Nebraska welcomes Wisconsin to Lincoln on Saturday for their final home game of the year. Both teams are 5-5, battling to become bowl eligible with two left to
play. The Huskers are looking for their first bowl berth in nearly a decade. The Badgers have lost three straight, including a 42-10 drubbing at the hands of Iowa, and a much more competitive 16-13 loss to #1 Oregon., here are three keys to victory for the Huskers, and one key to victory for all the fellow Common Fans.This is probably not totally fair, as Wisconsin has been a much more stable and successful football program than Nebraska for the better part of two decades.
That said, the similarities between the two squads are notable. Both teams came into the year expecting to take off in year 2 under new head coaches. Both teams have had disappointing setbacks after promising starts. Both teams are still searching for bowl eligibility, late in the year. And remarkably, both teams have replaced their offensive coordinators in the month of November, with Wisconsin having done so earlier this week.
I am not advocating for Dylan Raiola to be benched. I understand he is the present and future of Nebraska football, and coaches have put their eggs in the Raiola basket. That’s fine; he is immensely talented and will only get better. But we’ve seen Haarberg come in and take the occasional snap, and it always looks good. Against USC, he ran two plays at quarterback. On one play, he kept it for a 13 yard gain, almost breaking free for a touchdown.
Are you going to the game? Let’s get loud early and often. Channel all of the angst and pain of so many losses to Wisconsin into the kind of energy we saw earlier this season. Let’s make it a miserable experience for the Badgers and do everything possible to help pull the Huskers across the finish line. Not going to the game? You’ve still got a role to play.
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