The Huskers, well aware of early upsets in college football season, are ‘prepped for a battle’ against Buffalo | Football

“I think their quarterback (Kyle Vantrease) is really good. They’ve got a really good running back and a transfer receiver and they’re pretty solid everywhere on offense,” NU head coach Scott Frost said Thursday. “They really run and hit on defense. Again, we only have one game tape to go on, but they looked great in that first game.

“Our guys are prepped for a battle.”

How do you go about treating one opponent like any other? Redshirt freshman Ty Robinson had a straightforward explanation on Monday.

“I just look at the dude across from me and just kind of get in my head and say, ‘Do what you need to do,’” he said. “When I’m watching film, they might not be the best offensive lineman or they might be a really good offensive lineman, I’m still going to prepare the same way. I still want to better myself as an individual and as a player.”

Defensive coordinator Erik Chinander said Tuesday that he thought early in the game last week, when Fordham moved the ball against Nebraska and mounted its lone scoring drive, his players pressed too much. Colored outside the lines, more or less.

“It was really, my vantage point from the box, just like I told the guys, was guys were pressing to make plays. When that happens, guys don’t do their job, they try to do somebody else’s job and a guy pops a gap trying to make a play, folds in when he shouldn’t, jumps a route. Those types of things. What I was watching from the box was, nobody was not giving effort, nobody wasn’t playing football, it was like one guy per play. One guy tried to make a play instead of letting the play come to him. In the second half, everybody did their job and things went much better for us.”