PLAY CLOCK WAS RUNNING DOWN TOO.

THEY ALMOST PROBABLY COULD OF CALLED A TIMEOUT.

- A TIMEOUT INSTEAD, BUT THEN, YOU KNOW, MALIK WASHINGTON SHOWS YOU HIS LEGS A LITTLE BIT, MAINLY BECAUSE SEAN SAID HE COULDN'T RUN AT ALL EARLIER IN THE WEEK ON HIS PODCAST.

- 23 RUSHING YARDS.

BY THE WAY, - I KNOW, I KNOW.

HERE WE GO NYZIAH HUNTER.

THAT TUNNEL SCREEN.

AGAIN, - YEAH, AGAIN.

IT WAS THIS PERFECT EXECUTION.

YOU SAW IT.

I MEAN, ALMOST EXACT SAME SPOT ON THE FIELD.

REALLY RAN AGAINST MICHIGAN STATE THE WEEK PRIOR.

AND, THEY GOT THAT ONE DIALED UP.

- AND THEN MORE AGAIN, WE'LL GET TO SEE THE REPLAY.

YOU MENTIONED THIS A SCREEN IS EVERYBODY.

IT'S THE QUARTERBACK BEING PATIENT.

THE RUNNING BACK BEING AND ALL THE DEFENSIVE LINEMEN.

- HAS TO BE TIMED UP PERFECT.

IF ONE PERSON'S OFF A THING IS NEVER GOING TO WORK.

- IT'S ONE OF THE HARDEST THINGS TO RUN.

HERE'S EMMETT JOHNSON AGAIN.

ANOTHER 12 YARDS ON THE RUN CAME OUT EARLY.

WAS KIND OF SHOWING WHAT HE COULD DO.

AND THEN HERE'S YOU KNOW YOU LOOK AT THIS PLAY AND I'VE SEEN A LOT OF BAD PLAYS.

I WATCH A LOT OF GAMES.

THIS ONE IS ONE OF THE WORST I'VE SEEN, BECAUSE THE BACK JUDGE SHOULD HAVE SEEN THIS AND OVERRULED THE SIDE JUDGE WHO THREW THE FLAG, BECAUSE THAT'S TOO OBVIOUS.

HE'S RIGHT.

HE'S KNOCKING HIM DOWN.

THERE'S NO ILLEGAL CONTACT, BUT THAT'S EITHER AN OPI OR IT'S NO CALL.

IT MADE ZERO SENSE THERE.

I'M ON MY OWN SOAP BOX.

THERE'S MALIK WASHINGTON MAKING SOME NICE THROWS.

YOU MENTIONED, HOW GOOD OF AN ARM HE HAS AS HE GOES ALONG.

THEY RAN THE BALL A LITTLE BIT BETTER THAN I THOUGHT THEY WOULD RUN IT.

THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT MARYLAND HAD A RUN OVER 20 YARDS ALL SEASON.

- VERY SURPRISING.

BUT AGAIN, NEBRASKA.

MCCULLOUGH GOT A LITTLE TOO FAR OUT FIELD.

PIETRZAK HAS TO KINDA GET OFF OUR BLOCK THERE?

BUT IT'S JUST A LITTLE BIT LESS EXECUTION BY THE D, OBVIOUSLY.

- THE FIRST OF THREE INTERCEPTIONS.

THAT WAS DEFINITELY A BAD DECISION.

IT WAS A LITTLE LATE.

AND ALSO YOU HAD SOMETHING IN THE OTHER ON THE OTHER SIDE THAT MAYBE COULD HAVE GONE TO.

WE MENTIONED 17 POINTS OFF THE TURNOVERS.

THERE'S YOUR FIRST SEVEN.

NICE THROW DOWN THE SEAM BY MALIK WASHINGTON.

REMEMBER THIS KID WAS JUST AT PROM NOT THAT LONG AGO.

AND HE'S IN THERE PLAYING LIKE THIS.

AND THEN WE SAID THIS LAST WEEK ON BIG RED WRAP-UP NEBRASKA WAS GONNA HAVE A BIG KICKOFF RETURN.

THEY DON'T GET THE BALL IN THE END ZONE.

AND KENNETH WILLIAMS GIVES YOU.

- THE WALK ON PROGRAM.

STILL ALIVE AND KICKING KENNETH WILLIAMS.

A LINCOLN HIGH NATIVE THAT WAS GOING TO GO TO UNK BEFORE NEBRASKA CALL HIM LATE AND GAVE HIM A SPOT.

AND HE IMPACTED THE BIG TEN FOOTBALL GAME.

-JAY'S IS GOING TO SHOW MORE OF THAT PLAY COMING UP AND HERE'S HERE'S ONE OF THOSE PLAYS DYLAN, THAT WE TALKED SO MUCH ABOUT HIM BEING IMMOBILE.

THAT'S NOT IMMOBILE RIGHT THERE.

AND WHAT A CATCH ON THE SIDELINE BY LINDENMEYER.

- I MEAN HIS THROW.

HIS ESCAPE ABILITY RIGHT.

AND AS YOU ROLL THAT LOOKS HIS LEFT RIGHT UP TO RIGHT.

BUT YEAH THIS IS WHEN THOSE THROWS LIKE DON'T THROW IT, DON'T THROW IT, DON'T THROW IT.

AND THEN LIKE OH WHAT A CATCH.

- WHAT A CATCH.

- LIKE GOOD PLAY, RIGHT.

- YEAH.

MICK SAYS IT WAS A SPORTS CENTER TOP PLAY.

- HE WAS.

- THEY MIGHT.

- HE DID IT IN TWO.

- I MEAN THIS RIGHT THERE I MEAN JUST MAN THAT'S YOU GET A LOT OF THE GOOD WITH SOME OF THE BAD SOME TIMES.

THAT PLAY WAS THAT WAS A LEAP.

- I LOVE IT.

I WANT HIM TO THROW THE BALL.

I JUST GIVE.

THERE'S ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF IT THAT IS A PERFECT THROW.

PUTS ON THE LINE OF DANE KEY IN A PLACE WHERE ONLY DANE KEY CAN GET IT.

MORE EMMETT JOHNSON WE TALKED ABOUT WHAT EMMETT DID ALL GAME LONG.

THAT'S A 15 YARD GAIN THERE IN THE SECOND QUARTER.

AND THEN MORE DYLAN RAIOLA.

TO THE END ZONE.

NICE CATCH BY NYZIAH HUNTER.

IS HE THE NUMBER ONE, SEAN?

- IT'S KIND OF A 1A, 1B BUT YEAH LIKE HIS BIG PLAY ABILITY KIND OF VAULTS HIM.

BECAUSE JACORY BARNEY COULD BE THE NUMBER ONE SOME TIME TOO.

- SURE.

THIS IS INEXCUSABLE.

THIS BALL HAS GOT TO GO INTO THE STANDS.

IT'S GOT TO HIT ONE OF YOUR TEAMMATES ON THE SIDELINE.

YOU CAN'T DO THAT.

IT'S MAYBE THE WIND CAUGHT IT A LITTLE BIT IN THERE, BUT THAT'S THAT'S THE INTERCEPTION THAT YOU JUST CAN'T MAKE THAT THROW.

AND THEN OF COURSE MARYLAND GETS THE BALL AGAIN.

A LITTLE DRIVE.

THIS IS GOING TO END UP ONLY BEING A FIELD GOAL, BUT STILL GIVING THEM THE BALL BACK WHEN NEBRASKA IS DRIVING.

IT KIND OF PUT THE GAME AWAY A LITTLE BIT, YOU KNOW?

31-14 I THINK THE GAME'S ALMOST OVER AT THAT POINT.

YEAH, THAT WAS A BIG MOMENT OF MANAGMENT.

AND THEN THEY GOT THE BALL TO START THE SECOND HALF.

I MEAN THIS GAME WAS RUNS.

I MEAN BOTH TEAMS WENT ON MULTIPLE 10 TO 14 POINT RUNS BEFORE NEBRASKA FINISHED IT OUT WITH THEIR RUN.

- 37 YARD FIELD GOAL THERE TO END THE FIRST HALF.

YOU MENTIONED MALIK WASHINGTON COMES BACK.

THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S HAPPENED A LOT IN NEBRASKA.

THEY'VE BEEN LOSING THE MIDDLE EIGHT.

THEIR 31-7 IN THESE THREE, LAST THREE GAMES IN THE MIDDLE EIGHT.

OR EXCUSE ME THE LAST FOUR GAMES.

BUT NEBRASKA STILL WON TWO OF THEM EVEN THOUGH THEY HAVEN'T BEEN WINNING THE MIDDLE EIGHT.

