When an opportunity is sitting right in front of you to win the next two games and you don’t show up in the first half against Minnesota because of the lack of “juice” then you absolutely deserve to lose the football game.
Nebraska had the opportunity to take the lead three separate times deep in Minnesota’s territory and came away with zero points. It’s how you lose football games.
Nebraska fans and media treat each game like it’s some great indicator of the program as a whole. After losing to Oklahoma, Michigan State and Michigan who are all undefeated at this point was an indication of progress.
Now those who “want” to show that no progress has actually been made now have a arrow in their quiver.
A three game window against three undefeated teams is more illustrative of progress than calling a dead brain loss to Minnesota as illustrative of no progress. Cam Taylor-Britt said after the game that it felt like after a string of night games, a 11:00 a.m. kickoff led to the lack of juice. He could tell Saturday morning some of his teammates were not ready to play.
That was the truth.
Nebraska took two quarters to wake up and it was too late. That can’t happen against a PJ Fleck coached Minnesota team because once they have a lead then they are going to drain the clock.
It wasn’t a case of Minnesota winning the football game. This time it wasn’t even crazy head-scratching boneheaded plays that cost Nebraska the game. It came back to not being up and ready to play.
If you aren’t up and ready to play Minnesota then you deserve to lose. Now it will require Nebraska to go 3-1 over the next four games against Purdue, Ohio State, Wisconsin and Iowa for them to get to a bowl game.
It is possible.
Nebraska now has a bye week before that matchup with Purdue. Hopefully against the Boilermakers, Nebraska will be ready to play from the first half kickoff instead of waiting for the second half to start.
The Morning After
Shatel: Blame for this maddening loss doesn’t fall on just one Husker | Football | omaha.com
Here in the eighth game of Scott Frost’s fourth season, the cold reality was plain to see. What happened here wasn’t about one or two or three players. Or plays.
Chatelain: The true agony of following Nebraska football is expecting Huskers to change | Football | omaha.com
The agony of following Nebraska football isn’t just seeing the Huskers lose games in innovative ways. It’s feeling like a fool for expecting change, writes Dirk Chatelain.
McKewon: Huskers’ ineptitude with little details make for a messy big picture | Football | omaha.com
Nebraska’s three bad trips deep into Gopher territory coupled with Adrian Martinez’s intentional grounding penalty and a listless opening half, NU will now take a slow, somber boat into a
Red-zone woes crop up again as Nebraska fails to seize moment in second-half rally | Football | journalstar.com
The closer Nebraska’s offense gets to pay dirt this season, the more it sputters and spins its wheels in the mud outside of it.
‘We keep finding ways to lose’: Huskers fall behind early, squander second-half opportunities in another close loss | Football | journalstar.com
A flat first half gave way to a second half equally filled with big plays and mind-numbing miscues as Minnesota downed Nebraska 30-23 Saturday in Minneapolis.
Parker Gabriel: Unable to rally Saturday and this fall, the Huskers pick bad times to lack ‘juice’ | Football | journalstar.com
The Cornhuskers inexplicably, incomprehensibly showed up without energy again Saturday – for the first time, actually, since August.
Culp searching for success and answers following another poor day
Nebraska kicker Connor Culp did the same thing he does regardless of result following a 50-yard field goal in the first quarter. He flushed it from his mind and moved to the next kick.
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