2024 NEBRASKA CORNHUSKERS GAME BY GAME PREDICTION - COLLEGE FOOTBALL

all right we hit the ground running yesterday with these preview and prediction videos for the 2024 season I'm going team by team game by game and give you a winner and a loser uh on for every single game on the uh schedule going to try to do about 40 or 50 of these between now and the start of the season and of course yesterday we started things out uh with the Miami Hurricanes and I knew that one was going to get a uh lot of reactions mixed reactions obviously uh we had Miami at 10 and two which would be remarkable of course for them it's been a long time since they've had a season that uh that good they used to be really really good uh you know back in the early 2000s and we're going to kind of continue that theme today of teams that used to be good now you got to be really old to remember this one but the Nebraska Corn Huskers Believe It or Not were a Powerhouse way back in the 1990s before a lot of you were even born now I'm an old man 46 years old just turned 46 actually so I watched Nebraska play in the 9s I saw their uh Glory Days at least their modern time Glory Days they've great Seasons going back a uh a long long time in fact when people ask me all the time who do I think the best college football team in history is I I answer it the same way every time I say I don't know I can only talk about things that sort of happened during my lifetime I I I can't really go back and judge teams from the 30s 40s 50s things like that but in my lifetime teams that I watched uh since I've been a college football fan which is basically around the mid to late 80s uh until now I'll take the 95 Nebraska team so keep that in mind I think the 95 Nebraska team is the greatest football team of all time so you know I don't have any kind of hatred or anything for Nebraska this is just my honest thoughts opinions and predictions here for Nebraska uh for 20124 now they have struggled that's no secret and no question about it they haven't made a bowl game since 2016 it's been a long long time and last year last year was unbelievable for Nebraska the way things went they they got to October 28th they won their fifth game on October 28th you need six wins of course to make a bowl game they won their fifth game on October 28th a team that hasn't made a balll game since 2016 all they had to do was win one of their remaining four games to punch their ticket to their first ball game in eight or nine years and they couldn't do it uh they finished the season last year five- seven three- six uh in the Big 10 they of course were in the Big 10 uh West no more divisions in the Big 10 starting this year which is an important note to to make but last year they did have divisions they were in the weaker of the two divisions the west and they went three and six which was tied for dead last uh in the Big 10 West with four other teams there was or three other teams there was four teams in the Big 10 West that finished three and six in conference play Nebraska was one of those four so tied for last uh at three and six in the big uh in the Big 10 and they lost their last four games in a row and it just heartbreaking for the Nebraska fans I mean I don't think any Nebraska fan went into last season expecting to make the playoffs or win the or win the Big 10 or or or anything like that and maybe some of them didn't even expect to make a bowl game in Matt ru's first year given how long it's been since they did that but when you get to October 28th on the calendar a little bit over halfway through the season and you're sitting at five wins well you go well we're going to make it then all we got to do is win one more game they couldn't do it they lost their last four in a row like I mentioned uh before and to make matters worse uh well here's the teams they lost to early in the year they lost to Minnesota and Colorado um they probably should have beat both of those teams and I'm going to talk more about this in a in a second but this is where you know the the record knowing the record from last year is one thing that there's some positives to take away from some of these games and there's some negatives and I'll get into that in a second but so they lost to Minnesota and Colorado early in the season they they lost to Michigan in the middle of the season that's an acceptable look Michigan was 15-0 in national champions Nebraska clearly wasn't on that level that's an acceptable loss and probably an Ed loss those first two Minnesota and Colorado Minnesota was a seven loss team Colorado was an eight loss team you can't be losing to those types of teams if you want to make a bowl game now that was early in the season they turned it around towards the middle of the season they went on a little bit of a run but then in their last four games they lost to Michigan State an eight loss team Maryland a five loss team Wisconsin a six loss team in Iowa who ended up being a four- loss team they were a two- loss team in the regular season and they lost of course the big 10 title game and then their bowl game so again the Iowa loss okay that you can accept that one of the best defenses in college football last year now no offense at all but they were clearly the best team to cream of a crop in a big 10 West last year so you look at the Michigan and the Iowa game and you go okay we weren't in a position year win under Matt rule to beat teams like that but it's hard to excuse some of these other losses they're bad losses okay when you're losing to seven eight loss teams you lost to two eight loss teams you lost to a seven loss team you lost to a six loss team this is not good that's the bad side of looking at nebras uh Nebraska's record for last year now at the