THAT WE THOUGHT WAS A FUMBLE FOR A SECOND END UP GETTING REVIEWED WASN'T A FUMBLE.

HIS KNEE WAS DOWN AND THEN A NICE TOUCHDOWN RUN.

GETTING TO THE EDGE.

- AS TOUGH AS A TOUGH TACKLE BY THE CORNER.

I THINK THAT WAS I DUNNO IF THAT WAS MARSHALL OR CEYAIR WRIGHT.

I CAN'T REMEMBER.

BUT THAT'S A HE'S GOT TO TRY TO HOPEFULLY GET ONE GUY TO TRIPLE UP LET YOUR TEAMMATES GET THERE.

BUT A TOUGH PLAY TO MAKE THAT IN THAT SITUATION.

- AND ANDREW MARSHALL'S MADE THAT A COUPLE TIMES.

AND HERE'S THE PICK SIX.

MISCOMMUNICATION YOU THINK?

- YEAH I MEAN IF WHETHER YOU KNOW SOME PEOPLE ON THE STEM WHEN HE BREAKS OUT IN MILLS BEING THE YOUNG WIDE RECEIVER, I'LL BREAK IT DOWN HERE THOUGH IN JAY'S PLAYS IN A LITTLE BIT.

- AND IT WAS MAN COVERAGE.

SO HE, YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT HE DID WHAT HE'S SUPPOSED TO DO.

HUGE PLAY HERE THOUGH.

THEY'RE TRYING TO DRIVE NEBRASKA GETS THE STOP GETS THE BALL BACK SEAN MCCULLOUGH WITH A GREAT PLAY THERE.

AND THIS KICKS IT OFF.

THIS MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE BEST RUN AFTER THE CATCH.

EVEN THOUGH HE HAD THE 50 YARD RUN HE MADE.

- HE WAS DEAD TO RIGHTS, RIGHT THERE.

- IT'S INCREDIBLE WHAT HE DID THERE.

THAT'S WHAT REMINDED ME OF AMEER ABDULLAH A LOT.

THEIR BIG PLAY DOWN IN THE MIDDLE TO DANE KEY.

AND THEN MORE OF EMMETT JOHNSON.

THIS IS THE 50 YARD RUN.

- YEAH IT WAS.

THIS IS GOOD I MEAN JUST GREAT.

BLOCKING GETS ON THE PERIMETER PUTS ON THE MOVE AND JUST THE FINISH.

YOU LOOK LIKE HE WAS DOWN A COUPLE TIMES.

- YEAH.

- AND A REALLY GOOD JOB HANGING ON THE FOOTBALL THERE.

THAT GUY CAME OUT WITH SOME SPEED AND SOMETHING - FROM BEHIND.

- AND HE WAS VULNERABLE THERE.

BUT GOOD JOB COVERING IT UP.

- AND THEN HE APOLOGIZED TO HOLGORSEN AND SAID SORRY I DIDN'T SCORE.

FIELD GOAL FROM CUNANAN.

HE MAKES ANOTHER ONE.

MAKES IT 31-27.

GOOD DECISION THERE.

THAT WAS WEIRD BECAUSE THEY END UP HAVING THE DELAY OF GAME THERE.

- THEY WERE GOING TO GO FOR IT.

- I THINK THEY WERE GOING TO GO FOR THEY END UP GETTING DELAY GAME.

THE FIELD GOAL.

THAT'S FINE.

NEBRASKA GETS THE BALL BACK.

HERE'S THE HUGE PLAY.

TO START THIS.

YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO HAVE A BIG PLAY TO GET STARTED, RIGHT.

THAT COULD HAVE EASILY BEEN A SACK.

INSTEAD.

LINDENMEYER BREAKS A BUNCH OF TACKLES AND GETS A 20 YARD GAIN.

- AGAIN.

HE SHOWS HIS MOBILITY RIGHT.

THE CAPABILITY THAT WE NEED TO SEE MORE OF JUST HAVING MORE SENSE OF URGENCY.

AND THEN AGAIN, JUST GETTING HIS CLEAT CAUGHT UP AGAIN.

A GOOD NYZIAH HUNTER.

THIS IS A GUY YOU RELIED ON AND HIS BIG PLAY MENTALITY AND IN HIS ABILITY THERE SHOWS AGAIN.

- HUGE PLAY THERE.

AND THEN OF COURSE THE ROLL OUT HERE LOOKING TO THE SIDELINE.

AND HERE COMES HAARBERG.

HAARBERG MAKING THIS CATCH.

THE GUY WAS A QUARTERBACK LAST YEAR AND HE COMES THROUGH AND MAKES THAT CATCH WHICH IS INCREDIBLE.

AND THEN THE ONE HANDED CATCH TO DANE KEY.

- VERY, VERY POPULAR.

THEY ALL KIND OF YOU WANT TO CALL THE SLOT FADE YOU KNOW, OR JUST YOU KNOW, IT'S A IT'S YOU KNOW IT'S A IT'S A PICK ROUTE ESSENTIALLY.

BUT YOU CAN RUN IT DOWN THERE.

YOU WERE EXECUTION WAS FANTASTIC.

YOU WOULD HAVE LIKED TO SEEN THE RUN MORE TIME OFF.

AND THAT SITUATION JUST MARYLAND OBVIOUSLY COMES OUT HERE WITH A MINUTE AND EIGHT NOW.

- YEAH.

BUT YOU GOT TO GET A TOUCHDOWN.

CAN'T KEEP MESSING AROUND WITH THAT.

THEY DO HAVE IT BUT IT'S THE BLACKSHIRTS STEPPED UP RIGHT BEFORE THEY WENT OUT.

THE OFFENSE CAME OVER TO THEM AND ALL ENCOURAGE THEM TO TRY TO MAKE A PLAY THAT WAS, THROWING THE BALL AWAY.

SO THEY LOST YARDS.

HAD TO MAKE THIS THROW, GETTING IT DOWN TO MAKE IT FOURTH AND FOUR.

AND THIS IS JUST A POOR THROW.

ONE OF THE FEW POOR THROWS OF THE DAY BY MALIK WASHINGTON.

IT'S BEHIND HIS BIG TIGHT END.

PROBABLY WOULD HAVE BEEN A FIRST DOWN.

AND NEBRASKA WOULD'VE HAD TO MAKE MORE PLAYS.

BUT THAT ENDS THE GAME 34-31 TWO LONGTIME FRIENDS THERE WITH THE HEAD COACHES.

LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE STATS AND LOOK AT WHAT NEBRASKA DID REALLY WELL IN THE GAME.

AS YOU CAN SEE, 193 YARDS.

AND SEAN SAID WITH SACK ADJUSTED OVER 200 YARDS.

TOTAL YARDS 453.

SOMETHING THAT MARYLAND HADN'T BEEN DOING, GIVING UP THAT MANY YARDS.

BUT OF COURSE IT WAS THE THREE TURNOVERS AND THE POINTS OVER TURNOVERS THAT REALLY MADE THE GAME.

CLOSE LIKE IT WAS.

- YEAH, I MEAN THAT'S JUST YOU KNOW THOSE DON'T HAPPEN OR EVEN MINUS THE PICK SIX.

MUCH VASTLY DIFFERENT GAME.

PLAYERS OF THE GAME NYZIAH HUNTER.

AGAIN FIVE RECEPTIONS UNDER 25 YARDS 25 YARDS A RECEPTION AND TWO TOUCHDOWNS.

AND THEN JAVIN WRIGHT.

I MEAN THE GUY WHO WAS PLAYING PART TIME LAST YEAR, HE'S IN HIS SEVENTH YEAR, 12 TACKLES, NINE SOLO, THREE ASSISTS, THE DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE GAME AND TO BREAK DOWN A COUPLE OF THE KEY PLAYS FROM THE WIN.

LET'S GO OVER TO MR.

MOORE WITH JAY'S PLAYS.

- ALL RIGHT WELCOME INTO JAY'S PLAYS TONIGHT.

ONE AREA WE THOUGHT THE NEBRASKA COULD GET AT MARYLAND WAS THE SPECIAL TEAM.

ESPECIALLY ON THE KICK RETURN GAME.

MARYLAND WAS NOT VERY GOOD HERE BUT NEBRASKA KENNETH WILLIAMS TAKES A GREAT JOB OF TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THIS AS MIKE.

MIKE EKELER SPECIAL TEAMS HAVE DONE SO FAR THROUGH SIX GAMES.

BUT YOU CAN SEE HERE NEBRASKA DOES A FANTASTIC JOB AS GETTING A HAT ON A HAT EVERYONE'S TAKING CARE OF.

