Nebraska is 5-4, with three regular-season games left, and one win would make the Huskers bowl eligible. The official schedule is set: at Rutgers on Saturday, Nov. 14, at 11:30 a.m. CST; Ohio State at Memorial Stadium on Saturday, Nov. 21, with the time still to be announced; and at Iowa on Friday, Nov. 27, at 11 a.m. CST.
How they got here
Nebraska won its first five games, all by at least 18 points: Ohio 49-21, Bowling Green 56-7, North Dakota 34-7, at Michigan State 31-13 and Maryland 48-23. Official team statistics through Nov. 7 still show a 30.2-point scoring average and 16.6 points allowed per game.
The last four have all been losses: Indiana 17-20 and at Oregon 14-17, both by three points, then Washington 10-17 and at Illinois 13-24. The Illinois game dropped Nebraska to 2-4 in the Big Ten.
What’s left
Rutgers, the first of the three, is 2-7 and 1-5 in conference play, per the Scarlet Knights’ official schedule. Then come Ohio State at home and Iowa in Iowa City, the annual Friday game after Thanksgiving.
The Huskers do not need to win all three. They need one. Saturday in Piscataway is the first chance to get it.
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