DCHusker

Nice catch...that's one thing Lucky can do that none of our other backs can...

wow...I'd like to say nice defensive play, but that was just Baylor's O-Line being braindead...

holy mackerel...even the announcers called the play that was coming, and we're completely unprepared for it...

To be fair, it looked like a Baylor player might have gotten blocked into the kick receiver, can't tell til we see a replay...

Even if you don't think it conclusively touched Baylor first, video was absolutely conclusive that it didn't touch a Husker...should at least be Baylor ball back where it finally recovered....unbelievable...

terrible call

That was Cody Glenn's play to make...he blew it...two bad plays in a row for him...

C'mon Cody

wow...good play call...terrible defense Baylor...

great punt

"Who they are is a spread team"....hmmm

"words in which" ...? Sorry. I couldn't resist. I know...not sure if he meant ...use words the meaning of which they do not know... or ...use words in such a way as to make clear they do not know their meaning.... I believe he meant the latter

Maybe he meant that if we defeat Oklahoma and Bo calls their fans a bunch of F---ing hillbillies, he will be infamous in the state of Oklahoma??

The reason I think it extremely unlikely to go 9-3 is not because I don't think a win against OU is impossible. I just don't think our team plays consistently enough to win 6 games in a row. A number of people in this thread have said that if we pull off the upset against OU, 9-3 is likely. I'm gonna say that even if we somehow defeat Oklahoma, 9-3 is still an unlikely outcome.

I'm beginning to think this is the best scenario too, unless something unexpected happens, such as a win against OU.

Maybe not...but we held them to their lowest point total and total offensive yards of the season, and held harrell under 300 passing yards. I would say that is a pretty impressive defensive performance. It was an impressive offensive performance in controlling the clock, but I don't think it was anything more than an average defensive performance. Also need to take into account who else TT had played.

Johnny Rodgers is definitely one of my favorite all-time Huskers. Swift is also one of my favorite players currently on the team. I'm glad he's the one that might top the rocket.

Ha!

I think this is one of the most unpredictable teams in a while. I feel like its entirely possible that we could lose every game except Baylor and also possible that we could win every game except Oklahoma. I think 7-5 is probably the most likely outcome, but I don't feel very confident about it.

YES! The other one I got mad about was a play review where the replay confirmed beyond any doubt that the right call was made on the field. The announcers all agreed it was the right call. Then when the referee came out to announce the result of the replay, one of the announcers said, "It's all going to come down to whether there was enough evidence to overturn the call," as if the call was wrong but there wasn't enough evidence to overturn. I swear they're just reading off of a list of sports broadcasting cliches.

It was Anthony West. He's definitely an aggressive player, which caused him to blow some assignments earlier in the year, but it seems like he's improving a bit.

That's interesting. I'm surprised there's that large a statistical improvement on defense. As far as strength of opponents go, it seems to me that last year's first seven are comparable to this years, with two tough offensive tests in each year (USC and Missouri 2007; Missouri and TT 2008) The Ball St. (610yds) and Oklahoma St. (551 yds) seem to be the games that really inflated those defensive numbers for 2007. As disappointed as I was in our defensive performance against VT this year (377 yds), a team that I don't think has a great offense, it was certainly an improvement over those Ball St. and Ok St. games from last year. I think also that because we were so overmatched and the game got so out of hand against Missouri this year, the number of yards we allowed was suppressed. If our offense had competed in that game, Missouri could've made a run at 600+ yds. Same goes for the TT game if our offense hadn't dominated time of possession the way they did. If the offense had moved the ball quicker, it's easy to imagine TT racking up 500+ yds. We didn't really stop them all day. In other words, I think we're a slightly better defensive team, especially against the teams that we should be able to contain, like VT this year, unlike Ball St. and Ok St. last year. I think that against good offensive teams, like Missouri and TT, we are vastly overmatched and incapable of containing. The good news is that the coaching staff, at least in the TT game, found a way to control the clock and give us a chance to win with a minimal contribution from our defense.

Ha!

Name me one Defense who has kept TT under 400 yards this year? Name me one decent defensive team TT has played. Our offense controlling time of possession is the only reason TT didn't rack up more yardage.