risk of sounding like a complete idiot from something that happened a couple of years ago with Nebraska and Ohio State I'm going to give Nebraska some credit here okay Minnesota they lost by three by three Michigan State there okay let's just so early in the year they lose to Minnesota by three had they found a way to win that game they'd ended up being a bowl eligible right now the Colorado game got away from them in the second half they couldn't score they couldn't move the ball in the first half at all they got shut out in the first half of that game it was close in fact it was tied zero to zero at the end of the first quarter Colorado pulls away ends up winning that one but then you go to their last four losses of the Year Michigan State they lost by three Maryland they lost by three Wisconsin they lost in overtime in Iowa they lost by uh uh did they lose by three uh to Iowa too uh let me double check that I think they did lose uh I think they did lose to Iowa by three2 what am I looking at here uh hold on I'll find it give me a second give me a second Nebraska 2023 so you you've got all these close losses uh yeah lose to Iowa by three this is absolutely heartbreaking for a Nebraska man it has to be you're this close to getting to a balll game on October 28th five wins on October 28th you lose your next four games in a row three of them were by three points the fourth one you lost by six but it was in overtime that I mean that that's bang your head against the wall type of just it's hard to imagine how Nebraska fans were feeling watching the last month of last season so you look at that one of two ways you can go well look at all those close losses they were really close to being an eight or nine win team yes that is one way to look at it however there's a difference between having a bunch of close losses to good teams like Michigan for example it's not like you didn't lose to Michigan by three you got blown out I mean you got absolutely destroyed you didn't even lose to Colorado by three you got blown out you were losing to horrible teams by three so and the reason I say that's funny from a few years ago is because I think it was was it three seasons ago Ohio State played a horrible Nebraska team that was the year Nebraska went 3 and N I believe Ohio State played Nebraska and barely beat him and people were ragging Ohio State fans about barely beating a terrible Nebraska team and Ohio State fans on the internet tried to say that Nebraska was the best three- win team of all time that year it was so anyway it became a whole thing on the channel if you were here then you know what I'm talking about if you weren't don't worry about it so a couple of ways to look at that record yeah a bunch of those losses were close losses sort of could have gone either way type of games but they were too really really bad teams with the exception of Iowa Iowa is the only good team that you almost be right nobody thinks Minnesota Colorado Michigan State Maryland or Wisconsin were good teams last year all of those teams had five losses or more two of them had eight losses one of them had seven Lo those were bad teams and you couldn't find a way to beat them uh so again glass half full or glass half empty depending on how you choose uh how you choose to uh look at that all right Matt Rule now heading into his second year as head coach at Nebraska and that's a big deal why while you look at Matt Rule's track record what happens the first two or three years that Matt rule takes over the head coaching uh duties at a school well the winds go up up and up uh just a proven track record there of improving year-over-year for the first three years at every single stop he's had now there's only been two you have Temple and Baylor uh but you take his stent at Temple his first year there he won two games the second year he tripled it to six games and the third year he nearly doubled it and won 10 games from so three years at at Temple first three years two wins six wins 10 wins he then gets the job at Baylor they win one game his first year the second year seven and the third year 11 so Temple 2610 Baylor 171 so if you're a Nebraska fan you're obviously hoping to see a similar uh uh sort of path here at uh here at Nebraska starts off last year barely missing a bowl game at 5 and seven uh you know if if the past is any indication then you can expect a few more wins this season now a lot of that is clearly going to depend on roster who's there quarterback play in particular which we'll talk about in a second can the defense play well again this year because the defense actually played pretty well uh last year in fact a lot of these losses Iowa you lost Iowa 13 to1 you give up 13 points you should win 99% of the time you lost uh Wisconsin you gave up 17 in regulation you give up 17 points in college football you should win the game 99% of the time Maryland you gave up 13 points and lost you give up 13 points you should win that game Michigan State you gave up 20 you give up 20 points you should win the game 99% of the time the defense played well in the majority of the games for Nebraska the offense was one of the worst in all of college football Jeff Sims was the worst Power five quarterback on the planet last season no one else was season close they played three quarterbacks they were all bad uh but anyway I'm sort of getting ahead of myself here so there's reason to expect improvement from Nebraska going from year one to year to under mat rule clearly in my opinion returning production there's not very many teams in the country that return more production from last year's team uh than Wisconsin does in fact Wisconsin's third overall in returning production from last year to this year uh they returned 