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He sits down with them every week at the ice cream social and promises not to give them chocolate syrup unless they commit fewer penalties.

If we beat them to a pulp we'll just have....ewww badger juice. Yuck.

Luckily their offense doesn't have anyone worth a darn.

We're at 50 - 60 - 7 for rush - pass - penalty, based on what I found below: http://www.cfbstats.com/2015/national/index.html I like that site but I don't think it has anything on what plays are called on first down. Or am I missing it? Those stats are number of first downs gained and how they occurred.

I'm pretty confident in a win, too, though that has more to do with them than it does us.

We are currently #23 in the country in yards per rushing attempt at 5.4. Newby is averaging 5.5, Janovich is at 6.9, Ozigbo is at 8.2. How much more consistent do we have to be? Averages (means) are not good for showing consistency. Ozigbo's rushes are easy to show why: 2, 2, 19, 5, 4, 6, 31, 4, 1. Only two of his 9 rushes are above the mean, with most of the remainder significantly below. In actuality, consistency is a poor word to use to differentiate running backs. In general the median rush between backs is usually pretty small, given a healthy sample size. It's the capacity for big runs that separates backs. In this regard, Ozigbo shows promise.

That's quite possibly true. On the flip side they had no offense even before their injuries. Could be a bit of a pillow fight this weekend.

Wisconsin has given up 13 points since the opener against Bama. 10 of those were in that 4 turnover game last week vs Iowa. Yeah, it's aagainst a weak schedule but this defense will be a great test for our offense.

13 of the worst coached games in Nebraska football history, Facts are Facts! Callahan/ Cosgrove wasn't near that bad. As for Riley, the Illinois game would not even be a blip on the radar of worst coached games. "Facts" without any context. Every offensive category rose significantly across the nation during Bo's tenure. In the case of the stat used specifically in that chart, the ten highest yards per play averages have occurred during the last ten years. To truly illustrate the point of that chart one must account for offensive inflation.

Between this sentence and the "next year will be great thread", I'm officially depressed.

If it's any solace, the Wisconsin boards are identical this week. Fans are fans and everything is greener on the other side.

There is a lot of difference in how NFL organizations and college programs are run, but most plays are run at both levels. One easy example of a play that is ubiquitous but showcases how plays change is a QB rollout. Simple rollout, play wide receiver runs a go route, backside TE(s)/slot/back (whomever) floods to that side. We've all seen this play a million times before. At the college level, that's a third of the field read. A simple go route, and usually a high/low flood. At the NFL level you'll usually see a backside receiver running something like a deep post, that unlike the college version may be part of the progression. That's how plays change; the level of detail. Receivers have more option routes, Qbs have more reads, pass protections have more keys, etc. Any coach can adjust these things with no problem moving from one level to another. The entire idea of a "pro offense" is pretty antiquated, imo. Everyone steals from everyone else.

Regardless of what column the play is tallied on the box score, Nebraska has to account for Schobert. He is living in opponent's backfields this season. He doesn't seem to care what you call your play.

Elaborate plan to get undesirables out of the stadium.

The entire complexity of this situation makes one wonder how much the failures of previous defensive drives this year weighed into this decision. Because, frankly, we shouldn't be talking about taking a timeout in this situation. Standard procedure in this situation is to call a safe handoff, milk clock, and either attempt the field goal or play field position. We all know this, and they do, too. Generally speaking, you get too creative, and that was the case here, when you feel you must.

Even with this coaching staff, I'll take a 99 percent chance to win with a minute left every week.How many more of those can we botch, right? I mean, what are the odds.Nobody is perfect!

2012 was actually the best example of what you refer to. The average scoring margin during the conference that season was only +4.5 points per game, despite a 7-1 record. Four games were won by 6 points or less. This is why it wasn't surprising to some when that postseason turned so sour.

Even with this coaching staff, I'll take a 99 percent chance to win with a minute left every week.

And some people thought the pass defense wasn't going to improve.

Dude...we ain't beating Wisconsin. Nice edit.

The problem is we see more and more teams jump the underneath routes leaving the home run balls as an option. It's no secret to any of us that Tommy is not very accurate throwing the ball deep. We can see the effect in the third down conversion rate the last three games: 6/15, 4/13, 4/17 More and more of this will go on as we get deeper into conference play. Early opponents had at least some doubt as to which set of previous years tapes to concentrate on, but it's pretty easy now to decipher the base principles of this offense.

Hell with raises, I'll give them my time machine. lol...i should have looked at the calender. kk....what if they win the next 5? i seriously doubt they do....but what if they do win them? And spoil the plan? Right now Riley has the team on pace to win against Wisconsin, Northwestern, Michigan State, and Iowa.

Hell with raises, I'll give them my time machine.

I admit the UCLA game was my breaking point. Just not this year's UCLA game.

Nebraska 42 UCLA 27 Rushing 198 Passing 234