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Where is Pat Haden when we need him!

Would love to see Craig Bohl. We need some toughness. It's weird how Bo's teams always mentally collapse during big games. I wonder what will really happen. I hope the whole crew goes. This is not a situation where Bo simply needs new coordinators. Bo is the problem.

I have to admit I agree. I don't dislike the guy. I think he has learned how to endear himself to the masses. However, he continues to get KILLED by teams that are ranked. The bottom line is that it starts at the top. I think that his NFL play-all-starters-at-all-times-irrespective-of-how-lousy-they-are-doing mentality has killed us. 9 times out of 10, a guy with Bo's intensity becomes a complete winner. For reasons unexplained, it has never happened to Bo. He's had 7 years to prove it. He hasn't been a failure, but he's not near the top. Under Bo, we will always be a Georgia Tech 20-25th rated team (at best). You hate to fire a guy who has done fairly well, but it's apparent that he won't make it to the top.

It's weird how bad Armstrong looks. He's very slow at running, hestitates regularly, and misses by miles on his passes.

Seriously. Armstrong looks about as bad as any QB that we've ever had at NU. Fife has a much better arm. Bring the guy in. It couldn't get worse. Bo looks like Barney Fife sticking with Armstrong. Do you recall the MSU game? Armstrong was in the same funk. Fife comes in and - - presto - - TD. Give the guy a shot.

Agree. Don't know if I can ever recall us stacking the box.

It means that OSU should kick our butts when we play (which they should). However, in a complete reversal, Bo pulls off a stunner, 13-12.

Adam Rittenberg ‏@ESPNRittenberg 27m27 minutes ago Pelini anticipates Abdullah being 100 percent for Wisconsin but adds, “That’s just my guess. It always can change." In other words, a definite maybe.

Wisconsin seems to be the one Big10 team that has no fear of us. I'm not saying tOSU doesn't either, but there's something about Wisconsin's utter lack of fear of us that leaves me unsettled. They believe that they are superior to us, and act like it. Kind of like we used to behave toward teams back in the Big 8 days. They have flat-out spanked us in the two marquee games that we have played. They seem like us, just bigger and better at being us. Having said that, I still think we can win Saturday. But it's going to take a lot more guts and determination to win than most folks realize. Camp Randall isn't exactly an easy place for any team to win in.

With Ameer, we have a shot at anyone. No one dominant team this year. On any given Saturday with a healthy Ameer, yeah, we have a shot.

I believe the PAC 12 backed out of ours Sorry, brotha, but the Pac12 plays everybody. Look at this slate: Oregon v. Michigan State Stanford v. Notre Dame UCLA v. Texas and Virginia Cal v. BYU and Northwestern ASU v. Notre Dame USC v. Boston College, Notre Dame & Fresno State (usually they are good) Utah v. Michigan and Fresno State

Huskers 44 Northwestern 29. NU Rushing 374 NU Passing 281

Best comments that I have read on this website this year.

This is a day that will live in infamy!

I cannot think of any realistic scenario where anybody other than Baylor only has one loss. For your scenario to work, OU, OK St., KSU, and TCU would have to win out. What are the chances of that? Let's see: OU plays: Baylor, K-State, and OK ST. OU almost certainly loses to Baylor. Have you seen OU play? Texas beat them up for most of the game, but lost. Baylor will kill OU. If not, OU is the lone shot at a second one-loss team in the Big 12. KSU plays: Texas (don't laugh, they are rising), Baylor, OU, OK St., TCU, and West Virginia. No way do they go undefeated. OK St. plays: TCU, KSU, Baylor, OU, Texas, and WVU. No way they go undefeated. TCU plays: KSU, OK St., Texas, WVU. They also still must beat Kansas, Texas Tech, and Iowa State. Even if they weren't in an emotional funk, it's hard to beat ANY 7 teams in a row. TCU doesn't run the table. The key game is Baylor v. OU. If Baylor wins, they are the only team from the Big12 going to the playoffs.

In addition, Nebraska would certainly not beat out: One-loss ND One-loss Oregon (champ) One-loss FSU (champ) One-loss Baylor (champ) One-loss OU (champ) One-loss TCU (champ) One-loss Okie St (champ) Baylor, OU, TCU, and OK State all play each other. No possible way for all four end with one loss. Maybe one of these teams ends with 1 loss.