THIS GUY JUST SQUEAKS BY BARELY.

BUT IN SPECIAL TEAMS, A LOT OF TIMES A KICK RETURN, PUNT RETURN.

YOU MAKE ONE GUY MISS, YOU'RE GONE.

I'LL HIGHLIGHT OVER HERE.

RIGHT HERE.

NEBRASKA IS TWO GUYS ON THE GROUND.

SO GREAT JOB HERE.

BUT AS WE RUN THIS HE'S A MAKE THIS KICKERS GOING TO TRY TO FILL HERE.

THE KICKER WANTS NO BUSINESS OF THAT 54 DOES A GREAT JOB OF CUTTING OFF 48.

NO BLOCKING THEM BACK.

IT'S A HANDS UP.

EXCELLENT EXECUTION.

AND HATS OFF TO THIS YOUNG MAN.

AFTER THE GAME YOU SAW THE CLIPS.

HE GETS A SCHOLARSHIP TO THE LOCKER ROOM.

BUT GREAT EXECUTION.

NEBRASKA TOOK ADVANTAGE OF A MARYLAND WEAKNESS TO GET IN THE SCORING POSITION.

NOW LET'S LOOK AT ONE OF RAIOLA'S PICKS THAT PICK SIX.

SO MILLS IS DOWN HERE INTO THE FIELD.

SO I THINK THIS IS A MISCOMMUNICATION BETWEEN DYLAN AND MILLS.

DYLAN THOUGHT MILLS WAS GOING TO BREAK OUT IN HIS STEM.

MILLS BREAKS BACK TOWARDS DYLAN.

OBVIOUSLY MISCOMMUNICATION.

YOU CAN RUN IT HERE.

THIS HAPPENS VERY, VERY YOUNG.

WIDE RECEIVER.

NOT A TON OF PLAYING TIME.

JUST A SIMPLE MIS EXECUTION.

THEY'LL GET THAT CLEANED UP.

OBVIOUSLY MARYLAND TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THAT SITUATION.

BUT DYLAN HAS TO BE A LITTLE BETTER.

BUT NEBRASKA WAS ABLE TO BOUNCE BACK AND WIN THIS FOOTBALL GAME.

SEND THIS BACK MIKE'L.

- THANKS, JAY.

NEXT UP LAUREN MICHAELSON WAS IN COLLEGE PARK FOR THE THREE POINT WIN.

SHE WILL JOIN US AS WE GO TO BREAK MORE GAME SHOTS FROM HER AT SPORTS.

BE BACK IN TWO.

(BAND MUSIC) (SWOOSHING) - THIS MEANS A LOT TO US BECAUSE EMMETT'S SUCH A BIG PART OF OUR TEAM.

AND, I MEAN, YOU CAN SAY WHAT YOU WANT.

IT'S JUST ANOTHER GAME.

BUT FOR THIS GUY, HE'S BEEN THROUGH, HE'S BEEN THROUGH THE WIRE AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE A CINDERELLA NOT ENDING.

BUT IT'S JUST LIKE, THE STORY IS CRAZY.

YOU KNOW?

HE'S THE WAY HE GREW UP AND EVERYTHING, THAT HE'S BEEN SO OVERLOOKED BY EVERYBODY AND AND FOR HIM TO HAVE A CHANCE TO GO BACK THERE AND MAKE HIS MAKE A STATEMENT, MAKE HIS MARK.

- HE MADE TEN HUMANS MISS.

THAT'S HARD.

HE MADE TEN, TEN HUMANS MISS ON YOU KNOW, ON LAST SATURDAY.

YOU KNOW I CHART THAT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE TALK ABOUT EVERY WEEK AND THEY HAVE A GUY THAT CAN DO ALL THOSE THINGS AND THEN GET OUT IN THE OPEN FIELD AND AND MAKE PEOPLE MISS, YOU KNOW, HE WAS SO MAD WHEN HE WENT ON THAT 50 YARDER.

HE WAS LIKE, I COACH, I'M SO SORRY.

I GOTTA GO SCORE, I GOTTA GO, I GO, LOOK, I'M GONNA GIVE YOU THE BALL AGAIN.

JUST GO SCORE THE NEXT TIME YOU GOT IT.

HE'S A PRO AT IT, YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST PART OF THE PROFESSION.

I HAVEN'T TALKED TO MY AGENTS ABOUT ANYTHING.

I'M NOT GOING TO.

I DON'T I DON'T CARE.

I MEAN, OUR JOB.

AND HE FEELS THE SAME WAY.

OUR JOB IS FRIDAY NIGHT TRYING TO GET OUR TEAM READY TO GO PLAY MINNESOTA.

- BUT, LIKE, JUST FOR ONE THING, JUST AS WE MOVE FORWARD, I SAID, I'M NOT GONNA TALK ABOUT IT VERY OFTEN.

I'M NOT GONNA TALK ABOUT IT LIKE WITH ANYONE OTHER THAN MY WIFE.

BUT JULIE DECIDES WHERE WE LIVE.

- YEAH.

I MEAN, THEY'VE ASKED.

AND THOSE GUYS DON'T REALLY UNDERSTAND.

DON'T REALLY BELIEVE WHAT YOU READ ON THE INTERNET.

SO, I MEAN, JUST LIKE, GUYS, HE AIN'T GOING NOWHERE.

HE LOVES IT.

IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER WHAT HE WHAT HE SAYS.

HIS WIFE LOVES IT HERE.

SHE GOT HER BUSINESS GOING AND ALL THAT STUFF.

SO EVEN IF HE WANTED TO, HE COULDN'T.

SO I AIN'T GOING NOWHERE.

- ALL RIGHT, LET'S WELCOME IN ONE OF THE RISING STARS IN THE BUSINESS.

LAUREN MICKELSON JOINING US, SPORTS REPORTER FOR KETV.

HOW ARE YOU DOING?

THANKS FOR COMING IN.

- THANKS FOR HAVING ME.

YOU'RE WAY TOO NICE, BY THE WAY, FOR SAYING THAT.

- WELL, I KNOW STARS WHEN I SEE THEM.

LET'S START OFF BY BEFORE YOU CAME.

YOU WERE IN LINCOLN.

IS THAT CORRECT?

- I WAS, I SPENT ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF IN LINCOLN AFTER GRADUATING.

I WON'T TELL YOU WHAT SCHOOL I GRADUATED FROM.

- WHAT SCHOOL DID YOU GO TO LAUREN?

<BR> - MAY RUFFLE SOME FEATHERS, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI.

BUT WE'RE MOVING PAST THAT.

I'M WEARING THE READ A LOT MORE.

AND THEN, STARTED AT KETV ABOUT TWO YEARS IN FEBRUARY.

IT WILL BE IT.

SO IT'S FLOWN BY.

- YEAH.

- LAUREN, LET'S JUST HOP INTO OBVIOUSLY THE WHAT HAPPENED SUNDAY AFTERNOON WITH JAMES FRANKLIN WHEN YOU SAW THE PRESS CONFERENCE, YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, WHAT DID YOU TAKE AWAY FROM COACH RHULE'S INITIAL COMMENTS?

A LOT OF STUFF YOU CAN READ INTO, OBVIOUSLY, HIS INITIAL COMMENT ABOUT PENN STATE, BUT WHAT YOU THOUGHT STOOD OUT THE MOST FROM HIS COMMENTS YESTERDAY AFTERNOON?

- WELL, I THINK TWO THINGS CAN BE RIGHT.

LIKE HE CAN HAVE THIS LOVE AND PASSION FOR HIS ALMA MATER AND ALWAYS MAYBE HAVE ONE EYE ON WHAT COULD BE A DREAM JOB FOR HIM.

BUT I THINK HE'S AUTHENTIC IN SAYING HE LOVES IT HERE.

HE LOVES NEBRASKA, HE'S A PROGRAM BUILDER.

HE'S DOING IT HERE.

I THINK YOU CAN KIND OF HAVE BOTH HIS EYE ON SAYING, AND I THINK HE CAN MAYBE TOUCH THE WATER, TOO.

WE DON'T KNOW ANYTHING.

I THINK HE HANDLED IT AS WELL AS HE COULD HAVE.

- YEAH.

- GIVEN THEIR CIRCUMSTANCES.

HE WASN'T GOING TO COME OUT AND SAY, I'M NOT GOING TO PENN STATE.

THAT'S NOT THE NATURE OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL RIGHT NOW.

SO I THINK HE HANDLED IT BEST HE COULD.

NOW, DIFFERENT COMMENTS FROM RAIOLA TODAY.

