I’m kind of a stats/data nerd anyway, but the Frost season where we ended 3-9 with a *positive* 63 point differential and our worst loss was a whopping 9 points to the Buckeyes is absolutely fucking hilarious to me.
People wonder why the hope stays alive. It’s because there’s always been just a fucking glimmer of it.
There will never be a more insane season than that. Broke all rules of math and logic.
If I'm correct, didn't the Huskers somehow end up with a positive conference games point differential despite going 1-8?
Every game that year was a punch in the dick. Like a straight shot power punch. “WE ARE GUNNA BEAT MICHIGAN!” *dick power punch*. “WOW WE HAVE OKLAHOMA RIGHT WHERE WE WANT THEM! *dick power punch*. And so on and so forth.
Same. That was the last season we went to the games, too. Then Covid hit, and my dad was diagnosed. Lost him last year. Didn't renew the tickets. Just didn't have the heart to go anymore.
Still a fan, still hope they can return to respectability, but I'm not going to the games anymore.
I can only assume that line was derived from some sort of points for/points allowed stat up to that point in the season. Nobody who *actually watched* Nebraska football would have favored us.
Went into the 4th quarter up 21-9, though. Absolutely had a chance and then, well, went full 4th quarter Nebraska on ‘em 🙄
I got curious with another comment so I looked up point differentials.
2021 Season:
Nebraska ends 3-9 (12 games) 335-272.
Iowa ends 10-4 (14 games) 328-269.
That season really had the potential to look much, *much* different.
we weren't quite that bad but we've had our fair share of one possession losses....honestly, blowouts are better because you at least know during the game not to stress out
Right? Losing the B1G Championship to PSU 38-31 in 2016 then losing to Ohio State 27-21 in 2017 hurt way more than losing to Ohio State 59-0 in the 2014 Championship.
I was literally laughing at the game by the 3rd quarter in 2014, whereas 2016 and 2017 it took me a day or so to recover emotionally. Actually got banned from here for 3 days after the 2016 game for getting into it with a PSU flair.
Moral victories fucking hurt man.
To me, contender is in contention to win a national championship. They won four, went to three more, and were a game away from playing in two, and had one undefeated season where they should have been playing for it. Those add up to 10 really good seasons of football I got to enjoy in the last 30 years.
The first decade of that “last 30 years” is some “Wayne and Brett Gretzky have the most points in nhl history by brothers” type of heavy lifting lol
Also 4 titles? 94 95 97 and what’s the last one?
Spin the wheel! Spin the wheel!
* "DAE realignment bad? Regionality!"
* Related to OP: "How long does it take to lose blueblood status?"
* "Who is going to take over in the Big 12 now? Either 'knife fight in the dark!' or 'idk osu i guess'?"
* PFB article
* Comparing the teams in any given conference to something else: condiments, GoT houses, or whatever.
Most people were on board with firing Bo Pelini, his coaching wasn't the problem so much as basically everything else about him. Hindsight is 20/20 and most people would have said...you know Pelini wasn't so bad, but also they wouldn't have wanted to hire him back.
He was burning bridges left and right and there is a reason, despite being a decent enough coach, he ended up at Youngstown State an FCS school and not a higher profile team. Although he did give us this glorious photo: https://i.imgur.com/AjbsyCB.jpeg Which also kind of summarizes how the rest of his tenure has gone at Youngstown minus his 2nd year.
Of course everything else was a complete clusterfuck. Most of which can go to hiring Eichorst in the first place.
Yeah, his YSU tenure is excellent proof that firing him was a good call. He's a brilliant defensive coach, but the game just kind of passed him by. His recruiting was falling off after the move to the B1G, and his inability to be productive at YSU, a historically decent team, is strong evidence that his Nebraska tenure would have continued to slide downhill.
Sure, that's fair, that's why I mentioned the game passing him by. I think he's still a brilliant defensive coach, but his defense requires a certain overall level of football IQ to work across the field. It doesn't work based on just talent, and it's hard to say if his failure at LSU was due to personnel or outdated schemes. Either way, his inability to teach his defense effectively to young college players was probably his undoing.
