As usual, a game like this is kind of a double-edged sword. I think Nebraska will come out with a lot of fire. It’s hard to get a team ‘up’ for Illinois, and they played like they hadn’t paid any attention during practice. That won’t be the case for this game, unless he’s flat-out lost the team. So I think we’ll need to take that fire away early.....if we don’t it’ll be a close one.
On the other hand, having watched Nebraska’s games, we’re clearly the better team, especially up front. On offense, they have McCaffery and Wandale. Both are very talented. Assuming they don’t go back to Martinez or start one of their other young QBs, McCaffery is a much more talented runner than Levis, but having seen a running QB last week should help us. McCaffery isnt polished at all as a thrower, so if we can contain him on the ground and limit Robinson’s impact, our D should be fine. And Levis was 13/16 throwing last week but still didn’t get it done. And our offense should be able to move the ball. We’ll need to take controlled rush lanes and not let McCaffery outside the pocket, but we know how to do that.
if Frost has lost the team, it’ll be a blow out. But I don’t think he has, so again as usual, this is going to be about taking their fire away in the first 5-7 minutes of each half, not giving the ball away, and just play our game. If we do that, it shouldn’t be close.