[NU Sports] Why we're not basking in bowl glow

[Jonathan Hodges]

I really don't believe that this will be the case.  If you haven't
seen UCLA's defense, they are as bad or at times worse than our own
(i.e. Arizona dropping 52 points on them... btw Arizona was 3-8 and
scored just over 22 ppg on the season).  In San Antonio we were facing
an angry Nebraska squad that was passed over for some major bowls
despite being in the top 10, and Nebraska had a formidable defense who
shut down just about everyone.

I do think it will be a shootout but we will have a very legitimate
shot of keeping up and pulling off a victory - plus we're only 4.5
point underdogs - not that much relatively.  (Also, remember we were
12 point underdogs against MSU in what was supposed to be a shootout -
we know MSU ended up falling apart, but they looked sharp in previous
weeks).

Jonathan

On 12/6/05, Dennis W. Brandt <tbng at suscom.net> wrote:
> I think we're not talking bowl because we're all scared defication-less that
> we're going to get blown out worse than we did in San Antonio versus that
> other NU team that should be UN.  Our defense doesn't have a prayer of
> stopping UCLA's offense.  We'll have to win it 62 - 61, and I don't think we
> can score that many points.
>
> Dear Santa:  Make me be wrong, and I'll never ask for another thing in my
> whole life - 'til next bowl game.
>
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