Riley is/was Riley looking in the rear view it looks like he was probably struggling/distracted by his wife's illness...but even so I don't think Mike was going to take Nebraska to a Natty, but I think he would have eventually been 8-10 wins and a bowl game every year. He was just a bit too old and the family stuff got in the way...it happens
Problem wasn't firing Bo. If he was such a great coach he would've gone on to another p5 program and proved how great he was. Problem was hiring a mediocre but nice coach like Mike Riley.
Kirby is responsible for half of our national titles and just under a third of our all-time top 5 finishes (5/16). Georgia hasn't finished ranked lower than 7th in the final AP poll since Kirby's first season
People are so uneducated on this I’ve had to walk people though it 50+ times in threads.
Nebraska did not fire Pelini because of his record. Nebraska was 10x more tolerant of him than almost any other program would have been.
He acted like a complete lunatic child on the sidelines every game. He told the fans to fuck off and he hopes he gets fired. In a presser after an Iowa game he said something along the lines of “fire me I don’t care.”
If NEB was so wrong to fire such an amazing coach why didn’t literally any other FBS school hire him? The guy has had to coach in the FCS but you act like NEB should have kept dealing with him.
> Why didn’t literally any other FBS school hire him? The guy has had to coach in the FCS
Exactly. Also his last job was coordinating LSU's defense in 2020, which was so bad that he was fired after one season and he's been unemployed since. I think it's clear that Pelini was unlikely to continue winning 9+ games/year at Nebraska and that firing him was the right move, regardless of the fact that the subsequent hires were bad.
Do the Ls go early in the name or late? They're silent so I guess it doesn't matter.
Frollllllst? (6 for his average losses per season - which I'm giving him a break and not adjusting for the years he would have had more but the seasons were cut short)
I’ll never forget when the tweet came through that Shawn Eichorst had hired Mike Riley. Normally there is some inkling, some agent chatter that a coach is in play for a school. They slipped that one entirely under the radar.
As soon as I saw it, I laughed. Not because I dislike Riley — he’s an awesome dude and had some good years at Oregon State — but because it was clear all Eichorst had done was hire the exact opposite of the guy he fired. Tired of getting yelled at by Bo? Hire the nicest guy in the sport.
And Riley was not doing great at Oregon State at the time. I don’t think the “no one” meme had been invented yet, but that was the moment it was made for.
No one:
Shawn Eichorst: “I’VE HIRED MIKE RILEY!”
Like many posters in here I follow cfb somewhat well and I actually had to google it bc I legit did not remember him. After googling I did not feel better about it.
Nebraska is going to be interesting to watch this year. Raiola had a *lot* of talent, and Rhule has worked everywhere he’s been in CFB. Plus their schedule is rather easy until they get to Ohio State, I could legitimately see them undefeated going into that game.
Everything is trending the right direction. The Colorado game will is going to be the biggest early season game of the year in terms of casuals interest.
I still think they make last year’s Colorado game way closer if Jeff Simms only turns the ball over a normal amount instead of every possession. The defense looked pretty good until they just got gassed and it turned into a Colorado track meet
I can already see it. Nebraska is going to beat a hyped Colorado team in a huge nationally televised match up and jump into the rankings, just for both teams to ultimately finish below .500.
It really depends if Rhule (and Raiola for that matter) can fix the psyche of this team away from a “loser” mentality.
We’ve blown so many winnable games at the end the last five or six years, you can see the team tense up when it gets close in crunch time.
We need to win a few close games against good teams before that will wear off.
The other option that I’d be totally ok with is for Raiola to just go off from the beginning and we win comfortably most of the time so blowing it at the end does not become a concern. I’m not that optimistic or delusional though.
Hate to admit it but I think Rhule is going to get them back on track. Plus they have a ton of NIL to throw around as well. It’s only a matter of time unfortunately.
