My Poor Huskers...
Got back from one of the most up and down games I've ever been to.
The game is 20-17 when Texas scores a touchdown with about 3 minutes to go. So it's 27-17, Texas kicks it short for some reason. We score in like 40 seconds and it's 24-27.
Texas gets a good return on the kickoff, and we get them to 3rd and 7...Roy Williams catches his 14th pass for the first down, and then like 30 seconds after the play is called dead, a flag comes in and the call is offensive pass interference. So it becomes 3rd and 22, which Texas runs the ball to kill the clock. They have to punt to DeJuan Groce who has returned like 4 punts for touchdowns this year, and is leading the NCAA in average return yardage.
The students always chant his name for each punt.
That one sequence right there was huge emotionally, b/c of the disappointment on the first down, to the penalty...
They punt to Groce, and he returns it to the Texas 16 with like 36 seconds or something. The place goes F***ing nuts...absolute pandomonium. I jumped between 4 different rows...It was the most electric atmoshpere I've ever been in. Incredible.
Nebraska runs one option play to the short side of the field for no gain and with like 16 seconds, it is fairly obvious that we should take one shot at the end zone and then kick the field goal to tie. Well, you would think that you wouldn't make the throw unless the guy was wide open...you'd just throw it away if it wasn't there. Well Jammal Lord throws into DOUBLE COVERAGE and it gets picked off at the one yard line!!! Everyone just stood in disbelief...with ten seconds left it was done and it was weird to have the energy of 30 seconds before just sucked out of you.
Anyways, we had every opportunity to win this game, including some missed field goals and turnovers on downs. I certainly hope that we don't lose the confidence we had coming in, b/c we really did outplay Texas (not that they played poorly - Chris Sims had something like 420 passing yards, and Roy Williams had 13 catches).
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