Michigan Game - Confidence Level - Poll

How Confident are you that the Huskers will beat Michigan?

  • Very Confident - Nebraska is Back, Restore the Order, Drink the Kool-aide confident

    Votes: 3 3.2%

  • Nervously Confident - I like what we've done - We will take the next step - tight game win

    Votes: 45 47.9%

  • Nervously Unconfident - I think we lose a 1 score game - not ready yet for the next step

    Votes: 36 38.3%

  • Very Unconfident - National Stage - another embarrassing loss to a ranked team- same old act

    Votes: 10 10.6%
  • Total voters
    94
Hilltop said:
You might be right but I'm thinking our staff and team prep will at minimum force Michigan into passing the ball, or at least being creative in the run game, from the start. I think we will have a lot of 8 man boxes from the first snap. Force the rookie to beat us with his arm.
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Agree. If we don’t sellout to stop the run and force them to throw, that’s on the coaching staff. Surely they have identified this.

However, I do think our offense is capable of giving them similar problems. Hopefully we can have some semblance of a run game to stretch their ability at covering our receivers.
 
I'm nervous as hell, and see it going one of two ways.

I think Michigan wins if, in the 1st and/or the 3rd quarters, our offense stalls 1-2 times while they get 7-12 play drives. If we don't ball control well and move the sticks, and they get some early success, I don't think our defense will be able to stand up to em for the entire game.
 
I don't think the defense is going to be able to stop the run even with stacking the box. I suspect conference play is going to be fairly rough from a run defense standpoint. Gonna have to win a shootout, and I think their defense is going to do enough to keep that from happening.

I am just hoping for a respectable performance as a sign of growth, a win would be very unexpected at this point. Don't get blown out and keep them under 35 ish points.
 
runningblind said:
I don't think the defense is going to be able to stop the run even with stacking the box. I suspect conference play is going to be fairly rough from a run defense standpoint. Gonna have to win a shootout, and I think their defense is going to do enough to keep that from happening.

I am just hoping for a respectable performance as a sign of growth, a win would be very unexpected at this point. Don't get blown out and keep them under 35 ish points.
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Unfortunately, this is pretty much where I'm at. There is no question on which team is more talented. The question then becomes whether the coaching staff can scheme their way to victory. I'm not saying they can't, I just don't know.

While if they lose, I'd appreciate it being close versus a blow-out, I don't know if the team would see it as growth considering they were only a couple of plays away from beating Ohio St last season.
 
Lorewarn said:
I'm nervous as hell, and see it going one of two ways.

I think Michigan wins if, in the 1st and/or the 3rd quarters, our offense stalls 1-2 times while they get 7-12 play drives. If we don't ball control well and move the sticks, and they get some early success, I don't think our defense will be able to stand up to em for the entire game.
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Very reasonable. Reminds me of Illinois last year. Our Offense started to slow and, by the end of the game, the Defense was wet paper. Illinois would’ve scored every series had the game been extended.

Our Defense doesn’t seem as good as last year, at least up front. Our Offense seems better. We have to score in volumes early (finish drives with TDs) sell out to stop the run, spy thr QB with a good athlete, avoid PI penalties in man to man, and be solid in special teams.

I actually think an easy indicator for success will be to watch the NT position. If we’re getting blown off the ball, no matter the scheme behind or around, that’s bad. Can we hold the LOS with our front? If we hold we have a good chance. If we actually move their line back we have a really good chance. If we get pushed back it could be a really long afternoon.
 
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DefenderAO said:
Very reasonable. Reminds me of Illinois last year. Our Offense started to slow and, by the end of the game, the Defense was wet paper. Illinois would’ve scored every series had the game been extended.

Our Defense doesn’t seem as good as last year, at least up front. Our Offense seems better. We have to score in volumes early (finish drives with TDs) sell out to stop the run, spy thr QB with a good athlete, avoid PI penalties in man to man, and be solid in special teams.

I actually think an easy indicator for success will be to watch the NT position. If we’re getting blown off the ball, no matter the scheme behind or around, that’s bad. Can we hold the LOS with our front? If we hold we have a good chance. If we actually move their line back we have a really good chance. If we get pushed back it could be a really long afternoon.
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One thing that is different with our defense this year is the depth. We can rotate in more frequently so we should still have fresh players late in the game which should limit the drop off we saw in 4thQ last year. Whether that rotation will be as effective remains to be seen though. We obviously don't have Ty and Nash level interior linemen but maybe keeping the guys fresh will make a difference late in games?
 
Michigan supporter/writer - basically says NU won't be a challenge. I hope Rhule posts this in the locker room.

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In the trenches, I will be disappointed if the Wolverines can't at least get some pressure. Between Wink's blitzes and Michigan's mixing coverages, they should be able to mess with Raiola some and scare him away from deeper shots, while coaxing a mistake or two. When the mistake comes, you need to catch it. In the run game, I don't know how much the Bugeaters will involve Raiola's legs because I think if they stick to their bread and butter, Michigan should do fine keeping a lid on that. Some dinking and dunking, a big play or two, mixed bag running the ball, keep them to field goals and Nebraska ends up in the teens, as they scored 20 against Cincinnati. This was a bad offense a year ago and I think it's up to mediocre now. If Michigan's defense wants to show they are elite after a bit of a dud in Norman, bottling this group up would be a welcome statement.
 
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