Dominant Buckeye Win Shows How Far Nebraska Has To Go
Scott Frost knows a thing or two about good football programs and what it takes to build one. Frost inherited a UCF team coming off of an 0-12 season in 2015. He got the Knights to a bowl game in his first year and then finished his second season 13-0, including a Peach Bowl win over Auburn.
After watching his Nebraska team get absolutely dominated on both sides of the ball in a 48-7, there was no doubt what Frost thought about the Buckeyes.
“I knew they were a good team and they’re
really good now,” he said.
“They just put pressure on you because they’re really good on defense, really good on offense, they’re good on special teams.”
After watching the game Saturday night, it was hard to disagree with any of that. The Buckeyes physically dominated the Huskers along the lines on both sides of the ball. OSU scored on eight of its first nine drives, and held the Huskers to three plays or less on five of their first seven drives.
But it wasn’t just that the Buckeyes beat Nebraska in every phase of the game. They did it basically from the beginning of the game to the end.
“They were more consistent than we were and that’s what wins games now, not just big plays, but consistency on all three phases of the game,” said Nebraska DL Darrion Daniels.
The Huskers came into the weekend as 17-point underdogs, so a loss probably wasn’t a total shock. But the way it happened was, because Nebraska came close to pulling off a big upset in Columbus a year earlier.
That day, an OSU squad that finished 13-1 and Rose Bowl champions escaped with a 36-31 win. But Frost said this year’s Buckeye team is on a whole new level.
“I give a ton of credit to them and their coaching staff because they’re a lot better football team than they were a year ago,” he said.
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Frost has won nearly universal support in Lincoln thanks to his energy and enthusiasm. But Saturday night under the lights, there was no denying that his program was no match for the Buckeyes.
“That’s where we’re trying to get and where we’re going to get,” Frost said. “We’re just not there right now.”
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Just sayin': Corn has a really great fan base, great facilities, and (I'll say) a very good coaching staff too; however, I don't think they will ever return to the level of dominance that they had back in the 60s and 70s.
1. The state of Nebraska and bordering states aren't exactly a hotbeds of division 1A football talent.
2. They have a much harder time recruiting Texas since they aren't in the BIG XII and are at an disadvantage in recruiting in the East and North East as Ohio State, Penn State, scUM and numerous other schools are geographically closer.
3. Their "acclaimed" walk-on program of the 60s and 70s no longer exists, with today's recruiting those talented walk-ons of decades past get offered scholarships now (i.e. they don't slip through the cracks anymore).
4. They now test for steroids and their use is a violation of NCAA rules; i.e. no more (chemically induced) dominate OLs of decades past, etc.
With that being said, I do think that they could be "2nd tier team" like Wisky, i.e. consistently a top 25 team and annual contender for the B1G West.
