This weekend I noticed something has shifted for me with Husker football and college football as a whole. That shift?
I noticed Husker fans were angry with a team that was winning a game against a conference opponent. I also noticed that there was a whole lot of schadenfreude around college football and I could revel in the misery of others again.
For a long time, Nebraska has been so hapless and mistake-prone that it was easy to be mad when watching a game. Anger flowed freely over the latest blown
chance or crucial mistake. It also wasn’t fun when other teams did stupid things or imploded spectacularly – mostly because Nebraska was often leading that pack.
Now, I geniunely enjoyed reading through the carnage of the football weekend. It is fun to read about the Penn States and Texas’ of the world. The Huskers weren’t great, but they didn’t make any appearances in the “let’s make fun of these teams” articles.
The Husker football team is far from a finished product or for contending for hardware. But, at least there is a level of grit we haven’t seen for a while. There is also a general expectation that the team can execute most plays without disasterous consequences.
I’m going to enjoy this new plateau even as I know there is still a big hill to climb to being relevant again.
What was your takeaway from the carnage of the weekend? Whose misery are you enjoying most?
Corn Flakes
How Nebraska’s offense flipped the script in 2025
When you’re leading an offense averaging nearly 352 passing yards a game, you’ve earned the right to rock a chain, and even pack a lip, on the sideline. Nebraska offensive coordinator Dana Holgorsen has done that and more in 2025.
Nebraska football overcomes offensive struggles to beat Michigan State
LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) – Nebraska football’s dominant second half led to a comeback victory over Michigan State on Saturday. On the Huskers’ first drive of the game, Emmett Johnson secured the first six points with a 2-yard run into the endzone.
Rubek: Nebraska fails to show improvement coming off bye week despite the win
Nebraska looked like it figured everything out. The Blackshirts forced a three-and-out on the opening possession of the game, and the offense capitalized with a touchdown drive. A blocked punt not long after put the Huskers up 14-0 early.
Fast takes: Huskers 38, Michigan State 27
The wind was whipping and Husker fans were rightly kind of surly.
Instant analysis: Nebraska volleyball throttles Penn State in sweep
n a circle-the-calendar matchup, top-ranked Nebraska embarrassed No. 16 Penn State on its home floor in front of a sellout crowd. What looked like it would be a five-set nail-biter when the Big Ten schedule came out over the summer became a clinic for the road team’s offense en route to a smooth victory on the front half of the Huskers’ two-stop road trip.
Nebraska volleyball vs Rutgers recap, stats and highlights
The Nebraska volleyball team (14-0, 4-0) continued Big Ten play with a sweep (25-17, 25-15, 25-16) of the Rutgers Scarlet Knights (10-6, 1-3) on Saturday evening. The Huskers’ defense dominated the match, holding the Scarlet Knights to a .062 hitting percentage. Nebraska was able to hit .382 on the night.
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AP Top 25: Penn State and Texas fall out of the poll, Miami jumps Oregon to No. 2 behind Ohio State
Miami moved back to No. 2 in The Associated Press college football poll on Sunday, Texas Tech has its highest ranking since 2008 and Penn State and Texas fell all the way out of the Top 25 for the first time since 2022 after the two top-10 teams lost to unranked opponents.
College football misery index: Penn State leads the list after embarrassing loss to UCLA
You can step back and see that James Franklin has finished inside the top-10 five times in his 11 seasons while winning two-thirds of his Big 12 games. That’s quite good without any other context. At the same time, we all know the bad stuff too: 1-10 against Ohio State, 4-21 against top-10 opponents, constantly hitting his head on a ceiling in the most important games.
Texas facing pressure to bench Arch Manning after loss to Florida
Media members and social media users leveled a deluge of criticism at Manning, with some implying and others outright calling for the Longhorns to bench the redshirt sophomore after Texas fell to 3-2 following Saturday’s 29-21 loss to SEC rival Florida.
Titans snap 10-game losing streak in improbably comeback vs the Cardinals
The Titans (1-4) trailed 21-6 in the fourth quarter, but took advantage of two massive Cardinals blunders to win the game.
MLB Playoffs 2025: Ohtani delivers masterful performance on the mound in Dodgers NLDS game 1 win over the Phillies
Since making his MLB debut in 2018, the two-way Japanese unicorn has clubbed 280 home runs, stolen 165 bases and made 100 starts as a pitcher. Along the way, he has reshaped the sport, raising, re-raising and then shattering our collective expectations of what a ballplayer can do.
WNBA finals: Aces go up 2-0 over the Mercury
It didn’t matter that it was a noon tipoff. Or that Young didn’t have her legs underneath her in the first game of the series. She was ready to contribute.
Kirk Herbstreit’s throw wins Alabama fan $300,000
Then There’s This
Is there a specific age at which we are the happiest?
Research has lots to say about when we’re at our happiest (or saddest) in life. “For many years we had this U-shaped happiness curve,” says psychologist Prof Jolanta Burke. Happiness peaked first in our early 20s, hit rock bottom in middle age and then started going up again in our 50s before peaking again at 70. Hence, the U-shape.
California police pull over a Waymo for an illegal U-turn but can’t give a ticket
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Police in Northern California were understandably perplexed when they pulled over a Waymo taxi after it made an illegal U-turn, only to find no driver behind the wheel and therefore, no one to ticket.
