Corn Nation: for Nebraska Cornhuskers fans

This week on the Overreaction show, Greg, Hoss and Jake will discuss the UCLA loss yesterday 27-20.

What went right and wrong? How could the Huskers trail the entire game against a team they were favored to beat?

Hoss, has some interesting praise to hand out but not to anyone who wears scarlet and cream.

Yes, injuries have began to pile up for the Huskers but does that mean that we are destined for another bowl-less season?

We’ll have Risers and Fallers, award game balls and since this show will be live, we will take as many of your comments as we can.

I haven’t felt this excited since I was a kid going trick-or-treating on Halloween. Nebraska has a real chance to make it to a bowl game and win the rest of the games on their schedule.

Why, do we have so much optimism? One word “Ohio”. Winning at Ohio was certainly well within our grasp. The game that all Husker fans had circled on their calendar as the game Nebraska would lose... We played like CHAMPIONS!

I’ve never been so proud to wear a Husker jersey as I walked out of that Ohio State Stadium last Saturday. With my head held high and smiling, I sensed what could be.

Please join us this week as we prepare to play UCLA Bruins for the first time in the Big Ten. Come ready to celebrate Halloween as we do it the best way we know, by talking Husker Football.

On Huskers Happy Hour tonight at 8PM, we’ll talk about this weekend’s opponent, the UCLA Bruins and which Huskers team will show up to take a third consecutive swing at bowl eligibility and that elusive 6th victory.

Two weekends ago, the Huskers were shellacked 56-7 by then #22 Indiana, but the rebounded last weekend in a tight 21-17 to loss to #4 Ohio State, their trash-throwing Texas-copying fans and the foul Big 10 refs. The defense finally got top tier performance against a quality top-6 offense and nearly stole a huge upset in Columbus.

Ah, yes, the B1G and their big-program-protecting zebras finally got called out on a national level after another perversion of unbiased refereeing to where the league actually felt the pressure…and apologized for one of their multiple egregious and likely very intentional “errors”.

Yep, we’ll chat a bit about that as well.

This week on the Overreaction show, Hoss and Jake will recap their whirlwind trip to Columbus, OH for the Nebraska/Ohio State game.

Greg is here too and the trio will discuss the Huskers’ 21-17 loss to the Buckeyes.

What went right and wrong offensively? No one is getting a dollar every time “screen pass” is mentioned so you don’t have to beat that particular dead horse. How did the defense respond after giving up 56 points to the Hoosiers?

Officiating will be discussed, because we can’t escape poor officiating.

The guys will break down some of Matt Rhule’s post game comments and what the performance this past weekend means for this team moving forward.

We’ll have Risers and Fallers, award game balls, and provide our UCLA predictions.

Nebraska played a tough, close game against Ohio State, one of the top five teams in the nation.

Can they take that performance up against UCLA this weekend and come out with a win?

Nebraska would become bowl eligible with a win over UCLA for the first time in 86 years, or so it seems.

We will be discussing the Ohio State game and joining me will be James Williams who reports on UCLA for USA Today.

We’ll be able to ask James about a UCLA team that has played one of the toughest schedules in the nation.

The Bruains are 2-5 and they would like nothing better than to come into Lincoln, Nebraska and steal another win.

Nebraska would love nothing better than to get bowl eligible and get it out of the way against a team whose scoring defense is 99th in the nation. UCLA’s scoring offense isn’t much better at 127th having scored 17.4 points a game.

Failure is inevitable and fundamental to motivate and inspire change. This week, our Huskers faced the harsh reality of their loss to Indiana 56-7. This defeat was emotional because it felt like we just gave up.

Every team has strengths and weaknesses but since that loss, our teams weaknesses are under a magnifying glass, to the point where we may be misjudging some. Perhaps it’s time to remember our strengths also.

One thing we know for sure is that we will see an effort against Ohio State this Saturday. As Isaac Gifford said in a press conference this week “Guys are pissed off!”, they got punched in the mouth and didn’t respond.

If you are reading this (btw, thank you), it’s because you have some twisted thing in you that will not allow you to give up on our Huskers. WIN or LOSE, you show up for them and this week in Columbus, they will show up for us.

The Saturday 56-7 shellacking by some basketball school seems to be firing up those “Here we go again!” feelings. Are they legit?

we’ll take a look ahead to Ohio St. - and won’t that be magical - but then it’s time to get down and dirty and have that talk about where we’re headed how. 

The loss to Indiana obviously runs deeper than just the 56-7 score. Offense defense, special teams (shudder), coaching, recruiting, and, yes, fan’s sanity levels - everything is on the table. 

Huskers Happy Hour is gonna get a little testy, but that will lead to some laughs - guaranteed.

Connor from Corn Crazed will stop by tonight on Monday Night Therapy as we ask ourselves, where do we go from here?

No doubt we’ll be discussing the Nebraska-Indiana debacle and what Nebraska fans should think about the rest of the season ahead.

Does Nebraska still have a chance to make a bowl game even with so many games left on the schedule? Is everything lost? Should everyone go into despair? What needs to be burned down? What needs to be burned up?

Is the universe conscience or is it really just a bunch of lifeless matter floating around, expanding while we speak?

All that and more on tonight’s Monday Night Therapy.

56-7

I could end the description right there, but Jon says that “150 words or it doesn’t get picked up by search engines.” So be prepared for word salad to last another 119 words.

Epic, systemic failure. Both teams had a bye week heading into this game. Only one team seemed prepared for the contest. The lack of preparation can not be understated. In his post-game press conference, Matt Rhule said “I didn’t see this coming. I thought we were going to play great.”

This is, in my opinion, the first crack in the armor of Matt Rhule, who said “it was bad football by us.” He was embarrassed, not in the players, but in the level of football. 

This will be a turning point for the program under Rhule. We will look back at October 19, 2024 and look at is as a galvanizing moment where the ship was righted and real change started to take place. OR the loss to Indiana on their homecoming will be the beginning of the end for this staff. 

I hope it’s the former. I think it will be. Regardless, Rhule will be given another year and a half to get things right in Lincoln. 

Jake is already calling this a spicy show, “guaranteed.”

Hoss is getting more upset as time goes by and says it’s going to be an all-timer, a la Minnesota 2017.

What is this strange feeling? It feels strange but also really good. I think it’s what some people call “hope”???

Yes, as a fanbase, we haven’t dared have hope for many years. Not to relive the past decade but everytime we had enough enthusiasm to ‘hope’, we were taken out with a sledge hammer at the ankles, (å la Stephen King’s Misery) crippling all further dreams of the Huskers ever being good again.

Huskers are 5-1, the Hoosiers are 6-0, and both teams are coming off a bye week. Saturday will be the showdown in Bloomington Indiana at 11 am central. Nebraska is the “underdog” this week with Indiana being a -6.5 favorite.

The Cornhuskers are very familiar with being the underdogs, especially the veterans on the team who came back for another year to prove that this team that began a rebuild last season is a WINNER.

Indiana, on the other hand, is in the first year of their rebuild. Curt Cignetti is a good head coach whose record at his previous schools shows he knows how to win. However, this is the Big Ten, and winning here ain’t that easy (just ask Scott Frost). This season, Indiana has defeated UCLA and Northwestern, both in the Big Ten BUT both are in major overhaul mode after losing their head coaches (UCLA this season, NW last season).

As Husker fans, we have been here before, it’s hard to drink that ‘Rhule-ade’ after so many disappointments but tonight we will echo the sentiments that Andy Dufresne wrote in Stephen King’s The Shawshank Redemption; “Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies”

Go Big Red!