[Husker] Oddities

[Dick Karre]

Okay, so I need a life, but I was looking at NU's non-conference 
schedule for next year and came across some interesting (to me, anyway) 
coincidences.

Aside from Virginia Tech, the Huskers play Florida Atlantic (coached by 
none other than Howard Schnellenberger), Arkansas State and 
Louisiana-Lafayette. All three of these teams play in the Sun Belt 
Conference; I don't recall any season when NU played three 
non-conference games against teams from one conference. Moreover, all 
three of them finished this season at 6-6 (FAU will play a bowl game 
Friday), and they each won one and lost one in the games against the 
other two. You might conclude they were evenly matched this year, and 
they might not be quite the patsies we would ordinarily expect (though 
no one will confuse them with Virginia Tech or Oklahoma).

-- 
Dick Karre
dkarre at comcast.net