Moiraine

I want to win by 14+ and never be nervous after the first quarter.

Yeah, "doom-and-gloom" is a pretty accurate description of me. Unfortunately, over the past 15 years or so, my hunches have been correct far more often than not. You'll also never see me complain following a Husker loss, because I'm mentally prepared for it. It sucks to be this way; I didn't ASK to be this way; I've just slowly progressed into this train of thought due to the numerous letdowns over the years. However, to say that I'm alone in my feelings about this weekend would be asinine. Courtesy of 247: "Northwestern (+7) vs. Nebraska The Wildcats needed three weeks to pick up their first win of the year, falling to Western Michigan and Illinois State by a combined three points in their first two contests before taking down Duke at home, 24-13, this past week. The last of four consecutive home games to open its season, Northwestern now faces an unbeaten Nebraska team coming off a 35-32 victory over Oregon last Saturday. Tommy Armstrong, Jr. has scored four touchdowns for the Cornhuskers in each of their last two games but the model has Northwestern pulling the upset at home this week." Why don't you link the model so we can see how stupid the methodology is.

This doesn't mean I think these will happen. My guess at the moment is we'll lose a game before Ohio State, we'll lose to Ohio State, and we'll win our bowl game.

We won't know if it was a turning point for quite awhile so this is a prediction thread. I don't want to say yes and then lose to Indiana Wisconsin and Ohio State.

If our education is so bad compared to other countries, why are so many foreigners coming here to be educated?Can't read article yet but that paragraph was pretty vague. My guess and it's only a guess is we're lagging behind with undergrad courses, teaching and students but our postgrad is still good which is why foreigners are coming here for it. It makes sense though. Almost anyone can get into UNL. In a place like China you have to be SMART to go to University. It doesn't necessarily mean our smart people are dumber.

All this bs would be cleared up if he'd just released his taxes. I heard the NY Attny General is actually investigating the Foundation for this now, so that should be interesting. I'm betting we start seeing tweets like, "Boring NY Attny General is unfairly accusing me of what Crooked Hillary does everyday when she doesn't get up and go to work because she has a brain tumor and I have HUGE rally's, the NY Times, Washington Post and CNN are failing SAD!!" It might be "cleared up" but I doubt it'd make him look good. It'd show how little he gave to charity.

Clinton jumped to conclusions on the "unarmed" shooting victim about 2 days after telling Trump not to jump to conclusions on the NYC bombing.

The problem with this is it wouldn't be a statement. They're 1-2

The run defense is skewed by Oregon's huge rushing stats on Saturday, which were boosted by a few big plays. I thought the D played well overall on Saturday. Two of the long TD's on Saturday had bad alignment by the LB's, and then Banderas missed a tackle on the 4th and 2 run that the RB went 40 yards for a TD. The pass defense is a lot better than it was last year, and the secondary is playing confidently. The run D should improve over the next few weeks against weaker Big Ten opponents. Agree. I think Oregon will negatively effect any teams run D stats. They were quick off the edge. As Banker and the players said, you miss and its 6 points. I do not think we will see speed like that for the rest of the year. I also think that it goes back to last years stats. Our run D was much "better" as our pass D was a joke. Why run when you can pass. I'd settle for us being better than average against both run and pass. This way teams will have to work to move the ball. No easy yards through the air or on the ground. If you watch, our D end on the three man line kept biting inside on fakes giving up the edge to Oregon. Doesn't the Oregon offense read the defensive end? So isn't that pretty usual?

They ran for 350 anyway and he left 10 plays into the game. I guess I just fail to see how his presence woulda made that much of a difference. Its not like he averaged 10 ypc for 2 1/2 quarters, then left, and all a sudden, boom, their run game goes capoot and we shut them out rest of the way. This isnt Braxton Miller 2011. Think Wisconsin 2012 B1G Title Game difference. Doubtful.

Thanks, Bo. Rare thing to witness here - I agree with cm. We're on a good upswing, but we've got a long ways to go. The only part of this impressive by historical Nebraska standards was the MSU win, everything else is what we should be doing. Oregon still has sexy name recognition, but there's a good chance they don't finish ranked. UCLA was a lot like us vs Washington - they didn't want it nearly as much as we did and saw it as beneath them, to their detriment. Wins over Fresno and Wyoming are what they are, and the loss to Iowa...wait, I'm confused. Was Iowa a top 5 team or not? We can't credit them as that when it makes it sound good to us, and then talk about how they weren't that good when it makes them sound bad. One or the other, please. I'm excited and pleased and happy about where we're at. But it's entirely too premature to have any kind of discussion about being 'back' or having turned a corner. One of the dumbest things fans do (not talking Nebraska fans but in general) is when their team beats a decent team they talk about how overrated the team they beat was. Way to downplay the victory you just had. I didn't say they were overrated. I didn't even say that they were bad. But if you've watched Oregon this year, they aren't really good either. They have problems- among them being massive coaching staff turnover. This was still an important and good win. I wasn't aiming it at you or quoting you. Sorry, I didn't see anyone downplaying the win in your quote box, so assumed it was aimed at the original post that led to the "thanks Bo" comment. I was mostly thinking of some comments about Iowa before the game last year and about MSU and just in general when people chant "overrated." I don't think anyone's being particularly obnoxious after the Oregon win.