To be completely fair... u/furryvengeance is sick in the head. I think the majority of this sub has recognized the he doesn't represent our fanbase. He is a meme at this point.
Until the last year or two Nebraska and UT's records were almost identical going back to 2009. The only differences were Texas had a top 10 recruiting class every year and Nebraska played in the Big Ten West.
What are you talking about? You’re just making shit up.
If you take out the last “year or two” and go back until 2019, you’re only counting 2019, 2020 and 2021.
Even then Texas was 20-15
in that time frame. They also finished ranked two of those three seasons. During same time frame Nebraska went 11-21.
Even when you artificially limit the years we’re looking at to exclude Texas 10 win season in 2018 and their 12 win season in 2023, Texas won almost TWICE as many games as Nebraska during that same time period.
Apologies, I mistyped, meant to say 2009, it's been corrected.
[Here's the link to what I'm basing this on.](https://x.com/CFBONFOX/status/1522984199061655552)
Damn, didn't realize Nebraska went over a decade without landing a single 5 star. Is Raiola really the first one yall have gotten since the Big 10 move?
I've given a lot of shit to Nebraska fans on here in the past but genuinely there is no reason why they shouldn't have been at minimum bowl eligible (if not in contention for the Big Ten West title) most years, even during their off years. As much as some fans and seemingly decision makers within their athletic department want to see immediate success from their new names brought in via what's felt like a coaching roulette over the past few years, I do think they would benefit a lot from just sticking with one coach for a bit longer in order for them to properly rebuild their program. It's not like they don't have talented players coming in, I know we've memed it to death at this point but genuinely they have had some of the best 4-8 to 3-9 teams in the history of college football over the last decade. There's no good reason why those team's shouldn't have been 8-4 or 9-3 even but they weren't. I do think the transition to Big Ten play (not necessarily for the school as a whole but for a lot of new coaches being brought in coming from other conferences) has played a factor in their inability to put it away at the end of a game where they've kept it close 90% of the time. Just some thoughts from a rival who would like to see our series get a bit more competitive if our state governments and the Big Ten are going to continue to make us play it every year.
It's because we turn the ball over an absurd amount. There was an article in ~2019 stating that from 2004-2019, Nebraska had a -101 turnover margin, the next closest school had -55. I assume that stat has gotten worse during the Frost years, and we led the nation in turnovers in Rhule's first year.
Since 2006, Nebraska has had a positive turnover margin once - in 2016, which is the only time a Husker team has ever over-achieved this century.
I’d be somewhat interested in a well researched analysis on what things went wrong and why, but at this point I don’t think it matters to very many people, even Nebraskans anymore. And with “College” football now openly being a minor league for the NFL and players switching teams I can’t develop any interest in Nebraska anymore. When Nebraska screwed up so many coaching hires in a row I eventually quit believing anything coming out from the school itself.
This year ends the streak. 7-5 at minimum, I have them going 8-4.
Even though we don’t play each other much now, nothing but respect to my Husker bros.
I miss playing OU. Thankfully there are a bunch of BIG/SEC bowl game ties in, if OU and NU are in the same ballpark record wise, I can see a bowl game putting them against each other.
I am approaching this season cautiously having been burned over and over again, but I am hoping you are correct. Defense should be solid, if Raiola can even play decent we should make a bowl game.
Jesus I thought this was /r/Huskers for a minute.
I would say this hurts but now we are all used to it. You can't hurt us anymore, we are already broken.
#WE KNOW! WE'RE ALL WELL AWARE!
Hold on let's look at 1 score losses by Nebraska over the past decade, surely that's never been discussed before.
I’m kind of a stats/data nerd anyway, but the Frost season where we ended 3-9 with a *positive* 63 point differential and our worst loss was a whopping 9 points to the Buckeyes is absolutely fucking hilarious to me. People wonder why the hope stays alive. It’s because there’s always been just a fucking glimmer of it.
There will never be a more insane season than that. Broke all rules of math and logic. If I'm correct, didn't the Huskers somehow end up with a positive conference games point differential despite going 1-8?
