Nebraska quarterbacks Noah Vedral (16) and Adrian Martinez walk off the field together after the Huskers’ 34-7 loss to Minnesota on Oct. 12, 2019, at TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.
The circumstances? Quite different.
The venue? Also different.
The results? Different margins on the scoreboard, but the feeling — and, ultimately, the result — were just the same for Nebraska’s football team.
In each of the past two years, the Huskers have been pushed around, run on and beaten up by P.J. Fleck’s Minnesota team.
The trip to Minneapolis in 2019 was ugly all around. On a snowy, sleeting day, NU played with backup quarterback Noah Vedral but didn’t look like it had a particular interest in hanging with the Gophers. UM ran for 322 yards and four touchdowns. That performance caused coach Scott Frost to question his team’s toughness and desire to handle the elements.
“I don’t want guys that go out in Minnesota with hoodies on and everything for warmups; that just says to me that ‘Just OK’ is enough. ‘I’m a little cold,’” Frost said a couple of weeks after that game.
Two years later, it still sticks in Frost’s mind.
“I think we were 4-2 when we went up there two years ago, and we played really uninspired football,” he said Monday. “I had the feeling as head coach that we had some kids that didn’t really want to be there. It was a little cold, it was spittin’ rain. We didn’t play tough that night. I give them credit, they had a really, really good team two years ago, good team last year.
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