77% of their overall production from last year 76% on offense 78% on defense and the majority of the production that they're losing comes at the quarterback position which was horrendous so it's almost like addition by subtraction that they're going to have a new starting quarterback which again we'll talk about in a second most likely um Dylan rayola let's talk about overall Talent how talented of a team roster top to bottom was Wisconsin last year well according to 247 they 21st most talented team in the country again I'm not here to tell you 247 is the Bible when it comes to this kind of thing it's just what I use to be consistent anytime I look up anything to do with Talent index recruiting or Portal information I always use 247 just so I can be consistent in the things that I say I don't want to bounce around from one site to another and you know one day say that uh you know this player was a a four star and then the next day say he was a five star because I looked on on three one day and 247 the next so I just always use 247 for one thing I'm just I'm old they've been around forever it's what I've been looking at forever so I'm not here to tell you it's better or worse than any of the other Services is just what I use for consistency purposes so according to 247 Nebraska was the 21st most talented team in the country last year clearly they didn't play that way recruiting how's it going recruiting wise under Matt rule well this was his first full recruiting class the one that just ended this past cycle and they finished in the top 20 now they were 18th nationally in recruiting now Dylan rayola was obviously a big reason for that again we're going to talk about him more in a second but that's an improvement over the year before where they finished 25th in recruiting so they were the 21st most talented team in the country this past season their last two recruiting classes were 18th and 25th and in the portal I they didn't do great in the portal um now they did go out and get some pieces but they were 64th nationally uh in terms of their portal class for this year they had two four stars uh and six three stars brought in through the transfer portal in this current portal class they were 28th in the portal the year before that so they took less portal players this year in the 24 cycle than they did in the 23 cycle but the recruiting being inside the top 20 at 18 maybe helps make up for some of that depending on how many of those freshmen are able to play year one so when 247 updates its Talent index for this coming season 2024 where is Nebraska going to be relative to last year where they were the 21st most talented team in the country probably going to be inside the top 20 not very high inside the top 20 my guesses are going to be somewhere in the 15 to 20 range in terms of uh just how talented the roster is from top to bottom again that doesn't mean that they're the the the 21st best team or the 18th best team or anything like that it's just purely looking at the rating for every single player on the roster okay it's just kind of one indication that you can use it's not the end all Beall uh we talked about returning production uh Vegas odds for Nebraska again this is not the end all Beall just because Vegas says you're going to win X number of games doesn't mean you're going to win X number of games okay this is just an idea of how Vegas and the betting public feel about teams heading into the season people who are willing to put their money where their mouth mouth is and place bets on things this is just an indication of where teams fall for that so how many wins is Nebraska expected to have in 2024 well again according to Vegas 7 and a half and he said well you can't win seven and a half games obviously you can't win seven and a half games again this is these are betting numbers so a better would look at this number of seven and A2 they would then look at Nebraska and they would go I Thinkin Nebraska's going to win more than seven and a half games so I'll bet the over somebody else might look at it and go I think Nebraska's going to win less than seven and a half games I'll bet the under it's just a betting number but it gives you an idea of what people expect from Nebraska in 2024 so S8 win range what are the rods to win The Natty well that's not happening I I I I hope there's not any Nebraska fans sitting around with the fingers crossed or anything like that thinking Nebraska is going to make a run for a national title this year that's clearly not going to happen at least my uh opinion and Vegas seems to share that opinion as well their odds are plus 20,000 that means if you really do think Nebraska is going to win the national title you can bet $100 on that and if they win the national title that $100 will earn you $20,000 so if you really believe that it would be a great bet to make uh but 20,000 that puts them uh with the same odds as teams like SM u in Kansas so take that for what it's worth what about their odds in the Big 10 well they've got the eighth best odds to win the newly uh redesigned Big 10 with the addition of the four West Coast team so that puts them right in the middle of the pack as far as the Big 10 goes and remember there's no more divisions within the Big 10 so there's no more saying well Nebraska could win this division or that division it's just top to bottom uh there are no more divisions and according to Vegas they're the eighth best team they're odds to win the Big 10 plus 6,000 what about making the playoffs now you got to remember we got a 12 team expanded playoff this year so you don't have to win to Big 10 if you uh you know to make the playoffs uh leagues like the big 10 the SEC probably going to get two three four teams in each