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Here is a great article from the Lincoln Journal Star about how they couldn't stop us on first down and that allowed us to dominate the game.
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Some numbers: Minnesota averaged 7.7 yards on first down and gained 254 yards — 59 percent of its total yards — on first down. On 13 occasions, the Gophers picked up 9 yards or more on first down. Eight times, those big gainers came on the initial first down of a drive, which kept the Husker defense on its heels for much of the game.
“It sucks, because our main objective was to stop them on first down,” Nebraska defensive end Avery Moss said. “They’d get like a 20-yard play on first down because of our mental errors. Even in the newspaper their coach said they wanted to run tackle-to-tackle. That was their whole scheme and we knew what they were doing. We just couldn’t stop it.”
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Some numbers: Minnesota averaged 7.7 yards on first down and gained 254 yards — 59 percent of its total yards — on first down. On 13 occasions, the Gophers picked up 9 yards or more on first down. Eight times, those big gainers came on the initial first down of a drive, which kept the Husker defense on its heels for much of the game.
“It sucks, because our main objective was to stop them on first down,” Nebraska defensive end Avery Moss said. “They’d get like a 20-yard play on first down because of our mental errors. Even in the newspaper their coach said they wanted to run tackle-to-tackle. That was their whole scheme and we knew what they were doing. We just couldn’t stop it.”