Quit with the excuses and admit that ISU is actually playing at an equal level now. Enough of the "the officials sucked" and "we had all our stars injured" crap. I'm tired of hearing excuse after excuse from certain people who cannot admit that Iowa State, with their tacky little stadium, their puny little athletic budget, their USCesque uniforms and their silly little mix of one-star and walk on players are capable of playing football at Husker level.
Boo hoo...your "star" QB didn't play today. Bull...he looked perfectly able to play when he got in for the play where Green got his bell rung. Bo just didn't want to "waste" him on a lowly team like Iowa State. Anyway...what does it matter what with all the amazing recruits the Huskers have. Why, ISU is so pathetic you should have been able to pull a fan out of the audience and still win by 30! Heck, all he had to do was hand off the Helu and if he could slash MU for 300 yards, he should be able to run from Ames back to Lincoln without anybody laying a hand on him! And even if the offense sputtered, that fantastic defense should be able to force at least 10 safeties and hold the retarded ISU team to negative 100 yards...
Face it...ISU left 6 points and a victory on the board with the two missed field goals. The Huskers didn't win because of anything they did but because of two missed kicks and a limp wristed pass from a punter. ISU beat ISU...Nebraska had nothing to do with it. Our offense gave you two touchdowns with an unforced fumble and an interception. You were outplayed on both sides of the ball by a team that was, on the particular Saturday, clearly your equal. Statisically, frankly speaking, ISU crushed you. Facts are fact...just like the fact that last year we beat you with our second string QB, HB and half the defense down with the flu.
Knock off the attitude that it was everybody's fault that Saturday almost ended with a resounding thud in Ames. This team is not that good and ISU is not that bad.
Thank you for attending today's sermon...please drop some money in the collect plate on your way out the door.
Both teams made mistakes. Iowa State may have missed a couple of kicks, but if Niles Paul just takes a seat in the endzone, then maybe the game doesn't even go to overtime.
You wanna come on a Nebraska board and talk about how Iowa State should've could've would've, how "ISU beat ISU," then don't tell us we should ignore the fact that we were missing our top two QB's and an all-conference cornerback.
Iowa State lost because as your own coach said, it's a game of inches. You beat us by a few inches last year, and we beat you by a few inches this year.
If that's enough for you that you can feel good about yourself and come onto Huskerboard proclaiming that Nebraska and Iowa State are now college football equals, then good for you. But it's a long season, and every week counts when it comes to building your reputation (e.g. Texas can talk about how they own Nebraska all they want. They still got smashed by Kansas State tonight).
Iowa State played a good game today. Had it been in Lincoln, they would've received a resounding standing ovation from the nicest fans in college football. But if you wanna talk "equal footing," with Nebraska, don't come to play without some rings.