Consensus Odds

[Hooked on Huskers]

From -10.5 opening bid to -9 spread. Approaching Sagarin's Predictor column (-7).

 

O/U: 61

 

http://www.sportsnet...sc=AF,p=1,date=

 

(as of Wednesday noon)

[mrandyk]

I'd take us by at least 14 points.

[Mavric]

Huskers have only been average covering the spread so far this year. I'm not laying any points (at least not against FBS opponents - I did say we'd cover last week) until our defense looks better. Illinois is the play.

[grandpasknee]

I don't bet and I've never lost any money. I'm good like that.

[True2tRA]

I literally have no clue what to expect anymore. The only thing I can say is I think our offense will score some points.

[okaive]

My money hasn't been on the Huskers to cover for some time now.

[EZ-E]

We've shown a ton of promise at times defensively. The first half of the UCLA game is evidence. That's a UCLA team that is very talented that we smacked around for 2 quarters. I'm hopeful we play up to our potential on the defensive side of the football Saturday because we can be really good on that side of the ball there with the guys we have.

[I am I]

So you figure we get 3 for being at home. They only have us up by a TD after that?

 

Coming off a bye and a tumultuous couple of weeks has died down, I'd say even w/o TM, we'll win by more than that, but like grandpasknee, no bet--no loss.

 

Just win, baby

[Hooked on Huskers]

From -10.5 opening bid to -9 spread. Approaching Sagarin's Predictor column (-7).

 

O/U: 61

 

http://www.sportsnet...sc=AF,p=1,date=

 

(as of Wednesday noon)

as of Thursday PM

-8.5, O/U 59.5

[Count 'Bility]

We've shown a ton of promise at times defensively. The first half of the UCLA game is evidence. That's a UCLA team that is very talented that we smacked around for 2 quarters. I'm hopeful we play up to our potential on the defensive side of the football Saturday because we can be really good on that side of the ball there with the guys we have.

I love the excuse when I point out the first half of the UCLA game that "UCLA was just emotionally drained, then they woke up". Well, I use that same excuse for the 1st quarter and half against SDSU.

[Mavric]

We've shown a ton of promise at times defensively. The first half of the UCLA game is evidence. That's a UCLA team that is very talented that we smacked around for 2 quarters. I'm hopeful we play up to our potential on the defensive side of the football Saturday because we can be really good on that side of the ball there with the guys we have.

I love the excuse when I point out the first half of the UCLA game that "UCLA was just emotionally drained, then they woke up". Well, I use that same excuse for the 1st quarter and half against SDSU.

And Bo is pretty much right when he says we need to execute, no matter how little people like to hear it. You can argue about the reasons behind it all you want but dropped passes, missed tackles and blown coverage are lack of execution. We (generally) executed very well in the first half against UCLA. In the second half, not so much. Those are things that can be fixed. The question is, will they.

[EZ-E]

We've shown a ton of promise at times defensively. The first half of the UCLA game is evidence. That's a UCLA team that is very talented that we smacked around for 2 quarters. I'm hopeful we play up to our potential on the defensive side of the football Saturday because we can be really good on that side of the ball there with the guys we have.

I love the excuse when I point out the first half of the UCLA game that "UCLA was just emotionally drained, then they woke up". Well, I use that same excuse for the 1st quarter and half against SDSU.

 

Excuses absolutely apply for other teams but not us. Absolutely not us.

[True2tRA]

We've shown a ton of promise at times defensively. The first half of the UCLA game is evidence. That's a UCLA team that is very talented that we smacked around for 2 quarters. I'm hopeful we play up to our potential on the defensive side of the football Saturday because we can be really good on that side of the ball there with the guys we have.

I love the excuse when I point out the first half of the UCLA game that "UCLA was just emotionally drained, then they woke up". Well, I use that same excuse for the 1st quarter and half against SDSU.

 

Excuses absolutely apply for other teams but not us. Absolutely not us.

 

Took my daughter to that game. Her first game ever. Talk about a roller coaster of a game. We were cheering screaming and high fiving everyone around us. That UCLA score right before half had a slight effect on everyone. The second half drained the life out of everyone. I still cheered when the defense was out there hoping for a stop. We didn't get many.

 

The thing was, I could hear people grumbling "here we go again". And I thought, I think they are right. Here we go......AGAIN. Roller coaster seems to be quite a fitting term for this team and this staff quite frankly. An emotional wreck at times would describe both.

 

You can hate the excuses Accountability and EZ, but the fact is, we've seen this show enough to know the outcome. To start expecting it the way I did after that final score of the half.....well it's just unfortunate but common. In the same breath as you are saying how lame some fans excuses and explanations were, well many fans find some of the coaches excuses and explanations equally annoying. To the point of, no, those excuses don't apply anymore.

[Eric the Red]

I literally have no clue what to expect anymore. The only thing I can say is I think our offense will score some points.

 

You and I both

[EZ-E]

We've shown a ton of promise at times defensively. The first half of the UCLA game is evidence. That's a UCLA team that is very talented that we smacked around for 2 quarters. I'm hopeful we play up to our potential on the defensive side of the football Saturday because we can be really good on that side of the ball there with the guys we have.

I love the excuse when I point out the first half of the UCLA game that "UCLA was just emotionally drained, then they woke up". Well, I use that same excuse for the 1st quarter and half against SDSU.

 

Excuses absolutely apply for other teams but not us. Absolutely not us.

 

Took my daughter to that game. Her first game ever. Talk about a roller coaster of a game. We were cheering screaming and high fiving everyone around us. That UCLA score right before half had a slight effect on everyone. The second half drained the life out of everyone. I still cheered when the defense was out there hoping for a stop. We didn't get many.

 

The thing was, I could hear people grumbling "here we go again". And I thought, I think they are right. Here we go......AGAIN. Roller coaster seems to be quite a fitting term for this team and this staff quite frankly. An emotional wreck at times would describe both.

 

You can hate the excuses Accountability and EZ, but the fact is, we've seen this show enough to know the outcome. To start expecting it the way I did after that final score of the half.....well it's just unfortunate but common. In the same breath as you are saying how lame some fans excuses and explanations were, well many fans find some of the coaches excuses and explanations equally annoying. To the point of, no, those excuses don't apply anymore.

 

You'd be looking very hard to find an excuse that Bo has given the past year or so. I actually believe he's actually taken sole blame multiple times this season and last. And it really comes down to this question: What more do you want or need him to say? He can't win with whatever he says to the media or fans. There is really nothing that he can say that won't be over-analyzed, spun around, and read into so much that it's made into something it's not by the media or fanbase. You married men or guys with serious girlfriends, does that sound familiar at all?