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November 25, 2024 • 12 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fun is what we're going to have right now because
we're going to talk about the Nebraska Cornhusker football team,
and the schneid is gone. We're off the schnid, on
the schneid, whatever cliche that you want to use. The
Nebraska Cornhuskers have gotten the six wins and they are
going to a bowl game sometime in the next month,

(00:20):
probably maybe even a little bit later. We'll see when
the ballgame is. But Sean Callahan's with us, and I'm
sure Sean, this is a great sense of relief within
the program to finally get back to a ball game
and probably take the heat off of this coaching staff.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah, just to get over this hurdle, this weight that's
anchored the program down to twenty sixteen in beating Wisconsin,
a team that has owned you. I mean, Nebraska before
Saturday had only beaten the Badgers one time since twenty eleven.
Then they had lost every game to Wisconsin going back
to twenty twelve when they last beat him. So just

(00:56):
to get it in that fashion and not backdoor into it,
I mean, this was a true win. Or the special
teams made plays, the offense executed, the defense got a
couple of force turnovers, everything was there, and they put
up forty four points on the same Wisconsin defense that
the week before only allowed sixteen points and in their

(01:17):
loss the number one ranked organ.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
You want to know something else, Sean, I sat there
and I watched this game, and I couldn't help but
feel like there was that sense of just euphoria that
this was actually happening in Lincoln and the very rare
field storming against the team with a losing record to
get your sixth win of the season, but one that
I'm sure the fan base also looks at. It's just like,
you know what, I don't even care about you know

(01:41):
where we go. I don't even care about what happens
in the Isle game. I'm sure you'd like to win
that game. But there has to be kind of this
sense of a feeling of Okay, now we're totally confident
in trying to rewrack the deck and restacked the deck
for twenty twenty five with this same unit as a
coaching staff, and with that's the direction of this program.

(02:01):
Am I overstating that or is that really what the
vibe you get from? You know, the people that you
see on social media and the other people in the
fan base that are true supporters of this team.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yeah, you know, you think about you mentioned the field storming.
Until this year, there hadn't been a field storm yet
Nebraska in thirty years, I mean nineteen ninety four Colorado
two verse three game and Lincoln they stormed the field
and brook Bringer and Nebraska beat Colorado, who at that
time had Cordell Stewart for Shaun Salal and Michael Westrop.

(02:32):
Westbrook was Colorado's best team marked league history, and that
was a huge moment. Since that time, they've not done
it until this year when they beat Colorado Arrival, who
they had lost every game to dating back to the
twenty eighteen season in the rivalry field of that game,
and then obviously this year Wisconsin and that had not
beaten twenty twelve. And you can kind of poke fun

(02:55):
at all. These aren't, you know, national championship caliber programs
or anything. But it just kind of puts into perspective
how hungry everybody is to get this back, and everybody
wants this so bad. And that stadium was packed. Very
few places in the world would have eighty six eighty
eight thousand fans or other number was on Saturday night

(03:15):
and it was full. I mean it wasn't like a
cheap sell out. I mean that place was packed and
the student section was full. People want this and they
have willed this program and stayed behind it through some
of its darkest days in modern day history. And Saturday
just felt good to a lot of people who have
watched Wisconsin just kick curb stop Nebraska over the last

(03:36):
several years.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Speaking with John Callahan, our Husker insider for Husker Buzz.
So with that being said, the first I think thought
that many people are thinking about is what this team
itself might look like into you know, this Friday, a
little bit of a short week, You're going on the
road to a place that Iowa has played insanely good
at and we only have today in the Morrow of

(03:58):
the talk here Sean. But I got to tell you,
you know, going to Kennick without having to worry about
getting that sixth win is a huge monkey off of
the back. But what chances do you give the Huskers
going into Kennick against a guy I mean, I don't
know who's playing quarterback yet for for the Hawkeyes, but
it could still be Jackson Stratton, who did play pretty

