Husker Don't: Nebraska has eight turnovers against ISU

Turnovers doom Huskers against Iowa State
By BRIAN CHRISTOPHERSON / Lincoln Journal Star

Turnovers 8, Huskers 7.

Take those numbers and run with them. Just don’t fumble.

There was a little rain, but no sleet or snow. The football wasn’t greased, as far as we know.

It just appeared that way Saturday afternoon at Memorial Stadium. Many Husker fans will go to confession for their foul mouths on a day Nebraska turned the ball over eight times, four coming inside the Iowa State 6-yard line.

There is bizarre and then there is that level beyond that explains Iowa State’s 9-7 win against the Huskers.

“Eight turnovers,” Husker coach Bo Pelini said. “We could have gotten run out of the stadium. I don’t know if I’ve ever been around that in my coaching career. You can’t win a football game like that.”

“It was just like a force field to get across the goal line,” said sophomore wide receiver Brandon Kinnie.

Nebraska fumbled seven times and lost five.

For Husker fans, annoyance became concern, and finally settled at disbelief.

Pelini said he didn’t want to say his team beat itself, because that would take credit from what Iowa State did. Indeed, many of the turnovers were as much caused by Cyclones as lost by Huskers.

“I’m disappointed in our football team,” Pelini said. “I’m disappointed in it. It starts with me.”

After the game, junior nickel back Eric Hagg was asked if he’s ever been in a game where a team turns the ball over eight times.

“I haven’t,” Hagg said. “But on Madden (the video game) it happens sometimes.”

Oh, how the Huskers wish they could push the reset button.

You wanna talk about turnovers? This game turned my stomach. Another god awful performance by the Nebraska offense, which used a steady combination of interceptions and fumbles to spoil a spectacular effort by the Blackshirts and a tremendous individual performance by DT Ndamukong Suh.

How bad is the Big Red O? Well they've drawn rave reviews recently like these.

Mark Schlabach's Off the Mark - 1. Nebraska
The Cornhuskers had eight turnovers -- five fumbles and three interceptions -- in a 9-7 loss to Iowa State. It was the Cyclones' first victory in Lincoln since 1977.

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3. The Nebraska Offense
Against decent opponents, Zac Lee and the Husker offense have wilted all season. In the last four games with BCS opponents, they’ve produced just 59 points and a bunch of miscues. In Saturday’s ugly home loss to Iowa State, Nebraska failed to score a point over the final three quarters and Lee was picked off three times. Expect some changes in Lincoln because the status quo just isn’t working on offense.

Watching this game was honestly like watching a high school offense, but not a good offense like OHS. Maybe like Rotan High. But I trek forward with my favorite team. Hey, its just like Terrelle Pryor's wide receiver said about his play, "it has to get better, it can't get much worse."