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Rex Burkhead rushed for 120 yards on 22 carries.

Nebraska 51
Washington 38

Sep. 17, 2011 • 2:30 p.m. Central
Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, NE • ABC
1st 2nd 3rd 4th  F 
Washington 7 10 0 21 38
Nebraska 10 10 17 14 51

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1st quarter
NU: Legate 3 pass from Martinez (Maher kick) 14:26
UW: Kearse 38 pass from Price (Erik Folk kick) 11:54
NU: Maher 44 field goal, 7:39
2nd quarter
UW: Kearse 6 pass from Price (Folk kick) 13:40
NU: Green 25 pass from Martinez (Maher kick) 12:17
UW: Folk 40 field goal, 09:24
NU: Maher 35 field goal, 0:00
3rd quarter
NU: Burkhead 1 run (Maher kick) 10:18
NU: Burkhead 1 run (Maher kick) 10:09
NU: Maher 29 field goal, 7:20
4th quarter
NU: Green 6 run (Maher kick) 12:18
UW: Polk 2 run (Folk kick) 10:15
UW: Johnson 10 pass from Price (Folk kick) 7:21
NU: Martinez 6 run (Maher kick) 4:42
UW: Johnson 52 pass from Price (Folk kick) 4:27

                              UW       NU
FIRST DOWNS ................. 20       22
  By Rushing ................. 8       16
  By Passing ................ 10        6
  By Penalty ................. 2        0
RUSHES-YARDS (NET) ...... 31-146   55-309
PASSING YDS (NET) .......... 274      155
  Att-Comp-Int ......... 37-21-2  21-10-0
TOTAL OFFENSE ........... 68-420   76-464
Fumble Returns-Yards ....... 0-0      0-0
Punt Returns-Yards ........ 3-34     3-27
Kickoff Returns-Yards .... 7-187    5-154
Int. Returns-Yards ......... 0-0      2-0
Punts (Number-Avg) ...... 5-40.6   4-40.8
Fumbles-Lost ............... 2-1      2-1
Penalties-Yards ........... 9-90     7-60
Possession Time .......... 29:31    30:29
Third-Down Conv. .......... 7/14     3/12
Fourth-Down Conv. .......... 0/1      0/1
Red-Zone Scores-Chances .... 3-4      7-7
Sacks by-Yards ............. 2-9      2-3 
 
RUSHING
UW: C.Polk 22-130; K.Price 6-10; J.Collier 3-6

NU: R.Burkhead 22-120; T.Martinez 17-83; T.Legate 2-37; A.Green 5-36; B.Heard 5-34; A.Abdullah 1-4; TEAM 3-(minus 5)

PASSING
UW: K.Price 21-37-2 274
NU: T.Martinez 10-21-0 155
 
RECEIVING
UW: J.Johnson 6-108; J.Kearse 5-69; D.Aguilar 5-42, K.Williams 2-24; C.Polk 2-16; A.Seferian-Jenkins 1-15

NU: K.Bell 2-59; J.Turner 2-34; Q.Enunwa 2-7; A.Green 1-25; K.Reed 1-19; B.Cotton 1-8; T.Legate 1-3

Attendance: 85,110

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Big second half powers victory over Huskies

Nebraska’s offense produced its best performance of the season and the Husker special teams made big plays again to power NU to a 51-38 win over Washington.

The Huskers rolled up 31 second-half points on their way to victory.

Rex Burkhead notched the fifth 100-yard rushing game of his career, leading a rushing attack that amassed a season-high 309 yards on the ground. The Huskers finished with 464 yards of total offense.

Arguably the biggest play of the game came on Mathew May’s recovery of a muffed kickoff early in third quarter. Washington’s Bishop Sankey dropped the ball in the end zone and kicked it forward, and May made a diving recovery at the UW 1.

One play later, Burkhead plunged over the top for his second one-yard TD run in a nine-second span, giving the Huskers a 17-point lead.

Nebraska improved to 3-0 and became the first Husker team since 1995 to score 40 or more points in each of its first three games.

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2011 schedule
04/16 Red 32, White 29
09/03 Chattanooga W 40-7
09/10 Fresno St. W 42-29
09/17 Washington W 51-38
09/24 @ Wyoming W 38-14
10/01 @ Wisconsin L 17-48
10/08 Ohio St. W 34-27
10/22 @ Minnesota W 41-14
10/29 Michigan St. W 24-3
11/05 Northwestern L 25-28
11/12 @ Penn St. W 17-14
11/19 @ Michigan L 17-45
11/25 Iowa W 20-7
01/02 @ South Carolina L 13-30
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Ameer Abdullah returned three kickoffs for 129 yards.

Commentary

Stryker

While it will never be mistaken for the 1994 and 1995 versions of the Pipeline, the young Husker o-line is starting to grow up.

Tad Stryker
HuskerMax
Shatel

A different Husker team showed up for the second half. Or maybe this was a reunion from the 1980s.

Tom Shatel
Omaha World-Herald
Sipple

Chalk up some of the late letdown to human nature, some of it to conservative strategy.

Steven M. Sipple *
Lincoln Journal Star
Hamar

Burkhead may not be the guy who will break the 70-yard run for you, but he does so many things on the football field that some fans apparently don’t appreciate.

Bob Hamar *
Grand Island Independent
Kelley

The Huskies defense wasn't ready to compete against a team as good as Nebraska.

Steve Kelley
Seattle Times
Bishop

Sure there were big plays. But there were also drives.

John Bishop
KLIN
Feit

We're starting to get a better idea of who this team is, and what they can be.

Dave Feit
HuskerMax
Chatelain

Nebraska's offensive line hit the Husky front four like a flood.

Dirk Chatelain
Omaha World-Herald
Zatechka

The identity crisis, for one game, seems to have passed.

Rob Zatechka
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