Big Red Zone Rundown: Previewing Nebraska’s first game without Dylan Raiola

Hello everybody. Andy Kendy along with our big red zone insider, Sean Callahan of Husker Online. Man, we have been battling some, uh, technological bugs, but we are powering through. It is one of these weeks. It’s UCLA Week. It’s ***, it’s kind of *** California dreaming week, but, uh, kind of *** nightmare if you’re *** Dylan Royola, tough week for Dylan, Sean. Uh just bring the, the, the viewers and listeners up to speed on where Dylan is at and, and what’s his prognosis moving forward. Yeah, Dylan obviously uh broke *** bone in his leg this past Saturday, and at the time, it didn’t look like that. It looked like maybe just an ankle. And, you know, honestly, we were talking, it was looking like he was trying to go back in the game, and I’m like, man, now that we know what we know, thank goodness he didn’t go back in the game and they didn’t know on the field that he had *** broken bone in his leg or fractured bone. Um, he had the X-ray done and, and then they figured that out. Well, uh, fast forward to now this week. On Tuesday, he was on *** plane to New York to have surgery on that injury, um, and should be hopefully back in play within 12 weeks. So, um, not this year. Obviously, the season’s over, bowl game over, um, but you know, you would hope that maybe he’ll be *** fully recovered Dylan Riola by the time they get to spring football. But *** tough blow. Um, to lose *** guy, obviously that Nebraska has invested *** lot into and, and, and he’s been the face of this program, arguably the last two seasons. So 8 to 12 weeks I’m seeing, um, and that, that, that should put him right in line to be back 100% depending on when spring ball hits, right? I mean, that’s the, that’s the hope. Yeah, I, I gotta think it’s spring ball at this point. You can’t really go any earlier than that. I mean, yeah, like maybe if they’re playing in *** big bowl game or something. Uh, maybe there’d be *** path back, but it seems like, hey, you know what, let’s get him back for, for March and, and be 100% by then. Um, and, and we’ll just see how he comes back from it at that point, and, um, that’s the key. You want him to be fully recovered. You don’t want to rush this back at this point. The season’s over for him right now. Yeah, that’s too bad, but TJ Latif *** major opportunity for this kid. Um, you know, I had to check the other day. I was like, Rech your freshman freshman, because the question was brought up because he early enrolled and he didn’t he participate in bowl practices and he went through spring practice. So it seems like he’s been around for *** while. Right, still true freshman, but the, you know, as long as you graduate high school, you’re able to show up right then. So he came for that, you know, middle of December, he was able to get out here, um, essentially when high schools go on Christmas break, that’s when he was done. Um, and then he moved into Nebraska and, and took part in bowl practices. He was out at Fordham, uh, for those practices out there in the cold, um, and, and, you know, then obviously the spring, and he’s come *** long way because I will say this in the spring, Andy, it didn’t look like he was the number 2 and, and for him to get to this point, um, where he’s squarely the #1 guy now because of the injury, um, but to win the two job and get to this point now, it tells you how far he’s come. And he played *** high level of high school football. It’s not kid herself. I mean, Orange Lutheran play is *** very, very high level of California high school football. Yeah, that’s right outside Los Angeles. It’s uh so it’s gonna be *** homecoming for for TJ and um. It’s an interesting deal. We, we’ll get into UCLA in, in, in just *** minute. I, I, I want to circle back though and, and, and go through the USC grades if we could. Um, disappointing loss, you know, there’s no other way around it just because of the circumstances surrounding. It was, it was all right there, it was laid out, it was blackout, the crowd was electric. And they really had their shot against USC. What, you know, when you look at it now we’re *** little bit removed from it. What, when you look back, do you just shake your head like, oh, if they only did this or if they only did that, is it one of those games that you look back and say, man, they were that close, even though before the season, I know most Husker fans had this as an L on there when they were doing the win-loss thing. Yeah, it, it’s tough because you get USC and Lincoln in November in colder weather, not freezing cold, but colder weather, especially for them. It’s *** rarity. You don’t get *** team like USC in the Lincoln like that very often, um, and *** night game on top of that with colder conditions. So, it was set up for Nebraska to have some intangible advantages with the crowd and the colder conditions that might help *** defense and slow down *** passing attack *** little bit. Um, so that was the frustrating thing, and it, it, you know, Nebraska was one play away, Andy, it felt like from kind of really seizing control and even then. They were able to get up 17 to 14. You know, they were, you know, they, they had *** chance at one point to make it 17 to 6, uh, the USC tied it, um, when it was 14 to 6, got it tied up. I mean, there are just so many of those