I JUST THAT'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT STORY, YOU KNOW.

BUT I THINK, YOU KNOW WITH WHERE THINGS ARE MOVING HE SAID THE RIGHT THINGS.

THE MOST INTERESTING THING HE SAID, WHICH WE'VE HEARD ALL WEEK SO FAR, IS YOU KNOW HE CAN LEVERAGE THIS.

WHAT CAN HE GET FROM NEBRASKA IN HAVING MAYBE AN OTHER JOBS EYEING HIM?

CAN HE GET MORE MONEY TO COMPETE $30, $40 MILLION ROSTERS?

WELL THAT'S THE QUESTION.

- DO YOU THINK THIS WILL QUIET DOWN OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS OR AS NEBRASKA POTENTIALLY WINS, AS IT DOES CONTINUE TO RAMP UP MORE.

- IT'S GOING TO CONTINUE TO RAMP UP.

YOU KNOW, COACH HOLGORSEN SAID IT TODAY.

RHULE SET IT MONDAY WHEN YOU WIN OTHER PROGRAMS WANT YOU.

IT'S JUST LIKE PROGRAMS AND WANTING PLAYERS IN THE PORTAL RIGHT.

LIKE THE MORE YOU WIN THE MORE YOU SUCCEED, THE MORE THEY'RE GOING TO WANT.

COACH RHULE MAY NOT ONLY BE PENN STATE, HOWEVER, WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT WHAT PENN STATE WANTS CAN RHULE GO THERE AND WIN RIGHT AWAY.

WE DON'T KNOW.

WE KNOW THAT WHAT HE'S DONE HERE.

BUT I DO THINK THIS IS GOING TO BE ONGOING CONVERSATION OVER THE NEXT COUPLE WEEKS.

AND THEY HAVE A VERY GOOD CHANCE OF WINNING MAYBE EVERY EVERY GAME THE REST OF THE SEASON.

SO DEFINITELY.

- SEAN LAWRENCE AT 30 TO 40 MILLION, CAN THEY BRING IN PLAYERS VALUED THAT MUCH TO SPEND THAT MUCH MONEY?

- WELL THEY WERE IN A POSITION LAST YEAR TO LIKE GET ISAIAH WORLD.

- SURE.

- BUT I THINK THAT THEY COULD HAVE GONE A CERTAIN LEVEL WHICH IS HIGH.

THEN OREGON COMES OVER THE TOP 2 OR 300,000 MORE THAN THAT.

- WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 20 MILLION RIGHT NOW, RIGHT?

NOT 30 OR 40.

- YEAH.

I MEAN, NEBRASKA IS PROBABLY, YOU KNOW, WITH THE REV SHARE AND NIL PROBABLY CLOSER TO 20.

- YEAH.

- AND THAT WOULD PUT THEM IN A IN A POOL OF PROBABLY LIKE TEAMS LIKE 6 TO 20.

IN THAT RANGE OF TEAMS THERE'S A TEAM A GROUP OF ABOUT 5 OR 6.

AND MIAMI'S IN THAT GROUP.

OREGON'S IN THAT GROUP.

OHIO STATE'S IN THAT GROUP.

MAYBE A&M, MAYBE TENNESSEE.

I MEAN, THERE'S A FEW TEAMS THAT ARE IN A LEVEL THAT OTHER TEAMS ARE NOT.

AND A LOT OF THAT COMES DOWN TO WINNING.

NOW, TEXAS TECH HAS FOUND A WAY TO KIND OF JOIN THIS PARTY, BYU AS WELL, WITH SOME OF THE MONEY THEY HAVE OUT THERE WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE MORMON COMMUNITY.

SO I DO THINK IT'S TOUGH BECAUSE BUYING THE MOST EXPENSIVE PLAYERS ISN'T ALWAYS GUARANTEED EITHER, AND IT CAN CREATE PROBLEMS IF IT DOESN'T GO WELL.

AND WE'VE SEEN THAT AS WELL.

I MEAN, MIAMI FINALLY GOT IT FIGURED OUT THIS YEAR, AND THE LAST FEW YEARS IT HAS NOT BEEN AS PRETTY FOR MIAMI.

- USC, THE SAME THING.

HOW WAS THE TRIP TO MARYLAND?

HOW WAS THE STADIUM?

IT WAS HOW MANY NEBRASKA FANS WERE THERE.

WHAT WAS THAT LIKE?

- WELL, IT WAS INTERESTING.

WE WERE DRIVING UP, WERE THERE.

THEY OPENED THE GATE ONLY LIKE TWO HOURS BEFORE FOR MEDIA, WHICH IS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT.

AND WE'RE WALKING UP AND WE'RE LIKE, I FEEL SLEEPY HERE.

IT FELT IT WAS FALL BREAK FOR THE STUDENTS THERE.

THERE WEREN'T A LOT OF STUDENTS, MARYLAND STUDENTS THERE.

AND THEN WE GET IN AND WE'RE SLOWLY SEEING A BUNCH OF SCARLET AND CREAM ENTER THE STADIUM.

AND BY THE TIME KICKOFF STARTS, I MEAN, WE'RE LIKE, THIS ENTIRE END OF THE STADIUM IS FILLED WITH NEBRASKA FANS AND, YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE WALK DOWN TO THE FIELD, THE END OF THAT GAME TO WATCH THAT FINAL DRIVE, IT FELT LIKE AND SOUNDED LIKE A NEBRASKA HOME GAME.

IT WAS UNBELIEVABLE, ONE OF THE COOLEST ENVIRONMENTS I'VE EVER COVERED.

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU THINK THE SAME THING, BUT IT WAS SPECIAL AND THE WAY THEY CELEBRATED COMING OUT OF THAT LOCKER ROOM, COACH RHULE SET HIS PLAYERS BACK OUT ON THE FIELD AND SAID, GO CELEBRATE WITH THESE FANS.

I MEAN, IF THAT DOESN'T SHOW THE GROWTH AND THE MINDSET AND THE JUMP THIS TEAM HAS MADE SINCE HE'S BEEN HERE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT DOES.

- I HAD SOME FRIENDS AT THE GAME AND THEY GOT IN THEIR UBERS AND THEY SAID THEY WANT TO GO TO THE STADIUM ON A SATURDAY AFTERNOON.

THEY WERE LIKE, WHAT DO YOU - WHAT STADIUM?

- GOING TO THE STADIUM FOR ON A SATURDAY AFTERNOON?

- HAD NOTHING TO DO OVER THERE.

SO I THAT TOTALLY ADDS UP.

WHEN WE SAW THE, THE FAN, YOU KNOW, 50/50, WHERE DO YOU WANT TO CALL IT?

BUT, YOU LOOK AT THE, THE PLAY OF NEBRASKA THROUGH FROM START TO FINISH.

THE NEXT PLAY MENTALITY, I THINK THAT'S COMING TO FRUITION.

YOU DIDN'T SEE THAT NECESSARILY LAST YEAR, BUT JUST THE EVOLUTION OF THIS TEAM, JUST HAVING THAT MENTALITY.

YOU SEE THE MISTAKES.

THREE TURNOVERS.

BUT THEY'RE ABLE TO OVERCOME THOSE MISTAKES AND JUST KEEP BATTLING AND FIGHTING THROUGH THOSE MISTAKES.

- YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.

I MEAN I ASKED RHULE ABOUT IT POSTGAME.

I SAID THIS NO QUIT MINDSET, THE RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF WANTING TO WIN AT ALL COSTS.

YOU HAVE NOT SEEN, LIKE YOU JUST SAID.

AND HE KIND OF DUMBED IT DOWN.

HE KIND OF JUST SAID, WELL, WE'RE JUST BETTER.

WE'RE LEARNING TO WIN.

WE HAVE MORE TALENT.

WE HAVE WAY MORE TALENT.

AND, THAT MIX WITH THE CONFIDENCE YOU SEE FROM THESE GUYS IS THE RECIPE FOR SUCCESS THAT WE HAVE NOT SEEN.

- WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE SCHEDULE NOW FOR NEBRASKA MOVING FORWARD?

HOW MUCH IT'S MAYBE CHANGED WITH THE OUTLOOK OF SOME OF THESE GAMES AND WITH PENN STATE AND EVEN UCLA CONTINUES TO CHANGE.

BUT IT'S ABOUT AS FAVORABLE AS YOU'RE GOING TO SEE MAYBE FOR A TEAM IN THE BIG TEN.

- I THINK IT'S FAVORABLE.

I THINK GAMES LIKE PENN STATE THAT YOU WERE MAYBE REALLY NERVOUS ABOUT, YOU'RE NOT AS CONCERNED ABOUT.