My path to the National Championship game: 1. BigTen. We win out, we're ahead of every team in our conference. 2. Pac12 - - WAY too much parity. The only team with a chance of coming out with one loss is Oregon. 3. SEC - - Same as Pac12. The Mississippi schools will fall on their faces when the pressure mounts. Nobody from the Eastern Division is getting to the CCG without two loses. If this is Georgia, they will face the lone team (if any) from the West with one loss. If Georgia wins, the entire SEC has two losses. If the West Division team wins, that virtually ensures that they are the only team in conference with one loss. No way a team with two losses, that didn't even play for the SEC title, passes a Nebraska team with one loss who just beat #3 Ohio State for the title. 4. ACC. Winston won't play the whole season. FSU has barely gotten by with him. They will lose two games before season's end. I see potential losses against Notre Dame, Louisville, and Miami. Also, Boston College, Virginia, and even Florida have a chance. FSU has clunked along all season. No reason they couldn't lose two games. If they had been winning games 63-3 the entire season, then this prediction would be folly. However, they should have already lost to Clemson, and darn near lost to NC State. They are completely vulnerable. 5. Big12. Too much parity. However, Baylor is a beast. If they win out, that means Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, and K-State have (at a minimum) two losses. TCU will lose somewhere else, as well. In short, only Baylor is coming out of here. 6. Notre Dame. They almost lost to North Carolina. They're not that good. Have you seen them? FSU, USC, Arizona State, and Louisville could easily turn into two losses. Under this scenario, the top 4 would be Baylor, SEC champ, Oregon, and Us. In a year where there is no true dominant team, this scenario is not unrealistic IF we win out. And yes, that's a fairly big "if" but the pathway is there if we take care of business.

Will Smith: "Being realistic is the most common path to mediocrity."

I don't buy that for a second. There's a reason we have a head coach. Presumably that reason is to hire assistants and manage them, and manage the overall direction of the football program. Are you suggesting the head coach should micromanage every aspect of the football team, including keeping a constantly updated status and grade of all 100 or so players on the roster during games? Micromanaging doesn't work. If I'm aware of whose in the game, don't you think Pelini is too? Please. This man knows full well who's doing what and who's in the game. There are only 11 players at any given time for Pelini to "micro-manage." Not a tall order.

I didn't do a very good job thinking about this. I was thinking about head coaches and meetings with the position coaches and having a collaboration. Anyhow, yeah, not my best. Dude, show a little courage. Don't get scared when the rest of the herd thinks you are mooing to a different tune. Come on.

This is the Big12 you're talking about here. And our defenses have given up 60+ more than once and people still advocate for JP to keep his job. 61 points is 61 points. At what point do you advocate a change, 100 points? Come on.

TCU lost by 3, with Baylor needing a HUGE comeback to win and you're advocating they should have put in their backups? This is about as far off as you're random weekly rankings - which look to thankfully have stopped. Can't believe I even responded to this. Dude, TCU gave up 61 points and you'd advocate keeping their starters on defense in? I don't think even Kevin Cosgrove would advocate that.

Love your enthusiasm. I agree. There has been so much mayhem in college football this season that there may only be a few 1-loss teams at the end of the season. Also, we all know that the Mississippi State's and Ol'e Miss's of the world will end up losing to Vanderbilt or Tennessee. My hope is that that tOSU wins out. That would put them at about 3 or 4. If we beat them, we will have beaten a fresh face. By contrast, not as many bonus points for beating MSU in a rematch. The bottom line is that we can win out. If we focus each week, there's absolutely no reason why we can't beat the slate of virtual cream puffs in our way up until the Conference Championship Game.

What's better: A guy who only has 70% strength, or, a guy with 100% strength? Simple as that. Also, the drop off between ones and twos is minimal at most positions. Putting the ones on the sideline will make them want to get back in the game that much more. I was watching Baylor's comeback over TCU the other day. During the entire 4th quarter, Baylor lit up TCU's defense as if Kevin Cosgrove was coaching them. It was 100% apparent that TCU had ZERO CHANCE in stopping Baylor. At that juncture, why not put the backups in? Guys on the bench have tons of attitude and can help change a game. Heck, look at Gangrich. First two games Randy Gregory was out, the guy played lights out. Since then, he's basically not seen the field. Are you telling me he has nothing to add to the game? Same goes for the O-Line. If we rotate 8 or 10, that's 8 or 10 hungry, fresh bodies. It works early in the season, why not continue the pattern?