Nebraska is 1-7 in its past eight meetings with Wisconsin and Iowa.

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Saunders

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Back in August, I said that 8-4 was the break-even point for Nebraska in 2016. Anything worse would be disappointing. Anything better would be encouraging. But that was before we knew Oregon would be 4-7. That was before 62-3 at the Shoe. That was before NU lost its three biggest games of the season.
Two years ago, on the day that Shawn Eichorst fired Bo Pelini, he essentially said that an overtime victory at Kinnick wasn’t significant enough to saved Bo’s job.
“I had to evaluate where Iowa was,” Eichorst said.
Eichorst made the right call, but here’s the problem. Bo’s Huskers beat a 7-4 Hawkeye team that day. Mike Riley’s Huskers faced another 7-4 Iowa team Friday and got smoked. Off the field, Nebraska is in a much better place. On the field, nothing has changed.
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Nailed it.

 
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Three weeks ago, Nebraska lost a football game by 59 points. You might remember it. That performance at Ohio State went down as the second-worst defeat in school history. But sometimes the record book lies.
Turns out, 62-3 wasn’t even the worst day of Nebraska’s season. When Husker fans think back on 2016, the day they’ll regret most is Black Friday at Kinnick Stadium. It was worse because the opponent wasn’t a top-five team. Worse because Nebraska’s starting quarterback wasn’t knocked out of action before halftime. Worse because, well, it’s Iowa.
The Hawkeyes played like they wanted to prove a point to a new rival. The Huskers played like they were stuffed with tryptophan. The defense didn’t tackle. The offense couldn’t find a rhythm. Nebraska got out-muscled, out-ran and out-disciplined.

Tommy Armstrong repeatedly attempted low-percentage throws 40 yards downfield rather than settle for easy passes. Cethan Carter committed two false start penalties. Nate Gerry gave Iowa a first down — and eventually four additional points — when he ran into the field-goal kicker. These are seniors.
It’s a pattern we’ve seen over and over against Husker peers.
In Nebraska’s last seven meetings with Wisconsin and Iowa, it’s 1-7 with the only win (Iowa 2014) coming in overtime. Maybe Husker fans can swallow their status beneath the Badgers, at least for a while. But not Iowa.

http://www.omaha.com/huskers/football/chatelain-black-friday-loss-to-iowa-leaves-stain-on-huskers/article_8531a358-b36b-11e6-b366-a3c9ccf0108c.html
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Once again, the part that I bolded is the undisciplined culture that Bo left us with. If those same issues are still happening once all of Bo's players are gone in a few years then Riley has the same issue, but I highly doubt that will be one of Riley's issues.

 
some of you, including a lot of the OWH staff, clearly don't watch any games other than Husker games.

on average our players are no less disciplined than 95% of teams out there.

what we lack is innovation on the sideline, which causes common errors to seem that much more dire.

 
AFhusker said:
saunders45 said:
Three weeks ago, Nebraska lost a football game by 59 points. You might remember it. That performance at Ohio State went down as the second-worst defeat in school history. But sometimes the record book lies.
Turns out, 62-3 wasn’t even the worst day of Nebraska’s season. When Husker fans think back on 2016, the day they’ll regret most is Black Friday at Kinnick Stadium. It was worse because the opponent wasn’t a top-five team. Worse because Nebraska’s starting quarterback wasn’t knocked out of action before halftime. Worse because, well, it’s Iowa.
The Hawkeyes played like they wanted to prove a point to a new rival. The Huskers played like they were stuffed with tryptophan. The defense didn’t tackle. The offense couldn’t find a rhythm. Nebraska got out-muscled, out-ran and out-disciplined.

Tommy Armstrong repeatedly attempted low-percentage throws 40 yards downfield rather than settle for easy passes. Cethan Carter committed two false start penalties. Nate Gerry gave Iowa a first down — and eventually four additional points — when he ran into the field-goal kicker. These are seniors.
It’s a pattern we’ve seen over and over against Husker peers.
In Nebraska’s last seven meetings with Wisconsin and Iowa, it’s 1-7 with the only win (Iowa 2014) coming in overtime. Maybe Husker fans can swallow their status beneath the Badgers, at least for a while. But not Iowa.

http://www.omaha.com/huskers/football/chatelain-black-friday-loss-to-iowa-leaves-stain-on-huskers/article_8531a358-b36b-11e6-b366-a3c9ccf0108c.html
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Once again, the part that I bolded is the undisciplined culture that Bo left us with. If those same issues are still happening once all of Bo's players are gone in a few years then Riley has the same issue, but I highly doubt that will be one of Riley's issues.
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Riley has historically had one of the most penalized teams in the country, so that's very likely not going to change.

 
The best thing that Riley could have done with had the absolute horrible opening season that you did… Because it made this year seem better… But I think we all know what we have. Nebraska is the team that should be on the bottom line Of ESPN where we see that they are going after the hot young coach… But that is not the case.

 
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Boy that's a tough stat to swallow.
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Iowa is now tied with us 3-3 since we joined the conference, but their margin of victory is much higher than ours.

It would be like... really nice, if Nebraska fans could actually swallow some humility and stop with the arrogant sh#t-talking of Iowa's program as some inferior little brother. We're living in the present, and Iowa is currently just as good if not better. Sucks to admit, but f'ing deal with it. We aren't anything scary or special.

 
Landlord is correct we are not scary and we are not special! We are a top 50 team maybe who would get beat by ND State regularly! Iowa is no better!

 
Like the article says, we're 1-6 1-7 in the last seven eight games. That is terrible. We are 3-1 in the previous four games. That's about where we should be.

 
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