moments where you’re like, oh man, if they could have just handled this situation *** little differently, or *** little bit better, we’re probably talking about *** different game right now. Yeah, that, uh, key sequence in that, um, Third quarter. Actually, if you go back right before the Dylan injury, I mean, it’s right after an interception by Andrew Marshall, and then Dylan gets hurt like literally 3 minutes later on, on the natural clock. It was 8:34. I looked at my watch because I, I write these notes down. I was like, 8:34, that’s, uh, Dylan fumbles, he’s hurt. And, and that was, I mean, and they were knocking on the red zone door, right? I mean, if they, if they go in and score, You know, I know it’s, you know, it’s and nuts, candy nuts, whatever, but I, that, that’s, that type of play could change things. And then you move forward, and then that whole 4th and one thing and then they wind up going for the field goal and, you know, Kyle Kunan and misses, and so it’s still 14, 6. So two opportunities in that 3rd quarter, you just go back and go, oh, if they only would have done that. Yeah, it was, it was there for the taking, and I think that’s the frustrating thing that Nebraska has just not figured out ways to win games like this where You know, Lincoln Riley, *** highly paid $10 million head coach, he’s just not gonna hand it to you. You gotta, you gotta win it. And that was the frustrating thing for me, like, they were given chances to win it, and they could not do it. And then when you don’t do it, *** good coach like Lincoln Riley is gonna figure out ways on his end to win it, and they did. Yeah, you gotta go take it when you’re taking on *** team like USC. All right, let’s, uh, let’s check out some of these greats from Pro Football Focus. I’m actually very intrigued because I have not seen these yet. And um You know, I, I would guess it’s, you know, some defensive backs probably would probably grade out high in the, in the, uh, maybe the, the linebackers did OK, I think, at times, but man, that run game, when you give up 202 yards, that’s *** lot. But let’s start with the offense, you know, there’s Dylan’s grade, which was *** mid-grade. TJ Lati did not grade out well, but very limited sample size. Yeah, um. Had *** really low overall grade in this, um, when you look at it, and some of it was just the fumbles and the and some of the situations in the in the game itself that he got dinged on, uh, but he was the lowest graded out player for Nebraska on Saturday. Um, you know, Riola though again was 0-2 on his passes of 20 + yards, 2 of 5 on throws of 10 to 19 yards. Um, Lati did two deeper shots, 0 of 2, so Nebraska 0-4 on their deep balls in this game. Um, the average depth of throw to me is notable. Rio was 9.5 yards per throw depth-wise. Latifs was 6.3, so clearly *** difference in what they were doing with how they pushed the ball down the field with, with the two quarterbacks. And running backs wise, man, I tell you what, Emmett Johnson every week puts another, another line on his resume to make it, uh, not only the Uh, all Big 10, but maybe even the Big 10 back of the year. He, he graded out at 75.5, the best running back gra clearly and obviously had the majority of the snaps. Yeah, Emmett Johnson um became just the fourth back over the last 30 years at Nebraska to get 1000 yards in 9 games. Um, so it kind of puts into context what 1,0002 yards means for Emmett. Um, 113 of his 165 yards came after contact, that’s 3.9 yards per carry. Um, he had 4 runs of 10 + yards in the game itself, and he converted 9 rushing first downs. Um, you know, I, I, I, I think when you look at it on the year, 2, Johnson has just one fumble, Andy. He’s carried the ball more than any back in the conference with just one fumble. I think that’s also notable. He made, um, several tacklers miss 9 on Saturday. He’s forced *** Big 10 high 53 missed tackles. That’s amazing. That’s amazing. Wide receiver grades. Uh, yeah, kind of an average outing and when you’re in the low 60s to high 50s, and, you know, the, the thing about Jacori Barney, I know that Dana talked about it *** little bit that they’re trying to, they’d like to get on the ball more, but *** lot of the things they can’t really do deep balls because of the protection issues. But, um, I know that in the, in the, in *** perfect world they’re giving, they’re feeding Jacore *** little bit more. Yeah, Jacori Barney just hasn’t. Really had the opportunity since the Michigan game to really get going like we thought, and it’s been Isaiah Hunter, clearly the #1 receiver for Nebraska. Again, he gets the most targets for the Huskers with 9, had the most catches. Uh, you know, and both Dane Key and Barney had lower numbers like Key though had the big touchdown catch. One thing I want to zone in on that Andy is, is this, um, run block grade. I think all four of those receivers, Quinn Clark, though, and Isaiah Hunter, both physical guys had excellent run blocking grades, and I think that’s big for what Emma Johnson does. Yeah, no question about it, especially Quinn Clark with the highest run grade, uh. According to pro football focus, tight ends kind of what you expect, right? Yeah, not *** lot there. 