[Husker] worst ever

[Pat Gaule]

Theodore Heise wrote:

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>>   ...Currently, the SEC is the best conference right out there and I 
>> doubt Nebraska would even manage to qualify for a bowl game if they 
>> played in that conference.
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> Unless Ball State has been quite underrated, after today there's some 
> doubt Nebraska will manage to qualify for a bowl game playing in the 
> Big Twelve North.
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I'm not going to argue that point.  I think that most of our upcoming 
conference opponents would have beat us today.  Fortunately, they only 
have to win 3 out of their next 8 games to go to a bowl game (not that 
6-6 would be anything to be proud of in Callahan's 4th year). 

If they would have lost today, my opinion may have been different.  For 
most of the 2nd half, I felt similar to how I did when we lost to 
Southern Miss in 2004.  There was just a stunning sensation of "this is 
the beginning of this season's end."  I think that such a loss would 
have devastated this team in every sense of the word.  At least we have 
a good offense this year, unlike in 2004.  We would easily be 1-3 or 
possibly even 0-4 with the 2004 offense and this defense.  I'm scared to 
death of what will happen next year with a new quarterback.

I still stand by my prediction that Nebraska will lose at least 2-3 more 
games this year, in contrast to the other lister who thought they would 
only lose one more to Texas.  Even then, I think that may be generous on 
my part.