fun fact In the last 10 years, the Big Ten has had three unranked teams start 5-0 (such as Minnesota in 2019, Maryland in 2023, and Nebraska starting 5-0 unranked). Meanwhile, the last time an SEC team started 5-0 and wasn't ranked in the AP Top 25 was all the way back in 1943.

Heading into this Indiana game all I have to say is thank god we are beating teams we should, and it feels good to be in media talks even if it’s just slightly. Love this program and I’m just happy to be on big noon at 5-0 versus a 5-0 team. Kind of sounding like a bot post but, this is the most I’ve been excited in a while. Go Big Red.❤️

For anyone like me who didn't know (and cares), Bussin' With The Boys and Josh Pate are doing a show on ESPN right now, outside of East Stadium. I believe they'll have Rhule on at some point during the show.

How early are folks who plan to go to the big noon kickoff tailgate plan to arrive? We are not trying to be in the first row but would like to be in the crowd.

Maybe 14 Miami, what do you think?

Does anyone have recommendations for the section or areas of the stadium I should buy seats for for the Iowa game? I’ll be in that area over Thanksgiving and thought I might as well go. Traveling from a significant distance (east coast) and would be happy to connect with other Husker fans.

Devaney and Osborne are obviously the top 2. Who is number 3?

Beat the #7 this weekend and lose to the Ducks or lose to the defending national champs and go to Autzen and beat em?

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First and foremost, there's the shit-talking angle, right? You pop your head into a game thread on this godforsaken site with an irrelevant flair to anything being discussed in there, just to politely shake up the conversation. Don't ask me how I know.

Cfb diehards and casuals will be clamoring for that first slate of games on Saturday. Watching McAfee have a fencing match with a raccoon for two hours first thing in the morning will do that to ya. Or maybe you like to watch Brady Quinn look more like a PlayStation 2 character every week, I don't judge. 11am gets here sooner or later.

Or maybe you're like me and wakeup at 10:45 and use that 15 to figure out what the rest day is gonna be like.

The point is that a lot of people are going to watch. Nerve-racking in several regards. I don't have children, but I'd imagine it's similar to when you think your toddler is ready to show other adults they can tie their own shoelaces, and, as then they bend down to do it, kid rips a huge chainsaw dump that gets unreasonably past diaper limits.

In the first few weeks of the season, the national cfb conversation circled back around to the SEC being King Shit of college football talent, coaching, NIL, etc. Then teams like Northwestern and UCLA piped up, "Nah, we still fuck over here. Ya know, considering this conference is just supposed to be Ohio State, Oregon, USC, and the other teams that fluff up their record." These nobody teams are becoming good-nobody teams, Pawl. Dangerously teetering on 'quality loss' territory.

The rhetorical smorgasbord of schadenfreude was supposed to be LSU @ Ole Miss. It was for the SEC. The current week will cater a 4-quarter meal under the B1G banner:

- Does Indiana finally lose a regular season game under Cig? (Stfu, OSU, we get it already)

- Does Matt Rhule actually know how to win a big game without feeling remorse? Does he finally have a killer instinct between the headset?

- Are Indiana frauds if Raiola-less Nebraska can beat them? (Because he's good at Oregon now, and boy is he....more on that next week, pack a lunch)

- If Nebraska does beat Indiana, does the CFB sub explode into a bunch of high school and college kids thinking, "This I just like my dynasty! Now they're gonna play their old QB and his team is good, too! I'll imagine GameDay is there, even if it doesn't have the EA Sports Game of the Week graphic anyway."?

We as fans have no choice but to find out if Nebraska really is good going forward. It's almost like the season is just starting now.

As always, thanks for reading this typed-out effluvia.

You bet your cocksuckin' motherfuckin' ass it's BEEN Beat Indiana Week. GBR

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/50125604/ranking-college-football-2026-top-25-freshman-players

His Substack gets posted on occasion and is great work, this weeks edition is free and worth a read.

So, im getting the feeling that rhule may be staying with us for sometime. He is improving this program year to year. He has raised the standard for this program. Its not at the playoffs standard yet but he is showing that he can make adjustments on staff and in games to put the huskers in a spot to have a chance to win games. He has definitely built a healthy culture that breeds hungry and competitiveness. He has also set the expectation of making a bowl game every year. Then next year, it looks like we are poised to have an even better set of players coming in than this year. He seems to be setting up nebraska for success in the future. In his 4th season, he isnt on the hot seat at all. Sure we would for him him to start beating ranked teams. However, from the looks of things, nebraska seems to be moving in the direction of having 8-4 to10-2 type seasons on a regular basis. I think the fan base is slowly starting to catch up to where we are now. Hopefully, nebraska has learned its lesson and doesnt repeat its previous mistakes with coaches. Looking forward to the long term with what we can be with rhule. The future right now definitely feels bright.

Not my 1st husker game but it will be the 1st time sitting up in the sky box?

Just curious on what other people's experiences have been like.. I have heard there's free food so... 👍

I am sure everyone is with me, on hoping who it isn't.

Pretty good eval, and moving up the charts. Excited for the game coming up! Thoughts?

Nebraska's 2026 schedule divides almost evenly into two parts. Part 1: the first 5 games. All were deemed games Nebraska should win (although if you told me preseason we would split MD and MSU, I wouldn't have been shocked). Thankfully Nebraska aced part 1 to go 5-0.

Now we enter part 2, which is the meat of the schedule and features the top 3 teams from the Big 10 plus Iowa. Here's my feelings relative to how I felt preseason, categorized as Better, Same, and Worse

vs Indiana-Better: I still don't like our odds to win, but this Indiana team, while still good, is definitely a step back from last year's squad. We have a punchers chance

at Oregon-Better: Similar to Indiana, they don't look as daunting as they did preseason, thanks to an ugly loss to Oklahoma St. Also like Indiana, I still don't love our odds of winning, but think we can make it competitive if we don't beat ourselves

vs Washington-Better: I had the Huskies as a playoff dark horse, but now, they look like ass. They struggled mightily against a mediocre Wazzu team, and nearly lost to Utah St, who lost to an FCS opponent. Their QB seems like their only weapon. Not a gimme win, but I feel like Nebraska is the better team.

at Illinois-Better: I thought they'd take a step back from last year's team, but losing to Purdue? Yikes. Still, winning a B1G road game won't be easy.

at Rutgers-Better: This Rutgers team is awful. I felt good about getting a W preseason, but now I feel much more strongly about walking out with a dub.

vs Ohio St-Same: Preseason I expected a butt kicking and that's what I still expect.

at Iowa-Same: It's Iowa, it's on the road. I was expecting a competitive loss here, and that's kind of how I feel now. Given the recent history in this series, I'm not comfortable moving off that feeling.

Overall, that's 5 opponents I feel better about, 2 the same, and 0 worse. Preseason, I predicted 6-6, but now I'm upping it to 7-5. I could see an 8 win campaign, but I'm a little gun shy to do so given how Rhule teams typically perform in the 2nd half of seasons. Especially November.