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I tried to find MSU's rankings when they played us last season, but I'm not having much luck, just figured that would be helpful to some folks to compare that game to this game. My guess is MSU was ranked a little bit better than Wisconsin is this season on defense and better on offense. While we were probably in a worse spot, but playing the game is another story all together, obviously Sunday we'll know where we stand as a football team. Either we'll shut everyone up or everyone will say, "see, I told you!" chances are that all carries over in the OSU game anyways. So I got on the NCAA website and looked at the defensive and offensive rankings for those folks that are curious, but don't know, they are as follows. Nebraska Offensive Ranking. 39th overall offensively. 35th overall in rushing. 59th overall in passing. 39th overall in scoring. 70th overall in redzone scoring. Wisconsin Offensive Ranking. 89th overall offensively. 65th overall in rushing. 90th overall in passing. 96th overall in scoring. 112th overall in redzone scoring. Nebraska Defensive Ranking. 21st overall defensively. 27th overall against the rush. 55th overall against the pass. 14th overall against scoring. 44th overall in the redzone against scoring. Wisconsin Defensive Ranking. 9th overall defensively. 10th overall against the rush. 29th overall against the pass. 4th overall against scoring. 9th overall in the redzone against scoring. After looking at these stats it's my opinion this comes down to our offense against their defense. This probably isn't a surprise to anyone here, but their offense isn't world beaters by any stretch of the imagination. We have another "Purdue" type of offensive game we're screwed! But if we can put together a game offensively similar to the Oregon game, balanced attack, control the clock, limit penalties and turnovers, etc then I think we can win this game. Now OSU..................well they came up in the Top 10 in most of these categories so that game is a whole other story.