[Husker] News and Notes

[Skylar Dodds]

Hello Husker Fans,

   A couple of tidbits to get you through the day as we ponder KU in
   Lincoln.

   ABOUT KU:
   
   1) NU is an early 19.5 point favorite vs KU.  NU has covered the
   spread in all of it's games this year (Nicholls did not have a
   spread that I'm aware of).

   2) Sagarin has KU @ #63 and NU @ #22.  By Sagarin's 'mathematical'
   lines, NU should be around a 14.03-point favorite (NU: 81.8 + 3
   point home field adv - KU 70.77)

   3) KU's defense (albeit against lesser talent) has been pretty
   vulnerable through the air.  They've only surrendered 81.75 yards
   per game on the ground while giving up 231.5 / game through the
   air.

   4) IMHO, their best player on offense is Jon Cornish @ IB.  He
   averages 5.3 yds/carry and 109 yards / game with 2 TDs.  He torched
   us last year and has been on a pretty good run ever since, (no pun
   intended).

   Summary:  To me, I just can't help but compare their victories to
   ours.  Their 3 victories have been struggles against BAD
   competition.  (Northwestern State 49-18 #153 Sagarin,
   Louisiana-Monroe 21-19 #151, South Florida 13-7 #71, and Toledo L
   37-31 (2OT) #61).  Not very good competition with poor results.

   I can't see us losing this one at home.  I just can't.  Not with
   the way we dismantled everyone but USC.  This is probably the 2nd
   best team we've played to date, but a VERY distant 2nd.

   My guess: NU 35 - KU 7


   BIG XII:

   1) Missouri joins NU, Texas, OU, TT as ranked teams (in AP poll
   anyway, TT ranked in coaches, not AP)
   
   2) Baylor is favored by 3 at home vs KSU.  Wow, not even sure what
   to do with that.  Have the Mildcats fallen that far?  They looked
   pretty hopeless (on offense, anyway) against Louisville on
   Saturday.

   3) Missouri is favored by 14 vs CU at home.  When will the first CU
   victory come?  My guess is Oct 7 with Baylor @ CU, but is Baylor
   better than Montana State?  Tough to say...

   4) Marlon Lucky was named Big XII player of the week:
   http://www.huskers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=100&ATCLID=613612


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Go Skers,
 Skylar                            mailto:Sklarbodds at cox.net