(04:19):
well as the Hawkeys were able to get themselves a
victory this past weekend, but this could be a winnable
game still for Nebraska, riding high off of that sixth victory.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah, Jackson Stratton is probably who they'll start. I mean,
Kate McNamara has put it out there that you know,
he hasn't quit yet, and some of that is a
little strategic to him or he within IL. You don't
want to announce you leave a team, you stop getting paid,
you know, when you leave a team when you're tied
to a larger and IL deal. So he wants to
finish it out for business reasons as well. I mean,

(04:49):
that's my opinion, knowing how NIL works. Is a minute
you say I'm done, I've left the team, they stop
paying it. So he's got pretty good reasons to want
to stick it out. I don't think he's anywhere near
ready to play. And you know, Jackson Stratton got his
first start last week. I think for Nebraska they've been
able to now at least study a full game of

(05:10):
him and how they want to use him. When they
beat Maryland this past week, it was an impressive win,
one you expected how Iowa was going to do it.
They were a run, run, run, and a few passes
out of the flats and very few down the field deep.
And they're not going to put a lot on Jackson Stratton.
They just want him to be the ultimate game manager. Look,
Iowa won last year with one of the worst quarterbacks

(05:32):
I've ever seen play in the Big Ten, Deacon Hill.
I mean, I don't know if you can be any
more unathletic and gifted than Deacon Hill was. And they
won a lot of games with him. And you know,
Jackson Stratton is similar deal, I mean as a linebacker
and they're playing that quarterback. You know Caleb Johnson though,
and what they do with him is going to be

(05:52):
the key to this game. Iowa is zero to three
in Big Ten games and Caleb Johnson does not get
a hundred yard. Just sit on that status as we
go through this week. Wow.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
And you know, just poor Deacon Hill had to he
heard that from a lot of people. I think while
he was at Iowa. He also he was a Wisconsin guy.
To be like that was. He was recruited to play
at Wisconsin, then transferred to Iowa and played last year
for them before transferring to Utah Tech. His listing right
now at Utah Tech is six four two sixty in

(06:24):
their program. Yikes, that is crazy. Yeah, but things, you know,
poor Deacon, he's he's on the bigger and better things
like the Huskers are. I looked at the bull projections,
and I know, I don't know if you like to
look at this stuff, but I'm sure it's part of
your job. There seem to be kind of three spots
that Nebraska has talked about the most, at least now,

(06:45):
and that difference between maybe a seventh win or if
that sitting at six wins might make a bit of
a difference. But I'm seeing the Duke's Mayo Bowl in Charlotte,
I'm seeing the Pinstripe Bowl in New York at Yankee Stadium,
and I'm also seeing the Rate Bowl in Phoenix. Are
those kind of what you're hearing about, and what's the
process look like? Because I think people maybe forget how

(07:05):
this thing goes after eight years of sitting on the bench.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
So I would say no, that information, honestly is accurate
from the people I've talked to with direct knowledge of
the bowl industry. Right now, the winner of his Iowa
Nebraska game is in line to go to Tampa. Iowa
has not been to Tampa since twenty eighteen, so they're
a great fit there. They've got a lot of history
going to Florida, Nebraska's never been. They'll travel thirty thousand

(07:29):
fans there, and that Bowl will want Nebraska there is
they don't look at the big ten standings. It's basically
your overall wins. Illinois is going to go to Orlando
and then there's going to be a mash of six
and seven win teams all there. If Nebraska beats Iowa
and at that point you picked the prettiest girl to
the game. That makes sense. Nebraska to Tampa or Iowa
to Tampa makes sense. If Nebraska were to lose to Iowa,

(07:53):
Nashville is what we're hearing. The Music City Bowl would
get it, get a huge crowd from Nebraska. They'd sell
that stadium out between an SEC team and Nebraska. So
that's the other I can tell you this on the
Pinstripe Bowl. But Michigan wants to go there. They want Michigan,
so that's one to watch closely. Michigan has more alums

