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The Huskers can do the same thing that Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesoota do.

no sense trying to beat Ohio St., Bama and the top 5 before you can win your division

A lot of people thought we fired RC Slocum and Fran because they couldn’t beat OU and UT. Not true at all. They couldn’t consistently beat Tech, Missouri, Ok State, you know the other 9 teams in the conference. The same ones we always out recruited.

I think the point made in these two posts (including the parts I didn't quote here) is the crux of the issue.

Nebraska probably has a recruiting problem as compared to Ohio State and Michigan within the league and also as compared to schools such as Bama, UGA, and Clemson nationally but right now that is completely irrelevant because if they can't consistently beat their B1G-W opponents then they can't even get to  a B1GCG against the Buckeyes or Wolverines let alone a CFP game against the Tide, Dawgs, or Tigers.

Here is 247's composite recruiting rankings over (I think) four years for the B1G:

• 986 tOSU
• 833 Michigan
• 821 Penn State
• 750 Wisconsin
• 747 Nebraska
• 706 Maryland
• 668 Michigan State
• 664 Indiana
• 657 Iowa
• 653 Minnesota
• 650 Northwestern
• 644 Purdue
• 636 Illinois
• 570 Rutgers

Nebraska recruits well enough that they should regularly be a B1G-W contender and they simply haven't been.

In 2021 Nebraska lost to Michigan (by 3), to Oklahoma (by 7), and to Ohio State (by 9) but those aren't the problem. If they had lost only those games they'd have gone to the B1GCG at 9-3/7-2. The problem is that they also lost to IL, MSU, MN, PU, UW, and Iowa.

In 2020 Nebraska lost to tOSU but again, if that had been it they'd have gotten a rematch in the CG. The problem is that they also lost to NU, IL IA, and Minnesota.

In 2019 Nebraska got drilled by Ohio State in Lincoln but again, if that had been it they'd have gone to Indy for a rematch at 11-1/8-1. The problem is that they also lost to Colorado, MN, IU, PU, UW, and Iowa.

I'm not trying to dump on Nebraska and I don't mean to say that they can never beat tOSU/M. I'm just saying that if they can't consistently beat Purdue, Illinois, Northwestern, and Minnesota then there is really no reason to bother talking about beating Ohio State, Michigan, Bama, UGA, or Clemson.

It's true.

Combining my post of:

Here is 247's composite recruiting rankings over (I think) four years for the B1G:

With my post of:

Nebraska's record against B1G teams from 2018-2022:

Here is Nebraska's record against the other 13 B1G teams over the last four years sorted by each team's recruiting:

• 986 tOSU, 0-4
• 833 Michigan, 0-2
• 821 Penn State, 1-0
• 750 Wisconsin, 0-3
• 747 Nebraska, n/a
• 706 Maryland, 1-0
• 668 Michigan State, 1-1
• 664 Indiana, 0-1
• 657 Iowa, 0-4
• 653 Minnesota, 1-3
• 650 Northwestern, 2-2
• 644 Purdue, 1-3
• 636 Illinois, 2-2
• 570 Rutgers, 1-0

Against the weakest recruiting half of the league the Cornhuskers went 7-15 from 2018-2021. That wouldn't get it done even if they were perfect against the top teams.

From 2018:

“We’re going to run that up-tempo offense we saw (at the spring game), and we’re going to get the Blackshirts back to being Blackshirts. And that’s extremely important,” Moos said on Tuesday, via the Omaha World-Herald. “You’ve got Urban Meyer and Jim Harbaugh thinking, ‘We better put a little more into that Nebraska game coming up.’

"And that’s the way we want it. They’re running a little bit scared right now. And they won’t admit it. We’ll leave that at that.”

Yep. Canned to pave the way for Frost's canning.

Yep. Canned to pave the way for Frost's canning.

we don't settle for mediocre

Nebraska's O-linw throws up 15 times a day. I don't think that's a good thing, so gonna go with the Mildcats.

Just want to bring up I picked the Real NU.