Martinez (or T-Magic as they call him in Omaha) shouldn't make it through the year unscathed, but don't count your chickens before they hatch. He took a ton of big hits last year and popped right back up. The kid is tough. I think his mental make up is goig to be just as big of a crutch but from allthe talk coming out of lincoln he is focused and has dropped his primadonna crap from last year. We'll see how both those things shake out as the weeks pass but I am hoping one or both will derail him this year. Without him they struggle bad, especially with the transfer of their #2 QB.
I didn't see him "popping up" all the time last year. Once he missed games with his ankle injury, he was never the same and Nebraska suffered for it. That is what happens though, when your team is one guy. TO finally figured that out when he got all the model citizens for his National Championship runs, it takes more than one great QB on offense to win.
The Husker defense is good, but I am not sure if I am ready to call them great, the Secondary was not as good as advertised when they faced real passing teams last year and they lost PA. I just have the wait and see approach with them.
Martinez will get beat up in the BIG with the defenses being much more physical than the Big 12 defenses. Outside of Nebraska, the most physical defense was A&M and Martinez got rocked against them as well.
Denard Robinson is a far better player than Martinez and he missed time, or didn't finish one full game in conference last season. Martinez is bigger, but just as fragile as he has shown.
Nebraska and Wisconsin are the class of the Big Ten right now, like it or not. The thing is, that could all change when Conference play starts and it won't surprise me if it does. Nebraska and Iowa, right now to me, are the two best teams in their division, with Michigan not looking bad, but time will tell. I don't see Michigan playing as well on defense this week against Notre Dame, but if they do, watch out as the offense gets more comfortable with the new scheme and they still have Robinson. MSU was unimpressive in thier debut, but Minnesota is either better or USC fell flat, but I don't think USC should have been ranked anyway...do away with the preseason polls.