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Frost Focus: Especially in Michigan

A little late, but nonethless educational.

“It’s not game plans, it’s athletes.”

Tom Osborne spoke those words to CBS sideline reporter Michelle Tafoya on January 2, 1996 when asked about a specific coverage the Blackshirts used to flummox and further stonewall Steve Spurrier’s Fun N’ Gun offense. Those words proved to be the overarching theme of the Nebraska football program’s crowning moment and they’ve been the overarching theme of many Husker losses in the years after, and they proved (again) to be especially true in Ann Arbor, Michigan last Saturday.

Only the most myopic among us believed that we had a legitimate shot at upsetting the 19th ranked Wolverines, or at the very least hoped against all empirical evidence that we could pull off the upset in the third game of the Scott Frost era. This loss does not simply rest on a lack of athletes at key positions though. The contributing factors of this loss swirl together like a marble cake, with no clear lines that demarcate where one ends and other begins. We’ll cover that later on, but for now let’s take a look at some scheme and strategy from the game.

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