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Thursday, July 24, 2008 --- 79 days ago http://www.sundaymorningqb.com/2008/7/24/578520/what-to-do-with-nebraska-o
 There’s a pretty strong consensus so far about how things are going to play out in the Big 12 North: Switch Nebraska and Kansas State (which lost to the Huskers by six touchdowns in one of the conference’s many bizarre November shootouts), and this is exactly the order of finish in the division last year . We’re led to believe, then, that 2007 was in fact the best available model for predicting 2008. The Sporting News , for example, besides picking the Huskers fourth, specifically lists the team’s "stock report" as "Steady." The Huskers have been truly Blackshirt-esque on defense a couple times since falling off the national radar following the high profile, back-to-back blowouts that closed 2001, once in 2005 but to a much greater extent in 2003, when they led the nation in pass efficiency D, were second in scoring D and finished in the top 25 in every major category. They’ve struggled to reach the top 25 in any single category since. The defensive coordinator in 2003 (and only 2003): Bo Pelini. It’s not possible to say last year’s defense was "on the brink," when it was so clearly in a freefall into the abyss as early as September; the Big Red was humiliatingly crushed by USC, Missouri, Oklahoma State, Texas A&M, Kansas and Colorado, and the only somewhat close loss, at Texas, ended with the Longhorns running for well over 200 yards en route to 19 lightning-fast, decisive points in the fourth quarter alone. If anything, it was ... |
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