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Nebraska Football: What Does Progress Look Like?
Husker Fan, you’d be forgiven if you were a little mystified about how to feel about the 2023 Nebraska football program. The start of the season was pretty rough, losing three of their first four and two of the losses being pretty hard to watch. This season opened up looking very much like the last few seasons that Nebraska fans have suffered through.
But then, Nebraska won three games in a row.…
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Nebraska Football: Ugly is Beautiful
On Saturday, Nebraska beat Northwestern 17-9, a win that will score no style points for viewers. Northwestern outgained Nebraska in total yardage. Nebraska quarterback Heinrich Haarberg was a very pedestrian 8-for-17 for 85 yards.
And yet, Nebraska won, now sitting at 4-3 on the season and with a winning record for the first time since 2019. Given the desert that Nebraska fans have sweltered in…
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Nebraska Football: Jailbreak from the Prison of the Moment
Feel better, Husker Fan?
Sure, things looked pretty ugly in the second half against Illinois. There were plenty of flashbacks we all had about Nebraska working hard to give a game away.
But Nebraska survived, and got head coach Matt Rhule both his first road and conference win. At the halfway point of the season, Nebraska is 3-3 – exactly where a smart and particularly handsome analyst said…
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Nebraska Football: Positive Perspective after the Cornhuskers’ loss to Minnesota
These wounds wont’ seem to heal, this pain is just too real
There’s just too much that time cannot erase
– “My Immortal,” Evanescence
I know, Husker Fan, that hurt. That same cold dread we’ve felt for years now, the tragic inevitability of a win squandered. Once Anthony Grant put the ball on the ground as Nebraska was getting ready to ice the game away, at some level you just knew how…
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Nebraska Football: Predictions for the Cornhuskers' 2023 Season
With the new season dawning, it’s time for this year’s season preview and prediction. As with previous years, the Double Extra Point will use a somewhat-scientific method to predict the outcome of the 2023 campaign for first-year head coach Matt Rhule.
The schedule will be broken down into four categories of games:
Better WinWin all games in the categoryShould WinWin more than half the games in…
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Nebraska Football: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Realignment
Yeah, we know all this realignment chaos and change has been scary. But embrace it, Husker Fan. College football is better for it.
Way back in history – July 27, 2023 – Colorado started the realignment wheels spinning again by leaving the Pac-12 for the Big 12. Shortly thereafter, Arizona announced it was following the Buffaloes.
Knowing that USC and UCLA were leaving as well, the Pac-12 was down to eight teams. Would it be able to survive, or would the two biggest teams remaining – Oregon and Washington – reach out for a…
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Nebraska Football: Further B1G Expansion Hinted by Nebraska’s President
Think it's weird having USC and UCLA being conference games? Just wait ...
Just as fans are starting to wrap their heads around USC and UCLA being members of the B1G, Nebraska’s president Tim Carter made some news about the conference’s future plans.
In an Omaha World-Herald interview with Tom Shatel, Carter talked about the changing vision of the conference.
“I think Big Ten football, through the chancellors and presidents, has made the decision to try to be…
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Nebraska Football – What to Watch For at the Spring Game
Sure, it's been a bit. But with the Spring Game around the corner, it's time for a little more DXP in your life.
On Saturday, Nebraska’s spring practice will conclude with the annual Red-White Spring Game. With the arrival of new head coach Matt Rhule, the Nebraska football program looks quite different and the Spring Game will be fans’ first opportunity to get a glimpse at the new regime.
So as you’re watching the Spring Game (in person or on BTN), here are some things to be looking for.
WHAT’S THE…
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Nebraska Football: Why Matt Rhule is Neither Mike Riley nor Scott Frost
Nebraska Football: Why Matt Rhule is Neither Mike Riley nor Scott Frost
On Saturday, Nebraska announced that Matt Rhule had been hired as the 31st permanent head coach of the Cornhusker football program. Rhule signed an eight-year contract with Nebraska.
There’s plenty of other outlets that will tell you who Rhule is and what to expect from him in Lincoln. We won’t try to duplicate that.
But given that the coaching search went on for some months – and given the…
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Nebraska Football: An Essay On Rivalry
Nebraska has played college football since 1890, but it wasn't until Friday night that Nebraska fans really understood what rivalry means.
rivalry (noun): competition or fighting between people, businesses, or organizations who are in the same area and want the same things.