something like that right could Wiscon or Wisconsin could Nebraska be one of those teams well their odds to make the playoffs are plus 800 not terrible um you know a few things go their way well a lot of things go their way way let's be real it could happen plus 800 that gives them the same odds as teams like Auburn Iowa and Washington um so again you can take all that for what it's worth that's what Vegas and people that bet on these things that's sort of how they feel about Nebraska's 2000 um 24 season let's briefly talk about the offense and the defense talked about it a little bit offensively Nebraska was one of the worst teams in the country last year I didn't even bother to look up any stats and honestly I don't care what the stats say I watched enough Nebraska games last year if you if you hang out on this channel on Saturdays like a lot of you do and uh we watched these games together on Saturdays you heard me yell and scream over and over again last season about how abysmal Nebraska's offense was particularly the the the quarterback play uh Jeff Sims was one of the worst Power five quarterbacks I have watched try to play football in a long long time that guy was so far in over his head it was unbelievable he was bad and then when he went out and they put somebody else in they were bad too um that the quarterback play really held Nebraska back last year their offense as a whole last year was really really bad inner Dylan rayola now it's not very often you see a true freshman quarterback start especially in the power five and especially at what most people would still consider to be a big name program in Nebraska now I say big name I know they've been bad for a while almost a decade without making a b old game they haven't really been front and center nationally in about 20 years early 2000s late '90s early 2000s but they're still a big brand I don't see where they have any other choice but to start Dylan rayola um again when you go back and look at Nebraska last year and how bad that quarterback play was I don't think Dylan Rola can be any worse even as a true freshman now clearly his potential is through the roof right he's got the talent I mean he was the you know first second or third highest rated quarterback in last year's class depending on uh you know which site you look at he was committed to Georgia for a long time and Georgia would have been happy to take him he flipped at the last minute goes to Nebraska kind of a legacy thing there he's family connections there and in my mind he's the starting quarterback there now whether Matt rule comes out and announces that at some point during the off season or in the week leading up to their first game or whatever I don't know um but it got two freshman and one of the quarterbacks that played they played three quarterbacks last year two of them transferred out one of them stayed not any good and then you got two freshman it's you know three scholarship QBs there in my mind you roll the ball out there with Dylan rayola and you just let it fly is he going to make some mistakes as a true freshman of course he is um of course he is just let him do it again the offense was so bad last year I don't think there's anything Dylan Rola can do to make that offense worse now now there are some players coming back they played a lot of true freshman last year particularly at the wide receiver position and when you look at their returning production at the wide receiver position Nebraska the majority of their returning production at the wide receiver position are from players who were freshman last year so you played a lot of freshman last year those kids now have a full Year's worth of experience particularly the wide receivers and they're going to have a much better quarterback throwing them the ball Dylan rayola will make some freshman mistakes some bad reads maybe he'll try to do too much a couple of times here or there whatever but there's no denying the fact that Dylan Rola is going to be a better passer of the football immediately in game one than anybody that Nebraska had last year the only questions about Dylan Rola is how long is it going to take him to sort of play the position of quarterback at the college level read defenses get in and out of the right reads and play calls and audibles decision making that kind of thing progressing through the reads downfield all that those are questions that we're going to have to see him play before we know the answers but we know what the quarterback situation was last year I I don't again I don't see any other choice but going with Dylan Rola and my bet would be that Nebraska offensively is going to be a lot better than they were last year how much are they going to be a top 10 offense no uh I mean they were in the hundreds they were terrible last year but I I think you'll see Improvement offensively from Nebraska this year whether it's Dylan Rola or anybody else but I think it's going to be um I think it's going to be Dylan Rola defensively you really just need minor improvements across the board right you didn't create a ton of turnovers last year and you and you turn turn the ball over a ton offensively more on that in a second but uh you know so situational defense some key third down stops here or there that turn somebody these close losses into close wins a turnover here or there late in the game that turns a lot of those close losses from last year into wins but overall the defense played pretty well last year again I went through and listed all these games where you know Nebraska gave up uh 10 points 13 points 17 points 20 points but lost listen if you're giving up 20 points or less in a college football game today you should win that game 99% of the time and they