Where to start? All the hoopla of playing one of the first games of the 2022 FBS season in Ireland, a new starting quarterback, and the possibility of breaking their six-game losing streak ended in more than a heartbreaking loss.
It was a gut-wrenching, punch-in-the-face, rip-your-heart-out, arm-twisting, stepping-on-a-Lego brick, TV remote-throwing defeat that could have easily been avoided.
Scott Frost showed once again that he could not win games that could go either way. Instead of leaving the casino while he was up, he gambled everything that the Huskers had worked for away with an onside kick while leading 28-17 in the third quarter.
Many viewed Northwestern as a winnable game that the Huskers needed to become bowl eligible. One would hope that Frost could lead Nebraska to wins over North Dakota and Georgia Southern in the next two weeks but any misstep there will surely show him the door.
Nebraska takes on Oklahoma in Week 4 and their final six games on the schedule are particularly brutal as a whole with the exception of Illinois.
Too much to ask?
Maybe it’s too much to ask for a 3-win improvement from last season. But at the same time, the Huskers need results and by results, I don’t mean moral victories. Even more, Frost turned around a winless UCF team in 2015 into an undefeated season in 2017 where the Knights famously claimed that they were the national champions after defeating Auburn in the Peach Bowl.
Maybe Nebraska fans collectively “drank too much of the Kool-Aid”, buying into what the media said about the Huskers, such as Kirk Herbstreit predicting that Nebraska would be a Big Ten Championship contender. But it’s hard to not be optimistic about a team that brought in highly-rated transfers like Casey Thompson, Ochaun Mathis and Trey Palmer.
The players fire back at the critics
Maybe Nebraska didn’t play that bad of a football game and after all, they…
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