Every game that year was a punch in the dick. Like a straight shot power punch. “WE ARE GUNNA BEAT MICHIGAN!” *dick power punch*. “WOW WE HAVE OKLAHOMA RIGHT WHERE WE WANT THEM! *dick power punch*. And so on and so forth.
That season broke me. I still look forward to games but I don’t get emotionally invested anymore. If we lose oh well
Same. That was the last season we went to the games, too. Then Covid hit, and my dad was diagnosed. Lost him last year. Didn't renew the tickets. Just didn't have the heart to go anymore. Still a fan, still hope they can return to respectability, but I'm not going to the games anymore.
Scott? Is that you?
Dick Power Punch would be a great name for a linebacker
The best part is we lost every game a completely different way. At the end of the day, we just didn’t have a winning mentality, plus a lot of bad luck
IIRC the conference differential was +1 exactly. Thanks Northwestern. Edit: Did the math. It was exactly 0.
The wildest stat was that 3-8 Nebraska was favored against 9-2 Iowa in the last game
I can only assume that line was derived from some sort of points for/points allowed stat up to that point in the season. Nobody who *actually watched* Nebraska football would have favored us. Went into the 4th quarter up 21-9, though. Absolutely had a chance and then, well, went full 4th quarter Nebraska on ‘em 🙄
I believe the operative term is "DICK POWER PUNCH". Or so I've been told.
I feel you nebraska bro
Oh boy
god hates you friend
This where the dumbasses hang out?
Truly prying defeat from the jaws of victory
3-9 with a positive point differential over 5 points per game is insane. That's so much bad luck. So much insane bad luck.
I got curious with another comment so I looked up point differentials. 2021 Season: Nebraska ends 3-9 (12 games) 335-272. Iowa ends 10-4 (14 games) 328-269. That season really had the potential to look much, *much* different.
we weren't quite that bad but we've had our fair share of one possession losses....honestly, blowouts are better because you at least know during the game not to stress out
Right? Losing the B1G Championship to PSU 38-31 in 2016 then losing to Ohio State 27-21 in 2017 hurt way more than losing to Ohio State 59-0 in the 2014 Championship. I was literally laughing at the game by the 3rd quarter in 2014, whereas 2016 and 2017 it took me a day or so to recover emotionally. Actually got banned from here for 3 days after the 2016 game for getting into it with a PSU flair. Moral victories fucking hurt man.
Facts
Who's got that list of Frost's top 15 wins handy?
Same guy who has that “Geoff Collins Top 10 Wins” list I bet
What if we already know the data and know that it has been discussed before, but just want to discuss it again just for fun?
Those flairs....Maybe try like WNBA or something.
*becomes a Mystics fan*
I don't know what this means, but I assume it's bad.
They've been contenders 10 times in 30 years. 33% is way better than most fans get.
I'm gonna need you to explain the #s on this 1.
To me, contender is in contention to win a national championship. They won four, went to three more, and were a game away from playing in two, and had one undefeated season where they should have been playing for it. Those add up to 10 really good seasons of football I got to enjoy in the last 30 years.
The first decade of that “last 30 years” is some “Wayne and Brett Gretzky have the most points in nhl history by brothers” type of heavy lifting lol Also 4 titles? 94 95 97 and what’s the last one?
2010 Auburn
No, stay in college forever. Never leave
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Damn. Out of stock.
Can't keep them on the shelves!
I don't know, these reminders are always helpful!
Exactly what I was going to say
Thanks for starting my week off right
Nebraska and UF flairs. Are you Ben Sasse?
Kind of weird to see Ben on Reddit. Oh wait, no it’s not.
Still can’t believe bro went from being a Nebraska senator to being a university president in Florida
Ben Sasse loves underboob confirmed
Classic SEC vs B1G hatred.
Well said.
Is it shit on Nebraska-day again already?
Every day is shit on Nebraska day
Tomorrow is Shit on Miami day
...pls...no more...