didn't because that offense was so bad part of the problem offensively was turnovers turn the ball over I think 31 times last year there was only one team in the country with a worst turnover margin than Nebraska and that was Temple and I think they only won one or two games uh they were horrible um so you they've got to improve there some of that falls on the defense but again a ton of returning production on both sides of the ball so a ton of returning starters on both sides of the ball Dylan rayola a clear upgrade at the quarterback position wide receivers who were freshman last year now with a full year of experience and now we get to the schedule and I'm going to put it up right now here it is this is a manageable schedule in terms of big 10 schedules it could be a lot worse it could be a lot worse we're going to go through it game by game right now and I'm going to give you a winner and a loser for every single one but look if if if you're a Nebraska fan itch you to make your first bowl game in a long time it sure does seem like this is going to be the year to do it there's a lot of signs pointing in that direction right Dylan Rola huge upgrade at the quarterback position quarterbacks can win games for you by themselves we've seen him do it not saying he will do that but quarterbacks can do that right Matt rule year two proven track record again temple two wins his first year six wins his second year Baylor one win his first year seven wins his second year now Nebraska five wins last year only need to improve by one game to get Nebraska that mythical bowl game that some of their younger fans have heard about out but never actually experienced and because we've gone away from divisions and added four new teams to the Big 10 the schedule have been turned on their head and again this is pretty manageable now a couple of things that stand out to me about this schedule right away it's backloaded again there is a risk here for Nebraska that they run into a very similar situation to last year where they get to the middle or end of October with four or five wins and have a hard time picking up that sixth win to make them Bowl eligible when you look at that schedule you sort of see what I mean but you know Ohio State UCLA Southern Cal Wisconsin Iowa the majority of their more difficult games fall the second half of the Season which to me means they got to win a bunch of games in the first half of the season to make sure that they can get Bowl eligible in the second half of the Season uh the other things that jump out at me here are uh you know in the noncon again it's pretty favorable you've got UTEP and Northern Iowa nine power five teams and the power five team you do have is a bad Colorado team that lost eight games last year um now one of their four wins happen to be against you Nebraska man for no particular reason at all but you'll look to turn that around um this year difficult Road games again they all come in the back half of the schedule in my mind at Ohio State it obviously doesn't get much harder than that at Southern Cal I think that's going to be a difficult game for Nebraska and at Iowa to close out the regular season let's go through it I'm going to give you a winner and a loser for every single game and we're going to come up with an overall record for Nebraska and find out if they can break the curse and make a bowl game in 2024 now we're going to start off with some games here that I didn't have to think very much about at all if any EP wi um there's no reason I don't care year one year 100 Matt I don't care how long it's been since Nebraska's made a bowl game I don't care about any of that there's no reason UTEP should travel up to Nebraska and beat them Nebraska's got to win that game and I think they will Northern Iowa again a win you've got to win that game there is no reason no excuse no this player was hurt or you know true freshman quarterback nothing that's a win for Nebraska it absolutely has to be um Illinois I think that's a win for Nebraska you beat them 20 to7 last year they were one of the worst teams I don't see a whole lot of improvement coming from them this year maybe their defense gets a little bit better closer to what it was in 2022 kind of took a step back last year defensively there and offensively you know if there's a team any worse than Nebraska last year offensively maybe it was Illinois but again you should win that one um and you'll notice all of these are at home in fact your first four games are at home I skipped over Colorado don't worry we'll come back to that but I think you get wins over UTEP Northern Iowa and Illinois first road game of the year at Purdue again if you're looking for teams last year that were worse than Nebraska in the Big 10 there aren't many of them but Purdue is one of them Purdue was 4 and eight four eight terrible and I don't think they're going to be much better uh this year you know Jeff Braum left them couple of years ago he's now at Louisville busy taking them to ACC title games and Purdue is falling off the face of the planet and I don't see a huge Improvement coming for them in 2024 so other than that this is your first road game which you got to think about what that means this could be Dylan rol's you know if Dylan rayol ends up being the quarterback which I think he will this will be his first uh Road environment in college football now I'm not going to pretend that Purdue is some kind a huge intimidating home field advantage but still it's always more difficult to play on the road than it is at home this will be Dylan Ra's first road test at Purdue but I think you beat him um going on uh skipping over uh Indiana at Indiana Again three and N last year one and eight in the Big 10 no real reason