Remember Washington?

[HuskerMav11]

Looks like you're putting the onus of that loss squarely on Oregon, as if Nebraska did nothing to take victory away from them.

That wasn't the game I saw. I saw an Oregon team with plenty of speed, good scheme, good execution, bad coaching decisions, but who just got outplayed.

I think Nebraska deserves more credit for that win than Oregon deserves for the loss.

I honestly don't think we played that well that game. Capitalizing on Oregon's mistakes was the main reason we won, in my eyes, and honestly there is nothing wrong with that. I'm not saying Oregon is a better team, but if that game was played 10 times, I'd expect us to win half and them to win half.

Both teams looked extremely run down at the end of that game. It was a good game and a good win.

 

[RunMickeyRun02]

Single season rematches in college football always seem to split. I can't think of a single one that was won twice. I think one of our few wins over wisky was followed by a 70 point pasting in the CC game.....Oklahoma in 78.....can anyone think of one? Not just Nebraska either a "sweep" by anyone?

nvm: lots of examples

 

[knapplc]

Looks like you're putting the onus of that loss squarely on Oregon, as if Nebraska did nothing to take victory away from them.

That wasn't the game I saw. I saw an Oregon team with plenty of speed, good scheme, good execution, bad coaching decisions, but who just got outplayed.

I think Nebraska deserves more credit for that win than Oregon deserves for the loss.

I honestly don't think we played that well that game. Capitalizing on Oregon's mistakes was the main reason we won, in my eyes, and honestly there is nothing wrong with that. I'm not saying Oregon is a better team, but if that game was played 10 times, I'd expect us to win half and them to win half.

Both teams looked extremely run down at the end of that game. It was a good game and a good win.

I'm talking about the Nebraska/Oregon game that was just played last Saturday.

What game are you talking about?

 

[Atbone95]

There were a LOT of factors going into that Washington rematch in 2010 that won't be repeated this year.

First and foremost, we won't be leaving the Big Ten this year, and we won't have a bunch of biased BS calls thrown at us by refs with an agenda. Within about a month of that Holiday Bowl we had the infamous 16-2 penalty game against A&M, smashed Colorado to get to the Big XII Championship, then had a total 2nd half collapse against Oklahoma to deny ourselves the chance to win a conference championship. Again.

Martinez was badly injured and shouldn't have played (but we had nobody else), half our O Line was badly injured and shouldn't have played, if I recall correctly Burkhead and Helu were dinged up as well.

That was Jake Locker's last game at Washington and his team was highly motivated to redeem him and themselves from that pasting a healthy Nebraska had laid on them earlier in the year.

That 2010 Husker team was mentally beat down, being told by a bunker-mentality coach that the world was out to get them, physically broken, and had zero interest in that game.

If we played Oregon in the Rose Bowl later this year, I doubt we'd be in the same place mentally. Oregon very well could win, but that depends on so many health and coaching factors between now and then that it's hard to guess who'll do what.

Holy excuses. Dude, we were bad. And we got smashed on a national stage, a signature of the Pelini era. You don't need to justify it.

 

[knapplc]

There were a LOT of factors going into that Washington rematch in 2010 that won't be repeated this year.

First and foremost, we won't be leaving the Big Ten this year, and we won't have a bunch of biased BS calls thrown at us by refs with an agenda. Within about a month of that Holiday Bowl we had the infamous 16-2 penalty game against A&M, smashed Colorado to get to the Big XII Championship, then had a total 2nd half collapse against Oklahoma to deny ourselves the chance to win a conference championship. Again.

Martinez was badly injured and shouldn't have played (but we had nobody else), half our O Line was badly injured and shouldn't have played, if I recall correctly Burkhead and Helu were dinged up as well.

That was Jake Locker's last game at Washington and his team was highly motivated to redeem him and themselves from that pasting a healthy Nebraska had laid on them earlier in the year.

That 2010 Husker team was mentally beat down, being told by a bunker-mentality coach that the world was out to get them, physically broken, and had zero interest in that game.

If we played Oregon in the Rose Bowl later this year, I doubt we'd be in the same place mentally. Oregon very well could win, but that depends on so many health and coaching factors between now and then that it's hard to guess who'll do what.

Holy excuses. Dude, we were bad. And we got smashed on a national stage, a signature of the Pelini era. You don't need to justify it.

Those aren't excuses, they're facts. And we didn't get "smashed," we lost by 12 points. It was a three-point game late in the third quarter.

Bad? We were 10-2 and a couple of better decisions away from winning the Big XII. That's not a "bad" team.

 

[zoogs]

It wasn't a bad team, but they played like a bad team.

When a team plays way below their capability like that, mulligan isn't really the word that comes to mind.

And the thing is, maybe it *could* have been a one off, something that lit a fire under everybody. In the context of the Pelini era as we know it in retrospect, though, it's just another big stage, flat performance loss that makes sense.

 

[Big red surfers]

Week 3 and someone worried about a rematch with Oregon in a bowl game 90 days away. Cmon lets be sane here.