Hell it is close enough

[Ewooc]

On to Akron,
Who is the starting QB,
Who is starting RB?
How does the game go?
What is the final score?
My opinion, I think Gebbia gets the go. These 2 are obviously very close. Give Gebia this year, let Martinez play his 4 games and RS. He is the long term guy anyways. Might as well let him get one more year in the system and get a solid 4 years out of him.

Rb I really have no clue. I am going to guess Ozigbo, but no idea.

I have a feeling staff will keep this pretty "vanilla" basically be a scrimmage. Let guys get reps in, not give to much away for other teams to game plan off of. Granted we can't take any team for granted, but this should be a half way easy first win for Frost and players. I do think they may want to make a statement and put some points on the board.

Final score prediction- Nebraska 52-27

 

[Tortfeasor1]

It will be AM at QB, Bell (1a) and MW (1b) at RB. Take it to the bank.

 

[Shimmer003]

I think Gebia and Martinez both get snaps the first couple of games. I think Gebia eventually wins the job.

RB....Ozigbo early, eventually overtaken by Bell. Washington will need some time.

I think we start out fast vs Akron then hit some bumps, things are within a score or two in the third and Nebraska pulls away in the end...41-24.

I’m a big believer in this staff but it’s going to take time. 7-5 this year at best. 6-6 more likely. Could easily go 5-7. Doesn’t change the long term direction, but our schedule is tough, we have no experience at QB, we have a ton of new faces and need an entire new culture to take hold to really make big strides. It will happen but not as quick as many want it to.

 

[HUSKERFAN66]

On to Akron,
Who is the starting QB,
Who is starting RB?
How does the game go?
What is the final score?
My opinion, I think Gebbia gets the go. These 2 are obviously very close. Give Gebia this year, let Martinez play his 4 games and RS. He is the long term guy anyways. Might as well let him get one more year in the system and get a solid 4 years out of him.

Rb I really have no clue. I am going to guess Ozigbo, but no idea.

I have a feeling staff will keep this pretty "vanilla" basically be a scrimmage. Let guys get reps in, not give to much away for other teams to game plan off of. Granted we can't take any team for granted, but this should be a half way easy first win for Frost and players. I do think they may want to make a statement and put some points on the board.

Final score prediction- Nebraska 52-27

I would be ecstatic with that score. Wouldn't surprise me either. I'm N!!

 

[TheNewNU_rivals50820]

Gun to my head I think Gebbia starts at Qb, but Martinez is the starter by the time we get to Michigan.

Ozigbo gets the lions share of the carries, with Bell, Washington and Bryant sprinkled in depending on the situation

Akron can't match our speed on the outside and we get some turnovers. I think they put together a couple of good drives against our D and get some points in garbage time.

Huskers 52 Zips 20

 

[cubsker_rivals142943]

Every year, we have to hear about the keep it vanilla until we play a real team. We just aren't that good to even consider that.

 

[TruHusker]

The problem with "vanilla" it is a trade off. Your players don't get to work on things so how do you know what they really can do while you also don't show anything.I am not sure Frost knows what the term means anyway. You can bet the D won't be vanilla. Again, whatever that is.

 

[TheNewNU_rivals50820]

Every year, we have to hear about the keep it vanilla until we play a real team. We just aren't that good to even consider that.

I don't think Frost is really the type to do that. I could be wrong, but I see him wanting to put up a lot of points in his first game.

 

[Skerz4Life50]

Gebbia

Bell followed by Washington. Ziggy on short yardage.

Defense should dominate Akron. They were bad last year (regardless of overall record) and they lose quite a few skill players and lineman. Their projected starting o line is small and looks like a high school team. The qb is a decent dual threat, but isn’t very accurate or consistent. That was also mainly against MAC teams, as he wasn’t the starter the entire year. Our aggressive defense should cause major problems for them. If they play well against of D, it may be another long year for the defense.

On offense, we should be able to push (and wear down) their d line. They do have decent experience returning from a pretty bad defense last year (sounds familiar), but there is no reason our offense shouldn’t be able to move with ease. As long as we don’t turn it over, we should score a lot.

Score prediction: 56-14

 

[JohnRossEwing]

I have "heard" Mart is starting...

I also got the Skers early at -20...so I am thrilled about that.

