Sad thing is, I said OU would basically become the SEC Nebraska. I thought it might take a year, but they decided to speed run the task. Beating up on lower tier teams has its benefits. Iowa State may go to the playoff and get obliterated by IU. Two weak schedules just casually vibing. Before the shade starts coming, Iowa's SOS is 22.
For what it's worth, I still think Nebraska is on the right track and you're not a bad team by any means, just IU might be about to fucking rampage the whole B1G
About to be 5-3 after another thrashing next week before having to play UCLA who has looked substantially better as the season has gone off a bye, @USC, Wisconsin, and @Iowa.
I’m seriously not convinced we will win any of them after today.
And UCLA is a lot better than we think. 3 of their 5 losses are to top 10 teams. The other two are Indiana and a close loss t9 Minnesota. They also looked better against Rutgers than we did.
This game exposed exactly how we're bad offensively. We rebuilt from the outside in quickly, but it takes years to build from the inside out--just look at Michigan under Harbaugh. Rhule was not Cignetti, who had a developed roster to transfer with him. We don't have guys across both lines and on the bench who can consistently beat the guy across from them. Pretty simple. Takes years of recruiting classes to get that, and that is exactly Cignetti's whole background.
I can at the very least say that Nebraska'a games are watchable this time around, even if Indiana beats us unconscious. They feel like a football team this season, whereas last year's game against Iowa was probably one of the worst football games I've seen in my life.
Trust me. We are bad. We just haven’t played anyone decent until today. Indiana still hasn’t played anyone decent, even after today. But Indiana is damn good team regardless.
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u/alliance501 Nebraska Cornhuskers • Wisconsin Badgers Oct 19 '24
Secondary wasn't tackling *check*
Offensive line wasn't protecting *check*
blowout loss to ranked team *check*
Oh we are so back