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Intimidating 4-8 titans of the gridiron!

Do you understand how quotation marks work?

You'd have a better cross country team if Nebraskans wore shoes. At least fake it, people - you can cover your feet with shoe polish and nobody will know the difference.

It's fairly certain the Gophers will spank the Huskers this year.

You get used to it as a Gophers fan. If Minnesota finished a season as undefeated NCAA champs, the next preseason they would be unranked. Nebraska, on the other hand, can finish with four wins and be #26 in the preseason. It has to do with reputations and assumptions.

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Because Wisconsin's 37-15 loss to Minnesota proved that they're better than the Gophers, Iowa is the West version of Ohio State, and Nebraska is obviously the only team that can improve from year to year. Beyond stupid.

That's a strangely constructed sentence fragment. Is that what they chant at the Nebraska School for Stutterers when they score a T-T-T-Touchdown?

He doesn't mean it. That's a pity endorsement. He wants Frost to last a few years so we get easy wins the next few seasons. ;)

That's the rowing team, silly.

That's fine, I don't fear Nebraska either. Sure, Nebraska scored 53 on Minnesota last year, but then Illinois scored 55 on the Gophers, we replaced our DC, and held Purdue, Wisconsin, and Georgia Tech to 10, 15, and 10. Those teams were all better than Nebraska or Illinois. Nebraska doesn't have as much developed talent as you seem to think, and there's nothing special about your team this year. You're trending upward, but so are we. I'll see you on October 12th!

Yes, meaningless. Nebraska is rapidly improving, but it would be remarkable if they finished this season as a top 25 team. Reality check: your Huskers won four games last year. And yeah, they improved at the end of the season, but so do most well-coached teams. So did my Gophers. The Huskers and Gophers are going to be neck and neck this year, and neither team is going to finish in the top 10.

This Gopher wanted coach Les Miles.

I'm with you, man. Honor and integrity are for losers. Nebraska to the SEC, where if a student athlete can read and write it's just icing on the championship cake!

Prediction: Zach Annexstad will be the QB, and he'll do fine.

Yeah, be fair though - that's a fifty year old trophy that they present to the winning team after the spring game, then put back in storage for a year. And don't most teams get a ring to commemorate a win in a bowl game? I think they do.

A poorly written article on an awful website. Not worth a Husker's time or attention.

I don't know much about wrestling, but that's cool to watch. Striking how slim the kid is.

Nebraska https://athlonsports.com/college-football/college-footballs-top-20-teams-rise-2019

Hot seat: trending cooler...

Nebraska and Minnesota are going to be the two big surprises in the Big Ten next year. I don't want to take anything away from Nebraska, or diminish them in any way. Let me just point out that our defensive personnel were too good to give up 53 points to Nebraska in 2018. Our pts given up in Big Ten games before firing DC Robb Smith: 42, 48, 30, 53, 31, 55. Pts given up after replacing Smith with Joe Rossi: 10, 24, 15, 10. Things will be different in 2019.

Aggravating to this Gophers fan - after our 3-1 finish with blowout wins over Purdue, Wisconsin, and GA Tech, that Nebraska is ranked higher than Minnesota. That, my Cornhusker friends, is the lingering benefit of Nebraska's longtime reputation.

Who is Nebraska playing this week?

I'm pretty sure the Big Ten tried to entice Georgia Tech a few years ago, but that was before Rutgers and Maryland demonstrated how beneficial the B1G gravy train could be.

Random thoughts: Maryland has a long history in football, and they've been very good at times. Historically they have one national championship, 11 conference titles, they recruit a talent-rich area, and they bring the Big Ten Network the Baltimore market. Let em stay. Rutgers has a long history in football, but historically they've been bad to mediocre. But they recruit a talent-rich area and they bring the Big Ten Network the NY/NJ market, and that means major dollar signs. They aren't going anywhere. If the Big Ten is doing "protected rivalries," Minnesota-Michigan is the one I want to protect. Screw Iowa and Wisconsin! And Penn State is nothing. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, Big Ten, don't add Texas. No matter what, keep those cross-eyed jerkoffs out out of our nice conference. Teams to add: I don't want Texas and I don't care about Oklahoma or Oklahoma State. Kansas would be a good addition, and you could add Oklahoma or Kansas State with them, but Georgia Tech would be a better fit academically, plus they bring a prosperous alumni base and the enormous Atlanta TV market with them.