Nebraska is much better. The QB looks competent to good and the defense is pretty stout. Saw a stat that they did not blitz once in the UTEP game.
Eventually they correct themselves but it takes weeks and so much hinges on where you are ranked initially.
Nebraska had 87,000 fully engaged screaming fans. Lots of Media outlets see the available market and so Nebraska has a lot of poll voters would be my guess.
I agree with your assessment on Nebraska. They are better and will most likely even clear the low low bar of reaching bowl eligibility for the first time in the past 7 years. But they have not beaten a good team yet so will be interesting to see what happens when they play a competent opponent.
Agreed. It has to be kind of a crap shoot for these guys to rank teams with all the transfers year to year. Need about 6 weeks to figure out who is who.
Great point. Evidently Nebraska living in reputation from the Osbourne era.
A big part of this (IMO) is voters who have pegged Nebraska to be "back" for years jump at the first opportunity to prove they were "right". It's been 7 years, but now they're quick to vote for them because there's a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel.
Same for me.
Goodness. It's all they have for sports. They filled the stadium throughout the time Frost was there. There's a definite bias, but it's not attendance or that those attending have more votes.
When did he say this? Answer... never. He might have said that was the goal or something but no way did he say that this would happen.
Not the fans... The interest generated by 80,000 to 90,000 fans gets the attention of far more media outlets looking to get clicks from those fans. The much larger number of media outlets, newspapers, TV stations, radio stations, magazines, online podcasts hoping to get clicks from all those fans put out content....all these have enough eyeballs to qualify or lobby for voting status. A lot more voters in Nebraska than Minnesota because of the fan interest. Media outlets in Minnesota are apathetic to the Gophers because not enough fans are interested compared to Michigan, Ohio St, Penn State, or Nebraska and so we get no love from the media who says why bother. Thats the difference. That's why 90,000 fans matter to generate wide media attention all hoping some of them consume their content.
ADD 30,000 Seats in Year 3
Rhule is a decent coach and has a clear idea of what he wants to establish at Nebraska. They really haven't had that recently. They've had two good coaches since Osborne left. The fan base wasn't satisfied with Solich even though his winning percentage was .753 (.688 in conference play). Pelini was also a good coach and got results, but I'm sure Nebraska got tired of paying for having a couple of EMTs on the sideline ready with the straitjacket. Frost, though darling of the fan base when hired, was an absolute disaster.
Ok, thanks. That's basically what I guessed. It's a goal (plan). He did not say for certain that we'd need a second deck. I get a little testy about revisionist history. There is a big difference between "I want this to happen" and "This will happen." Do I think we are anywhere close to needing a 2nd deck? No. Do I fault PJ for wanting it to happen? No.
Teams I hate:
Yep, it's a big conspiracy to pump up Nebby.
"Fleck said that in order to make that jump, Minnesota will have to get fans that don’t care about football to commit to regularly attending games."
I'm not going to get into why we don't have 85,000 people sitting in a stadium in Minn, but instead why NEB does. There's just not a whole lot to do there outside of NEB sports scene. So, heading into Lincoln 7 or so times in the fall is a big deal. (Unlike the Mpls/St. Paul metro which has 200+ things to do any given Sat).
As a Gophers fan...I quit paying attention to any of this. And quit watching our games too.
