Nebraska Football: 5 Things That Must Happen for the Cornhuskers to be a Top 25 Team in 2020 (Adrian Martinez becomes the Big Ten West's best QB)

[MplsGopher]

Purdue and especially Cincinnati are really really tough games. Whatever they get out of that six game stretch to end the year is gravy but I’d be shocked if they went into Columbus ranked or unbeaten.

Nope, not a chance. I'm thinking 3-3.

 

[MplsGopher]

the agricultural part is not false. Iowa State has a ton of research around their engineering school outside of Ag. AAU doent recognize research grants from USDA for example. Had Nebraska
Brought their medical school under the university umbrella they to would have remained in the AAU. They elected not to do it. Discounting Ag research would be like Minnesota discounting Norman Borlaug’s research. And it could be argued his research has had more of an impact on the world than any other Minnesota researcher ever. Again the AAU thing seems silly as something to get hung up on. Would you accept Notre Dame or Boston College based on academics as they aren’t AAU schools either? It just seems silly that is the one membership you are hung up on.

Here are the rankings and showing the different federal sources. Non-federal often is not competitive.
https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/herd/2018/html/herd18-dt-tab025.html

Lincoln is not anything special when it comes to USDA. If USDA funding is not competitive (meaning the PI didn't have to submit a proposal against other competition to win the funding), then of course it shouldn't be considered for competitive grants.

No one said anything about discounting ag research. Silly comment.

AAU is a secondary factor. I didn't state otherwise. But yet, when the whole Big Ten has it except for Lincoln, it's just one more reason to conclude they don't belong.

They applied for membership back in 1900 and 1911, and were rejected both times.

Their membership offer in 2011 should have been conditional: prove you can deliver on big time national football, which was the sole reason you were allowed a seat at the table, or else get out. Would've been the smart move.

 

[hello-world]

Purdue and especially Cincinnati are really really tough games. Whatever they get out of that six game stretch to end the year is gravy but I’d be shocked if they went into Columbus ranked or unbeaten.

Those are the two toughest games they play before they get to tOSU and they are both home games. I think Nebraska will be favored in every game until they play tOSU.

I wouldn't be surprised if they lost one or two, but I certainly wouldn't be shocked if they run through the early part of their season undefeated.

I think people are sleeping on them just a touch too much. They're not Wisconsin, but I would put them just a hair behind the Gophers this year based on the amount of production they return.