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“I’m the punt returner, so I just tell the guys, go get back there so I don’t have to run the ball up there where we’re used to being anyway,” NU defensive back Cam Taylor-Britt said. “When they got the block, (Purdue players) were just running down at me, and I told the guys that were running down at me to turn around, because it’s not coming to me.”

The Huskers got three field goals from kicker Connor Culp, including a career-long 49-yarder in the second quarter that stands as the longest by a Nebraska kicker since Drew Brown’s 51-yarder against — you guessed it — Purdue in 2016.

Culp’s third field goal, at the end of a penalty-littered drive, gave the Huskers a 37-27 lead with 7:04 left. Culp is 12-for-13 on field goals this season and has made nine in a row.

That sound you hear is Husker fans not panicking when the field-goal unit trots onto the field.

It wasn’t all perfect. Nebraska allowed a blocked punt of its own. There was a 41-yard kickoff return by Purdue, and a 15-yard kick-catch interference penalty on the Huskers.

But the good outweighed the bad, at least on this day, and that was good enough.

“You got to play well in all three (phases) to win,” Frost said.

Contact the writer at cbasnett@journalstar.com or 402-473-7436. On Twitter @HuskerExtraCB.



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