2 catches, 2 targets for Luke Lindenmayer, no Carter Nelson, Cater Ekernak, um, Caden Ekernak played ***, you know, he played his most snaps in *** game, um, in terms of power 4 competition. He hadn’t played offensive snaps since Maryland, so. They clearly wanted to go bigger with him as kind of an H-back, and he played more snaps in this game. What’s the deal with uh Carter Nelson? Any idea, any insight there? I mean, he’s on special teams, but he’s just not in the rotation for what they’re doing. I mean, I just think that’s what it comes down to. Yeah. It’s *** guy who had so much preseason promise, it just hasn’t, it just hasn’t happened for him yet. It’s not saying it won’t, it just hasn’t happened yet. Offensive line here. It’s, uh, you know, obviously, uh, Elijah Prchet goes out with an injury and man, they had to do some, some shuffling between Corcoran and Kok. Um, but, you know, in terms of run grades, average, pass grades, decent, I mean, what Rayola was only sacked once, right? I’m not the sack was actually charged to Riola because he held the ball in the pocket where he should have probably got rid of it. And that was *** long time on how that sack play developed, so no sacks charged to the line, but 3 hurries were charged to the offensive line, um, you know, Riola, um. Again, had 2 he got rid of the ball, uh, in *** 2.22 seconds in terms of time to throw. Latif was 2.81, so held the ball kind of *** split second longer than what Riola did in the game itself. Uh, the pass blocking team great Andy was 83.8, which is actually their second best score of the season. Um, but, and I think some of again is how they get rid of the ball out of Dylan’s hand quickly. Yeah, I, I do think that was steamed up to be like that. I gotta hand it to Rocco Spindler though, Sean, I mean the guy has been playing hurt, banged up and He just, if you didn’t know he had, he had what he had going in in terms of, uh, his broken finger, uh, you would have no idea. *** guy is *** gamer in my opinion, gained *** lot of respect. Yeah, and uh hopefully every week he maybe gets *** little bit better, um, in terms of closer to speed. Mhm. No question. All right, let’s look at the defense, defensive line grades. You know, you still get frustrated *** little bit as uh this game, you know, They give up 200+ rushing, they don’t really get to the quarterback. What, what’s your thoughts? Yeah, you know, they, they struggled to get to Jada Mayeva. They actually sacked him twice, but both were intentional grounding sacks. So, um, you know, even when they got to him, Majeva just didn’t want to go down. He just does what he can to preserve the, the, the, the yard and distance. Um, the tackling was good though. I think the tackling was solid for this team up front. Unfortunately, they just didn’t get the pass rush or maybe the consistency from *** few guys against the run. Yeah, no doubt, uh, you know. And I, and I’m knocking the defensive lines team game, um, but you know, it’s, it’s, they, they held, uh, USC to *** couple 100 yards below their average. I will give them that, but it also comes with that 200+ yards rushing. How about the linebackers? Yeah, looking at this linebacker group, Andy, Jan Wright uh led the way with snaps in the game, um, but again, It it wasn’t *** really great game in terms of grades. Tackling was OK. Marquis Watson Trent though missed some tackles. You see his tackling score reflect that on here, um, on the run, um, but I, I think in general, an OK game from this group, um, you would have liked to have seen *** little bit more production, uh, from these linebackers at times, especially with how they played the run. Yeah, DeSean McCullough was kind of banged up in that game as well. All right, secondary. Yeah, moving through the secondary, Andy, um, it is really notable what this group has been doing. I mean, the coverage has just been outstanding by the corners. um, Andrew Marshall, Donovan Jones, C Wright. I mean, they held UFC’s really talented offense to the worst game of the season in terms of yards and uh Makai Lemmon was leading the Big 10 and, and they, they held him to his worst game of the year. So there were *** lot of positives, I think, with this group, but both Jones and Marshall had outstanding games. The pick, the interception from Andrew Marshall. was the type of play that should have turned the game 100% 100%. I couldn’t agree with you more. That play was *** gamer play. That’s *** playmaker’s play, and that really should have turned the tide, and it just didn’t. Uh, and, and I will say the USC really tried to go after Jones and Marshall, and they, they held they held tall, they held tough, and I, I will say that, uh, *** team that goes against the #1 pass defense and plays like that, that’s pretty darn impressive. And you can say all you want, like, yeah, they racked up stats in the first couple of games. No, no, they’re doing it against pretty good teams at this point, so. No doubt. I mean, and, you know, USC’s offense, Li and Riley, I mean, that’s what they’re made for. That’s why he’s there to put up big numbers with that unit. All right, let’s look at the UCLA Bruins and how they stack up what jumps out at you on this page. You know, you look at their offense and it’s, it’s not great, you know, they, they do run the ball better than Nebraska, and some of that has to do with their quarterback rushing. Um, I think Niko’s rushing yards are why they have *** better overall rush average than Nebraska, um, but