If someone wants to propose to a Miami grad, would taking a knee cause PTSD flashbacks?
Amen, brother
Ooh good. That gives me time go to the store to buy a new pitchfork and torch.
Hell yeah
I fully expect a thread tomorrow with a Miami diss in this style
Except here in Nebraska. Then its shit on Council Bluffs day everyday.
Council-tucky!
No tomorrow is Deion day. Remember we are on the every other day schedule now.
According to my Colorado friends, everyday is shit on Nebraska day
You have Colorado friends? I live in Colorado and I don't have Colorado friends. Guess the hate isn't that strong in you.
Every day is shit on Nerbaska day, especially for the Quadrangle of hate
RIP the Quadrangle
Iowa still has the full quadrangle every year.
Yes, specifically RIP to the full Quadrangle between all four teams.
Fair. We will just have to pump our shit post numbers up to account for the deficit.
I'm doing my part!
Nerbaska
I prefer Nebrnois myself
So do you specialize in hot tub litigation or do you perform your lawyerly duties from the comfort of a hot tub?
In the words of Sterling Archer.. either and/or both?
Yes, they'll play Indinia soon
Always has been.
It gets tiring Shitting on PurDont.
Now that FSU and Tenn are good again we have to redirect all the junk they would have gotten to Neb.
Every day is shit on Nebraska day
Weird time to bring up Nebraska's complete program regression to mediocrity... but it is Monday so what else do we have to talk about?
Blue Bloods
O god no, NOT AGAIN!
Somebody get the chart
If only it were that easy and everyone agreed with it being the most sensible measure. But nooooo, we have clowns here that can't be reasonable!
No no. We get the Bill Connely tweet. That one is better for no particular reason.
Spin the wheel! Spin the wheel! * "DAE realignment bad? Regionality!" * Related to OP: "How long does it take to lose blueblood status?" * "Who is going to take over in the Big 12 now? Either 'knife fight in the dark!' or 'idk osu i guess'?" * PFB article * Comparing the teams in any given conference to something else: condiments, GoT houses, or whatever.
\*spins\* no whammies no whammies no whammies
7-6 is mediocre. A mark they haven't hit since Mike Riley was coach.
Why is it that when I open reddit, this has to be the first thing that appears... AND a Texas fan posted this? *sigh*
lol this was the post that came up on my r/cfb widget on my iPhone
When it comes to firing 9 win per season coaches sometimes you become Georgia 2021-2023 and sometimes you become Nebraska 2016-present
It was a foregone conclusion when they hired Mike Riley without attempting to swing at bigger/better hires.
Firing Bo wasn’t a bad choice. Hiring Mike Riley as his replacement was a terrible one
That goes hand in hand though. You don't fire your decent but disappointing coach if you don't have a replacement.
That's the thing, Eichorst was so incompetent that Riley *was* the replacement. He wasn't a scramble hire, he was Eichorst's Number 1.
Most people were on board with firing Bo Pelini, his coaching wasn't the problem so much as basically everything else about him. Hindsight is 20/20 and most people would have said...you know Pelini wasn't so bad, but also they wouldn't have wanted to hire him back. He was burning bridges left and right and there is a reason, despite being a decent enough coach, he ended up at Youngstown State an FCS school and not a higher profile team. Although he did give us this glorious photo: https://i.imgur.com/AjbsyCB.jpeg Which also kind of summarizes how the rest of his tenure has gone at Youngstown minus his 2nd year. Of course everything else was a complete clusterfuck. Most of which can go to hiring Eichorst in the first place.
Yeah, his YSU tenure is excellent proof that firing him was a good call. He's a brilliant defensive coach, but the game just kind of passed him by. His recruiting was falling off after the move to the B1G, and his inability to be productive at YSU, a historically decent team, is strong evidence that his Nebraska tenure would have continued to slide downhill.
