Friday Flakes: Two Way Too Early Bowl Game Projections for Nebraska – You Might Not Like One of Them Football Huskers News Matt Rhule Texas A&M

We are halfway through the season and Nebraska is sitting at 5-1. So some bowl game projections have started to come out and in this case this one is from ESPN.

They had two “bowl gurus” – Mark Schlabach and Kyle Bonagura pick every single bowl.

Mark Schlabach has Nebraska playing Texas A&M in the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl in Orlando, FL.

Kyle Bonaguara has Nebraska playing Duke in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl in Charlotte, NC.

I’m not going to complain about making a bowl game but after being matched up with Texas A&M in the NCAA tournament last year I just want to be done with the Aggies. So now, after not making a bowl game in almost a decade we get matched up with Trev Alberts again.

It’s a cruel cruel world.

SPORTS! SPORTS! JORTS! SPORTS! SPORTS!

The 3-2-1: The Big Ten and SEC look to shape the future
The Big Ten and SEC Conferences, meeting in Nashville this week, will look to shape the future of college football.

In this week’s 3-2-1 column, we hit on that and more with three things we learned, two questions, and one prediction.

Offensive PFF breakdown at Nebraska’s midway point
Nebraska is 5-1 at the season’s halfway point, entering its first bye week with tangible momentum. The offense remains a work in progress but has taken a significant jump from 2023.

Here is a positional breakdown of all Nebraska’s offensive PFF ratings and statistics after six games:

Rafael Nadal to retire from tennis at end of season – ESPN
Tennis great Rafael Nadal will retire from the sport at the end of the year.

Nadal, 38, has enjoyed a career that has seen him win 22 Grand Slams, including 14 French Open titles. But he has been hampered by injuries in recent years, and he announced Thursday that this will be his final year playing the sport.

Jets demote Nathaniel Hackett, tap Todd Downing to call offense – ESPN
Todd Downing will replace Nathaniel Hackett as the New York Jets’ offensive playcaller going forward, interim coach Jeff Ulbrich announced Thursday.

Hackett will remain the Jets’ offensive coordinator, with Downing remaining as the Jets’ passing game coordinator, Ulbrich said.

Football 301 Playbook: How C.J. Stroud’s MVP-level play is making an ugly Texans offense look good – Yahoo Sports
In this week’s Football 301, I took a look at two quarterbacks: one an NFL signal-caller playing as well as anybody at the position right now, the other a college passer rising on my prospect ranks with a tasty ranked matchup ahead this weekend.

Aaron Rodgers’ 2nd act isn’t going like Tom Brady or Peyton Manning’s, and it may impact his legacy – Yahoo Sports
Aaron Rodgers is headed to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

That is true even if the New York Jets can’t find a way out of their early season spiral that saw their record fall to 2-3 and their head coach, Robert Saleh, get fired on Tuesday. Heck, that is true if he never completes another pass for the New York Jets or even if he had never become a New York Jet in the first place.

Increased workload just fine for Husker linebacker Javin Wright
The workload ticked up in Nebraska’s win over Rutgers for Javin Wright, and that’s just fine with the senior linebacker.

Wright, who played in his first game of the season against Purdue, saw a bigger role late in the game against Rutgers as the Scarlet Knights ran a hurry-up offense and Nebraska mixed and matched linebackers.

Which NFL coaches are on the hot seat? As the Jets showed, it’s about the owners – The Athletic
Former New York Jets coach Eric Mangini had a prescient read on team owner Woody Johnson before a Week 5 defeat in London precipitated coach Robert Saleh’s firing Tuesday.

The way Mangini saw things, Johnson’s status as a former U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom raised the stakes for what otherwise might have been just another international game against a non-conference opponent.

“STICK TO SPORTS!” Nah.