Game 7: Mizzou 41 Nebraska 24
I apologize for the lateness of this review but dang was that a bad game. For the first time this year you can honestly say that we were out played. And you know what? It was tied at the half. Nebraska somehow (I’ll never figure out how) came back from being down 21-3 to tie it up at 24 at the half. And to begin the second half, we had the momentum and started to drive. Then Terrence Nunn fumbles the ball (on a 4th down play no less) on the 5 yard line and Mizzou promptly turns the TO into a touchdown. It was pretty much downhill from then on. Nebraska is not good enough yet to over come 3 turnovers in the second half on the road. Nebraska started the second half going Punt, INT, Fumble, INT. Not good at all.
Brad Smith ran all over us. This is the kind of game he SHOULD have had last year in Lincoln but Mizzou coach Gary Pinkle decided that Smith should be a passer instead of runner. Always baffled me why he tried that. If Smith were on a good college team, he’d be in the Heisman Trophy talk. He’s that good. And you know, we didn’t do a bad job containing him in the 2nd Q. Unfortunately, there are 4 Q’s in the game. He just plain torched us in the 1st Q and we just aren’t good enough to over come that. Missing 2 starting linebackers doesn’t help our cause any either.
The D didn’t play great, the offence looked bad. The o-line looked porous. Zach Taylor is going to break by the end of the season if he keeps getting hit like that. Taylor looked decent but was the victim of the dropsies by his WR’s again. I really thought the problem had corrected itself after the TT and Baylor game. Guess not.
Oklahoma
Oklahomo Oklawho? comes to town now. This might be the most important game of the season. A real turning point. If NU wins this game, the next two look very winnable and 8 wins seems more than likely with the finale in CU to probably determine the Big 12 North. If NU loses then anything goes in the last three games.
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