Guys, the meltdown is ridiculous. You lost to a good football team on the road...by one point. You didn't play a team that was 0-12 last year (haha USC).
I guarantee you that the team isn't as down on themselves as you are, they have manned up and moved on, and that's exactly what each one of you should do.
Be there Saturday ready to celebrate 300 consecutive sellouts, beat the hell out of the ragin cajun's...and GO f'ing BIG RED!!!
Exactly! Careful though. I made the same point you did about how some NC teams have had one loss before and got laughed at by a Texass fan and :facepalm: by another poster. Regardless, I'm in your boat. Still too much season left and still a lot we can accomplish.
Please, nobody take this as if I'm saying this will happen or anything like that.
But if NU runs the table, they are in the BCS Title game. That'd be road wins against MU and KU, a home win against TTech and OU, and a Big 12 championship game against more than likely Texas, but potentially OU or OSU also. Only loss being a 1 point road loss against Virginia Tech early in the season with a young team. The computers will take the toughness factor in, and the voters can see through the rest. If they run it, they're in.
Now, doing that is the hard part....
I think the huskers will wrk havok and run the table!!
(see what I did there?)
:clap
One thing you have to keep in consideration about running the table is this: the BCS. A couple of things go into their decisions as far as who goes to the title game. Things like....
1) Style Points: Are these teams winning by big margins or just scraping by. Are they looking awesome while they do it or boring people?
2) BCS rank. We're down a little further on the totem pole now. Even running the table and a win against Oklahoma and the Big 12 South Champ, we have to hope that we will get some love in order to be bumped up into the Top 3 teams nationally.
3) Other teams running the table or having one loss. If we run the rest of the table, Florida runs the table, and some other big time program has maybe one loss against a big time opponent, we may be overlooked.
But the biggest obstacle in our way is in fact running the table. That is a big challenge within itself.
Obviously the biggest thing is running the table..
But
if OU beats Miami in 2 weeks, they will be top 6 when they play Texas..
more than likely the winner of that game goes to the Big 12 title game..
If Texas wins it, they
pry go undefeated in the big 12 and are #2 in the big 12 title game. Florida, Ole Miss, and Bama can't all run the table. UF
probably will. Cal didn't look anything close to impressive against Minnesota.. Penn State would be the 1 to worry about going undefeated also.. @ Michigan but they have OSU at home..
If you beat KU and MU on the road, OU @ home, and UT in the big 12 championship game, and you
probably leap frog Boise.. USC would
probably get more love being 1 loss than us, but its tough to see a 1-loss (on the road by 1 pt, to a top 15 team) big 12 team not playing for the title...