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LINCOLN — It was uncharted territory for Tommy Armstrong, who sat on his couch last Halloween and watched Nebraska stumble without him at Purdue.

The quarterback had started the previous 22 games, and pretty much seen steady work ever since the first month of his redshirt freshman season after the Taylor Martinez injury surfaced.

Armstrong looked that day at the ice on his right foot — and set his mind on the next week.

“I was itching to get back at any time,” he said. “I just wanted to get healthy.

“The coaches made a decision, with Mark (Mayer, the head trainer) and those guys, of just trying to get me healthy. That’s the thing that always helps — when you have guys that do that for a living — to make sure they get you back healthy. That way you can play the rest of the season.”

It was dissected for a good week afterward what Nebraska might have done with Armstrong in West Lafayette, even if slowed by a turf toe-like injury. But it also was wasted breath after the Huskers committed five turnovers and were porous defensively in a 55-45 loss, with Ryker Fyfe making his only career start.

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