I, for one, thought we would win 3 games before the season AND after our loss against the Minneapolis St. Paul large rodents
Biggest thing that passes me off with the sports media talk about this team is the "boy if it weren't for that _____, how good would Nebraska be?" It takes a pretty big tool to see these step-on-dicks moments as one offs. They are baked into our program until reliably proven otherwise. No one else steps on their dicks like this, but we do, and we will do it again next week until we don't
100%. I guess from a literal sense we are a couple of plays away from winning, as in if those plays don’t happen we might win. But the fact we haven’t been able to overcome these “random” bad plays for like 6-7 years shows how far away we are. Maybe a good team that has a wider margin for error can overcome this stuff. We have to play a perfect game just to have a chance let alone win.
Advanced analytics say Nebraska is actually the 38th best team in the country! They've had maybe 4 games in the last 7 years where they didn't fuck up at least 1 snap.
The incredible part is that it’s spanned players, staffs, and administrations. The faces are different but the games stay the same.
I’m interested to see if they get a lot more aggressive in the portal after seeing how these guys stack up against B10 teams all year.
And yet we still are a team that’s capable of winning 4-6 games. Any Nebraska fan that says we have talent should be euthanized immediately.
I’m convinced no one watches less football across the country than Husker fans. My favorite message board posts are when dudes recite the entire roster to prove how much talent we’ve got but couldn’t name 2 players on any team we play.
This, 100%. It’s the same reason our fans were losing their minds when Bo would beat mediocre Michigan or PSU. They just know the helmet. All it takes is watching a quarter of LSU/FSU, or probably even Bama/Texas this weekend and you’ll see how far behind we are talent wise. I would guess it’s the same reason the Colorado win got everyone fired up. They thought Colorado was Jackson State 2.0, then they see TCU and think it’s the same team as last year. When they weren’t even “#2” last year if you watched.
Guessing the line hasn’t moved much in the last 24 hours because there’s so much money on CU that Vegas is trying to play it close? I’m not a degenerate so no clue what I’m talking about.
The line went from 5 to 3 and has kind of stuck there. Typically that would signal Vegas is OK with money coming in on CU, or the “Sharp” money is coming in on Nebraska so they don’t want to move off that number. Unfortunately, Nebraska will probably defy the laws of Vegas. The other thing I would guess is there’s not enough information on CU yet with all of their turnover. So the algorithms probably don’t know what to think of them. For example, that SP+ projects Nebraska to win by 8 but the guy who runs it said don’t put much stock into CU projections yet. Think I saw another gambling guy say he adjusted his “ranking” of Colorado up 14 points after last week which is pretty wild after one week.
Here is your gambling advice. If you are taking Colorado I think that’s dumb as fuck. Also it was dumb as fuck to take Nebraska before any season or games unless you took the under of wins with Frost (maybe still not because of dumb). If you are betting on this game I’m not sure what you think you will pull. This is one of the dumbest games to bet on as a better you could ever have. Legit, stupid shit unless you are a a sharp and you allow the dumbs to come through the field (unless you got teams in the extremes)
I’d be shocked if Colorado blows us out, absolutely no chance Nebraska blows them out. This screams back door cover either way and don’t touch it.
I followed the first paragraph here. But that second one, especially the back half, eludes me. Anyone got their oz translator handy?
I didn’t get it either on re-read of oz adhd talking…but I think I was saying. Don’t touch this game at this point. It’s volatile as shit and even the sharps are waiting on everything. If you got a bet early (Nebraska +9??) or Colorado lately (I’ve heard +5+) might have some value, otherwise I wouldn’t touch it with a 10 foot pole. A back door cover seems to be easy to spot because a 10-15 point lead could be made up quickly depending on stuff and how bad the defenses are. It’s a, ‘why are you betting this because nobody knows shit.’ It’s why Husker basketball is such a good bet 5 games in because nobody knows it…well, nobody knows this shit.
Nebraska was between -7 to -8.5 this time last week. After Minnesota and TCU happened the line opened at Nebraska +5 at Circa, now it seems to be Nebraska +3 pretty much all over for now.
A couple of quotes from two different books. "The line movement on this deserves its own story. We had Nebraska at -7.5 last week, with money coming in on the Huskers," TwinSpires director of retail sports Zachary Lucas said. "The hype train is real. Public, sharps, you name it, they’re on Colorado this week. Colorado very easily could be our biggest liability by the time this game starts." "We hung the number we thought was right, and then the market tells us what they think of it," Circa Sports director of operations Jeff Benson said. "The market disagreed with our adjustment on Deion's team and blasted us on the 'dog. We went from Nebraska +5 to +2. That could be people scalping to the market or not believing the hype. "It will be fascinating to see the two-way action as limits rise."
I’m old af. Conference realignment, sports gaming, and Nebraska being really shitty is taking away my passion for CFB. I do believe in NIL, but the rest of it can fuck right off.
I don't mean to be all OG on this fine point but I remember being a youngman of 6 or 7 year and meeting another lad named "Brendan" and I didn't understand why his parents didn't just name him "Brandon" then I met a kid named "Brennan" and thought his parents probably liked "Brendan" but just sorta lacked conviction
I never ever bet the spread on Nebraska games. just always bet on them to lose. idk if they're gonna lose by 3 or 5, it's fucking hard to predict that. What you can predict, over the past 5+ years, is that they will reliably lose. as such, am betting Colorado moneyline.
Yep I finally learned my lesson on this. Choking away the game was bad enough then tacking on the fact we’d cover by 1.5 when I bet against us.
I look at it from an entertainment perspective I guess. Figure $20 on a game would be the same as if I watched it at a bar or whatever. I also know it’s an uphill battle so don’t go crazy with the dollar amounts nor expect to win a ton. The #1 reason I think I like it is because I’m a dork when it comes to numbers and I like to see what goes into the spreads. Like I created a formula that can project CBB spreads within a point or two of Vegas, so that was neat I guess.
Why would you buy your teenage son tickets on floor behind the servers knowing a camera will be pointed at him all game?
Um, I don’t know volleyball like some…but these freshman appear to be as good of a group as we have seen in sports. This team is going to frustrate the fuck out of teams with their defense but they also have an insane offense game again. It’s like John Cook combined his first half of career with his backhalf.