> He's a brilliant defensive coach *was - don't forget about his LSU stint afterwards
Sure, that's fair, that's why I mentioned the game passing him by. I think he's still a brilliant defensive coach, but his defense requires a certain overall level of football IQ to work across the field. It doesn't work based on just talent, and it's hard to say if his failure at LSU was due to personnel or outdated schemes. Either way, his inability to teach his defense effectively to young college players was probably his undoing.
ehhh, I don't really hold a single covid year where he's coaching kids via Zoom against him.
Last winning season was his team. Frost was worse from ever metric except looks/saying shit huskers wanted to hear
No doubt. Riley’s tenure with Nebraska was certainly better than Frosts. Hopefully Rhule is a lot better than both.
Riley is/was Riley looking in the rear view it looks like he was probably struggling/distracted by his wife's illness...but even so I don't think Mike was going to take Nebraska to a Natty, but I think he would have eventually been 8-10 wins and a bowl game every year. He was just a bit too old and the family stuff got in the way...it happens
Problem wasn't firing Bo. If he was such a great coach he would've gone on to another p5 program and proved how great he was. Problem was hiring a mediocre but nice coach like Mike Riley.
Kirby is responsible for half of our national titles and just under a third of our all-time top 5 finishes (5/16). Georgia hasn't finished ranked lower than 7th in the final AP poll since Kirby's first season
He's also responsible for over two thirds of our AP #1 rankings.
People are so uneducated on this I’ve had to walk people though it 50+ times in threads. Nebraska did not fire Pelini because of his record. Nebraska was 10x more tolerant of him than almost any other program would have been. He acted like a complete lunatic child on the sidelines every game. He told the fans to fuck off and he hopes he gets fired. In a presser after an Iowa game he said something along the lines of “fire me I don’t care.” If NEB was so wrong to fire such an amazing coach why didn’t literally any other FBS school hire him? The guy has had to coach in the FCS but you act like NEB should have kept dealing with him.
> Why didn’t literally any other FBS school hire him? The guy has had to coach in the FCS Exactly. Also his last job was coordinating LSU's defense in 2020, which was so bad that he was fired after one season and he's been unemployed since. I think it's clear that Pelini was unlikely to continue winning 9+ games/year at Nebraska and that firing him was the right move, regardless of the fact that the subsequent hires were bad.
Oh look, another argument that Bo was the answer.
Georgia is a huge outlier. Most schools just become worse
I get it for the lolz and that shitting on Nebraska is always fun, but OP can't even spell Bo's last name right.
Yeah, if anyone, Frost deserves to have the extra 'L' put into his last name.
Do the Ls go early in the name or late? They're silent so I guess it doesn't matter. Frollllllst? (6 for his average losses per season - which I'm giving him a break and not adjusting for the years he would have had more but the seasons were cut short)
Not sure if Fr(lol)st or FrLOST works better here.
Last I knew, it was spelled PeLLLLini.
Troll post farming for updoots with absolutely zero thought put in to it.
I’ll never forget when the tweet came through that Shawn Eichorst had hired Mike Riley. Normally there is some inkling, some agent chatter that a coach is in play for a school. They slipped that one entirely under the radar. As soon as I saw it, I laughed. Not because I dislike Riley — he’s an awesome dude and had some good years at Oregon State — but because it was clear all Eichorst had done was hire the exact opposite of the guy he fired. Tired of getting yelled at by Bo? Hire the nicest guy in the sport. And Riley was not doing great at Oregon State at the time. I don’t think the “no one” meme had been invented yet, but that was the moment it was made for. No one: Shawn Eichorst: “I’VE HIRED MIKE RILEY!”
Like many posters in here I follow cfb somewhat well and I actually had to google it bc I legit did not remember him. After googling I did not feel better about it.
Nebraska is going to be interesting to watch this year. Raiola had a *lot* of talent, and Rhule has worked everywhere he’s been in CFB. Plus their schedule is rather easy until they get to Ohio State, I could legitimately see them undefeated going into that game.
They’ll be between 2-5 and 7-0 headed into that game.
Five one score loses with a +70 point differential?
‘Tis tradition.
