Can't argue with this guy. With everything going on this week from the UCLA implosion to the leaked Bo recording to Martinez maybe not playing due to turf toe, this shapes up as a pretty scary time to be playing a top school, whatever their division.
South Dakota State enters Saturday's game ranked #6 in FCS, with a hotshot running back named to the preseason Walter Payton Award watch list and a pretty good QB/WR combo. This team came to Lincoln in 2011 and darned near beat Nebraska, and they're aiming to do it again.
This is the situation the Huskers find themselves in: thanks to sub-par defensive play and an offense who was supposed to be good but is inexplicably sputtering, every single team Nebraska plays this year will come into the game expecting to beat them. Nobody is afraid to come to Lincoln anymore - not even FCS opponents.
The story from Vermillion: