So who really believed that we would go 6-0 after the OSU game?

[MLB 51]

I thought 4-2 at best. Happy to be wrong. GBR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[NoLongerN]

I had no belief at all. There was some hope for sure. Now I am more perplexed then ever ... are we heading in the right direction? Personally, I would feel more confident with a few deserved wins and obvious losses for defined reasons. As is ... I am left with a new brand of mistake ridden, undisciplined football that is masked by one to two quarters of good or great play that is enough to be 10-2 in a bad conference and it seems "acceptable". It is every half time and every week that we are told of all the mistakes and how correctable they are ... only to endure them for the first half of another game.

 

It is like a stock that is making it's numbers even though it isn't executing it's strategy. The board of diectors and investors are happy but the "bigger picture guy" knows their are problems on the horizon that threaten the long term goals.

 

Thus, "congrats" are in order and I want to sell the stock and take the profit.

 

Sure is weird to be a RED kool-aid drinker this whole time and now feel on a different page and we are 10-2.

[Fuzzy]

Michigan was the only one i did not think we would win.

[ladyhawke]

I think I said something along the lines of 'I think we can quietly win them all.' 10-2 ain't too shabby. I just hope we can finish business this year!

[Warrior]

I thought we could, but only if we had to come from behind in the majority of those games!

[Peoriahusker]

After the 63-38 lose to Ohio State, Bo Pelini addressed the media that we needed to win out. In order to win out we needed to beat these 6 teams which were:

 

@ Northwestern

Michigan

@ Michigan State

Penn State

Minnesota

@ Iowa

 

I honestly didn't think we would win out because we failed to show up against UCLA allowing over 600+ total yards and then got blown out at tOSU a few weeks later. Nebraska had a tough 4 game stretch with NW, Michigan, Michigan State, and Penn State but to say we'll go 6-0 after the Ohio State game was nuts. I had us losing to NW, Michigan, and Michigan State and winning the last three games.

 

So now be honest how many of you actually thought we would've finished 6-0 after the Ohio State blow out?

 

Absolutely not, nor did I during almost every game in that 6-0 span.

[HUSKER FREAK]

I was very hopefull and thought that it was possible, but they had a tough road ahead of them and I didn't think that they would be able to stay focused enough. Now, we have just one more conference game and it should be a good one.

[Silent Commit]

AFter the tOSU game and after reading all the message boards calling for Pellini's head, I thought that the Huskers would collapse like they did in Callahan's last year. I thought that we would be looking for a new coach about this time. Now, no one wants Pellini to leave. Go figure. We're such fickle fans.

[Vizsla1]

Not me...eating crow... let's finish this by winning out...

Adrianne: "win Rocky"

Mickey "well, what ya waiting fer"..

[BIGREDIOWAN]

I had no belief at all. There was some hope for sure. Now I am more perplexed then ever ... are we heading in the right direction? Personally, I would feel more confident with a few deserved wins and obvious losses for defined reasons. As is ... I am left with a new brand of mistake ridden, undisciplined football that is masked by one to two quarters of good or great play that is enough to be 10-2 in a bad conference and it seems "acceptable". It is every half time and every week that we are told of all the mistakes and how correctable they are ... only to endure them for the first half of another game.

 

It is like a stock that is making it's numbers even though it isn't executing it's strategy. The board of diectors and investors are happy but the "bigger picture guy" knows their are problems on the horizon that threaten the long term goals.

 

Thus, "congrats" are in order and I want to sell the stock and take the profit.

 

Sure is weird to be a RED kool-aid drinker this whole time and now feel on a different page and we are 10-2.

 

I still think the wins are deserved and disagree with your angle of thinking there. We won those games, came back in several of them, but I agree that the play on the field is perplexing at times. I will not agree that we don't deserve to be in the B1G championship game. We got there fair and square, we didn't back into the game by needing someone to lose. We won the Legends outright and deserve to be there. I really thought the game against Iowa was going to be a close one no matter how bad they are. They had nothing to lose and nothing to gain and we had everything to lose, that makes for a dangerous situation for any team. Not saying that you are saying we don't deserve to be there, but that's what I'm gathering from some of your posts.

[grandpasknee]

If being wrong feels so good, I don't ever want to be right.

 

I picked us to be 7 - 5 before the season started.

[Husker_x]

I'm still not sure we did. I keep expecting to wake up.

 

It's taken a lot of gritty performances and a few heaping spoonfuls of luck, but this team far and away exceeded my expectations. At the Ohio State game I saw things I thought would taint Pelini's career (and might have anyway were it not for a fourth-quarter blitzkrieg against Northwestern). I'm happy to have way overstated the case after the OSU loss. We're in a much better situation program-wise than it seemed we were that night, or the previous season when blowout losses were trending.

 

This team hasn't earned the championship yet. They haven't earned the Miss America's Most Consistent Team title, either. What they have earned, and this is a big step over previous seasons, is a complete four quarter, sixty-minute chance to prove they can do it with every fan behind them. Nothing is over with this group until it's over. I'm not overly confident about our upcoming rematch. I think we've got an even chance to take care of business and that's it. Our defense had better get creative and (far) more importantly our offense had better take advantage of the best conditions they're going to see all season.

 

Regardless of what happens, though, five straight 9+ win seasons is in this day and age more than enough to punch your ticket to next season's circus. It's an achievement.

[NebraskaHarry]

Where's FLU?

[Mars]

I thought NU would unravel and lose 2-3 games. Never thought they would run the table and make it to the Big 10 title game.

[WAHusker]

i thought we would be 9-4 at the end of the season. If we lose the CCG and the bowl game, we would be 10-4,still a possibility we end up with another 4 loss season.