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After What Feels Like an Eternity, Game Week is Back! · Husker Buzz

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  Speaker 1: It's the Husker Buzz edition. We've got Sean Callahan here
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  Speaker 1: live in Lincoln. Good morning, Sean.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Scott.
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  Speaker 1: Time to play football. Why does it seem like it's
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  Speaker 1: been three weeks since Nebraska's played a football game?
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  Speaker 2: Bi-weeks tend to do that, too. There's less, obviously, media
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  Speaker 2: access during a bi-week, so things were just kind of
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  Speaker 2: quiet here the last week. Washington comes in. It's a
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  Speaker 2: massive game for Matt Rule, his tenure, his season. In
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  Speaker 2: really these next three weeks, you have Washington, then back-to-back
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  Speaker 2: road games at Illinois and at Rutgers. Nebraska has a
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  Speaker 2: pretty good chance to win all three of these games.
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  Speaker 2: If they did, it really kind of changes the tune
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  Speaker 2: of the season for Nebraska. It starts Saturday, and I
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  Speaker 2: think a big question will be at quarterback. Does DeMond
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  Speaker 2: Williams return for Washington, or what direction they go there
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  Speaker 2: at quarterback?
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  Speaker 1: I've not been paying much attention to the Huskies this year.
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  Speaker 1: What are they looking like coming into this game?
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  Speaker 2: Well, they've had injuries, and they've underachieved. I mean, they
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  Speaker 2: were a ranked team to start the year. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of expectations for Jed Fish and his team to begin
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  Speaker 2: the season, but they took some losses early in the year.
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  Speaker 2: Iowa kind of went in there and just crushed their soul.
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  Speaker 2: They went into Seattle on a Friday night. I think
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  Speaker 2: the game was 27-0 at halftime in Seattle, which they
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  Speaker 2: don't get beat like that at home very often. They
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  Speaker 2: had a nice win at Purdue. which Purdue is an
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  Speaker 2: improved team, Purdue v. Minnesota this year. That was their
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  Speaker 2: last game out. They're off this week, too, so they
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  Speaker 2: did not have a game like Nebraska. I think there
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  Speaker 2: will be a few questions for them as well coming
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  Speaker 2: off the bye. This is kind of what they look like.
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  Speaker 2: they were going to have a really intense bye week.
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  Speaker 2: He said it was going to be training camp the sequel.
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  Speaker 2: They were going to run their team through a lot
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  Speaker 2: of drills and a lot of hard work here in
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  Speaker 2: the bye week.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Dylan Raiola looked like a scarecrow for Oregon. And
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  Speaker 1: Scott Frost gets a win against the number two team
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  Speaker 1: in the country, a Central Florida beats BYU. So Husker
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  Speaker 1: fans got a little bit of anguish leading up to
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  Speaker 1: this game here. Talk about the wild weekend in college football.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's almost been like this now the
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  Speaker 2: last couple weeks in a row. I think, Scott, now
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  Speaker 2: that we play these nine-game conference schedules in the SEC
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  Speaker 2: and the ACC and the Big 12s and the Big
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  Speaker 2: 10s on it for a while, you've got more good-on-good games.
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  Speaker 2: There's more parity with the NIL and transfer portal. And
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  Speaker 2: this is what you get out of it. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think the travel, too, when you look at how
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  Speaker 2: big some of these leagues are and the amount of
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  Speaker 2: traveling you have to do, it's not easy for USC
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  Speaker 2: to go play at Wisconsin. It's not easy for BYU
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  Speaker 2: to play there. Notre Dame at home and travel to
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  Speaker 2: Florida the next week and play. I just think there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of variables in this, but it's fun. It
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  Speaker 2: really does add a lot of intrigue. I do think
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  Speaker 2: this is a big reason why a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: coaches and conferences want to move to a 2014 playoff
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  Speaker 2: because it's too unpredictable now. There's not much separation and
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  Speaker 2: there's going to be a mash of 9-3, 8-4 quality
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  Speaker 2: teams every year And to separate those teams now moving
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  Speaker 2: forward into a 12-team playoff would be tough. I think
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  Speaker 2: a 24-team playoff makes that a lot easier and keeps
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  Speaker 2: a lot more of those teams playing. I know it's
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  Speaker 2: not popular by some, but I think weekends like what
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  Speaker 2: we saw this weekend are reasons why we're going to
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  Speaker 2: a 24-team playoff.
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  Speaker 1: Saturday night game, blackout game for Halloween at Memorial Stadium.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be a fun atmosphere. It's going to
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  Speaker 1: be tough for Washington to come in here and win.
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  Speaker 1: But there are a lot of things Nebraska has to
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  Speaker 1: do right. We'll talk about the keys to the game
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  Speaker 1: on Friday. Tomorrow, Sean, I want to pick your brain
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  Speaker 1: a little bit on weather coach rule. Some of the
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  Speaker 1: coaching staff went out and did some good recruiting at
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  Speaker 1: high school games over the weekend. We had some good
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  Speaker 1: high school games over the weekend. We'll talk about that tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: shall we?
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  Speaker 2: All right.