Kudos to the Defense

[It'sNotAFakeID]

Iowa came in averaging 6.0 ypp and giving up 4.8 ypp.

Today they gained 5.7 ypp and gave up 5.2 ypp.

Nebraska came in averaging 6.2 ypp and giving up 5.8 ypp.

Good stats...so we held them to fewer yards per play, fewer points per game, and much fewer total yards per game. Had we just had a QB that is average and could manage a game, we would have won today's game easily.

Wow you guys are delusional. Iowa actually gained more yards per play, but NU was the better team?

A start propped up by two plays. Over all the defense played better. Don't sh#t in the Wheeties just because you want pop tarts.

But those 2 plays still counted. Those 2 plays produced 14 points.
The defense played well, but let's not act like it was dominant.

Nobody is saying that we have the most dominant defense, but over the course of this season, I saw strong improvement on the defense, a defense that gave up nearly 200 fewer yards than Iowa's defense gave up today. C'mon...giving up 250 yards to a top-5 team in the nation is a pretty strong effort, especially coming off of past seasons where Nebraska would let the opposition go crazy. The defense played more than well enough to win this game.

The defense only gave up 250 yards because Iowa only needed 250 yards to win. Again, Iowa was up by 2 scores for most of the 2nd half, so they didn't need to be aggressive and try to put on a lot more points in the 2nd half.

Do you think they would've been able to? I mean, they needed to get points in the first half too and had a difficult time doing so.

 

[Mavric]

I've been pretty critical of Banker all year but he did - FINALLY - change things up toward the end of the year. Started playing a lot more Cover2 instead of the stupid quarters that was billed as our defensive savior. The Beathard fumble that was nullified by penalty was a great example - we played Cover 2 and he had no where to throw and the rush got to him.

I'm not sold on Banker yet but at least he finally made some changes - only took six losses but he got there.