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:facepalm: i appreciate that. i really do. after all of the helpful, informative responses, i was starting to get annoyed, tired of waiting for a worthless and sarcastic response. thank you for providing that for me. I'll be honest. I have no idea where the love affair with Compton has come from. I can only guess it was because he was supposed to be the field general this year. I don't recall at what point he became this seasoned veteran. A few posts up noted that Dillard was an animal last year and that poster couldn't have been more dead on. Once Dillard established himself against VT last year, Compton rarely saw the field. I felt like the biggest question mark on the defense going into this year was who going to replace Dillard and not who was going to replace Suh. We are now at the point were David has more experience than Compton. Not to mention that David appears to be one of the most explosive line backers on defense in a while. He is clearly one of the best linebackers in the conference. I wish Compton the best of luck and I am happy that he will add depth, but if David comes off the field for anything except an injury, I will have to pull my fist out of my TV. Because you know so much more than the Pelini brothers about defense AND their defensive personnel?

Honestly, if Nebraska needs bulletin board material to get motivated for this game, something is seriously wrong.

Bless you.

If Compton gives the defense an edge similar to what Dillard gave us when he started playing last year, I'm ALL for him starting. As I said before, Compton isn't the dime linebacker, that was going to be Fisher, who is replaced by David. Compton is the other linebacker in the Peso - but in that package he's the defense's QB, and he's going to get us into the right alignment/coverage more often than any of the other linebackers. I'm sure he's still sharp on the mental aspect of the game, and that's where David (and Martin/Whaley) is weakest still. They might compliment each other beautifully.

David is the only linebacker in the dime package. Compton would be the other linebacker in the nickel/peso package. David would make the calls in the dime package, while Compton would make the calls in the peso. Compton was our defensive QB before he got hurt. It'll help having him make calls out there.

Shatel compared this game to the 1978 Oklahoma game, which I think is pretty accurate. Anybody who was at that game still claims it was the loudest they've heard the stadium, even more than Colorado in 2008 or Oklahoma in 2009. Hopefully we can match that atmosphere, with the exception rushing the field at the end of the game like we did in 1978. I don't want to give UT fans the satisfaction that they're that important to us.

It'd be nice if they could lose every other game they play, except beat Oregon.

Wouldn't it be cool if we beat Texas 59-0 this weekend?

Agreed I think it'll be a fight the whole game. It could be a fight.. Our offense and their defense is an interesting matchup. However, our defense vs. their offense is not. I hope we get a TD on our opening drive, and then, like when after we scored our first 10 points on Arizona, I get a text from my Oregon fan friend: "10-0. This game is over. AZ can't score 10 points."

David is the linebacker in the dime and nickel packages, in place of Fisher, whereas Compton would have been the other nickelbacker. If Compton comes back, he'll be in the game in place of Whaley or Martin.

I'm not sure everyone got the point of this thread...

LSU should have lost to Tennessee, and Tennessee is bad this year. LSU is not a top 10 team. They'll get exposed sooner or later.

I don't get the fuss over Robinson. He's very fast, but not as explosive as Taylor. His throwing is OK, but the only part of his throwing that is better than Taylor is his ability to put touch on short passes. Taylor wants to rifle everything in there, while Robinson has developed a little more patience and touch. As far as Robinson's throwing though - 3 picks in the red zone against Michigan State. That was the first even semi-decent defense they played, and he and the UM offense could only manage 17 points. Robinson has been WAY over-hyped this season. You're going to see the Michigan offense continue to falter against teams like Iowa and Ohio State. That said, I don't think Taylor has gone up against a semi-decent defense yet this year. Nobody in the PAC-10 plays defense, KSU's rush defense was 102nd in the country going into the game on Thursday, and the other 3 wins were all bad teams. We'll know how good Taylor (and our entire offense) really is after Saturday night.

Nebraska - 52 Texas - 6 Rush - 400 Pass - 150 oh how i hope something like this happens....

Doesn't matter that UT is 3-2, this is still the game of the year, and they're still the best team on our schedule. We gotta bring our A+ game. I'm not concerned about our guys overlooking Texas, but I'm a little concerned about them trying to do too much. I hope they really do approach this game just like any other game, because if NU starts trying too hard, we could make some costly mistakes against an opportunistic defense. edit: However, if the 'skers come out and dominate: 1. Party in LINCOLN!!!! 2. I will be convinced that Nebraska is the most complete team in college football.

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If our offense keeps rolling, we're not going to have a scoring defense like we did last year. Our defense could be just as good as last year or better, but if we're up by 35 points, we're going to give up some more garbage points. Whereas last year, we HAD to hold opposing teams to 10 points or less just to win.

Yeah, if OSU and Missouri are still undefeated, I'm sure each fan base will be touting Hunter and Gabbert respectively for the Heisman. OU will be touting someone, but it'll probably be Landry Jones more than Broyles or Murray... Other than that, no heisman hopefuls to bust until the bowl game. Come January, the Blackshirts are going to be hungry.

Ok. If you've had enough kool-aid to put us into the national championship game, can't you just drink a little more and say we'll win it? party pooper.

Also, this discussion is why "style points" are important in college football. Oregon moved from being behind us at the beginning of the season, to jumping over us thanks to ridiculous 69-0 or 72-0 type wins against teams like Portland State. The first decent team they played was last week against Stanford, and they had already moved ahead of us, and just needed an impressive second half showing to jump Boise. We need to be aware of this as the season goes on. Style points matter. KSU was good the other night. But style points will go a long ways in wins against the next 3 teams. We're going to need it down if just 2 of the teams in front of us stay undefeated, which seems pretty likely.

An undefeated Oregon will get the nod over an undefeated Big 12 championship winner, if they stay ranked ahead of us up to that point. They've got enough hype, and their strength of schedule will be perceived as being stronger than ours, in a down year for the Big 12. Plus, the national media will jump on to the storyline that Oregon going to the championship over an undefeated Nebraska is poetic justice for Nebraska going over 1-loss Oregon in 2001.

I actually think Oregon's most likely loss will be USC. I'm just thinking that Monte will get that defense coached up. It's also at USC. Oregon State or Arizona might still give them a run for their money too.

Nah. Not after our game was impressive and on national television, and not with them getting beat by two touchdowns. Even during the Bama-usc broadcast, people were still talking about Martinez's performance from the other night. We turned some heads.

Nebraska might jump Oklahoma this week, maybe TCU, but probably not yet. If Nebraska wins a close game against Texas, they'll stay outside of Boise State and TCU. If they dominate, they have a chance to jump both of those teams. Now's the time to make the move though. After the Texas game, Nebraska will be expected to win soundly each game it plays (before the CCG), and that makes it hard to exceed expectations and move up in the polls.