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Charting the Run: The Blight of The Nebraska Running Game

Nebraska’s rushing offense was awful against Purdue. Not just this year, but for the past four. Why? Here’s an explanation.

I don’t think the anemic Husker running game bears any rehashing, but nevertheless the show must go on, despite the anemic output of 40 yards on 27 attempts against a stout Boilermaker front four. There is no sugarcoating the blight of the Husker run game, although in the spirit of full disclosure, it is important to examine those rushing stats without yards lost on sacks being assessed on the final rushing totals. Without yardage lost on QB sacks assessed, the Huskers fan for…58 yards on 24 carries, an average of 2.41 yards per carry.

While rewatching the game and pouring over the game notes, I noticed a trend had emerged in regards to Purdue’s defensive line and Nebraska’s inability to run consistently against them. In Nebraska’s last four meetings against the Boilermakers Nebraska has not had an average yards per carry higher than the 4.24 ypc in the 2016 match-up.

2014: 51 attempts/179 yards/3.5 ypc

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