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You knew somehow an hour before the game that your breakfast was settling what would happen because of two things: there was a cold and ruthless wind in Lincoln and no sight of JD Spielman in uniform.
This is not the recipe that the Huskers would like to have for a family dinner, so you knew that with a cold 11-degree wind, it was a day when the style was out of luck.
So, put on your used Carhartt pair and get ready for a fight with the visitors.
It was that kind of game – really the kind of game imagined by the Michigan State coaches the night before. And yet, Nebraska fought back. It was a special Senior Day scene in the snow. You want ugly? Nebraska will take this kind of ugly all day.
And, in fact, it was not ugly for the defense of Erik Chinander and Barret Pickering. They have both been criticized. They won this match in Nebraska.
Here are some improvised reflections with a much larger coverage to come.
SECOND PART
What if Pickering made his way through your hearts?
Three against three, with a 47 yards in the snow that had a lot of leg. There had been doubts about the real freshman, but he won a lot of points on Saturday.
He got these nine points for the Huskers.
We will not call him Alex Henery or anything else, but the kid with the sweet manners that most people would never know that it is part of the world. The team they saw at Target was the man of the hour. You must love the sport, right?
Erik Chinander's defense took its share of skid, but they stood up time and time again in this one.
Even when they did not take the breaks, like a curious passage call to Lamar Jackson during the final training, they got up to face the moment.
The Michigan State defense was what we thought we were – talented and solid. Nebraska's defense was equally difficult in this game.
I will repeat myself later, but what frantic game of Antonio Reed for Senior Day.
He's a tough guy this season – like the unsportsmanlike penalty at the end of the game against Colorado.
But he changed the game in this game. He had a pickaxe and forced a fumble and was everywhere on the ground hitting hard. His forced failure on a blitz was exactly the game Nebraska needed in a game where it was difficult to score, giving the ball to the Huskers at the MSU 20.
Reed is a guy who can run hot, and the fact that it's a rough house game is perfect for his style.
The absence of DT after fumble recovery kills this offense in film criticism.
After a perfect call to Devine Ozigbo, who surprised the Spartans, did not let himself be taken by surprise, Nebraska scored a goal and a goal at 2. And then …
I've stuffed it. I tried to sneak around freely, but I did not get anything. I was looking for Morgan but the shot was off. Should there have been a flag? May be.
But it was disappointing that the Huskers did not manage to escape with speed. Michigan State's defense against the race was exactly what was announced.
Frost made a big decision even before the half started and he may have won the game.
Michigan State took the ball to start the third quarter. Frost also gave them the wind, saving him for his team in the fourth quarter.
His defense immediately rewarded him with a 3-and-out and Nebraska got the ball by himself.
The weather, with winds ranging from 15 to 20 mph and gusts of up to 33 mph, reminded me a lot of the time the Huskers played in Iowa City in 2012.
In these games, you sometimes just try to stay in the quarter, and take advantage of the advantage when you get it. Mark Dantonio even asked for a timeout so he could get a third run with the wind in his back in the first period, to give an idea of the extent of the coaches' concern.
Nebraska drew a draw against the wind with a score of 3-0, but then managed to hold on and place Spartans in a field that bled until the fourth quarter. Overall, Frost 's decision in this regard has proven to be a victory. If you told him at halftime, he was going to lie down 6-0 with 12:13 to go and the wind in his back, I guess he'd have taken it.
There was a third and a failure that hurt Nebraska very badly.
It was after the Husker attack did a very good job of getting out of his own pit, allowing Stanley Morgan to get his first shots of the game in the middle of the third quarter to make him pass his own match 2.
But on a third and one of the 41, just when it seemed that Devine Ozigbo was perhaps starting to start, the Huskers were drunk. Now, NU has done the work of changing the field on the player. A conversion, however, could have helped drain at least a minute or two or more of the third quarter while NU was playing against the wind.
You wondered if it would cost the game to Nebraska at the time.
The tight end of Michigan State, Matt Dotson, cost big points to his team.