(08:14):
in New York City than they do the state of Michigan.
Think about that. So for them, they're not going to
a great bowl, play a bowl game where they're the
largest living alumni base lives in the New York City area,
So that's where that's going to go. But yeah, I
don't see Matt Rule really wrote wild going to Charlotte
either or them being wild to have Matt Rule being

(08:34):
in the Carolina Panthers facilities for a week to play
a bowl game. So my money, and I've got some
pretty good sources on this is Tampa and Nashville. Those
the two that we're hearing right now. Now. A lot
can always change if some upsets and things happen, but
that's probably where it goes. Illinois would go to the

(08:55):
Stitchers Bowl in Orlando, especially if they win the ninth game.
They're almost a lot to the Citrus assuming Indiana gets
in the playoffs still and Penn State gets in the
playoffs and all those things happen.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
And that seems to like within as many teams at lost.
I was throwing a fit last week that if Indiana
lost to Ohio scene it wasn't very close, I was
going to have a big problem with them not being
in the playoff. But with Alabama and Ole miss all
lose like losing and getting three losses. There's no way
they can leave Indiana out if they beat Purdue, right.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
No, Yeah, Indiana I think is in especially the SEC's weekend.
And back to the bull selection stuff. You know you
mentioned Phoenix. Why not Phoenix, Well, they're they're far down
the list. I think only Detroit picks below them. So
there really is no way Nebraska, in a group of
six and seven win teams which basically can be selected equally,
is going to fall all the way down to the

(09:44):
Phoenix game. That's why I think it makes more sense
Nebraska will find itself at the top of this pack,
mainly because it's a business. The Bulls need money, and
Nebraska will travel a ton of fans to Charlotte or
not Scharlwick, so they would travel with Charlotte, but to
Nashville or to Tampa. I think those two right now
are where we go. And December thirtieth and December thirty

(10:08):
first are the dates which are another reason why fans
to travel. Phoenix is December twenty sixth. Nobody wants to
screw around with their Christmas and get down the steak.
There'd be a lot of work for people to do
that the thirties and thirty First, you're talking mass amounts
of huscar fans making those trips.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah so, And just for clarification before I let you go, Sean,
we're talking about Nebraska, USC, Minnesota, Michigan, Washington, Iowa, Rutgers,
maybe Wisconsin or Michigan State all basically with the same
number of wins and are basically what you're saying is
it really doesn't matter how they lined up and how

(10:44):
they beat each other during the season. It's all about
which brand or program these bowls in what order they
basically get to make those conversations they would rather have.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
As long as there within one game apart, So six
and seven win teams can be treated equally. Now, if
you're eight or nine one, you're going to be taken
over a six win team, But six and seven win
teams no process. And now USC and Washington are packed
twelve teams form pack twelve teams. They still have bowl
affiliations with the PAC twelve bowls, so those teams are

(11:14):
more than likely going to go to former Pack twelve
bowls like the Holiday Bowl, the LA Bowl, the Alimble,
the Sun Bull Maybe Phoenix could take Washington, that would
make sense, but yeah, that is probably where it's going
to play. I could see honestly Minnesota going to either
Charlotte or Phoenix right now because you're trying to match

(11:35):
these up to make sense. That's why the Yankee Bowl
or the Fin Stripe Bowl makes sense for Michigan. Rutgers
went there last year. So yeah, there's a lot of
things you have to puzzle together if you're trying to
build like the best fits for the bowls and the schools.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
Well, we'll be keeping update on that as everybody tries
to make their own estimations. Is what will happen. We
got our guy Husker Buzz or Husker Insider, Sean Callahan.
Seanppreciate the call, Appreciate the time. We'll chatty in tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
Hey, thank you.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
All right, how about that interesting information from him there.
We'll talk more about it next on news radio eleven
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Speaker 2 (12:10):
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