2023 Nebraska Season Thread

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THIS WEEK IN HUSKER HISTORY
The week of Oct. 13-19, looking back in five-year intervals

1923 Nebraska-Oklahoma football action photo blue jerseys first Memorial Stadium game

Oklahoma wore its striped red jerseys and the Huskers wore blue in the first game at Memorial Stadium. · Omaha World-Herald · Newspapers.com
1923: In the first game at Memorial Stadium, a 93-yard fumble return by Douglas Myers early in the fourth quarter helps the Cornhuskers to a 24-0 win over Oklahoma. The Sooners were threatening to cut into the Huskers’ 10-0 lead when Myers made the pivotal play. | 100 seasons at Memorial Stadium

1908: A late Minnesota touchdown is nullified by penalty as the Cornhuskers and Gophers battle to a 0-0 tie in Minneapolis.

1913: A pass from Max Towle to Gordon Beck provides the only touchdown as Nebraska upsets Minnesota 7-0 in Lincoln.

1933: Coach Dana Bible gives the substitutes considerable playing time in a 20-0 win at Iowa State. The score was similar to the tally of first downs: Nebraska 22, Iowa State 1.

1938: Nebraska squanders several scoring chances as NU and Indiana battle to a scoreless tie in Lincoln. It turned out to be the final 0-0 game in Husker history.

1943: NU loses in Ames for the first time since 1899 as Howard Tippee stars for the Cyclones. Meanwhile, former Husker Harry Hopp, with the Detroit Lions, leads the NFL in scoring as his brother Johnny plays for the Yankees in the World Series.

1948: Cletus Fischer's two touchdowns for Nebraska aren't nearly enough as Notre Dame piles up more than 500 rushing yards in a 44-13 romp in Lincoln. 

1953: After trailing at halftime, the Huskers take charge but then need to ward off visiting Miami's fourth-quarter rally to earn their first win of the season, 20-16. Nebraska used just 15 players, including seven starters who went the full 60 minutes. NU's Bob Smith scored on an 80-yard run in the first quarter.

1963: Larry Tomlinson, and Ralph McFillen return interceptions for TDs and Nebraska holds Kansas State to two yards rushing in a 28-6 road win.

1973: Ten years before making a similar move in a much bigger game, Tom Osborne eschews a tie and opts for a two-point conversion try after the Huskers score a touchdown with a minute left at Missouri. The Tigers handed Osborne his first defeat, 13-12, even though Mizzou was outyarded 444 to 170.

1978: I.M. Hipp runs for 183 yards as Nebraska uses a strong second half to put away visiting Kansas State, 48-14.

1983: Nebraska scores two fourth-quarter TDs to pull away from pesky Missouri in Columbia, 34-13. 

1988: The Huskers jump to a 42-0 lead and then hold off Barry Sanders and Oklahoma State in an offensive shootout at Memorial Stadium, 63-42.

1993: Former Husker tight end Jerry List and his wife, Susan, are among five people killed in the crash of a single-engine plane near Stuart, Neb. Also, Nebraska gives up a Big Eight record 489 passing yards by Chad May but capitalizes on Kansas State turnovers to register a 45-28 win in Lincoln.

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I'd love to see a August 28th depth chart and look at today's depth chart, just on offense.  Dear Lord. 

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it's been rough
I don't remember any season this bad

only 2 juniors starting on offense, seniors are gone

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Minnesoota

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Purdue

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not as bad as I thought

C, RT, TEs, 1 WR, and the FB are the same

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9 true freshman played vs Northwestern

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Jim Harbaugh called Trev Alberts last month with a suggestion the Nebraska athletic director has heard more than a few times.

On game days at Memorial Stadium, the Huskers ought to move from the east sidelines to the west.

It’s 30-40 degrees cooler for one thing, said Harbaugh, whose Michigan team had just beaten NU 45-7 with temperatures reaching a record-high 96 degrees at kickoff of the Sept. 30 game. The Wolverines weren’t the ones squinting into the sun either.

Alberts — a former teammate of Harbaugh’s on the Indianapolis Colts in the mid-1990s — said during his monthly radio show Wednesday night that Nebraska will eventually be moving in that direction.

“Coach (Matt) Rhule wants to be on the west side,” Alberts said. “We’re ultimately going to move the team to west side.”

NU had long operated from the east end in large part because there is more space there to accommodate what used to be upwards of 200 players dressing for home contests. That’s no longer a factor while potential sign stealing could put Nebraska at a competitive disadvantage as opposing coaches in the West Stadium press box can easily view Husker signs communicating plays from the sideline.


Nebraska during the 2020 COVID season moved to the west side when no fans were in attendance. It will get back there again at some point in the future.

