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‘Those mistakes get you beat in this league’: NU falters against struggling, shorthanded Gophers | Football



Dismuke tracked down Wiley up the east sideline, saving a touchdown. Two plays later, senior safety Deontai WIlliams had an interception go through his hands. NU held strong on third down, though, as Cam Taylor-Britt put a big hit on quarterback Tanner Morgan, and the Gophers ran their field-goal unit onto the field. The replay booth buzzed down to the field and said it wanted to review for potential targeting on Taylor-Britt. He wasn’t penalized on the play, but the review resulted in a penalty, an ejection of the junior cornerback and a first-and-goal, which Minnesota promptly turned into a touchdown.


Grades: Minnesota 24, Nebraska 17

Instead of going into the half with either a 14-13 or 14-10 lead, Nebraska went in trailing 17-14 after that turn of events and a failed attempt at a two-minute drive that included Martinez overthrowing a wide open Oliver Martin up the right sideline on third down.

Frustrations only mounted in the second half. A 72-yard Husker march stalled in the red zone and, instead of tying the game at 17, senior kicker Connor Culp missed a field goal for the first time since Nov. 9. He had made nine straight.

Martinez, who completed 13-of-16 in the first half but missed chances at big plays by overthrowing Wan’Dale Robinson (for a touchdown) and Martin (for at least a big chunk), completed just 3-of-11 after halftime.

“I loved our game plan going in,” Frost said. “I thought we had some guys open. Wan’Dale was open on one and we missed him, and we had a corner route open and missed it. We had some other guys open on a couple others and got beat in protection. That’s where it’s just got to be consistency.



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