[Husker] Game Observations

[Steve Stone]

Pat wrote:

>I have to wonder what game you were watching to come up with that conclusion.

I admit I was watching the game under adverse conditions: it was 
being televised by ABC.

>The total yardage was only 377 yards for Virginia Tech vs. 333 for 
>Nebraska.  The difference in the game was the 9 points that NU 
>almost gift-wrapped for VT to start the game.  Giving up a safety on 
>a blocked punt due to a high snap, and giving Virginia Tech the ball 
>on the 5 yard line after an interception wound up being the 
>difference in the game.  Far from requiring "divine intervention", 
>NU would have won this game if they had done a better job protecting 
>the football.  They could have, and should have, won this game.

The stats are faultless but don't, in and of themselves, stats don't win games.

Football is ultimately a game of knocking people down, and for too 
much of the game - - offense and defense - - the Hokies were knocking 
Huskers down and around.

Therefore the difference.

Steve Stone