It's the NU Bowl. Both the Nebraska Cornhuskers and the Northwestern Wildcats lay claim to the title of NU, although most people use NW in place of NU when referring to Northwestern University and it drives NU grads crazy when you do that. Some of them take offense if you call them NW instead of NU. Their trademark school chant is "Go U! NU!" Well I blame ESPN, Fox Sports … [Read more...] about Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Northwestern: NU Bowl preview
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Big Ten Basketball Season Preview
Big Ten basketball season cannot get here fast enough. Especially for someone like me, who covers two college football teams, Northwestern and Illinois who are #10 and #11 in everybody's conference power rankings. Then again college basketball season is always something that never gets here soon enough for me. I prefer college hoops over college football. The two times I … [Read more...] about Big Ten Basketball Season Preview
Nebraska’s Bo Pelini gets vote of confidence from Ron Zook
Nebraska Coach Bo Pelini is on the hot seat. That's obvious! Bo Pelini will get his four losses, which means he'll get his eight wins. To channel Spandau Ballett, "I know this, much is true." Is that enough for Bo Pelini to save his job this time? We know Bo Pelini has no conference titles, and he's done rather poorly in conference title games and big games overall. Then … [Read more...] about Nebraska’s Bo Pelini gets vote of confidence from Ron Zook
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Fighting Illini: brutally honest preview
When I first saw that Vegas likes the Nebraska Cornhuskers to win by a touchdown and a field goal over Illinois I was surprised. The line seems high given that these two teams had a very similar preconference. Both the Nebraska Cornhuskers and the Illinois Fighting Illini are 3-1, having beaten up on nobodies and gotten thoroughly out-played in their one loss to a ranked and … [Read more...] about Nebraska Cornhuskers vs Fighting Illini: brutally honest preview
Five premier college football jobs that could be opening up soon
So Mack Brown is fired. It's not official yet, but the entire college football punditocracy seems to agree on that. So the Texas Longhorns is where we'll start this list, but this will be a banner offseason. Depending on who gets cut, and when, and how the dominoes all fall into line in response, this will the greatest year for traditional college football programs having … [Read more...] about Five premier college football jobs that could be opening up soon
Bo Pelini answering for his expletive-laden rant
Bo Pelini was on the Big Ten Coaches conference call an hour ago and he answered for his f-bomb fest which was unearthed by Deadspin yesterday. He made the comments two years ago, but they didn't become public until yesterday afternoon. First off, the people saying that Bo was admirable for talking about the rant, that he didn't have to answer questions about it...WHAT? WTF? … [Read more...] about Bo Pelini answering for his expletive-laden rant
Big Ten football power rankings: lipstick on a pig edition
During Big Ten football Saturdays like this, how do you spin what happened? How do you put lipstick on these pigs? And even though Northwestern out-gained an AWFUL Western Michigan team by just 126 yards, they've still earned the second slot. You can argue that a different Big Ten football team deserves to be there. But my argument is pretty solid for NU. Also, Illinois gave … [Read more...] about Big Ten football power rankings: lipstick on a pig edition
Big Ten Week 1 Review: Purdue is terrible, PSU finds a QB, Nebraska D = AWFUL
Every Big Ten team has a game in the books now. Here's what we learned. We knew Purdue and new coach Darrell Hazell had work to do coming into the 2013 season but— wow. Rob Henry and the Boilermaker offense had nothing, and their defense had even less, in their 42-7 loss to Cincinnati. … [Read more...] about Big Ten Week 1 Review: Purdue is terrible, PSU finds a QB, Nebraska D = AWFUL
Bo Pelini pranks his team at Nebraska meeting (video)
Who says Bo Pelini is humorless? Well, the Nebraska Cornhuskers Head Coach holds some pretty painful press conferences, but he shows a great sense of humor here in this video. Bo Pelini fooled his team really well with the "movie night" prank. And the best part of the video is probably around the one minute mark or just before when he smashes the cell phone on the ground. … [Read more...] about Bo Pelini pranks his team at Nebraska meeting (video)
Nebraska Cornhuskers ‘not ready for prime time’ in 2013?
I'm surprised that ESPN doesn’t have the Nebraska Cornhuskers on a prime time Saturday night this year. It speaks a little to their perception nationally. I would think they would have to be considered the third or fourth best team in the Big Ten. Of course, we know just how bad the conference was last year. And the Huskers actually have a legitimate passer; something few … [Read more...] about Nebraska Cornhuskers ‘not ready for prime time’ in 2013?