Oh, irony. I'm always amazed at how you find your way onto the football field.On Saturday, Nebraska played its most baffling game of the year but it will result in the fewest questions being asked, perhaps the happiest (relatively) week in Huskerland in a fortnight.
But what of the fact that the Blackshirts couldn't get off the field or the fact that Iowa State held the ball for 24 of the 30 minutes comprising the first and third quarters? How can you give up 415 yards to one of the worst teams in all of football? Will Sam Keller, as good as he's been, continue to turn the ball over?
All good questions and none of them have great answers but that's ok because this is October and, following Shock & Awe Saturday*, the landscape has changed dramatically. Suddenly there's a whole fleet of teams that joined Nebraska in the just how good are we flotilla. The cosmic reset button has been hit and no conference felt that more than the Big 12.
In August, the entire narrative of the North looked to begin and end in Columbia, Missouri on October 6th. Now it may just be the prologue but one team is walking out of there with favorite status and the bullseye it brings. Not just for the division but perhaps the conference.
Nebraska fans should be very grateful for Missouri cornerback Pig Brown. Last week, while Missouri was idle, he made the comment that the Tigers needed to "kill these guys (Nebraska). I just want to kill them. We need to beat'em by three touchdowns or more."
The comment really couldn't have come at a better time. Nebraska now has a rallying point. After weeks of in-state infighting and teeth-gnashing, everyone can rally around the notion of roasting the Pig. No small feat, but hatred can be very healthy sometimes.
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