Could Matt Rhule lead Nebraska to a 7-0 start? | College Football Enquirer

Yahoo Sports national columnist Dan Wetzel and senior college sports reporter Ross Dellenger are joined by Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde to discuss how the head coach is building up the Nebraska program and whether the Cornhuskers can start 7-0 this season. Hear the full conversation on the “College Football Enquirer” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.

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You take a deep breath and you look at this Nebraska team and it is the classic trajectory of a Matt rule program by Temple.

He went two and 10, then he went six and six and then 10 win, 10 win.

Then he goes to Baylor, which is involved in a hellacious scandal.

He goes one in 11, seven and 6, 11 and three and he goes to Carolina and Nebraska.

We’re now at five and seven and bang two and oh, and they’re staring at a schedule where they’ve got Northern Illinois.

No.

Northern Iowa.

I wanna play on Northern Illinois.

Northern Iowa, Illinois at Purdue Rutgers at Indiana.

Not simple, but the possibility is there that they are seven and, oh, heading into Ohio State and the momentum of this program is going.

Matt rule is a confident coach.

He is a capable coach.

And I think if you’re Nebraska or you’re the rest of the country that’s kind of looking and being like, yeah, Nebraska never really gets good.

Maybe you gotta keep an eye on the, on the Huskers Pat.

What do you think?

Yeah.

No, I, I mean, that’s one of the reasons I think we were all well sold on the hire of Matt rule to begin with because we’ve seen him do it at places that had less going for them than Nebraska inherently does.

And he came to Nebraska and I think he just brings a competence and an idea of what it takes to win and then he goes and gets Dylan Rayola.

So you combine the elements there and it’s gonna happen.

It may happen this year.

Maybe this is a little premature.

They got trucked by Colorado last year.

So the year over year improvement is pronounced and I think they’re set up here for, it could be a really good run into late October.

You don’t want to get too far ahead of yourselves in the big 10, but I could see October 26th Nebraska at Ohio State being a really interesting game.

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