HOWEVER, I DON'T THINK WE HAVE EVER SEEN THIS MUCH PARITY IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL, AT LEAST WITHIN THE LAST DECADE.

I MEAN, AND THE COACHES TALK ABOUT IT EVERY WEEK.

PLAYERS TALK ABOUT IT EVERY WEEK.

YOU LET YOUR GUARD DOWN ONE TIME YOU'RE DONE AND IT'S BEEN CLOSE GAME.

SO YOU HAVE TO BE MINDFUL AND BE ON YOUR P'S AND Q'S AND UNDERSTAND THAT IT CAN BE ANY TEAMS DAY, ANY SINGLE DAY.

SO I THINK THEY HAVE A VERY GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO GO UNDEFEATED THE NEXT HALF THE SEASON.

ALSO NOT.

I MEAN, IT REALLY COULD SWING EITHER WAY.

- A BIG CONVERSATION POINT.

OBVIOUSLY THE LAST TWO DAYS HAVE BEEN THE SHORT WEEK.

HOW DO YOU THINK THEY'VE BEEN?

THEY'VE HANDLED THAT.

GETTING READY FOR FRIDAY, COMING OFF OF A SATURDAY.

- I MEAN, LAST YEAR I MAYBE WOULD HAVE SAID IT'D BE A CONCERN, ESPECIALLY WITH SOME OUTSIDE DISTRACTIONS.

I DON'T THINK I'M NOT WORRIED ABOUT THIS TEAM BEING DISTRACTED.

I'M NOT WORRIED ABOUT THIS TEAM HAVING LETTING OUTSIDE FACTORS BOTHER THEM.

IT'S BEEN REALLY REMARKABLE TO SEE HOW, INTERNAL THEY ARE KEEPING EVERY SINGLE THING THEY SPEAK AS RHULE SPEAKS.

THEY DO AS RHULE DOES.

AND, THEY'RE REALLY LOCKED INTO WHAT IS AROUND THE TEAM RIGHT NOW.

AND I THINK THEY'RE GOING TO BE JUST FINE GOING INTO FRIDAY, WHICH IN THE PAST HAS NOT ALWAYS BEEN THE CASE.

AND THIS THIS IS GOING TO BE A TOUGH GAME.

WE KNOW HOW TOUGH MINNESOTA IS.

LOST FIVE STRAIGHT.

I MEAN HOPEFULLY THEY CAN FLIP THIS AROUND.

BUT I THINK THEY HAVE A CHANCE TO DO IT.

- YEAH.

THOUGHTS ON NORTHWESTERN TIME?

WE HAVEN'T GOTTEN THERE YET.

WHERE WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE THAT GAME?

- WELL, SO LIKE, THE FAN IN ME HAS ONE OPINION AND THEN LIKE THE JOURNALISTS IN ME HAS ANOTHER, YOU KNOW, THE EARLIER THE GAME <BR> - 11 A.M.. - YEAH.

- THE EARLIER THE GAME.

YEAH.

11.

ANYTHING BECAUSE WE ONLY HAVE A 10:00 SHOW.

BUT A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME TO GET EVERYTHING DONE IS ALWAYS A GOOD THING.

BUT I MEAN, YOU KNOW, THEY KEEP WINNING THE BETTER TIME SLOTS THEY'RE GOING TO GET.

I BET IT'S LIKE AN AFTERNOON GAME.

- NO DOUBT.

LAUREN WE APPRECIATE IT.

THANKS FOR COMING ON.

- THANK YOU GUYS FOR HAVING ME.

- ALL RIGHT.

LET'S.

WE'RE GOING TO GO TO BREAK NOW.

WE'LL TALK SOME RECRUITING.

WE COME BACK AND THE LONG BIZARRE HISTORY OF GOPHERS AND HUSKERS.

AND WHAT YOU SEE HERE IS PICTURES.

AND WE'LL ALSO DO PLAYS OF THE GAME.

(BAND MUSIC) (UPBEAT MUSIC) - IT'S FACE BLOCKING.

- BIG PLAYS.

WE START OFF OF COURSE WITH THE TUNNEL SCREEN NUMBER THREE VOTED ON YOU BY YOU THE VIEWERS 54 YARD TOUCHDOWN.

EVERYBODY DOING THEIR JOB.

GREAT RUN BACK BY NYZIAH HUNTER PUTTING IT IN THE TOUCHDOWN.

AND THEN THIS IS THE GAME WINNING CATCH ONE HANDED CATCH PERFECTLY DONE.

IT'S A LITTLE BIT LOWER.

DEFENSIVE BACK MAY HAVE GOTTEN TO IT.

HAD TO BE PUT THERE.

AND THE NUMBER ONE THIS THROW DOWN THE SIDELINE LINDENMEYER GETTING HIS FEET IN.

AND THE TOUCHDOWN.

GREAT CATCH BY A GUY WHO WAS JUST THE BLOCKING TIGHT END A YEAR AGO.

ALL RIGHT.

WE'RE JOINED NOW BY SEAN CALLAHAN TO TALK RECRUITING.

LET'S TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW ANYTIME THERE'S RUMORS ABOUT A COACH LEAVING OBVIOUSLY IT AFFECTS RECRUITING.

WHAT DO YOU HEAR?

- YEAH.

OBVIOUSLY FOR MATT RHULE A WEEK OF QUESTIONS WHICH YOU'RE COMMITTED.

AND TO PLAY FOR HIM AS A 2026 OR 2027.

SO IT'S GOING TO BE SOMETHING NOW OTHER TEAMS WILL USE AND CONTACT YOUR GUYS.

HEY, WE KNOW THERE COULD BE SOME THINGS GOING ON IN NEBRASKA.

WE WOULD BE INTERESTED IF SOME SOME THINGS HAPPENED.

SO THIS WILL BE SOMETHING THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE A STORYLINE UNTIL THERE'S CLOSURE.

WITH THIS SITUATION.

UNFORTUNATELY, THAT'S JUST PART OF THE BUSINESS.

AND COLLEGE FOOTBALL AND COACHES ARE GOING TO TALK TO YOUR COMMITS.

ON THE CHANCE THAT MAYBE THERE IS A COACHING CHANGE - REAL QUICK.

PENN STATE, NEBRASKA, ANY GAMES, ANY PLAYERS THERE THAT THEY BOTH WERE BATTLING FOR THAT MAYBE.

- WELL, WHAT'S INTERESTING IS THERE'S A COUPLE OF PENN STATE COMMITS.

THAT NEBRASKA HAS GONE OUT AND OFFERED.

AND YOU KNOW, THEY'VE GONE OUT AND OFFERED SOME WISCONSIN GUYS TO ME.

SO THEY'RE BEING IN NEBRASKA RIGHT NOW AS BEING AN AGGRESSOR ON THE RECRUITING TRAIL - MAKES SENSE.

- MAKING OFFERS TO KIDS THAT MIGHT BE COMMITTED SOME OF THESE PLACES.

SO IT'S WE HAVEN'T SEEN THAT HAPPEN ON NEBRASKA'S RECRUITS DIRECTLY.

BUT WE'VE SEEN MORE NEBRASKA GOING OUT AND GOING AFTER SOME GUYS THAT ARE TARGETS WITH OTHER SCHOOLS.

- YEAH.

LET'S GO NOW TO A MATT RHULE'S THIRD COUSIN.

- YEAH.

- SO, JAMAL RULE A CHARLOTTE NATIVE BY THE WAY - I KNOW.

- IS HAVING AN OUTSTANDING YEAR AT RUNNING BACK AT CHARLOTTE CHRISTIAN.

AND YOU KNOW THEY CAN ONLY TAKE ONE HIGH SCHOOL RUNNING BACK THIS YEAR BECAUSE IT'S A TWO THE YEAR BEFORE, THEY LOOKED AT HIM AND A GUY NAMED BRIAN BONNER, OUT OF CALIFORNIA.

AND THEY HAD THEM BOTH.

AND THIS WAS THEIR NUMBER ONE GUY.

THEY WANTED JAMAL RULE.

I MEAN, HE'S PUT UP SOME BIG, BIG GAMES THIS YEAR.

- HE'S A BIG KID.

- AND SO I THINK THEY FEEL LIKE HE'S A BETTER FIT FOR WHAT THE BIG TEN IS GOING TO BE.

SO I'M EXCITED ABOUT JAMAL RULE AND TO SEE WHAT HE'LL BE LIKE IN THIS OFFENSE.

- ALL RIGHT.

LET'S TALK ABOUT IN-STATE JETT THOMALLA.

