[Husker] Good start, time to finish

[Nick Chevance]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:27 AM, aroundomaha <aroundomaha at gmail.com> wrote:
> Each season I tend to do a fan's statistical analysis of the Huskers and
> their opponents (don't expect a Bapi Gupta power rating though! :)
>
> What this game represents is more of a litmus for the rebuilding effort. If
> NU fails this "quiz" then it doesn't mean the final grade will be bad, we
> just won't make the Dean's List :)
> ---
> David Elfering

Well, whether we win Saturday or not, our last four games of the
regular season should be much less worrisome than this next week.

Iowa State - Currently 4 - 4, with wins over Northern Illinois,
Northern Iowa, Texas Tech, and Texas.  Loses to Iowa, Kansas State,
Utah and Oklahoma.  We face them in Ames, a breezy little place with
perhaps the midwest's worst weather whenever we play there.  As long
as Nebraska can get over whatever happens with Missouri, we should be
favored in this game.

Kansas - Currently 2-5, and despite a win against Georgia Tech, they
haven't been competitive in most of their games.  Not expecting
anything different here at our home.

Texas A&M - Currently 4 - 3, with wins against really bad opponents,
and close losses to OSU and Arkansas, and probably their worst
offensive showing in the last 20 years against Missouri (they had
their "Texas" game that weekend).  We'll play them there, and while we
should expect them to be competitive, the 12th Man doesn't mean what
it once did.

Colorado -  Currently 3 - 4, with wins against Colorado State, Hawaii
and a really sad looking Georgia team.  Losses to anyone with a pulse.
 We play them here.

Depending on how the Huskers come out of the Missouri game (heads on
straight hopefully), I don't see any of the final four games as
particularly difficult or any game we shouldn't be favored to win.
That means, at worst we should be 10-2 going into the post season; a
win against Mizzou likely puts us in the Big XII Championship (against
Baylor???) with a 11-1 record.

In terms of a grade, I think most fans would say after a 2009 campaign
that ended up with a 9-3 regular season record, a 11-1 or 10-2 record
for this campaign going into post season play is more than a passing
grade.  If that doesn't get you on the Dean's list, you didn't miss it
by much.

Nick
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