It took a little bit, but the Huskers managed to overcome themselves and have taken a 14-0 lead into the locker room at halftime.
The opening drive included two penalties, a dropped pass and headset issues which took an indeterminate amount of time to be rectified. The issue?
One has to give
credit where it’s due – they actually do a excellent job of finding new and original ways to empty rounds into the smaller toes.
That being said, Glenn Thomas did appear to call a fine first half. The Huskers managed to roll on offense despite taking the field position battle in the teeth for the most part. On the opening drive, on which a Jacory Barney dropped a 38-yard TD pass, the Huskers persevered with Anthony Colandrea finally hitting Luke Lindenmeyer a toss with which he rumbled in for the 15-yard score. (Barney also fielded two punts on the 5-yard-line, something which ought to come up in halftime discussions.)
The second score was begun from 90 yards away and ran much cleaner. On this occasion, they received actually received early help in the form of a defensive holding call on Rutgers which got Nebraska out of the basement with an auto 1st down. The big play was a 40-yard hook-up with Carter Nelson who is showing up more and on big play highlights. That took it down to the 6 and Colandrea hopped in from there for the current score.
On the defensive side, the Blackshirts gave up a big play or two, but otherwised stifled Rutgers holding them to 65 yards as compared to the Huskers’ 244. Colandrea was 8-12 for 119 yards and the Lindenmeyer TD through the air, and also added 48 yards rushing along with the other score on the ground.
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