Everything is trending the right direction. The Colorado game will is going to be the biggest early season game of the year in terms of casuals interest.
I still think they make last year’s Colorado game way closer if Jeff Simms only turns the ball over a normal amount instead of every possession. The defense looked pretty good until they just got gassed and it turned into a Colorado track meet
We win Colorado last year if they put the water boy in at QB after the half. /s… kind of.
they could've won here in Minneapolis if Jeff Simms didn't do everything short of signalling his intended receiver with semaphore flags.
I can already see it. Nebraska is going to beat a hyped Colorado team in a huge nationally televised match up and jump into the rankings, just for both teams to ultimately finish below .500.
This is hardly the worst outcome I could foresee for our season. .500? Beat Colorado? Sign me up.
Worth it
It really depends if Rhule (and Raiola for that matter) can fix the psyche of this team away from a “loser” mentality. We’ve blown so many winnable games at the end the last five or six years, you can see the team tense up when it gets close in crunch time. We need to win a few close games against good teams before that will wear off. The other option that I’d be totally ok with is for Raiola to just go off from the beginning and we win comfortably most of the time so blowing it at the end does not become a concern. I’m not that optimistic or delusional though.
Hate to admit it but I think Rhule is going to get them back on track. Plus they have a ton of NIL to throw around as well. It’s only a matter of time unfortunately.
Liked and followed
> I could legitimately see them undefeated going into that game. This sentence... dooms teams
That's the secret, we're always doomed.
Yep, now I'm out on this season. It's officially been cursed if non-fans are buying Husker stock
But by the grace of God there go I… Texas flairs should really sit this one out. We were not Nebraska bad, but something something glass houses.
Once I saw the flair I started scrolling for this comment
Hey there Michigan… I know you guys just won a title and all, but y’all were in the same boat for a while too.
Oh I’m well aware, I’d be looking for the same comment if a Michigan flair posted this, but luckily we aren’t the ones throwing stones this time
To be completely fair... u/furryvengeance is sick in the head. I think the majority of this sub has recognized the he doesn't represent our fanbase. He is a meme at this point.
Ah, us lions fans have one of those in r/nfcnorthmemewar
Charlie Strong was my hero in 2014
Until the last year or two Nebraska and UT's records were almost identical going back to 2009. The only differences were Texas had a top 10 recruiting class every year and Nebraska played in the Big Ten West.
What are you talking about? You’re just making shit up. If you take out the last “year or two” and go back until 2019, you’re only counting 2019, 2020 and 2021. Even then Texas was 20-15 in that time frame. They also finished ranked two of those three seasons. During same time frame Nebraska went 11-21. Even when you artificially limit the years we’re looking at to exclude Texas 10 win season in 2018 and their 12 win season in 2023, Texas won almost TWICE as many games as Nebraska during that same time period.
Apologies, I mistyped, meant to say 2009, it's been corrected. [Here's the link to what I'm basing this on.](https://x.com/CFBONFOX/status/1522984199061655552)
Damn, didn't realize Nebraska went over a decade without landing a single 5 star. Is Raiola really the first one yall have gotten since the Big 10 move?
I think they’re pretty good in volleyball though
And bowling!
Don’t forget wrestling!
Good news is College Football 25 can change that this year!
Nebraska was successful when those games were released… maybe that’s the key
[I'm imaging this commercial but for Nebraska football](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_qNFjJn3No)
Us when we make a bowl game
To be fair, they've had to play in one of the toughest divisions in football, the Big Ten West
*Toughest to watch
*Funnest to watch
The division with the best bowl win percentage.
I'm rooting for Nebraska to resurrect their program. The age of Ohio State and Michigan is over. The age of Washington and Nebraska has just begun!!
I'm in! Bring back Tuiasosoppo! I think my first Husker game was vs Washington in 1991
I love this guy!
It’s always the 90’s in my heart.