to think they're getting it turned around there I think they've got one of the worst coaches in the power five at Indiana I don't like him at all uh anyway let's not go there but you'll beat Indiana it is on the road but you'll beat beat them uh the next week at Ohio State that's a loss I'm sorry look could you beat Ohio State of course you could anybody can win on any given day I know that but we're trying to live in the land of reality here when you're doing preseason prediction videos in June and you're looking at Nebraska and Ohio State no reasonable person on planet Earth right now expects Nebraska to go into Columbus Ohio and win that game I've got that as a loss um I've also got the game at Southern Cal as a loss now you know they're they they struggle defensively but offensively they can light it up and you say well Caleb Williams is gone and so are a couple of those wide receivers great Lincoln riy puts a a quarterback in the NFL every single year okay go back and check every Lincoln Riley offense ever going all the way back to his time at Oklahoma top 10 top 15 offenses Heisman caliber QBs so does anybody doubt that southern Cal's going to have a high flying legitimate offense in 2024 I don't now defensively they got major issues that's also what we know about Lincoln Riley and even though I think Nebraska's offense will be better in 2024 than it was in 2023 I don't think it's better enough to keep up with a team like Southern cow on the road uh here for Dylan rayola most likely I've got you losing that one and then the last game of the year on the road at Iowa I think that's another loss uh so those are the games that like right away when I look at the schedule after doing the research on Nebraska and some of these other teams that I was able to come to a conclusion on these games with very little thought at all wins against UTEP Northern Iowa Illinois and Purdue a win against Indiana a loss to Ohio State uh a loss to Southern Cal and a loss to Wisconsin now let's go through some of these other games that to me are more difficult to predict this far out June heading into the 2024 season we're going to start with the second game of the year at home against Colorado Colorado returns a really good quarterback in shador Sanders they return one of the best athletes in college football and two-way player Travis Hunter but they got a ton of issues they got no offensive line no defensive line they've got no depth at all now here's the thing with Colorado just like last year Colorado is going to be at it best the first month of the Season cuz once the injuries start to pile up with Colorado they don't have the players to back fill those positions and if you look at Colorado last year all of their wins came in the first four or five weeks of the season and they lost like seven at our last eight or whatever it was the same thing is going to happen with Colorado this year it just is and and we'll get to a Colorado prediction video later down the road but the best Colorado will be will be at this point in the season early we this is week two they'll got the cobwebs out in week one you know they figure out what was working what wasn't they make the Minor Adjustments this will be the best version of Colorado I believe that we see all year it'll be here in week two some teams get better as the season goes along for a variety of reasons some teams get worse as the season goes along for a variety of reasons I think Nebraska would get better as the season goes along right starting a true freshman and Dylan rayola he's going to gain a week's of uh worth of experience with every week that goes by right they got a lot of new pieces there I think Nebraska will be a team that gets better as the season goes along I think Colorado will be a team that gets worse as the season goes goes along I do think Colorado comes into Lincoln and beats Nebraska in week two now look I'm no I'm no Dion stand here I mean ask anybody they'll tell you I mean whatever it is what it is but you got to I I have to look at these things realistically and objectively okay I think Matt rule is a 100 times the coach that Dion is and even though they're both in year two I'm giving Colorado the edge here I I just I think Travis Hunter shador Sanders are better than anybody that Nebraska has and I think Colorado will be able to make enough plays offensively early in the season to outscore Nebraska now I think this will be a high-scoring game but I just I I don't think Nebraska can keep up with K if this game was played in week 10 instead of week two I'd pick Nebraska okay but it's not it's played in week two so I think you start the season out one and one um after this loss to Colorado now the next one that we had was Rutgers now this is an interesting one here Rutgers was a decent team last year now they were six and six in the regular season season but they were in the Big 10 East so three of those losses were automatic Penn State Ohio State and Michigan but they still lost three other games to teams that weren't very good so they're not a great team sh Greg shano peaked 20 years ago in terms of what he's going to do at the college level he then spent some time in the NFL now he's back back at Rutgers again I haven't been overly impressed with what he's done there I actually think you get the win against Rutgers now um it's possible I've got these two wrong I guess maybe you beat Colorado and then lose to Rutgers but I don't waffle on these videos I come down hard one side or the other so I've got you losing to Colorado and beating Rutgers and that takes care of the first half of your schedule you're you're five and one now you can argue with me till the cows come home about there's no way you're losing to