Nebraska Cornhuskers -- Quick Primer
Thursday, November 1, 2007 at 08:52PM
DJ Goodwin in 2007 KU Football News

What Comes Around Goes Around


Resources:

Nebraska Cornhuskers Preview Capsule (Hawk Digest) | huskernetwork.com | Big 12 Digest

Series: Nebraska 88-22-3
Time: 11:30 a.m.
TV: Fox Sports
Line: KU (-19)

Recent History: (home team)
1997 NU 35, KU 0
1998 NU 41, KU 0
1999 NU 24, KU 17
2000 NU 56, KU 17
2001 NU 51, KU 7
2002 NU 45, KU 7
2003 NU 24, KU 3
2004 NU 14, KU 8
2005 KU 40, NU 15
2006 NU 39, KU 31 

The Rundown

Kansas is a 19-point favorite tomorrow in Lawrence, but Nebraska fans are oddly confident that they'll be able to handle KU. Why wouldn't they be? Look at what they have going for them:

Plus, it's not like KU has any motivation. Consider the following:

The Key

Play your best game. Again, Kansas still has not thrown out a full four quarters of good football execution. One thing that is not mentioned much is that this is a relatively young football team with only one senior starting on defense. They are still improving and as we go into the stretch run it would be a fantastic time to put it all together -- especially on offense.

Clearly it will help to get some pressure on the new quarterback as Callahan has stressed that they will run the same offense. I'd run the ball early and shorten the game if I was wearing red pants on Saturday, but Bill knows what he's doing. If our defenders can catch the ball this week, that pressure should merit some turnovers.

Offensively, it would be great to come out early and score, but clearly it doesn't matter. The interesting thing about Reesing is that he usually comes out on fire for the series that matters. Every time we get in the second half and I'm thinking this is about where you need to take over the game, Sparky comes out with purpose. That is what distinguishes him from every KU quarterback I've seen play. Well ... that and the snake wrangling.

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