“As part of the whole transition of Memorial Stadium, rather than doing these slow one-offs, we’d like to have this holistic plan and vision around it,” Alberts said. “But I would anticipate, yes, the team is going to ultimately move.”

Rhule on Monday also detailed similar disadvantages to being on the “visitor’s side” while advocating for technology — like tablets and wearable communication devices — that would eliminate sign stealing and bring college football more in line with the game at the high school and professional levels.

“I don’t know what will be up to me, what will be not,” Rhule said about a sideline move. “The great thing about having Trev as the A.D. is all the visionary stuff I don’t have to get super involved in.”

Other notables from Alberts’ hour-long appearance:

» Changes to the start of the 2025 schedule are upgrades from both a financial and competitive standpoint, Alberts said. Nebraska negotiated with Cincinnati to move what had previous been set as a road game for the Huskers to a neutral site at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis to begin the campaign Aug. 30. Following a home game against Akron, NU will now host Houston Christian — formerly Houston Baptist — on Sept. 13 and drop Louisiana-Monroe, which would have been a mid-October foe.

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THIS WEEK IN HUSKER HISTORY
The week of Oct. 27 through Nov. 2, looking back in five-year intervals

1893: A Lincoln newspaper blames biased officiating as Nebraska must settle for a 10-10 tie with Baker.

1898: Nebraska's game with Grinnell is canceled in a dispute over the choice of officials.

1908: Nebraska holds off Iowa, 11-8, in Iowa City as the Hawkeyes fail on a field goal attempt in the last four minutes of play. Mike Hyland's drop-kick would have been worth four points.

1918: Still having played just one official game because of World War I and an influenza epidemic, Nebraska routs Cotner College in a Tuesday afternoon practice game, 39-0, on Nebraska Field. Spectators were barred from attending.

1933: The Huskers give up their first points of the season but turn back visiting Oklahoma, 16-7, in a game that saw the teams combine for 13 fumbles (four lost) and just 211 yards of offense. NU's Hubert Boswell scored on the opening kickoff when the Sooners failed to cover the ball in their own end zone. That set the tone for what the Lincoln Journal and Star called "a ragged battle that featured fumbles, stumbles and mental lapses the like of which few of the 18,000 spectators ever saw before."

1948: UCLA's passing game gives Nebraska fits as the Bruins win, 27-15, in Lincoln. The game ended with punches thrown and police having to clear fans from the field in what the Lincoln Journal & Star called a near riot.
1953: Halfback Bob Smith's 56-yard run immediately after a failed fake punt by Kansas turns the tide in a 9-0 win over the Jayhawks in Lincoln. Kansas outgained the Huskers, 301-284, but KU was hurt by six lost fumbles. Smith finished with 141 yards rushing. The game was played shortly after a vote of confidence in embattled Nebraska coach Bill Glassford by the NU Board of Regents.

1958: The Huskers fail to penetrate the Missouri 25-yard line in a 31-0 Homecoming loss in Lincoln. Nebraska was outyarded 375-185, and students hanged an effigy of coach Bill Jennings afterward.

1963: Missouri eschews a tie and goes for two points after a touch­down midway through the fourth quarter, but Nebraska's Bruce Smith breaks up Gary Lane's pass to preserve a 13-12 Husker win in Columbia.

1973: Nebraska goes for a touchdown instead of a field goal from inside the 1-yard line with 2:23 left, but Oklahoma State's defense stops Tony Davis and the teams finish in a 17-17 tie in Stillwater.

1983: The Huskers beat Kansas State, 51-25, in Manhattan, but doubts about the Blackshirts mount. Mean­while, a Denver promoter's hopes for a Texas-Nebraska championship game outside the bowl system are dashed while the likelihood of a bowl match with Miami on the Hurricanes' home field begins to solidify.


2013: Quarterback Ron Kellogg III's 49-yard pass to freshman receiver Jordan Westerkamp on the final play gives Nebraska a 27-24 win over Northwestern.

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Football vs. Maryland | Saturday, Nov. 11
The Huskers welcome the Maryland Terrapins for the second-to-last home game of the 2023 season Saturday, Nov. 11. The game is set for an 11 a.m. kickoff and will be streamed live  exclusively on Peacock (NBC's streaming service).

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it's been rough
I don't remember any season this bad

only 2 juniors starting on offense, seniors are gone

 WOW,should have left Fearless Frank alone

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https://youtu.be/NeSQgIssL4Q

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Mitch Sherman did his seemingly annual Nebraska turnover margin story this week for the Athletic.

Ahem,  in the past twenty seasons, Nebraska is -111 in T.O. margin.   This season they are -12, worst in P5, only Temple and Hawaii worse in all of football.   That's 131st out of 133.

What's interesting.  Between 1984 and 2003, Nebraska was +130 in T.O. margin.    In 2003 alone they had 47 takeaways the most of any team in FBS since then.