- YEAH WE'RE TALKING IN-STATE RECRUIT EACH WEEK.

AND TODAY WE GO TO MILLARD SOUTH.

SOMEBODY THAT WE'RE PROBABLY GOING TO SEE ON THIS CHANNEL HERE VERY SOON.

AS THE NUMBER ONE RANKED HOPE TO REPEAT.

JETT THOMALLA COMMITTED TO ALABAMA.

WAS ONCE AN IOWA STATE COMMIT.

SWITCHED HIS PLEDGE.

HE WILL GO DOWN AS THE ALL TIME BEST 11 MAN QUARTERBACK IN TERMS OF STATS LIKE THERE'LL NEVER - PASSING STATS.

- PASSING STATS, YARDS, TOUCHDOWNS, ETC.

AND THE UNFORTUNATE THING IS HE'S GOING TO HE'S GOING TO LOSE OUT ON A GAME.

HE'S ALREADY LOST OUT ON ONE GAME FOR A FORFEIT.

AND IT'LL BE INTERESTING TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS.

BUT, JETT THOMALLA IS THE REAL DEAL.

OHIO STATE ACTUALLY KICK THE TIRES, AND THEY WERE TRYING TO TALK TO HIM HERE.

IN THE PAST FEW WEEKS, ACCORDING TO ARE ON THREE, PEOPLE THAT, YOU KNOW, COVER THAT NATIONAL STUFF.

BUT JETT'S AN OUTSTANDING QUARTERBACK.

ALABAMA VERY EXCITED TO HAVE HIM.

- IT'S GOING TO BE FUN TO FOLLOW HIS CAREER.

OKAY.

LET'S DO LAST WEEK'S TRIVIA.

HAS MARYLAND EVER PLAYED NEBRASKA IN A NON BIG TEN GAME?

AND BY THE WAY THE ANSWER WAS NO.

OUR WINNER CALVIN WEBSTER.

HE WINS A COPY OF SEAN CALLAHAN'S NEW BOOK ABOUT THE HUSKERS.

THE PROGRAM IN NEBRASKA CURATED HISTORY OF THE CORNHUSKERS.

THIS WEEK'S WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON NEXT WEEK'S SHOW.

THIS WEEK'S TRIVIA QUESTION WHO HAS MORE NATIONAL TITLES?

MINNESOTA OR NEBRASKA, AND HOW MANY HAVE THEY EACH WON?

HUSKERS WIN TAKES US BACK TO 1937.

THE FIRST GAME IS COACH FOR BIFF JONES.

MINNESOTA CAME TO LINCOLN AS THE THREE TIME NATIONAL CHAMPION.

THE ONLY CFP TEAM TO EVER DO THAT BEFORE THREE PEAT, AND NEBRASKA WON 14 TO 9 IN A GRITTY GAME JUST 267 TOTAL YARDS.

IT'S THE KIND OF GAME THAT JAY MOORE LIKES.

GOPHERS AT 199 AND THE HUSKERS WON THE GAME, WHICH IS 68 YARDS.

IT'S INCREDIBLE.

- I'M IMPRESSED WITH THIS FOOTAGE.

- I KNOW IT'S 1937 FOOTAGE.

THIS IS ONE OF THE FEW WINS IN THE ERA BETWEEN 1900 AND 1960, WHEN THE GOPHERS WENT 29-5-2 AGAINST THE HUSKERS.

BUT THEN FROM 61 TO 2012, NEBRASKA DOMINATED WITH 16 STRAIGHT WINS.

BUT SINCE 2013, MINNESOTA HAS WON EIGHT OF 11, INCLUDING THE LAST FIVE IN A ROW.

LET'S TURN OUR ATTENTION TO THE GOPHERS AS THEY COME IN ON FRIDAY NIGHT.

I TALKED TO THIS TALK TO YOU GUYS ABOUT THIS BEFORE THE GAME.

ALL THE NUMBERS.

THIS IS NOT A VERY GOOD TEAM.

THIS IS NOT A NORMAL MINNESOTA TEAM.

- NO, I MEAN, YOU SEE THAT THE LINE HOW MUCH HAS CHANGED SINCE IT CAME OUT ON SUNDAY.

- YEAH.

- FOUR POINT FAVORITES ARE NOW ALMOST NINE, NINE AND A HALF.

BUT I'M STILL I THINK NEBRASKA HAS BEEN THE SITUATION BEFORE THE MINNESOTA FOOTBALL TEAM WHERE THEY YOU THEY STACK UP MUCH BETTER.

BUT P.J.

FLECK AND HIS STAFF DO SUCH A GOOD JOB OF ORCHESTRATING THE GAME PLAN, MUDDYING UP, SLOWING DOWN THE GAME, DOING SOME DIFFERENT THINGS.

IN NEBRASKA JUST DOESN'T TRUST YOURSELF ENOUGH TO MAKE SOME MISTAKES.

AND ALL OF A SUDDEN TIME, POSSESSION IS IS OVERWEIGHTED TO TO MINNESOTA THE TURNOVERS SPECIAL TEAMS.

NOW I KNOW THIS NEBRASKA TEAM IS VERY VERY DIFFERENT THAN IN YEARS PAST, BUT IT'S JUST I STILL CAN'T GET MYSELF TO GO THERE YET BECAUSE I JUST I KNOW HOW P.J.

FLECK'S A GOOD IS A GOOD IS A VERY GOOD COACH.

- SEAN, I'LL TELL YOU THE LAST TIME I FELT THIS WAY WAS UCLA LAST YEAR.

WHERE I THOUGHT NEBRASKA HAD ALL OF THE ADVANTAGES.

AND OF COURSE, UCLA WON.

YOU KNOW, DRAKE LINDSEY, WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT HIM AS A QUARTERBACK?

- WELL, HE'S NOT MOBILE.

NO, I DON'T I'VE GIVEN THE THE NOT MOBILE QUARTERBACK GENE.

- HE'S REALLY NOT MOBILE.

- BRYCE UNDERWOOD WASN'T MOBILE.

- YEAH.

- EXCITED TO RUN OBVIOUSLY LAST WEEK MALIK RAN A COUPLE PLAYS ON NEBRASKA.

BUT THEY ARE NOT RUNNING LINDSEY AT ALL.

AND, THEY'VE HAD MULTIPLE OFFENSIVE LINE CHANGES.

I THINK LAST WEEK THEY TRIED THEIR THIRD COMBINATION ON THE LINE AND PURDUE DOMINATED, THE RUNNING GAME AGAINST THEM.

SO IT'S BUILT LIKE NO OTHER TEAM.

AND I GIVE P.J.

FLECK CREDIT.

HE'S FOUND A WAY TO GET THEM BEFORE AND TO.

A LOT OF WHAT THEY'VE DONE IS JUST BEING OPPORTUNISTIC AND CREATING TURNOVERS.

AND OBVIOUSLY THEY'VE - EXACTLY - THEY'RE THROWING THE BALL MUCH MORE THAN WE'VE EVER SEEN A P.J.

FLECK TEAM THROW IT.

- THEY HAD 30 YARDS RUSHING LAST WEEK IN FOR THE MINNESOTA TEAM AT 30 YARDS.

- THAT'S AND THAT'S JUST NOT LIKE A P.J.

FLECK TEAM.

I MEAN IN YEARS PAST THEY'VE OWN THE TIME POSSESSION I MEAN THERE'S A LOT OF TIMES I'LL STOP THAT THING WITH, YOU KNOW, 3 OR 4 SECONDS A CLOCK AND THEY'RE RUNNING IT.

I MEAN THEY DON'T AND THEY JUST KNOW HOW TO DO THAT.

THEY'VE HAD THE DOMINANT OFFENSIVE LINES, HAVE HAD THE REALLY, REALLY GOOD RUNNING BACKS IN THE PAST.

AND THE GREAT TIGHT ENDS OF WIDE RECEIVERS.

JUST AS A THEY DON'T HAVE A SQUAD THAT SEEMS TO STACK UP.

BUT AGAIN, THE SHORT WEEK THEY PLAYED A HOME GAME.

NEBRASKA HAD TO TRAVEL.

THEIR BACK HOME IN THEIR OWN BEDS.

SO I JUST TO ME IT'S STILL I'M NOT.

NEBRASKA STILL HAS TO GO THERE AND PROVE THEMSELVES.

LIKE I WANT TO PLAY WELL A VERY, VERY GOOD FOOTBALL TEAM.

AND THAT'S TO PLAY AT A HIGH LEVEL.

OTHERWISE THEY CAN GO ON, SUB THEIR TOE AND GET BEAT.

- LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE BIG TEN STANDINGS IN THE RANKINGS OHIO STATE STILL NUMBER ONE.

INDIANA MOVES TO NUMBER THREE.

OREGON IS EIGHT.

USC 20.

AND OF COURSE THE HUSKERS COME IN AT NUMBER 25.

THE TOP THREE ALSO RECEIVING VOTES WERE ILLINOIS, WASHINGTON AND MICHIGAN.

BIG GAMES THIS WEEKEND WASHINGTON AND MICHIGAN IN ANN ARBOR.

AND HERE'S ONE STEVEN M. SIPPLE WE HAVE A BET ON THIS ONE.

28TH RANKED USC HEADS TO 13TH RANKED NOTRE DAME FOR A PLAYOFF ELIMINATOR GAME.

AND OF COURSE, AS YOU DISCUSSED ALL NIGHT, PENN STATE PARTED WAYS WITH JAMES FRANKLIN AND THAT'S OUR SIDELINE SURVEY.

WILL MATT RHULE END UP AT PENN STATE CURRENTLY?

YES.

NO.

OR MAYBE 65% OF THE PEOPLE SAY YES.

IOWA VOTERS HAVE COME IN.

NO, 27%, 8% SAY MAYBE.

THAT'S SURPRISING.

- VERY, VERY SURPRISING.

- MAYBE IT'S OUR FAULT.

MAYBE WE WERE.

- MAYBE TOO MUCH, I DON'T KNOW.

- GIVE IT UP TOO MUCH.

- I'M ON THE MAYBE SIDE, BUT, I DON'T I'M NOT LIKE, SAYING IT'S A DONE DEAL BY ANY MEANS.

- SOME OTHER ONES, SEAN.

CURT CIGETTI MENTIONED A LOT.

OBVIOUSLY, WHAT HE'S DOING.

PAT FITZGERALD, WHO'S NOW BEEN EXONERATED AND HE'S OUT THERE WANTING A JOB.

MATT CAMPBELL, IOWA STATE MANY PEOPLE HAVE KICKED THE TIRES WITH HIM.

AND THERE'S A GUY NAMED URBAN MEYER WHO'S JUST DOING TV.

- SO READING BETWEEN THE LINES FROM TALKING TO PEOPLE IN STATE COLLEGE AND WHAT PAT KRAFT HAS SAID, HE WANTS A COACH THAT'S GOING TO BE AGGRESSIVE ON THE NFL SIDE THAT WANTS TO DO WHAT OREGON'S DOING OR WHAT OHIO STATE'S DOING.

FRANKLIN WASN'T REALLY, THAT KIND OF GUY.

SO I HAVE A HARD TIME SEEING PAT FITZGERALD BEING UP TO SPEED ON DOING THOSE KINDS OF THINGS.

SO, NO, I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE SOMEBODY THAT'S A LITTLE BIT MORE SAVVIER.

CIGNETTI MAKES SENSE, BUT HE'S FROM PITTSBURGH ORIGINALLY.

I JUST DON'T SEE HIM LEAVING INDIANA RIGHT NOW.

I JUST I THINK HE'S GOING TO BE PLAYING SO DEEP IN THEY CAN WIN THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP.

I MEAN, IT COULD BE LIKE A WAS IT SCHLOSSNAGLE LEFT A&M.

THEN HE'S GOING TO TAKE A JOB RIGHT AFTER THEY ALMOST WON THE COLLEGE WORLD SERIES.

I MEAN, COULD CIGNETTI DO THAT.

MAYBE.

BUT IT'S HE STRIKES ME AS A BILL SNYDER TYPE THAT LIKES KIND OF BEING WHERE HE'S AT.

- YOU KNOW ONES SITTING OUT THERE WHO HASN'T COACHED IN A WHILE.

MR.

GRUDEN'S OUT THERE.

- AHEAD OF.

THERE'S A FEW TEXT MESSAGE THREADS THAT THROW IT OUT THERE.

AND I SAID, I CAN'T FORESEE THAT.

- DO YOU THINK HE FIT IN COLLEGE?

- I DON'T.

- OKAY.

- NFL HE'S BEEN INVOLVED IN NFL.

I MEAN HIS WHOLE LIFE.

- YEP.

- THERE'S THE RECRUIT I KNOW THE RECRUITING THING IS IS VASTLY DIFFERENT THAN WHAT IT WAS.

IT'S MORE TOWARDS YOU KNOW, RECRUITING TO FREE AGENCY.

BUT THE ATTENTION THAT YOU HAVE TO GIVE THE RECRUITS AND JUST THAT TYPE OF DEAL.

I JUST DON'T THINK HE FITS THAT MODEL.

I THINK HIS KNOWLEDGE OF THE GAME IS PASS FOR THE GAME.

YES.

I JUST DON'T THINK THAT FITS WHAT HE'S NEVER DONE IT.

I THINK TO GO TAKE THAT JOB YOU HAVE TO HAVE SOME BACK RECORD OR SOME STORY TO SAY, OKAY.

YES.

HE'S TAKEN A PROGRAM OVER LIKE THIS BEFORE AND DONE IT.

I JUST DON'T THERE'S NOT ENOUGH THERE.

THERE'S ENOUGH SUBSTANCE THERE, I THINK, FOR PENN STATE TO MAKE THAT KIND OF MOVE.

- WHAT WE'RE SEEING IN NORTH CAROLINA RIGHT NOW.

A GUY WHO HASN'T BEEN INVOLVED IN COLLEGE.

- CORRECT.

- GOES BACK TO COLLEGE.

BEFORE WE GET THE VIEWERS QUESTIONS, REMEMBER, IT'S BEEN SINCE 2006 THAT NEBRASKA WON BACK TO BACK HOME GAMES.

SO I THINK.

- NEBRASKA, EVEN USED YOUR STATS.

- YEAH, THEY USED THAT STAT.

SO YOU'RE GOING TO MINNESOTA.

IT'S A SHORT WEEK, BUT I FEEL PRETTY GOOD.

THE MORE I WATCH MINNESOTA THE BETTER I FEEL.

CAN YOU.

JOHN WANTS TO KNOW WHY NEBRASKA DIDN'T GET PENALIZED FOR RUNNING INTO THE KICKER ON THE BLOCK PUNT?

THAT NEBRASKA.

WELL, ONCE YOU BLOCK THE PUNT ROUGHING IS OFF THE LIMITS.

YOU CAN DO IT.

YOU CAN TAKE OUT THE PUNTER - JUST LIKE ON A TIP BALL.

- YEAH.

- A PI OF THE BALL, STEP THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE.

I CAN GO AHEAD.

- PUNTER DOESN'T GET PROTECTED THAT MUCH.

-NO THEY DO NOT.

NOT AT ALL.

PAUL ASKED THIS QUESTION ABOUT THE MIDDLE EIGHT.

NOT BEEN GREAT.

NEBRASKA HAS BEEN WINNING THE COIN TOSS.

THEY'VE LOST SIX IN A ROW, CORRECT?

- YEAH.

THEY'RE 0-6 ON THE YEAR IN COIN TOSSES, WHICH I'M NOT GOING TO VEGAS WITH THE CAPTAINS BECAUSE THEY'RE THEY'RE LOSING 50, 56 TIMES IN A ROW.

I MEAN YOU SHOULD ALMOST WIN SOME MONEY ON THAT RIGHT THERE.

- THEY PICKED TAILS THIS WEEK.

I DO KNOW THAT.

AND TAILS DID FAIL FOR THEM.

TALK AND A LOT OF PEOPLE COMPLAIN, OF COURSE ABOUT THE MOBILITY OF DYLAN RAIOLA.

BUT WE DID SEE A LOT MORE OF IT THIS WEEK, DIDN'T WE?

- YEAH WE DID.

HE DID A BETTER JOB OF OF PRESS IN THE POCKET AND THEN KIND OF GET BACK OUT.

I'D STILL LIKE TO SEE HIM CLIMB THE POCKET AND MOVE THERE.

SOMETIMES HE HAS THE TENDENCY TO KIND OF BAIL OUT AND TURN HIS BACK TO THE COVERAGES.

SO YOU KIND OF CAN MISS SOME GUYS.

BUT YEAH, HE BE SHOT.

I MEAN WE SAW THE PLAY TO HAARBERG.

WE SAW THE PLAY THE LINDENMEYER.

BOTH PLAYS A LINDENMEYER.

HE CAN DO IT.

HE JUST.

I'D LIKE TO SEE HIM CLIMB AND THEN GO SO HE CAN KEEP HIS EYES DOWNFIELD.

