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Big Red Must Beat Oregon · Check with Chip

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Check with Chip, brought to you by Operation
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  Speaker 1: Blue Dot Red, turning the Blue Dot Red one podcast
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  Speaker 1: at a time. This is another diversion from Blue Dot
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  Speaker 1: Red for the state of the Big Red halfway through
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  Speaker 1: the regular season. I can't believe the consensus of the
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  Speaker 1: local sports media that eight or nine wins would be
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  Speaker 1: a great accomplishment for Nebraska football this season. It's year
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  Speaker 1: four for head coach Matt Ruhle. Nebraska should be a
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  Speaker 1: regular in the college football playoff by now. It's time
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  Speaker 1: to beat top teams in big games. Early in this
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  Speaker 1: podcast series, I said Nebraska had to beat Indiana for
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  Speaker 1: Rule to have the program where it should be in
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  Speaker 1: his fourth year as head coach. He failed. I know
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  Speaker 1: people are saying, hey, losing 20-17 is better than losing
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  Speaker 1: 56-7 two years ago. Indiana is the defending national champ.
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  Speaker 1: We beat them statistically. That's progress. I don't care. This
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  Speaker 1: is America. You need to win. We had an 11-point
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  Speaker 1: lead with 12 minutes left and choked it away. For
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  Speaker 1: three quarters, we were the better team. In the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 1: both sides of the ball collapsed. It's a four-quarter game.
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  Speaker 1: We lost by three points in part because our kicker,
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  Speaker 1: missed a routine 40-yard field goal with the wind. He
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  Speaker 1: has been terrible, and as everyone knows, a special teams
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  Speaker 1: mistake can cost you a tight game, which is exactly
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  Speaker 1: what happened. That should not happen in year four of
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  Speaker 1: a head coach's tenure. That should be figured out by now.
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  Speaker 1: So Rule still is underperforming. We are still the corn chokers,
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  Speaker 1: not ready for primetime, finding ways to lose winnable games.
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  Speaker 1: And with a bunch of high-level recruits on hand. If
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  Speaker 1: I'm a blue-chip recruit, my takeaway is that I want
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  Speaker 1: to play for Kurt Cignetti at Indiana because he finds
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  Speaker 1: ways to win no matter what. The Hoosiers have won
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  Speaker 1: 22 straight, while Nebraska keeps wetting itself when it matters most.
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  Speaker 1: Rule has a real problem with big games. He is
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  Speaker 1: something like 2-24 in his college coaching career, against ranked teams.
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  Speaker 1: He needs to beat Oregon this week. Yes, it's at Oregon. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it would be surreal to face the quarterback who started
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  Speaker 1: for Nebraska the previous two seasons and transferred to Oregon
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  Speaker 1: because of rules under performance. But that quarterback played badly
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  Speaker 1: Saturday and was benched as Oregon lost for the second
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  Speaker 1: time this season and is not the team it was
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  Speaker 1: predicted to be Oregon has fallen out of the top 25,
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  Speaker 1: but I'll still count it as beating a top team
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  Speaker 1: in a big game. But it has to happen. Rule
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  Speaker 1: exhausted his grace period long ago. He needs to beat
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  Speaker 1: Oregon this week and win every other game, with the
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  Speaker 1: exception of Ohio State. But even that one needs to
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  Speaker 1: be competitive. No more excuses. No more lapses. No more
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  Speaker 1: losing winnable games. Okay. That's out of my system. Back
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  Speaker 1: to the blue dot red news tomorrow. That's Check with Chip.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Chip Maxwell. Thank you for listening.