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Charting the Run: A Brief Survey

How bad was Saturday?

Last Saturday’s tilt against the Buckeyes was defined by largely by one thing, athletes. Just as Tom Osborne once said “it’s not game plans, it’s athletes” at half-time of the 1996 Fiesta Bowl, Saturday night was about athletes once again, with Nebraska on the other side of that coin for the second year in a row against the Buckeyes. This talent disparity was particularly evident in comparing the Husker line play on both sides of the ball with the Buckeye line play. This talent disparity, punctuated by being a developmental work in progress, had a direct implication upon how the Husker offensive brain trust elected to attack the Buckeye secondary.

Out of 63 total snaps against Ohio State, the Huskers threw 47 passes between starter Tanner Lee and back-up Patrick O’Brien, leaving 16 rushing attempts as the remainder of the offensive snaps. In further extrapolating this out, only 12 of these 16 attempts were tailback rushing attempts, for a grand total of 27 yards; an average ypc of 2.25. True to form, we’ll breakdown the rushing totals of each concept, discuss what went wrong, and take a look at a new play that the Huskers unveiled for the first time this season.

Duo: 3 yards on 1 attempt. 3.0 ypc.

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