For 15 years, hope has failed the Huskers. Somehow they’ve occupied their own mysterious place on the college football grid. And depending how you read the facts, they should’ve been a top-10 program — or bottom-10.
The math expert is right when he calls the numbers “insane.” But you know what they say about insanity.
Nebraska must stop doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
In this study, you’ll find that:
1. The Huskers are the most unusual and snakebitten team in the country. By far.
2. What makes Nebraska so abysmal is the offense’s extraordinary propensity to fumble AND the defense’s unrelated but even more extraordinary inability NOT to recover opponents’ fumbles.
3. The Huskers have overcome their woes to some degree, at least against mediocre competition. But they’ve also blown huge opportunities, and the numbers suggest that NU may have been an elite program if only its turnover margin matched its peers.