Colorado whatever okay great I'm pretty sure you'll take five- one after the first six games of the Season again go back and look at the last 10 years of Nebraska football five- one would be a hell of a start and that's what I've got Nebraska wins against UTEP Northern Illinois Illinois Purdue and Rutgers a loss at home against Colorado you're five- one heading into the second half of your season which is much more difficult than the first half and this is where it starts to look like last year like oh my God are we going to get this fifth win here's the thing too you've got to win one of these games against Colorado or Ruckers you just absolutely have to you can't lose them both you could lose them both I don't think there's any way you lose to UTEP Northern Illinois Illinois or do I think those are four as close to guaranteed wins as you can get in the world of college football Colorado and Ruckers are not guaranteed wins you're going to have to go out and play well to try to win one or both of those games if you lose them both and you're four- two and you got to try to find two wins on the back end of this schedule that might become hard to do if you're five- one making a bowl game seems like almost a lock I've got you at five- one heading into the second half on the road at Indiana already told you I think you get a win there they were 3 and N last year 1 and eight in the Big 10 they're just Hur horrendous lost to Ohio State again I don't expect much push back on that from anybody whether you're a Nebraska fan or just a college football fan you probably expect Nebraska to lose that game on the road at Columbus so that becomes your second loss UCLA I actually think you get the win they're a team that again brand new coaching staff kind of a weird quarterback situation Dante Moore was in line to start this year he decides to transfer up to Oregon Chip Kelly left late uh was it January or February he he leaves UCLA as head coach to become offensive coordinator at Ohio State kind of put them in a bind there you combine that with the transition of them now playing a big 10 schedule I I just I don't think it's going to be a good year for UCLA and I think you get that win so you're still just at two losses then you have a buy week so that that's the good news you're Bowl eligible after that win against UCLA I've got you with one 2 3 4 five six seven wins seven wins heading in into your second bye and then you come out of your bye and you lose your last three games I think southern cal beats you on the road I think Wisconsin beats you at home and I think you lose to Iowa on the road in the regular season finale so uh 1 two three four that's eight and four eight and four I know people are going to disagree with me on it oh there's no way we're losing to Wisconsin here's my here's the way I'm looking at Wisconsin because I'll be honest the Wisconsin game was hard for me to come down one way or the other it's another head coach going into his second year there in Luke f right another team in Wisconsin that wasn't great last year 7- six uh 7-5 in the regular season and then lost their bowl game to finish 7- six so they were couple of games better than Colorado or a couple of games better than Nebraska was last year and I just you could beat Wisconsin it's at home if there's a game I'm wrong about on here could it could be the Wisconsin game could be the Colorado game could be the Rutgers game again looking at this schedule you know doing your research on Nebraska and then looking at their schedule and going that looks like a seven and5 maybe an 8 and4 team that's one thing and that's relatively easy to do trying to do that and then and then naming the the specific games that they lose that becomes much more difficult much more difficult um but I've got you at eight and four and I think most Nebraska fans would be happy with that it puts you in a bowl game it's an obvious step in the right direction after last year's five win season and uh you know stepping board into next year Dylan rayola gets an entire Year's worth of experience you would imagine however he does this year he then would improve heading into year 2 in 2025 so there would be lots of reason for optimism if Nebraska could somehow pull this off and go eight and four S and a half again was the Vegas win number that means about half the people think they're winning eight or more and about half the people think they're winning seven or less I came down slightly above the seven and A2 at 8 wins they obviously could go seven and five they obviously could go six and six I don't see any way they don't make a bowl game I I think this is the year Nebraska gets that monkey off their back they go bowling in the postseason which is huge it doesn't you know I know nobody cares about these bowl games anymore or whatever you know who does care the coaches three extra weeks of practice and that's huge it's not even about the bowl game yeah you maybe you get some inexperienced players to get some playing time uh players who didn't play this year but but are going to be playing The Following season get their first meaningful reps or whatever during that bowl game but more important than that is that 3 weeks of practice you get in December that if your team doesn't make a bowl game you don't get that practice um so it would be a big deal for Nebraska to get Bowl eligible I don't see any way they don't I've got them at 8 and four not very confident in this because of the number of games that I think are kind of toss up or 50-50s type games Colorado could go either way Rutgers um if you lose to uccla that would be a problem Wisconsin but I've got you at 8 and four there you go let me know down below how stupid but I am have a good morning