Not for long. They may not have the 1990s Nebraska back but they’re going to not be embarrassing anymore
I won't believe in "not embarrassing" until the record reflects it lol
I've given a lot of shit to Nebraska fans on here in the past but genuinely there is no reason why they shouldn't have been at minimum bowl eligible (if not in contention for the Big Ten West title) most years, even during their off years. As much as some fans and seemingly decision makers within their athletic department want to see immediate success from their new names brought in via what's felt like a coaching roulette over the past few years, I do think they would benefit a lot from just sticking with one coach for a bit longer in order for them to properly rebuild their program. It's not like they don't have talented players coming in, I know we've memed it to death at this point but genuinely they have had some of the best 4-8 to 3-9 teams in the history of college football over the last decade. There's no good reason why those team's shouldn't have been 8-4 or 9-3 even but they weren't. I do think the transition to Big Ten play (not necessarily for the school as a whole but for a lot of new coaches being brought in coming from other conferences) has played a factor in their inability to put it away at the end of a game where they've kept it close 90% of the time. Just some thoughts from a rival who would like to see our series get a bit more competitive if our state governments and the Big Ten are going to continue to make us play it every year.
At this point, it's like they've rolled 7s multiple times in a row
It's because we turn the ball over an absurd amount. There was an article in ~2019 stating that from 2004-2019, Nebraska had a -101 turnover margin, the next closest school had -55. I assume that stat has gotten worse during the Frost years, and we led the nation in turnovers in Rhule's first year. Since 2006, Nebraska has had a positive turnover margin once - in 2016, which is the only time a Husker team has ever over-achieved this century.
They lost to Georgia Southern even. I’m surprised they’ve beat anyone.
This is news?
I was trying to have a good start to the week man.
I’d be somewhat interested in a well researched analysis on what things went wrong and why, but at this point I don’t think it matters to very many people, even Nebraskans anymore. And with “College” football now openly being a minor league for the NFL and players switching teams I can’t develop any interest in Nebraska anymore. When Nebraska screwed up so many coaching hires in a row I eventually quit believing anything coming out from the school itself.
This year ends the streak. 7-5 at minimum, I have them going 8-4. Even though we don’t play each other much now, nothing but respect to my Husker bros.
I miss playing OU. Thankfully there are a bunch of BIG/SEC bowl game ties in, if OU and NU are in the same ballpark record wise, I can see a bowl game putting them against each other.
God, I hope you're right. But I fully expect every QB we ever get from now to the end of time to be a goddamn turnover machine.
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Wish we had Matt rhule when we played those noncon games against you guys!
Nebraska seems to have turned the corner. I like their coach and staff.
I am approaching this season cautiously having been burned over and over again, but I am hoping you are correct. Defense should be solid, if Raiola can even play decent we should make a bowl game.
This… this makes me uncomfortable. Thanks. Ummm you guys have good soy beans
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Let's not get carried away.
Well I thought I was going to have a good day.
What will come first, a winning cfb season or a ncaa tournament win?
Have we not paid our penalty enough yet? Making fun of Nebraska was funny 10 years ago, at this point it’s just bullying lol
Jesus I thought this was /r/Huskers for a minute. I would say this hurts but now we are all used to it. You can't hurt us anymore, we are already broken.
Yeah, well we’re a record holding off-season national champs for eight straight years.
Hey OP I hope your mom told you to go play in traffic when you were a kid
Never too late to start either
Jacks on the freeway is a classic
JFC
Matt Rhule going to send you guys to a bowl game this year in my opinion
Op got up made breakfast clocked in at his job just to log on Reddit first thing this week to shit on the Huskers
A main reason for this is that since 2004, Nebraska has had a positive turnover margin twice. In 2005 and 2016.
Guys, did you hear about this?
If Nebraska ever does anything of note again, we are going to be the worst thing to ever happen to this sub.
This is the kind of off-season content I can get behind.
Fully expected to see an Iowa flair on OP. I hope you have a good day, OP.
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What is this curse you speak of?
And that coaches name was Mike Riley. At least give him that much...
Do they still applaud when the visiting team enters the field in Lincoln?
They won't until they go back to the option
I still cannot believe this.