He dropped a touchdown pass that would have earned him 10-0 at the start of the fourth quarter. It was in the same area where he was penalized 15 yards in the second quarter, which pushed his team to score a more difficult goal that he missed.
Add it up and it's probably seven points of errors on two games.
Stanley Morgan remained patient and got the record of career receptions.
A deserved reward for a player who has always worked tirelessly despite the bad results. Her 35 yard grab in the second half gave Husker the shock she needed.
FIRST HALF
The Huskers fumbled and did not finish.
It's the most orderly way to explain the first 30 minutes. The Spartans hit hard and the Huskers dropped the ball four times and lost two. One arrived in the middle of the field and another entered his own quarter. Suboptimal.
Even in less than two in the numbers, the Huskers had two disc stalls on the fourth run that were killers. One of them has reached the Michigan State 27. Frost has qualified for the fourth and fifth against the wind, but Martinez does not. had nowhere to go and his pass fell out of danger.
This is the other fourth failure that will hurt Martinez more. On a fourth and eight out of 33, Stanley Morgan's broke. Brutal day to throw the ball, but the Huskers have got exactly what they want. He is six if the throw is framed. It was well reversed.
This followed another missed opportunity on the game just before. On a third and 9, the Huskers had made a QB draw. It was a very good call. They made the Michigan State beat so … the quarterback is better and Boe Wilson has a better block against his man. The missed block turned a big potential winner into a runner.
They could not get Morgan to go.
And it was not like the Huskers were not throwing it. Thrown the ball 22 times and ran 14 times in the first half. But NU has only completed nine of those passes and none has been ranked # 8, which is a shame, because Morgan is exactly the kind of guy a defenseman does not want to try to attack a day like that -this.
Nebraska should have run more?
Maybe some, considering that Martinez was only 9 out of 22 for 74 yards in those conditions in the first half. Devine Ozigbo wore it eight times for 33 yards.
As a defenseman, Michigan State is the best defense in the country and the Huskers also believe that if they manage to play one or two big passes, they could make all the difference.
Whatever the case may be, Michigan State's defense has not been overcooked this week. They are physical and mean, and sometimes a bit dirty. They would be difficult a day of 65 degrees without clouds in the sky, let alone with these conditions.
The greatest sign of respect for Spartan defense came at the end of the first half: Husker fans pulled out their balloons with a time remaining 1:35 in the half and a zero on the blackboard for Nebraska.
Husker's defense has been shown ready for a blue-collar brawl.
They gave up 129 yards in the first half and had limited the state of Michigan to less than 100 before the last training.
Holding the Spartans to 0 after Martinez broke into the red zone was huge in a game like this.
Antonio Reed, in particular, has marked me. He came knocking and dropped a fumble that almost led to a large takeaway delivery in Nebraska, in the depths of the MSU's territory. The Huskers simply could not be stolen by Michigan State.
And if they want a third and an 8, they will want to come back at the end of the half, when the Huskers will let Rocky Lombardi equalize at 24 to prevent the state of Michigan from returning to Nebraska.
It was one of those big underhand pieces. The quarterback party continues to be a nuisance for Nebraska.
But it's hard to dispute what Erik Chinander's group has done in the first two quarters, when the team has only three points.
The officials lost control of it for a moment.
They let things get too sibilant, do not report reported incidents, and throw in games that seem like safe penalties – like when Stanley Morgan lags behind the Michigan State sideline on a punt return .
Then they called Mo Barry unsportsmanlike when he tried to pull out a Spartan who was just sitting on Dicaprio Bootle. For fear that this would be perceived as a kind of homeric diatribe, I wonder why they had to signal the tight end of the state of Michigan for a little chirp after a third unfinished later in the series.
A big blow, because it forced the Spartans to come back from 15 yards and the subsequent play-in was removed from the goalpost.
These calls angered the local fans. And the game had a bit of a Nebraska-Miami 2014 feel: both parties do not seem to care at all.
And after?
Probably another fight in the cold in just six days. But Nebraska will be meeting this week in a very good mood. It's a chance to win five of the last six. And the confidence is high. Victory snow angels for everyone.
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