Nebraska plays Iowa in basketball tonight. They were destroyed in their bowl game. They are Reeling from the same year end malaise that is infecting Husker fans. For them to beat Nebraska in basketball would mean a lot. If you don’t understand that, you have yet to fully understand how the Big Ten functions.

We all know that Nebraska football feeds the ego of the state. Nebraska basketball does not, nor will it ever no matter how good it becomes. Basketball will always be second fiddle to football, which is why the idea that we can buy whatever coach we want is ludicrous (but this is a subject for another article and I will just leave this here for right now).

This order of ego feeding is not true for most of the Big Ten. In most of the Big Ten the sports have a carryover concept. That means that were Nebraska to lose to Iowa in football (as we have this year), that we could make up for it by beating them in basketball. I realize this is a foreign concept to the vast majority of you but it is not to other Big Ten fans.

The game is on BTN tonight at 8 pm central. I suggest you watch. Nothing would be sweeter than kicking the Iowegians when they’re already down.

If that’s not enough for your ego, I suggest you re-arrange your life priorities because you are sad, pathetic excuse of a Husker fan.

NEWS

H.A.W.K.E.Y.E.S. Predicts: Nebraska and Rutgers - Black Heart Gold Pants

H.A.W.K.E.Y.E.S. pegs this game as a 70-50 blowout in favor of the Hawkeyes. I can’t say that I disagree. But I’m not sure I agree either. Personally, I’d say this one ends up closer to 80-70, Hawks. But this is a quirky team.

Source: Kevin Wilson to be named offensive coodinator at Ohio State - The Crimson Quarry

A source close to the situation tells Crimson Quarry that an announcement could come as early as today.

Roundtable: Who should be Minnesota’s new head football coach? - Bucky's 5th Quarter

Just put the future of the Gophers program in B5Q’s hands. We got this.

Claeys, Coyle, and the Minnesota coaching change from a fan’s point of view - The Daily Gopher

Thinking through everything we think we know.

Minnesota Football Coaching Candidate: P.J. Fleck - The Daily Gopher

Fleck led the Western Michigan Broncos to a conference championship in his fourth season at the school.

Elsewhere

11 preseason college football predictions that went totally wrong | FOX Sports

Some predictions go right. Some go horribly wrong. These are some of those predictions.

2017 NFL draft: List of underclassmen declaring | SI.com

Non-seniors have until Jan. 16 to declare for this year's draft.

What a joke! Coach K ends Grayson Allen's 'indefinite suspension' after just one game | FOX Sports

Give Mike Krzyzewski credit: In a situation where everybody was expecting the least of the Duke coach, he managed to outdo even the lowest of expectations.

It seems to me that a one-game “indefinite” suspension is a little bit low, but with Coach K being out for back surgery, maybe he felt it was something he didn’t want to leave to his assistant to deal with.

Put it this way - if he feels like his interim coach is good enough to take over for him some day, he doesn’t want him saddled with the losses that might occur with Allen out. OR he feels that if something happens again with Allen that he (Coach K) is okay for taking the blame for it.

How many are secretly hoping Allen trips someone again??? I’m not answering that.

A Lot Got Done In Cameron Wednesday Night - Duke Basketball Report

And only part of it was on the court.

This is from the Duke perspective - SBNation’s Duke site.

How Clemson shut down the Ohio St run game - Football Study Hall

Throughout the year it was apparent that Ohio State’s offense wasn’t humming like it had been back in 2014 when they surged to a title. The biggest overlooked key to that run was that inserting Cardale Jones and adding more vertical passing as a constraint to Zeke Elliott rather than the QB run read made that offense more explosive. They didn’t have that dimension this year but because their defense had been so dominant and their Barrett-led QB run game so tough, it still seemed that Ohio State might find a winning formula.

Nick Saban says Alabama will use former players on the scout team to prepare for Clemson - SBNation.com

The head coach has done this a few times this season.

College football championship: No better matchup than Alabama vs Clemson | SI.com

After 12 months, 14 weeks of action and 41 bowl games, the College Football Playoff will take us right back to where we were at the start of 2016