Collins Advanced Learner’s Dictionary
I am 53 years old, and have been a Nebraska football fan since my father took me to Memorial Stadium for the first time in 1976. So, yes, it’s his fault.
In that time, I have watched Nebraska be a dominant national power in…
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Nebraska Football: The Optimal Pre-Game Plan
We might be able to help Nebraska win the game, but we can definitely help you win the pre-game, Husker Fan.
There really is no experience quite like Memorial Stadium on game day. The sights, the sounds, the history, the band, the balloons, all of it makes for a culture-defining experience.
But, let’s face it Husker Fan, the games themselves haven’t been all that fun. I have not witnessed Nebraska win a game in Memorial Stadium since October 02, 2021 – and it’s not for lack of going to games.
Of…
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Nebraska Football: How Is Joseph’s Close Loss Different than Frost’s Close Losses?
Thanks to Oliver VanDervoort (@itmeolliev) for the inspiration for this particular essay on the state of Nebraska football.
Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data, Star Trek: The Next Generation
On Saturday, Nebraska was a double-digit underdog on the road to Purdue. After a wild defense-optional game, Nebraska ended up falling to the Boilermakers 43-37.
Nebraska’s spirited performance … offered the briefest of glimpse at the tantalizing possibility that Nebraska could be … good again?
Sound familiar, Husker Fan? It…
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Nebraska Football: Is THIS The Turning Point?
I know, Husker Fan, you've seen this movie before. But trust us, there's reason to think time just might be different.
On Saturday, interim head coach Mickey Joseph got his first win when Nebraska beat Indiana 35-21 on Homecoming. Nebraska held a 21-7 lead in the first half, but the Hoosiers went on a 14-0 run to end the first half tied.
Indiana went into the locker room with all the momentum, and Nebraska fans felt like they had seen this movie before. The third quarter didn’t help. Every time the game seemed…
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Nebraska Football: Husker Fans Can - And Should - Handle The Truth About Their Program
Husker Fan, do you want the truth about the program you love hidden from you? We think we know the answer.
Jack Nicholson as Col. Nathan Jessup in “A Few Good Men”
The dismissal of Scott Frost after his loss to Georgia Southern was far from a surprise. Indeed, it seemed like a relief, with interim head coach Mickey Joseph now getting a nine-game audition for the job.
Even with such a monumental change at the heart of the Nebraska program, it was hard to come up with anything new to say about it. A…
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Nebraska Football: Is Obligation All That’s Left?
No football analysis. No silver linings. No reminders that the season goals are still in front of us. Just an essay on what it is to be a Nebraska fan right now.
I’m all out of faith, this is how I feel
I’m cold and I am shamed
Lying naked on the floor
Illusion never changed
Into something real
I’m wide awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn
“Torn,” Natalie Imbruglia
In a season-defining, career-defining, program-defining opening game, Nebraska lost to Northwestern 31-28. Nebraska lost despite holding an 11-point lead twice in the game.…
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Nebraska Football: Assessing and Power Ranking the Cornhuskers’ 2022 Alternate Uniforms
We know we're a little late on the alternate uniform but, given how little fanfare there was, we bet some of you missed it too!
In what might have been the most don’t-blink-or-you’ll-miss-it events, Nebraska last week announced their alternate uniforms for the 2022 season. Here’s the announcement on Twitter.
The Mesh. The Stripes. The Details. #GBR pic.twitter.com/Z6j8P9q23E— Nebraska Football (@HuskerFBNation) August 15, 2022
The uniform is an homage to the 1983 “Scoring Explosion” team, which is utterly appropriate.…
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Nebraska Football: Game-by-Game Predictions of the 2022 Season
Yeah, Husker Fan, it's been a while. But with the new season starting, we're back, and there's a lot to talk about!
Every year for some time, we at the Double Extra Point have done a game-by-game prediction of the upcoming season. After the last few years, and with all of the changes to the program, guessing the 2022 season seems like an even more daunting task than normal.
But we’d hate to disappoint you. So once more unto the breach we go. We will use the same technique we have before, breaking games into…
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