Take away Indiana's 4 big plays and it might have been a shutout.
Make our FG and it's tied.
One call going our way instead of Indiana's and we might win.
Scott Frost taught me that a loss is a loss, but man it's hard to not look at our decade of suck and then this game and feel like we have made some major progress.
Edit: some of you guys need to read my last sentence again....
Edit 2: Jesus you guys. The second half of the post is the important part. We lost. Indiana took advantage of our mistakes in a way that only good teams can do. We lost. It doesn't change the fact that we looked like a real football team against a very well coached football team that won the natty last year.
Do you know what "bailed out" means? It was RTP, but the penalty didn't cause the interception, so we absolutely got bailed out by a really stupid penalty and then didn't do shit with it.
It was the forearm to the head that made the ref think "oh that looked bad" as a person who was watching Husker Football in 2009 all "you hit the QB like you would any other player, but they are special snowflakes" flags annoy me though...
Indiana didn't look great either so I'm not convinced Nebraska has really taken a step forward. I guess they are paying more money for players for whatever that's worth (a few more wins?)
Those were from long drives. Can't really pick just a handful of plays. I get where you're coming from of "if things were different, they would be different" but you can't tell me you thought Nebraska had the ability to play Indiana this close 5 hours ago
We were getting fucked by teams way worse than the defending champs and getting lucky to keep it close under prior coaches. We played good football today. Indiana just made basically 1 mistake and we made enough that Indiana is good enough to take advantage of to win
You very clearly were saying that Nebraska played well for a majority of the game, and lost in moments. Overall, much better performance, but still a loss.
Don’t worry dude, I got what you were saying. I think it’ll show on the how bad did we get beat thing that gets posted every week. I wouldn’t be surprised if y’all are above Indiana despite losing
Tbf the last time we played it was a 49-point loss. This felt like the Iowa game last year but Nebraska played even better. Depending on how next week goes, they could be a playoff contender or in a prestige bowl.
Played well and were the aggressor while IU played it very conservatively. Defensive strategy was spot on and forced IU to finally adjust. Offense learned from Northwestern and exposed IU’s deficiencies of which there are far more than last year and maybe even 2024.
Overtime was probably the correct regulation outcome but the clock and game situation eventually were enough of a help to indiana’s defense to get off the field twice at the end - Hoosiers got away with one. I’d say you’ll know now how to feel about this one down the line a bit. Even though IU has come back to the field and then some, I’d say Nebraska is very much improved. Looked like an awesome atmosphere. Hope to attend out there some day.
This didn't look like the Nebraska of the last couple decades. I watch Nebraska maybe once a year, and this is not like the others. You guys have made major progress, it looks like. I'll be surprised if this loss doesn't rank you. This is a real football team. Good show to you guys.
Omg people misunderstanding you is driving me nuts. It's not to prove we should have won. Yes, it is unusual for there to be just 4 plays in a whole football game to turn it from a runaway win to a loss. It wasn't like they stomped up and down the field drive after drive, play after play. It was 4 big plays and some big mistakes on our side of the ball. The context is to say that for MOST of the game, Nebraska was genuinely performing well. It is a big improvement from our past. Devastating way to lose, sure, but there's more to it than that. People are just jaded, and it's understandable after the last 2 decades.
Exactly this! I'm also not trying to take away from Indiana, especially because the other thing Frost taught me is that luck often follows skill in football
Absolutely, luck is when preparation meets opportunity. Indiana won the national championship last year - they are a good team! Yet we held them to 3 at the half, and they had not even been trailing a team at half since 2024. We did perform well, and I think taking the whole of the game into account we have a lot to look forward to instead of just going straight to "here we go again, typical Nebraska"
Valid, but the Scott Frost losses were always the other team's fuck ups keeping us close this game we legitimately played well against the defending champs
I thought your squad looked great. Big difference was Cignetti deciding to make Colandrea throw the ball in the 2nd half and exploiting the run sellouts on defense. Definitely felt like IU stole that.
That’s the dumbest statement I’ve seen posted in a while. Nebraska went 2+ years between holding calls in a conference game. The refs haven’t been in NU’s pocket for a single game since joining the Big Ten.
I think what he is trying to say is that they were playing consistent outside a couple of big big big mental mistakes. I believe what he is describing might show up in the “how bad did we get beat” post every week with them being slightly above y’all. Y’all won and he’s not saying yall shouldn’t have won, but it’s not too hard to understand what he’s saying
Okay, take away the first half of my comment and just read the last half 😂
People are focusing way too much on the "if things were different they would be different" part and not enough attention on the "we looked like a team that actually can play football" part
You have to agree that a game that a team can't normally win a game on big plays alone. Nebraska put real long drives together and Indiana couldn't.
At the end of the day, we lost because of those 4 mistakes that Indiana was good enough to take advantage of. But I'll be damned if some one tries to tell me we didn't play a good game of football against a good team today.
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u/hskrpwr Nebraska Cornhuskers 7d ago edited 7d ago
Take away Indiana's 4 big plays and it might have been a shutout.Make our FG and it's tied.One call going our way instead of Indiana's and we might win.Scott Frost taught me that a loss is a loss, but man it's hard to not look at our decade of suck and then this game and feel like we have made some major progress.
Edit: some of you guys need to read my last sentence again....
Edit 2: Jesus you guys. The second half of the post is the important part. We lost. Indiana took advantage of our mistakes in a way that only good teams can do. We lost. It doesn't change the fact that we looked like a real football team against a very well coached football team that won the natty last year.