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zrob_rivals105618

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Our Huskers have lost 4 games by a total of 16 points this year. In the last 5 years they've had 24 one score losses by a total of 138 points (5.75 per game). I'm gonna take a wild guess and say they'll lose by 8 or less against Iowa.
What a painful & pathetic 5 years it's been.
😞
 
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SickOfPractice

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We're 4-2 at home and 1-4 away. Last week I wasn't optimistic about our chances vs Iowa, but Purdy's overall play yesterday has changed that for me. I think we have a good chance of beating Iowa by 7+ at home.

It HAS been a painful & pathetic 5 years. Getting bowl eligible at home, on Senior Day, would certainly erase a lot of the funk we're in.

Memorial Stadium will be ROCKIN' next Friday.
 
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BTF69

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SickOfPractice said:
We're 4-2 at home and 1-4 away. Last week I wasn't optimistic about our chances vs Iowa, but Purdy's overall play yesterday has changed that for me. I think we have a good chance of beating Iowa by 7+ at home.

It HAS been a painful & pathetic 5 years. Getting bowl eligible at home, on Senior Day, would certainly erase a lot of the funk we're in.

Memorial Stadium will be ROCKIN' next Friday.
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Friday will be a blast! I wish the start time was just a bit later but still...

Two teams fighting to get a bowl bid, one team (Iowa) that obsesses over NU and constantly posts here. It will be fun.
 
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Man Woman & Child

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BTF69 said:
Two teams fighting to get a bowl bid
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Excuse Me What GIF by Bounce
 
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BrighteRed24_rivals190920

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SickOfPractice said:
We're 4-2 at home and 1-4 away. Last week I wasn't optimistic about our chances vs Iowa, but Purdy's overall play yesterday has changed that for me. I think we have a good chance of beating Iowa by 7+ at home.

It HAS been a painful & pathetic 5 years. Getting bowl eligible at home, on Senior Day, would certainly erase a lot of the funk we're in.

Memorial Stadium will be ROCKIN' next Friday.
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Hope you’re right that the stadium is rocking, but there is a ton of apathy in the fan base right now. Couple that with a high around 33 degrees, we could see a lot of empty seats and quiet crowd
 
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BTF69

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BrighteRed24 said:
Hope you’re right that the stadium is rocking, but there is a ton of apathy in the fan base right now. Couple that with a high around 33 degrees, we could see a lot of empty seats and quiet crowd
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Yeah, students are on break (WIsky was like missing an entire section)
Friday is a weird day, the time sucks. I could see it being sparse.

I got 4 tickets for the game and me and my friends are sort of 50/50 if we want to go or not.
 
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Big G20

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SickOfPractice said:
We're 4-2 at home and 1-4 away. Last week I wasn't optimistic about our chances vs Iowa, but Purdy's overall play yesterday has changed that for me. I think we have a good chance of beating Iowa by 7+ at home.

It HAS been a painful & pathetic 5 years. Getting bowl eligible at home, on Senior Day, would certainly erase a lot of the funk we're in.

Memorial Stadium will be ROCKIN' next Friday.
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No one is beating Iowa by 7+ unless it Michigan or Penn State or Ohio State. Please share what makes you think we have a good chance of doing that?
 
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Husker88

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My fear is Iowa has a complete and legit National Title winning defense. Their front 4 play outstanding football. Nothing we have seen yet this year.

Our OL will get completely dominated up front.

We could've should've beat a lot of weak teams in the West this year, but Iowa's D is a completely different animal.
 
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Man Woman & Child

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kevingne said:
No one is beating Iowa by 7+ unless it Michigan or Penn State or Ohio State. Please share what makes you think we have a good chance of doing that?
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Only chance we have is if Iowa is sleeping after having clinched the division and are looking ahead.
 
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Iroh2

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The only way to beat them is to run the ball the entire game with the most sure handed people we have. Throwing the ball more than 5-10 times will be a loss for sure. One scoring drive may be enough, run it and punt
. That being said, we won’t do any of that so it won’t matter

 
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BHoppy

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I have no idea what will happen Friday.

But I do know that both teams strengths (defense) is going against each teams weakness (offense).
Turnovers, big plays and field position will be the difference.

Pick the under which I saw opened at 29.5. Spread opened at Iowa -1.
 
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A close loss is almost 100% guaranteed. The offenses and defenses are very equal, but they have a massive special teams advantage.
 
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HuskerHusaria

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No idea what is going to happen come Friday.

We have to have a great week of practice. Make sure everyones' heads are squared away.

Need absolutely 100% physical *** football and stuff that Hawkeye like the bird from Thanksgiving.
 
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BleedRed78 said:
Hopefully our kickers pull their heads out of their arses this week...
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A lot of fixation on the decision to play for OT last night. But that game was lost on special teams. Missed FG, 18 yard punt setting up a FG, gave up a long punt return, not laying out to block a punt when untouched to the punter.
 