 

[cubsker_rivals142943]

I don't think Frost is really the type to do that. I could be wrong, but I see him wanting to put up a lot of points in his first game.

Hope so

 

[resdog851_rivals159165]

I don't think Frost is really the type to do that. I could be wrong, but I see him wanting to put up a lot of points in his first game.

As Jason Peter said before last season, this team needs to go out and put half a hundred on (Arkansas State) to send a message. He commented that these teams are paid to be here and won't be offended when we put a foot on their throat. Well we all know that didn't happen last year. We barely eked out a win. I suspect that will not happen this year. Look out Akron.

 

[HuskerO58]

Martinez
Bell or Ozigbo
Solid game
Nebraska 38 - Akron 14

 

[WTFMatt]

On to Akron,
Who is the starting QB,
Who is starting RB?
How does the game go?
What is the final score?
My opinion, I think Gebbia gets the go. These 2 are obviously very close. Give Gebia this year, let Martinez play his 4 games and RS. He is the long term guy anyways. Might as well let him get one more year in the system and get a solid 4 years out of him.

Rb I really have no clue. I am going to guess Ozigbo, but no idea.

I have a feeling staff will keep this pretty "vanilla" basically be a scrimmage. Let guys get reps in, not give to much away for other teams to game plan off of. Granted we can't take any team for granted, but this should be a half way easy first win for Frost and players. I do think they may want to make a statement and put some points on the board.

Final score prediction- Nebraska 52-27

I don't think we can afford to treat any game this year like a scrimmage. Most of these kids need to learn how to win again, let alone blow a team out.

 

[Hoosker Du]

-Gebbia
-Bell, Ozigbo, Washington/Bryant/Wilbon/Bradley. Bryant may not get work due to injury.

 

[bshirt73]

-Martinez
-Washington

NU with HCSF is wayyyy too much for Akron.

 

[oldjar07]

I don't think Frost is really the type to do that. I could be wrong, but I see him wanting to put up a lot of points in his first game.

I'm tired of us trying to make a game out of the worst teams we've played the last 5 years. I want us to run up the score on these **** teams, keep scoring on them, don't let the foot off the gas, show no mercy.

I think this mentality helps a lot more when you're actually playing a tough team because it gets you prepared to never take a play off and play every play with maximum effort. No more Mike Riley nice guy **** where it'll hurt the other teams feelings if you beat them too badly.

 

[maplesyrup95]

Gebbia and Bell.

Will Honas and Mohamad Barry make 20 tackles combined, along with 2.0 sacks.

1 INT, 1 Fumble. NU wins turnover battle +1

Nebraska 47 - Akron 20

 

[yunginsNU2]

So far then.... nobody has a clue. Great lol

 

[Hoosker Du]

I'm tired of us trying to make a game out of the worst teams we've played the last 5 years. I want us to run up the score on these **** teams, keep scoring on them, don't let the foot off the gas, show no mercy.

I think this mentality helps a lot more when you're actually playing a tough team because it gets you prepared to never take a play off and play every play with maximum effort. No more Mike Riley nice guy **** where it'll hurt the other teams feelings if you beat them too badly.

Plus it helps to build depth by getting backups in earlier if we are blowing out teams.

 

[Pennsyhusker_rivals246774]

Gebbia starts. Bell starts.

NU 52
Zips 6

 

[Hastings4Huskers]

Gebbia starts. Bell starts.

NU 52
Zips 6

I hope your right. I don't care who the opponent is. I just want to see our defense hold then to 10 pts or less for a change

 

[Pennsyhusker_rivals246774]

I hope your right. I don't care who the opponent is. I just want to see our defense hold then to 10 pts or less for a change

Akron is a lousy team. As I said in another thread weeks ago, given our record last year we cannot afford to take any team lightly. Every game is a big game when you are on the redemption train. But.... Akron is a really bad team. We should handle them easily. Especially since it is:
1. Frost's first game
2. At night
3. At home.
The atmosphere inside Memorial stadium is probably going to be louder and more intimidating than it has been in years. Perhaps decades.
Akron is going to wilt and then get pummeled.

