MADISON, Wis. — The math, like it always seems to be with this Nebraska football team, is confounding.
The Huskers piled up 452 yards in Saturday’s 35-28 loss to the Badgers — the most Wisconsin has allowed all season by 87 yards. The most allowed by the Badgers in a regular-season game since Nov. 16, 2019, against … Nebraska. The first time allowing 400-plus yards at Camp Randall Stadium since 2016, when Ohio State had 411.
And Nebraska lost. Again.
The one Big Ten team that has seemingly had an answer for Wisconsin’s granite-hard 3-4 scheme in Scott Frost’s four years in charge doesn’t have anything to show for that answer other than an 0-3 record against Bucky Badger.
“We’ve had some success against them getting yards. We haven’t won. So that’s the stat that matters most,” Frost said afterward. “But I thought the team we had put together a really good game plan. I thought for the most part we executed it well. … We kind of stopped ourselves as much as we got stopped.”
In its last three games against Wisconsin, Nebraska has rolled up 1,463 yards of offense — 518 in 2018 led by freshman quarterback Adrian Martinez to go with the 493 in 2019 and 452 Saturday.
Over Wisconsin’s six-game winning streak coming into Saturday, the Badgers had yielded only 1,118 yards.
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