BUT THAT'S NOT NECESSARILY THE CASE WHEN YOU HAVE SO MUCH PRESSURE POTENTIALLY COMING UP THE MIDDLE.

BUT HE HAS ABILITY TO DO IT.

HE JUST DOESN'T ALWAYS DO IT RIGHT.

- WEST ASKED A QUESTION ON FACEBOOK DOWN THE ROAD.

OKAY, SO IF RHULE WAS TO LEAVE, HOW ATTRACTIVE IS THE NEBRASKA JOB ON A SCALE OF 1 TO 10?

- WELL, I MEAN, IT'S 8 OR 9 IN MY OPINION, JUST BECAUSE OF THE FACILITIES, THE COMMITMENT.

- YEAH.

- AND IF HE WERE TO LEAVE, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER NIL LIKE FLAWS THAT THEY'RE BATTLING AS FAR AS GETTING THAT MONEY TO GET TO $30, $40 MILLION.

THAT RHULE KIND OF THREW OUT THIS WEEK.

- YEAH.

- I WOULD THINK THAT THEY WOULD TRY TO ADDRESS THOSE OR FIGURE OUT WAYS TO, DO WHAT THEY HAVE TO DO.

BUT, YOU KNOW, I CAN TELL YOU, THOUGH, THERE WOULD BE INTEREST FROM GUY, YOU KNOW, MATT CAMPBELL, LANCE LEIPOLD, I THINK A JEFF BROHM, MAYBE A ZACH TAYLOR.

I MEAN, THERE'S THERE'S A LOT OF NAMES THAT MAKE SENSE THAT YOU CAN JUST COME UP RIGHT NOW JUST SITTING HERE, THAT I THINK THEY WOULD HAVE A GREAT CHANCE AT BECAUSE THE JOB IS IN A GREAT POSITION.

AS FAR AS WHERE THEY'RE AT WITH EVERYTHING AROUND IT.

- AND ZACH TAYLOR'S A GREAT NAME BECAUSE THE WAY THE BENGALS ARE PLAYING, WHAT'S HAPPENING OF THEM HAVING TO BRING IN FLACCO TO QUARTERBACK.

HE'S PROBABLY DONE THERE IN CINCINNATI AS MUCH AS I LOVE ZACH, BUT I THINK HE PROBABLY IS.

- YEAH THE WRITING'S ON THE WALL THERE WITH WELL IT'S JUST ANY NFL ANY HEAD COACH IS GOING TO STRUGGLE WHEN YOU'RE STARTING QUARTERBACK.

OF COURSE THE WHOLE THE WHOLE FRANCHISE BY PLAN KEEPS GETTING BANGED UP.

- CALLER SAYS WHY DO SOME PLAYERS HAVE A C EMBROIDERED ON THEIR SHOULDERS AND OTHERS DON'T?

WHAT DOES THE C MEAN?

- CAPTAIN?

- THEY ARE CAPTAIN.

THAT IS CORRECT.

BIG SHOUT OUT TO TURNER CORCORAN.

BLOCKING DOWNFIELD.

HE CAME IN IN A TOUGH SITUATION AND WALKED RIGHT IN AND PLAYED WELL.

- YEAH AND I WONDER NOW, MIKE'L WHAT THEY'LL DO THIS WEEK IF HE GETS TO START WITH THE WAY HE FINISHED AND WORSE PRITCHETT AT WITH HIS FOOT INJURY.

GIVE TURNER CREDIT A SIX YEAR SENIOR THAT HAS BATTLED MULTIPLE INJURIES IN BEFORE THE INJURY I BELIEVE IT WAS LIKE HIP OR GROIN INJURY THAT HE SUFFERED BACK IN 2021.

YOU KNOW, HE WAS BOUND TO BE A STAR.

- YEAH.

- AND YOU GO BACK TO HIS CAREER START AGAINST RUTGERS, HIS FIRST CAREER START WHEN HE TOOK OVER BRENDEN JAIMES.

YOU'RE LIKE, THIS GUY IS GOING TO BE REALLY GOOD AND HE'S ALWAYS BATTLED SOMETHING.

AND I'M HAPPY TO SEE TURNER GETTING AN OPPORTUNITY LIKE HE DID ON SATURDAY.

- I KNOW THIS IS NOT A QUESTION ABOUT LATEEF, BUT I DID WATCH MINNESOTA GIVE A BUNCH OF RUNNING YARDS TO QUARTERBACK.

MAYBE HAARBERG GETS A CHANCE.

- YEAH WE SAW THEY HAD A. THEY GOT - SULLIVAN.

- YEAH.

WELL HAARBERG TRIED TO DO SOMETHING IN THE RED ZONE.

- OH YEAH.

- I LOVE IT.

I LOVE THAT THE INSTANCE BECAUSE AGAIN, I'VE SET IT ON HERE AGAIN.

11-11 FOOTBALL.

THIS HAS FORCED THE DEFENSE TO PLAY THAT MUCH CLEANER, THAT MUCH TIGHTER IN THE RUN GAME.

YEAH.

I MEAN, IT'S ABSOLUTELY AS IF MINNESOTA STRUGGLES 100% USE USE HAARBERG IN A IN A QB RUN GAME.

SUCH POWER.

WHATEVER YOU WANT TO DO, LEAD DO SOMETHING TO MAKE THEM EARN IT RIGHT.

- YEAH.

THIS WEEK THEY BOTH TIGHT ENDS MISSED THE BLOCK, RIGHT?

ACCORDING TO HOLGORSEN.

HE MUST HAVE MADE SOMEBODY MAD AT THE TIGHT END ROOM.

THAT'S WHAT HOLGORSEN HAD SAID.

LET'S GET YOUR, YOUR BURNING QUESTION.

- MY BURNING QUESTION IS, CAN NEBRASKA DO IT TWO WEEKS IN A ROW?

AS MIKE'L SEVERE IS TOUTED ALL OFFSEASON.

NEBRASKA IS NOT WON TWO BACK-TO-BACK WEEKS ON THE ROAD LIKE THIS SINCE 2006.

THEY'RE NEVER GOING TO HAVE A BETTER OPPORTUNITY, ARGUABLY, THAN WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO FACE HERE ON FRIDAY.

- EMMETT JOHNSON HAD ONE OF HIS BEST, ARGUABLY HIS BEST GAME CAREER.

LAST WEEK OF AGAINST MARYLAND.

GOING BACK HOME SEEM TO DO IT AGAIN.

I'D BE FANTASTIC.

CAN HE CAN YOU WITH, THE STRONG RUN GAME GOING FORWARD?

- YOU STOLE MINE.

THAT'S WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY.

GOING HOME AND GETTING REVENGE ON A ON A SCHOOL THAT DIDN'T RECRUIT HIM.

BUT ALSO, HOW WILL NEBRASKA HANDLE ALL THE OUTSIDE DISTRACTIONS OF WHAT HAPPENED AT PENN STATE AND COACH RHULE BEING RUMORED FOR THE JOB?

FOR OUR PICKS ON HOW THE SEASON WILL END UP AND AND HOW THE GAME WILL BE THIS FRIDAY, GO TO PREDICTION ON FACEBOOK AND X AND THE BIG RED WRAP-UP PAGE, AS WELL.

AS A REMINDER, NEXT WEEK ON TV WILL BE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17TH AT 7:00 CENTRAL ON FOX.

THAT'S BIG FOX.

AND NEXT TUESDAY NIGHT HERE ON NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA.

WE'LL RECAP THE MINNESOTA GAME AND PREVIEW THE HOME GAME AGAINST NORTHWESTERN.

THAT'S ON BIG RED WRAP-UP 7 P.M.

ON NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA.

YOU CAN ALSO TUNE IN TO FACEBOOK LIVE, YOUTUBE LIVE, AND OUR WEBSITE, NEBRASKAPUBLICMEDIA.ORG.

AND IF YOU'VE GOT FOND MEMORIES OF BIG HIGH SCHOOL GAMES, HIGH SCHOOL CLASSES, BACK FOR A NEW SEASON, AND A NEW EPISODE DROPS ON WEDNESDAY.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, IS BACK.

FRIDAY NIGHT, 7:30 IOWA STATE AT CREIGHTON EXHIBITION GAME AND ON MONDAY ON NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA.

WE'LL HAVE SOFTBALL ALL DAY.

IT'S THE NSAA STATE CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES.

OUR THANKS TO LAUREN MICHELSON FOR JAY MOORE AND SEAN CALLAHAN.

I'M MIKE'L SEVERE.

WE'LL SEE YOU NEXT WEEK HERE ON BIG RED WRAP-UP.

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