 

[TwinsRRUs_rivals79748]

On to Akron,
Final score prediction- Nebraska 52-27

Who is the starting QB, - Gebbia

We should find out anywhere between today and Monday, but after reading the comments of a military Husker fan that just watched practice, I think Gebbia gets the nod as he has been making fewer mistakes lately than 2AM. Both QBs will play and 2AM will not redshirt this year.

Who is starting RB? Bell

So many backs will play, but Bell will get the first snap. Washington and Oz will get some good reps, but Miles Jones will surprise with getting a decent amount of reps in the first game at RB vs the Duck R as Te Bryant and Mazour are both a little banged up at the moment.

How does the game go? Nebraska blows them away, did you see the pics of their team?!!!!

If our QB gets the ball to any of our skill players on offense, we will see some long TD runs, like 3 of them over 50 yards. The defense will come full of energy and actually get a couple turnovers, to which the offense scores within 2 plays of getting the ball back.

I see Akron scoring on a couple plays where the aggressiveness of the defense allows a receiver to catch the ball behind us and score from far away. I hope our defense isn't going to bend all the way down the field!

What is the final score? 52-17

Due to the speed of the offense and playing as many plays as they do, I am going to guess we score more points than I would normally guess for the first game. If this was Frost's first game of his second year, I would say we score 70+! I have been drinking the Kool-Aid!!!

Gooooo Biiiiiig Reeeeeeeeed!

 

[Hastings4Huskers]

Akron is a lousy team. As I said in another thread weeks ago, given our record last year we cannot afford to take any team lightly. Every game is a big game when you are on the redemption train. But.... Akron is a really bad team. We should handle them easily. Especially since it is:
1. Frost's first game
2. At night
3. At home.
The atmosphere inside Memorial stadium is probably going to be louder and more intimidating than it has been in years. Perhaps decades.
Akron is going to wilt and then get pummeled.

I agree I think Nebraska wins going away what I am saying is I just want to see a dominant performance by our defense I would jump for joy if we all have two 10 points or less

 

[Ewooc]

Every year, we have to hear about the keep it vanilla until we play a real team. We just aren't that good to even consider that.

No we are not a top 5 or 10 team talent wise. We are easily a top 25. On paper we are much better than Akron, of all the games on our schedule this is the one we can keep things vanilla. We shouldn't need to do all the motions, and trick plays to try and fool them. Open up some holes, pound the ball. Mix in passes to keep them off balance and march it down the field over and over. Wear them down by the middle of the 3rd and ball game.

 

[Ewooc]

The problem with "vanilla" it is a trade off. Your players don't get to work on things so how do you know what they really can do while you also don't show anything.I am not sure Frost knows what the term means anyway. You can bet the D won't be vanilla. Again, whatever that is.

having no special or extra features; ordinary or standard. Yes I see that point as well, the more real time reps they can get in the better. After the last 3 years.... just win.

 

[Ewooc]

As Jason Peter said before last season, this team needs to go out and put half a hundred on (Arkansas State) to send a message. He commented that these teams are paid to be here and won't be offended when we put a foot on their throat. Well we all know that didn't happen last year. We barely eked out a win. I suspect that will not happen this year. Look out Akron.

Yep, this needs to be a statement game. A message to the rest of the country and BIG10 that we will score at will, so try to stop us.

 

[Redscarlet]

Yep, this needs to be a statement game. A message to the rest of the country and BIG10 that we will score at will, so try to stop us.

If there is a Statement game early, I think it’s next week against Colorado....Majority of people won’t be shocked if Nebraska beats a Akron team 49-17...

But next week if we beat Colorado say 42-21 that will be more of a statement and other fans may take more of a notice then the season opener.

 

[Wasker77]

On to Akron,
Who is the starting QB,
Who is starting RB?
How does the game go?
What is the final score?
My opinion, I think Gebbia gets the go. These 2 are obviously very close. Give Gebia this year, let Martinez play his 4 games and RS. He is the long term guy anyways. Might as well let him get one more year in the system and get a solid 4 years out of him.

Rb I really have no clue. I am going to guess Ozigbo, but no idea.

I have a feeling staff will keep this pretty "vanilla" basically be a scrimmage. Let guys get reps in, not give to much away for other teams to game plan off of. Granted we can't take any team for granted, but this should be a half way easy first win for Frost and players. I do think they may want to make a statement and put some points on the board.

Final score prediction- Nebraska 52-27

Isn't the quarterback going to be Martinez? That's my guess.

