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And we've reached the annual week where the local jabber jocks on Columbus radio offer up hot takes about how the Big Ten should have fixed crossovers so that OSU and Nebraska play every year instead of once in a blue moon. 

Uh, guys? Hello? That's sorta what we have going on here. Every year you preview and recap the game. Pay attention!

Ugg!


OSU has a reputation of dropping a clunker (last 2 being road games to Western foes), and this has all the makings for an OSU under-performance and for making Nebraska look amazing. 

umm... no.   

UNL has an issue with the passing game.   Teams are sitting on short routes and pressing the outside WR's.   UNL doesn't have a Stanley Morgan this year to help stretch the field.   So UNL's offense has to be more precise in a more crowded area.   This is why, I believe, UNL has had some really big plays and at times, an offense that performs poorly.   Win big or lose quickly...    I see the run game continually improving with OL development and RB's adjusting to the system, but to make this offense really click, you have to stretch the field on the outside.  jmo


Defensively, UNL is much improved.  That doesn't mean they will shut down OSU but they are much better.  I'm really looking forward to watching UNL's DL vs OSU's OL

Despite some fans expectations not being met, I think UNL is on the correct path.    Talent holes still exist but a slow and steady climb is good for the program.  

“We’ve had this one circled since since February. So we’re ready to go,” said DT Haskell Garrett on Wednesday. “We knew that this was gonna be the one. Everybody’s testing us, every week, every day, so we just gotta go out there and make a statement.”

That definitely falls well short of bulletin board material, but it stands out in the tightly-controlled world of college football media. Outside of rare exceptions, different variations on “We just take it one game at a time” are the rule.

I'm E-mailing this to the Woody Hayes Athletic Center.File this under Bulletin Board Material and opponents popping off 

OSU wants to prove last year was a fluke...

Frost is hoping his team will play loose in that nothing-to-lose manner. "I don't think a lot of people are going to pick us to win. Rightfully so, because they've got one of the best teams in the country I think right now ... So there's no reason for us to be nervous or uptight. We've just got to go take our swings."

"These are the games you want because it lets us see where on that road we are. I don't have any doubt we'll get there. We'll take our swing on Saturday and see how far we've come."

Road games are hard, especially for teams that haven't had one yet.

Bucks did play at Indiana.