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per ESPN:
The words from coach Scott Frost cut deep and stung into the empty weeks of December as 80 teams ventured into bowl season and Nebraska sat home for a second straight year.
"Iowa's a bigger, stronger football team," Frost said after the Hawkeyes thwarted a comeback bid on Black Friday by the Cornhuskers with a field goal to win 31-28 as time expired in Iowa City. "That's right now. I never thought I'd see or hear that or say that about a Nebraska football team."
Iowa, in fact, has been bigger and stronger than Nebraska for a while, winning four straight in this season-ending series -- including mismatched meetings by a combined 72 points in 2016 and '17.
Frost, seeing it up close for the first time, found new pain in the established reality. And sure as the progress that the Huskers displayed this fall, he vowed to close the gap.
"We can get bigger," Frost said. "We can get stronger. ... I'm looking forward to the day we get that fixed, when we're not going to be pushed around by anybody."
That day, according to the players and coaches who experienced a turbulent debut season for Frost as head coach back home at Nebraska, is coming sooner than the Huskers' 4-8 finish appears to indicate.
For it was largely a tale of two seasons in Lincoln.
http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...cott-frost-roller-coaster-first-year-nebraska
Go Gophers!!
The words from coach Scott Frost cut deep and stung into the empty weeks of December as 80 teams ventured into bowl season and Nebraska sat home for a second straight year.
"Iowa's a bigger, stronger football team," Frost said after the Hawkeyes thwarted a comeback bid on Black Friday by the Cornhuskers with a field goal to win 31-28 as time expired in Iowa City. "That's right now. I never thought I'd see or hear that or say that about a Nebraska football team."
Iowa, in fact, has been bigger and stronger than Nebraska for a while, winning four straight in this season-ending series -- including mismatched meetings by a combined 72 points in 2016 and '17.
Frost, seeing it up close for the first time, found new pain in the established reality. And sure as the progress that the Huskers displayed this fall, he vowed to close the gap.
"We can get bigger," Frost said. "We can get stronger. ... I'm looking forward to the day we get that fixed, when we're not going to be pushed around by anybody."
That day, according to the players and coaches who experienced a turbulent debut season for Frost as head coach back home at Nebraska, is coming sooner than the Huskers' 4-8 finish appears to indicate.
For it was largely a tale of two seasons in Lincoln.
http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...cott-frost-roller-coaster-first-year-nebraska
Go Gophers!!