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A referee rounds up two balloons after Nebraska scored in a Nov. 29, 2019, game against Iowa at Memorial Stadium.



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The Huskers are last in the Big Ten in sacks per game. Saturday feels like a chance to change that, considering Purdue’s pass-heavy scheme.







During his hourlong “Sports Nightly” appearance Tuesday, Nebraska athletic director Trev Alberts had a frank assessment of Big Ten football referees this season.

A caller questioned Alberts about what can be done about poor officiating and pointed to the Michigan game Oct. 9, to which Alberts rightly responded that there were, “some pretty bad calls that went against Michigan, too.”

However, the first-year NU administrator didn’t shy away from addressing the part of the game where he thought the crew came up short.

“What’s frustrating for me a little bit is I think sometimes the game environment, to your point in the Michigan game, I’m not sure if that game was a little big for that crew, but the amount of noise, the energy, it appeared to me that perhaps that environment could have been a little bit too big for that crew,” Alberts said.

The Big Ten, Alberts said, devotes a lot of resources to officiating education and growth, technology and other elements.

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“I will say this, I think by and large officiating in the Big Ten is pretty good,” he said. “If you look across college football, the reality is, like anything else, it could be better. What our focus is as an athletic director group is to make sure that we have the right education, we have the right folks, we’re doing the right growth.”



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