What did we learn

Crusader Husker said:
I learned to board can break the night before the biggest game of the first half of the season.  All I wanted to do is talk Husker FB on Friday night.  I truly do not have a life if all I want to do is hangout with you guys.

BUT....we must have been bad since the board was down and we were hacked by the Russians.
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Sad thing is, I think it broke because there was a software update that morning. Very poor timing. 
 

And…..it didn’t fix any of the frustrating issues. 

 
ZRod said:
The field goal was absolutely ridiculous. I don't care if we can't make 50+ yarders, just please for the love of god just find someone who is money from the 35 in and I can live with whatever from any greater distance. This is pathetic.

Also, the kick return team was sus, but we probably won't face many more dynamic returners until USC or tOSU.
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To be fair this was only the 2nd FG that Alvano has missed shorter than 40 yards. He was 6-7 going into last night. And has been perfect 36 of 36 on xp. His problem has been in the 40-49 range where he is god awful 2-7. And just for the sake of the rest of his stats. 1-1 beyond 50. And that was a 55 yarder. 

 
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A little late to the afterparty, so I'm sure this has been covered already, but the biggest thing I learned with Nebraska this weekend was that they're actually developing and have created a pretty solid foundation to keep building upon. Back-to-back weekends of being the better team and showing it convincingly hasn't been seen much around here recently. We all knew Nebraska had the better team than CU but, as we all know too well, it's one thing to be better on paper and then actually prove it on Saturday.

I also learned remembered how astonishingly awful Big 12 referees are. Quite a few calls made against both teams were just atrocious (the Barney pancake block being called a hold is the first one that comes to mind, but I also remember thinking the roughing the passer call against Raiola was a bad call in real time but haven't seen a replay of it yet).

Overall, it was a great step in the right direction for the program, and just a fun night for the fan base in general... one that was well-earned and I think well-enjoyed.

 
Rahmir got 37 snaps to 29 for Dowdell.  Emmett and Ervin only got 3 each.

Over half of Rahmir's snaps were pass plays (20).  Nearly 2/3 of Dowdell's snaps were run plays (18).

 
Lutovsky was our highest-graded OL according to PFF (was only in on 11 out of 72 snaps).  Mazzccua was the lowest-graded.  Everyone else was solid but not spectatular, although there continues to be significant splits in run grades vs pass grades.  Corcoran pretty good run blocking but pretty terrible pass blocking.  Benhart similar but not as extreme either way.  Scott is the opposite, though not as bad run blocking.  Evans the only one who was decent both ways (other than Lutovsky).

 
Toe said:
For the most part, it wasn't really anything Colorado did. It was mainly a combination of going more conservative in the second half and some seriously questionable officiating. (For as many questionable flags as there were, there were at least as many that should have been flagged and weren't.)
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Nah, a notable amount of it was what Colorado did, which was that they started successfully stuffing our run game. When you're picking up 6+ yards routinely on first down, it's easy for the offense to not be "conservative" because your whole playbook is wide open. When you start routinely having 2nd and 8 or 2nd and 12 you're stuck between a rock and a hard place choosing whether to try and ground and pound and wear clock or throw it around a bunch while you're behind the sticks. 

I thought Satterfield had some good answers for this with some creative screen and flat passing concepts and occasional sprinkle of some more creative run looks (I also thought Dylan did a great job with pocket awareness, throwing catchable balls and also dumping to his check downs when needed), but the story of the second half is semi equal parts nebraska failing to execute, the refs trying to get screen time, and Colorado's defense playing much better.

 
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