 

[Wasker77]

If there is a Statement game early, I think it’s next week against Colorado....Majority of people won’t be shocked if Nebraska beats a Akron team 49-17...

But next week if we beat Colorado say 42-21 that will be more of a statement and other fans may take more of a notice then the season opener.[/QUOTE

Beating Colorado will mean more than beating Akron because of name recognition. I don't expect the Buffs to be all that good this year. I can easily see them being a 5-7 team this year with losses to the Huskers, UCLA, USC, U Dub, Arizona, Utah and Cal.

 

[DudznSudz]

I think Gebbia gets the start, and if all goes well, he'll play all year.

Martinez, however, is our future.

 

[dand84]

I think the stadium will be rocking and can't wait to be there.

BUT THEN!!! I fully expect a chorus of boos and people to take a knee during the new tunnel walk followed by a walk out by everyone in the stadium when they release the balloons.

 

[GarysPlace]

Nebraska will make a
Major statement with their first game! HCSF will have them ready to play. Last season has nothing to do with this season. It will be a blow out, 56 to 14

 

[Redscarlet]

Colorado will give our defense their first true test besides what they see from us in practice..

Monter has started for 2 years and they have abundance of Wide receivers and they also inherited RB Travon McMillan from Virginia Tech...

Realize the Buffs had their problems on defense just like the Huskers did last year but they should also be improved from last year, not say they are a 9 or 10 win team but beating them very convincingly would be a good sign going into conference play..

 

[Hoosker Du]

Is it fair to call a team that won 7 games, played in the MAC Championship game, and went to a bowl game last year a horrible team? Akron may not be world beaters, but we've definitely seen teams with much worse records the previous year, and not remotely close to having gone to a bowl game.

They have a returning QB that started 5 games last year, played in 10, threw 8 TDs vs 2 INTs, and had a 125 QB rating. Their 2018 Power Ranking in one publication has them ranked higher than Illinois. And although it may have seemed like it at times throughout his career, Terry Bowden isn't a complete idiot as a coach. There have been worse teams park their team bus at Memorial Stadium.

 

[Skerz4Life50]

Is it fair to call a team that won 7 games, played in the MAC Championship game, and went to a bowl game last year a horrible team? Akron may not be world beaters, but we've definitely seen teams with much worse records the previous year, and not remotely close to having gone to a bowl game.

They have a returning QB that started 5 games last year, played in 10, threw 8 TDs vs 2 INTs, and had a 125 QB rating. Their 2018 Power Ranking in one publication has them ranked higher than Illinois. And although it may have seemed like it at times throughout his career, Terry Bowden isn't a complete idiot as a coach. There have been worse teams come into Memorial Stadium.

Honestly, yes, it is fair to call them horrible. They got dominate by the two P5 teams they played, the best team in the MAC (Toledo), and in their bowl game (FAU). 4 of their wins were by a combined 15 points over some bad MAC teams. Their offensive and defensive stats were some of the worst in the country. The thing they were best at was turnovers. And like I said above, as long as we don’t turn the ball over (which is a fairly large if), we should have no problem destroying them.

Also their QB had one good start where he was pretty darn good, and 3 starts where he basically couldn’t match his production from that 1 good game.

 

[Hoosker Du]

Honestly, yes, it is fair to call them horrible. They got dominate by the two P5 teams they played, the best team in the MAC (Toledo), and in their bowl game (FAU). 4 of their wins were by a combined 15 points over some bad MAC teams. Their offensive and defensive stats were some of the worst in the country. The thing they were best at was turnovers. And like I said above, as long as we don’t turn the ball over (which is a fairly large if), we should have no problem destroying them.

Also their QB had one good start where he was pretty darn good, and 3 starts where he basically couldn’t match his production from that 1 good game.

They won 7 games last year and played in their conference championship game. Stop the nonsense and move on. There are much worse teams that have come to Lincoln. BTW, the word is "dominated."

 

[JohnRossEwing]

I think they lost their entire line, didn't they?

 

[Ewooc]

I think the stadium will be rocking and can't wait to be there.

BUT THEN!!! I fully expect a chorus of boos and people to take a knee during the new tunnel walk followed by a walk out by everyone in the stadium when they release the balloons.

new tunnel walk?