Thanks, Bo. Rare thing to witness here - I agree with cm. We're on a good upswing, but we've got a long ways to go. The only part of this impressive by historical Nebraska standards was the MSU win, everything else is what we should be doing. Oregon still has sexy name recognition, but there's a good chance they don't finish ranked. UCLA was a lot like us vs Washington - they didn't want it nearly as much as we did and saw it as beneath them, to their detriment. Wins over Fresno and Wyoming are what they are, and the loss to Iowa...wait, I'm confused. Was Iowa a top 5 team or not? We can't credit them as that when it makes it sound good to us, and then talk about how they weren't that good when it makes them sound bad. One or the other, please. I'm excited and pleased and happy about where we're at. But it's entirely too premature to have any kind of discussion about being 'back' or having turned a corner. One of the dumbest things fans do (not talking Nebraska fans but in general) is when their team beats a decent team they talk about how overrated the team they beat was. Way to downplay the victory you just had. I didn't say they were overrated. I didn't even say that they were bad. But if you've watched Oregon this year, they aren't really good either. They have problems- among them being massive coaching staff turnover. This was still an important and good win. I wasn't aiming it at you or quoting you. I didn't say they were overrated either. I think there's a good chance this year's Oregon team ends the season unranked, and they are currently unranked. After the year is over, hypothetically, if they finish 8-4, are we still going to look back and give Riley credit for beating a "ranked non-conference opponent" when Pelini and Callahan didn't, even though by end of season they aren't a top 25 team? I'm not in any way trying to downplay the victory. It was one of the craziest environments I've been in at Memorial, and one of my top 3 favorite game experiences ever. All I'm trying to do is bring people back to earth a little bit who are trying to overplay the victory. It wasn't aimed at you either. lol. "(not talking Nebraska fans but in general)"

Thanks, Bo. Rare thing to witness here - I agree with cm. We're on a good upswing, but we've got a long ways to go. The only part of this impressive by historical Nebraska standards was the MSU win, everything else is what we should be doing. Oregon still has sexy name recognition, but there's a good chance they don't finish ranked. UCLA was a lot like us vs Washington - they didn't want it nearly as much as we did and saw it as beneath them, to their detriment. Wins over Fresno and Wyoming are what they are, and the loss to Iowa...wait, I'm confused. Was Iowa a top 5 team or not? We can't credit them as that when it makes it sound good to us, and then talk about how they weren't that good when it makes them sound bad. One or the other, please. I'm excited and pleased and happy about where we're at. But it's entirely too premature to have any kind of discussion about being 'back' or having turned a corner. One of the dumbest things fans do (not talking Nebraska fans but in general) is when their team beats a decent team they talk about how overrated the team they beat was. Way to downplay the victory you just had. I didn't say they were overrated. I didn't even say that they were bad. But if you've watched Oregon this year, they aren't really good either. They have problems- among them being massive coaching staff turnover. This was still an important and good win. I wasn't aiming it at you or quoting you.

Anyone know which section faculty get tickets in? I think I found Coach http://pano.ly/3j01

Wow I'm never going to a game again.

Looked like his fingernail might've scratched the ball.

Thanks, Bo. Rare thing to witness here - I agree with cm. We're on a good upswing, but we've got a long ways to go. The only part of this impressive by historical Nebraska standards was the MSU win, everything else is what we should be doing. Oregon still has sexy name recognition, but there's a good chance they don't finish ranked. UCLA was a lot like us vs Washington - they didn't want it nearly as much as we did and saw it as beneath them, to their detriment. Wins over Fresno and Wyoming are what they are, and the loss to Iowa...wait, I'm confused. Was Iowa a top 5 team or not? We can't credit them as that when it makes it sound good to us, and then talk about how they weren't that good when it makes them sound bad. One or the other, please. I'm excited and pleased and happy about where we're at. But it's entirely too premature to have any kind of discussion about being 'back' or having turned a corner. One of the dumbest things fans do (not talking Nebraska fans but in general) is when their team beats a decent team they talk about how overrated the team they beat was. Way to downplay the victory you just had.

I wonder why he picked UCF other than what's in that article. I can guess a couple reasons. He didn't want to coach Maryland against Nebraska. He wanted more freedom as a coach - and he gets that in a program that just went 0-12

Maybe NDSU could beat most of the Top 25. If they only had one game per season and it was the only game they prepared for from January thru August.

Which unranked teams should be ranked ahead of us?

I called it

Hooray!

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FSU is still #2 OMG!!! Anyhoo, I'll go with... #20 in coaches #23 in AP.

Tommy Armstrong = warrior For all the complaining, analyzing, and belly-aching over TA's play, he's our best player. What woah let's not get ahead of ourselves here.... he may be our most important player but he in no way is our best. I'd give that to Westy or Stanley before TA and Gerry if we're considering our whole team.Have to agree here. I disagree. If I were putting together a team, I'd take TA ahead of anybody else on our roster. Here's how I see it. If I was to pick one player whose injury would have the worst effect on our team's chances of winning, it would be Armstrong. But that doesn't mean he's the best player. It means the biggest gap between the starter and the backups is at his position.