First Quarter
NEB: Steve Taylor 22 run (Gregg Barrios kick) 11:25
NEB: Sam Schmidt 6 run (Barrios kick) 5:08
Second Quarter
NEB: Taylor 15 run (Chris Drennan kick) 3:59
NEB: Richard Bell 11 pass from Taylor (Drennan kick) 0:44
Third Quarter
NEB: Ken Clark 7 run (Barrios kick) 12:32
USU: Patrick Newman 1 pass from Brent Snyder (Russ Moody kick) 5:09
NEB: Terry Rodgers 2 run (Barrios kick) 2:02
Fourth Quarter
NEB: Brad Devall 6 pass from Gerry Gdowski (Drennan kick) 14:55
NEB: Mickey Joseph 8 run (Drennan kick) 13:24
NEB: Gdowski 1 run (Tom Janky kick) 6:59
USU: Kendal Smith 15 pass from Snyder (Pass failed) 2:47
A-76,233.
USUNEB
First downs .............. 14 32
Rushes-yards .......... 22-19 63-421
Passing yards ........... 187 169
Comp-Att-Int ...... 21-39-1 10-14-0
Total offense ........ 61-206 77-590
Returns-yards ........... 0-0 4-28
Sacks by ................ 1-6 3-29
Punts-avg. ............. 7-29 2-41
Fumbles-lost ............ 2-1 0-0
Penalties-yards ........ 2-10 5-34
Possession time ....... 27:50 32:10
Third-down conv. ........2/13 4/8
Fourth-down conv. ....... 2/2 1/2
INDIVIDUAL LEADERSRushing
USU: Brett Payne 12-43, Timo Tagaloa 1-7.
NEB: Clark 12-90, Taylor 9-74, Tyreese Knox 5-50, Gdowski 6-40.
Passing
USU: Snyder 21-39-1-187.
NEB: Taylor 7-10-0-143, Gdowski 2-3-0-19, Joseph 1-1-0-7.
Receiving
USU: Smith 8-108, Payne 7-50, Keith Robertson 2-12, Rod Moore 2-11, Newman 2-6.
NEB: Richard Bell 3-77, Jamie Worden 2-18.
Missed field goals: none.
Interceptions
USU: none. NEB: Mark Blazek 1-5.
Tackles (UT-AT-TT)
USU: Del Lyles 6-5-11, Toby Tyler 9-1-10, Kevin Bouwman 7-1-8, Travis Clark 6-2-8.
NEB, Reggie Cooper 5-2-7, Broderick Thomas 5-2-7, Pat Tyrance 4-1-5, Mike Croel 2-3-5.
Sacks
USU: Greg Davis 1-6.
NEB: Thomas 2-21, Lawrence Pete 1-8, Croel 1-6.
MORE INDIVIDUAL STATS
One hundred four Cornhuskers saw action as Nebraska scored at least twice in each quarter and rolled to its second win of the season.
Quarterback Steve Taylor completed seven of 10 passes for 143 yards and a touchdown as he became the eighth Nebraska player to top 2,000 career passing yards. He added 74 yards and two touchdowns on the ground and passed Vince Ferragamo to move into fifth on NU’s career total offense chart.
The Huskers had 17 running plays of 10 yards or more en route to rolling up 421 yards on the ground.
Taylor and outside linebacker Broderick Thomas were named the Big Eight offensive and defensive players of the week.