H U S K E R D A N
LAST WEEK'S
RECAP
Toledo 35-Pittsburgh
31
Marshall 27-Kansas State 20
Florida State 47-Colorado 7
Northern Illinois 19-Alabama 16
Michigan State
22-Notre Dame
16
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GREAT
COUNTRY
On the same weekend
that Colorado gets punked; K-State drops one at home to that powerhouse Marshall
team and Notre Dame loses to the Spartans, the Huskers, without playing a
game, climb 4 spots in the coaches poll to #11!!!!! Is this a great
country, or what?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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GOING FOR
FOUR
Now, be honest,
prior to the season, who among you would have thought the Huskers would be
3-0? There are some of you who still complain (and you know who you
are) that the Huskers haven't won by enough points, that we have
too many problems in the Red Zone, that our running game is vanilla, that our
kickoffs aren't what they used to be when Josh and Kris Brown were here and that
Jammal Lord is to quarterbacking what the Lorena Bobbitt is to
organ transplanting. Well, despite all that, the Huskers are a big
3 and OH and are going for four in the
snakepit called "The Rock" in beautiful Hattiesburg, Mississippi this Thursday
night.
NO
PROBLAME-O
We've been warned
that the crowd will be all liquored-up and will be yelling about 3 feet from the
line of scrimmage. We are told the Golden Eagles won't be intimidated by
the Big Red, after all, they've hosted teams as good or better than the Huskers
for years. So the Huskers had better watch out, the Golden Eagles
will be fired up, they say.
RECORD
DATE
To be sure, teams
like Marshall, Northern Illinois and Toledo have proved this year the adage
that "On any given Saturday..." anything can happen. Moreover, the
Huskers in away games have a dismal 1-6 record over the past 7 games (thank
goodness for the comeback at College Station last year).
UP IN
SMOKE
If you think the
Husker coaches haven't reminded the players of this anemic road record, you're
smoking a little too much Betty Furness. The coaches do NOT want
to continue the idea that the Huskers can't win on the road. The time
to make a statement is this Thursday in Hattiesburg, in front of ESPN and the
rest of the college football world.
DO AND
CHEW
Wouldn't this be a
great time to crank up the hitherto sputtering Husker offense?
Wouldn't this be a great time to spring Joe Dailey and show the football world
Big Red ain't dead? If the D and the O show up Thursday night, look
out.
D and O spell "DO"
and that rhymes with CHEW as in the Huskers will chew up the clock,
the Golden Eagles, the Eagles' fans and send a statement to college
football not to overlook the Huskers this year.
RUN THE
TABLE
Most critics
think that Hattiesburg is the closest the Huskers will get to this year's
national championship game in the Sugar Bowl 90 minutes away in New
Orleans. But don't sell the Huskers short, just yet.
I know it's way too
early, but the way the rest of the league has been playing (Texas getting punked
by Arkansas, Missouri struggling with winless Middle Tennessee State, Colorado's
porous defense, K-State's listless performance at home), and it's conceivable
the Huskers could run the table in the regular season and could face the Sooners
for the Big 12 championship in December. Now, wouldn't that be
something.
ROCK
TALK
This week the
Huskers are playing the Golden Eagles of Southern Mississippi at "The Rock"
in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Well, the Eagles may find themselves caught
between a "Rock" and a hard place Thursday night by the Nebraska
Cornhuskers.
Both teams pride
themselves with a big advantage in turnover margins. If the Husker offense
can keep from beating themselves with stupid penalties, lame passes and untimely
fumbles, AND the Bo-Shirts play lights-out football, this game could be a
break-away win for the Huskers. A win would prove, for the time being,
that the Huskers can win on the road in front of a very hostile
crowd.
The Huskers will
turn Hattiesburg into HAD-iesburg, as in, the Golden Eagles HAD their
chance to upset the Huskers at home and make college football headlines, but
blew it. The Huskers will stuff the Golden
Eagles.
HUSKERS 28
SO.
MISSISSIPPI 10
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