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‘I thought tonight was the night’: Brutal trend under Scott Frost continues as No. 9 Michigan escapes Nebraska | Football



Despite all of that, Frost was resolute and almost upbeat after the game.

“One of the things I really loved is we took the field on that drive and I think everybody thought, ‘We’re going to win this game,’” Frost said. “It wasn’t ‘What’s going to go wrong? Let’s make sure they don’t have time to go win.’ We were going to go win the game.”

After being held to 32 yards in the second quarter and getting outscored 13-0, Nebraska’s offense took off in the third quarter.

Martinez scrambled for 20 yards on third-and-11 to avoid going three-and-out, then found Allen for a 43-yard touchdown on a pretty play-action pass that left the 6-foot-9 tight end all alone in the middle of the field, trimming the Michigan lead to 13-7.

The Wolverines responded later in the quarter with a 10-play, 91-yard scoring march to extend their lead but missed a two-point conversion and settled for a 19-7 advantage.

Undeterred, Martinez rushed 7 yards for a first down, then pitched to Toure on an option play for 16 yards before the junior quarterback found running back Johnson for a 41-yard touchdown pass.

Johnson finished with 67 rushing yards on 17 bruising carries and a career-high 106 receiving yards on six catches. 

Nebraska’s defense, the stabilizing force in Frost’s program through the first six games of the season, at times stifled opponents but all the while remained cognizant that it needed to make more game-changing plays rather than simply keeping the Huskers in games.



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