Report Card: Oklahoma Sooners 23, Huskers 20

wasn’t a running threat. If you have a tape of the game and watch Martinez after several plays, one can see him slightly limping. OU had to have picked up on this and starting their blitz-krieg (German term but fits here), putting pressure on him on the run and when passing, which he couldn’t handle. His inexperience showed a lot, especially under pressure situations, and NU paid for that dearly. He should have been pulled shortly after we went up 17-0.

Both Pelini and Watson should be criticized for not pulling him – Lee would have been the more conservative, experienced QB to go with, and NU should have stuck to running it more up the middle as well. Some of those calls throughout the 2nd half looked more like desparation on our part, and not like something you would expect from NU.

It is history now, and all we have to look forward to now is a rematch against Washington, which was really stupid on the part of the bowl selection committees everywhere. What a bunch of idiots. I bet the Insight idiots are already regretting their decision to choose Missouri.
OU is going to walk all over Connecticut as well, and there are a couple of rematches in other bowls between teams that played each other this year and/or play each other next season.

The BCS is going to take heat for OU vs Connecticut after they romp, and there will be more pressure on the BCS to integrate some kind of playoff into their assinine system. Virginia Tech going to the Orange Bowl, rated behind Boise State & having being beaten by Boise State, is one example of BCS bullshit.

So, this is my first time posting, new to Corn Nation. I agree with Husker Mike’s take, but will say that I have been critical of Watson for a long time now. I think he is a mediocre OC and just cannot seem to keep offenses moving against Oklahoma. Was at the game last year and saw so many opennings that he did not take advantage of by changing his play calling. I really hope that Osborne and Pelini take into consideration getting a new OC next year, hopefully one with imagination.

I also do not like going to play Washington in the Holiday Bowl and also do not like the start time. Moved out East, so it is a 10 pm start on a Thursday night.

There was all of that talk last week regarding Martinez being a prima donna. I hope that game brings him back to Earth a bit and hopefully he can attain some humility and bring better focus to the bowl game.

I give it a + because our D played well (outside of a deep TD pass against a young safety). You don’t go up 17 points in the championship game and knocking on the door at the 3 yd line after an interception and blow a scoring chance and expect to win.

You don’t drive the ball down the field with Burkhead running and then decide to pass.

You don’t keep a QB in the game that is holding onto the ball WAY too long and taking costly sacks and is displaying 0 confidence. Huge coaching mistake IMO. The game on the line and we can at least tie it with Henery and we are sacked out of perceived FG range.

After getting sacked and it is 4th and long (with 1.5 minutes left), you don’t go for it and hope. You put in arguably the best kicker in the history of college football in the game and tell him to kick it like he has never done before.

I just feel like we didn’t deserve to be there anyways..the lack of fundamentals killed us this season, plain and simple..we were a much better team before Taylor got hurt (top 10 i’d wager), but without him at 100% we don’t have the coaching/talent/fundamentals to make up for it.

I love the game of football but I never played it myself. Is fumbling considered more of a mental mistake or physical problem. I know there are different causes of fumbles such as a strip, helmet on the ball and bad hand offs but it seems like Nebraska has been plagued by them all. How do you go about correcting that problem? Run them through ball stripping drills? I saw something on a sports science show saying that if a running back holds the ball in a certain “cradle” position in one arm, the percentage chance of them losing the football is less than 10% or something insane like that. I just thought I would throw that out there.

I’m not going to mince words.

Watson’s playcalling, in the second half, was nothing short of tragic. Statistically, it was worse than last year’s championship game against Texas.

This also falls on Bo for the decision to keep a freshman, who was in way over his head, in the game.