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BleedRed78

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headcard said:
A lot of fixation on the decision to play for OT last night. But that game was lost on special teams. Missed FG, 18 yard punt setting up a FG, long punt return, not laying out to block a punt when untouched to the punter.
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ICHerky

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Feb 4, 2002
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Iroh2 said:
I would say Iowa by 10 to 14

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The only way the Hawks win by 10-14 is if we pitch a shutout because 10-14 is our ceiling for points against your defense.

If Iowa scores more than 14 I’d damn near guarantee the win.
 
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BTF69

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StoneTempleHusker said:
My fear is Iowa has a complete and legit National Title winning defense. Their front 4 play outstanding football. Nothing we have seen yet this year.

Our OL will get completely dominated up front.

We could've should've beat a lot of weak teams in the West this year, but Iowa's D is a completely different animal.
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What?

We held Illinois to less points than they did...on the road.
 
BetterRed1

BetterRed1

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Hate to give herkie any credit, but that’s as good of a defense our guys will have faced all year. We can barely score against average defenses. Herkie has a good chance of pitching a shutout. Hate to say it. But I’m not optimistic at all. They will dominate our OL.
 
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king_kong_

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I think a lot of people here would be very pleased with a 1 score loss on Friday

Will really give us hope going into the off-season
 
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NUSouth

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SickOfPractice said:
We're 4-2 at home and 1-4 away. Last week I wasn't optimistic about our chances vs Iowa, but Purdy's overall play yesterday has changed that for me. I think we have a good chance of beating Iowa by 7+ at home.

It HAS been a painful & pathetic 5 years. Getting bowl eligible at home, on Senior Day, would certainly erase a lot of the funk we're in.

Memorial Stadium will be ROCKIN' next Friday.
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Who was our quarterback against Iowa last year it seems to me Casey Thompson got hurt late in the year and did not play in the Iowa game. The only one I can think of that would’ve played in his place is Purdy.
 
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cecilB

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NUSouth said:
Who was our quarterback against Iowa last year it seems to me Casey Thompson got hurt late in the year and did not play in the Iowa game. The only one I can think of that would’ve played in his place is Purdy.
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Thompson
 
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pascal_rivals499553

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NUSouth said:
Who was our quarterback against Iowa last year it seems to me Casey Thompson got hurt late in the year and did not play in the Iowa game. The only one I can think of that would’ve played in his place is Purdy.
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Casey Thompson. Our running backs completely whiffed. We depended on his throwing solely for scores. Grant had 14 carries for 6 yards, with a long run of....6 yards. Like last night we were making it look easy then shut down but was able to hang on that time.
 
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Champ_Kind_whammy

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Iroh2 said:
The only way to beat them is to run the ball the entire game with the most sure handed people we have. Throwing the ball more than 5-10 times will be a loss for sure. One scoring drive may be enough, run it and punt
. That being said, we won’t do any of that so it won’t matter

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Yeah, I don't want us throwing the ball all over the place. Iowa is missing plenty on offense so we'll keep that locked down.
On defense they've stayed healthy with the exception of DeJean. That's good for us since he is probably their best talent.
We should pick on whoever replaces DeJean.
I would like to see us block a punt. Their punter is their MVP (co-MVP with DeJean?) and we need to find a way to get inside his head.
This game is exactly the type of game that Lt. Kirk struggles with.
We can do this (and by "we" I mean me blackmailing the refs).
LET'S DO THIS!!!!!
 
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Iroh2

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ICHerky said:
The only way the Hawks win by 10-14 is if we pitch a shutout because 10-14 is our ceiling for points against your defense.

If Iowa scores more than 14 I’d damn near guarantee the win.
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Quite true. We will give you 10-14 on turnovers, however
 
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ssmill777

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ICHerky said:
The only way the Hawks win by 10-14 is if we pitch a shutout because 10-14 is our ceiling for points against your defense.

If Iowa scores more than 14 I’d damn near guarantee the win.
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ICHerky said:
We give away 7-10 points per game via TO's, and Iowa offense will break a couple of long runs - our defense is starting to give a few of those every game. I would be shocked to see the Huskers win. I'd say 21-10 Hawks. Losing faith in Rule and Satt.
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Redscarlet

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headcard said:
A close loss is almost 100% guaranteed. The offenses and defenses are very equal, but they have a massive special teams advantage.
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+1 and it’s tough to admit it but it’s the truth.herkies have the best punter in the country and a quality FG kicker..
 
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Yantzeee

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kevingne said:
Smoked them? Nebraska won by 7 24-17. Yes got out to a 24-0 lead but tried to pi$$ it away just like usual
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Yeah, that was one of those games that the final score wasn’t a reflection of the actual game. We were up 17 with less than 7 minutes left to play. We could have run streaks to Palmer all night long but got conservative at the end, you guys scored garbage points to make it close on a quick 10 points, but we got back to being serious and won the game with most of the game being without question.
 
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Big G20

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Yantzeee said:
Yeah, that was one of those games that the final score wasn’t a reflection of the actual game. We were up 17 with less than 7 minutes left to play. We could have run streaks to Palmer all night long but got conservative at the end, you guys scored garbage points to make it close on a quick 10 points, but we got back to being serious and won the game with most of the game being without question.
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“You guys” ?
 
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