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2008 Oct 05
Mizzou, Deja Vu: Tigers Pummel Huskers
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Hello, hangover. Hello, blowout. And hello, reality: It’s not 2007 anymore, and Bill Callahan quietly sleeps somewhere in New York or New Jersey, but tonight sure felt like a nightmare of his making.
No. 4 Missouri landed a haymaker square on Nebraska’s chin one minute into the game, took a round off, then thoroughly pummeled the Huskers, who drowned entirely in a sea of defensive breakdowns, turnovers and painful penalties.
The 52-17 loss wasn’t as ugly last year’s 41-6 debacle. It was uglier. NU utterly collapsed in the second half, succumbing to Missouri’s chatty, chippy defense and committing 14 penalties. The Huskers gobbled up yards and chunks of the clock without getting points, while Missouri, busting a 30-year losing streak in Lincoln, racked up 462 total yards and scored with ease. Mizzou never punted.
It was another primetime debacle on national television, and it left a record crowd of 85,372 fans at Memorial Stadium stunned, angry, and prone to the mock cheers of 2007.
Afterward, a stunned, angry Bo Pelini apologized “to everybody associated with the University of Nebraska football.”
“Damn right, yes I am embarrassed,” Pelini said. “…It’s my responsibility. I was hired to do a job and I didn’t do the job tonight.”
Pelini tried to end his press conference there, after two minutes of comments, but fielded a few more questions with similar short answers.
Nebraska quarterback Joe Ganz, who threw for 290 yards but also tossed a costly interception for a touchdown was equally lost for words.
“We played terrible,” he said.
No. 4 Missouri landed a haymaker square on Nebraska’s chin one minute into the game, took a round off, then thoroughly pummeled the Huskers, who drowned entirely in a sea of defensive breakdowns, turnovers and painful penalties.
The 52-17 loss wasn’t as ugly last year’s 41-6 debacle. It was uglier. NU utterly collapsed in the second half, succumbing to Missouri’s chatty, chippy defense and committing 14 penalties. The Huskers gobbled up yards and chunks of the clock without getting points, while Missouri, busting a 30-year losing streak in Lincoln, racked up 462 total yards and scored with ease. Mizzou never punted.
It was another primetime debacle on national television, and it left a record crowd of 85,372 fans at Memorial Stadium stunned, angry, and prone to the mock cheers of 2007.
Afterward, a stunned, angry Bo Pelini apologized “to everybody associated with the University of Nebraska football.”
“Damn right, yes I am embarrassed,” Pelini said. “…It’s my responsibility. I was hired to do a job and I didn’t do the job tonight.”
Pelini tried to end his press conference there, after two minutes of comments, but fielded a few more questions with similar short answers.
Nebraska quarterback Joe Ganz, who threw for 290 yards but also tossed a costly interception for a touchdown was equally lost for words.
“We played terrible,” he said.
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Personally, I think we would have been better off to let them run all over us instead of letting them air it out. At least that would have taken more time IMO, giving them less posessions. Where has our short passing game gone? We are not utilizing Lucky at all this year IMO. He may be the great equalizer for a line that cannot run block a lick.
– Oct 6, 2008