from *** passing perspective, uh, Nebraska, much better passing team, *** much better overall scoring team. That’s what gets your attention that UCLA is only averaging 20.4 points, um, defensively, Nebraska is about 100 yards per game better in those categories, um, against the run, UCLA is one of the worst teams in the conference, so you hope that that is going to play into this where Nebraska is able to take advantage of UCLA’s struggles against the run, but guess what? Nebraska struggles against the run too, Andy. Um, so that’s something to keep note of. Nebraska ranks 2nd nationally in passing defense right now. UCLA is actually 8th. Um, so both teams have good passing defenses. The Huskers have only allowed 3, passing touchdowns all year, but, Andy, they’ve allowed 8 rushing touchdowns by the quarterback. Um, so I do think in this game with Niko’s running ability, that’s something to keep note of. Yeah, we saw that with Naa against USC and how they utilize his legs and An interesting deal, and we, you mentioned Niko Yamalava, who’s the UCLA Bruins leading rusher from the quarterback position. If you don’t take away the losses from the quarterback sacks, he’s at 504 yards and he’s carried it 81 times. It works out to be about 10. Carries *** game, you got to believe they’re gonna go over that amount against Nebraska knowing their struggles against mobile quarterbacks so far this year. Right. And, and you look at the numbers from Tennessee to, to UCLA, he’s on *** pace and he’s got more rushing yards now than he did all of last year, and there’s still 4 games remaining. So I think Nico has put up some very good respectable numbers and they don’t have an elite tailback. I mean, Jalen Berger is their, their guy. And he’s only got 249 yards rushing. Yeah, I’m 59 carries, so again, that’s less than 6 totes *** game. So that’s an interesting deal. And they, and they’re wide receivers, fine, they’re fine, right? They’re decent, they’re decent. They can make plays when necessary, but against Nebraska’s #2 passing defense. I can’t imagine them going after him through the air. No doubt, and I think Nebraska, they have to have *** plan, Andy. Just to be ready for the pass and Uh, I’m sorry, the QB scrambles and what, what Nico’s gonna be able to do because if, if Nebraska’s corners can lock these guys up, I do think that’s gonna be *** problem for what UCLA does. All right, uh, give me yeah, let me see what that is, the, the, the numbers to know from Pro Football Focus, what, what really jumps out at you in terms of the Bruins and what really grabs your attention when you’re getting ready to face *** UCLA program. Yeah, I think Nico, um, when Brett when pressured and when Blitz has given up *** lot, *** lot of turnovers and, and is not near as good. So how do you pressure him and get after him at *** high level? Um, he has had 7 turnover worthy plays in this game, or in the in the on the season. Mhm mhm. And isn’t it kind of, you know, Uh, they’ve had that coaching change. Don’t get me wrong. Tim Skipper has done *** nice job, but Jerry Neuheisel is the offensive coordinator and he’s what, 33 years old, looks, looks much younger. John Butler’s got to be like, OK, we’re gonna throw this kid some curveballs, and I cannot wait to see what happens in that little chess match, uh, when the Huskers are on defense. Yeah, just some of the coverage looks, that’s what they have to do. They’ve got *** You know, and he said that this week, he’s like, when Niko knows what you’re doing on coverage, he’s *** good quarterback. So I think the key is, how do you get him to not know what you’re doing. Um, and they do have one kind of internal advantage. Mike Eckler was on the coaching staff, went against Niko every day in practice at Tennessee *** year ago. So he, he’s got *** good scouting report, he knows his. It was what he can do well and what he maybe still needs to work on. Well let’s flip the the sides of the football. What what’s the biggest like, um, I don’t want to say concerned because obviously, uh first-time starter, there’s gonna be concerns there. But what can Nebraska do to take the pressure off TJ Latif and not only his first start, but his first start in his backyard basically grew up in the Los Angeles area. I mean, what can they do? I, I think it starts with this line of scrimmage play on both sides. If they can play good consistent line of scrimmage football, your chances of winning any game are high. Um, so can they protect Lati? Can they give him the line of scrimmage on offense, but also defense, can they get off the field, um, and, and just not put him in pressure situations. You’d hate Latif to have to come in down 14 points or something and then expect him to kind of do it all on his own. Are you, are you surprised that, uh, Gramstad’s name hasn’t been brought up once? Not really, because you have such *** limited crack at questions. And when Matt Rhule tends to give longer answers, it’s hard to like say I’m gonna blow one of my questions on the #2 quarterback, um, because you might only get one question to Matt Rhule the whole week. It’s so I, I, I do think people are *** little bit more selective. In what they ask coach Rhule, because he tends to go longer on some answers which give you less chances to ask about specific things, um, just by his nature of giving such expansive answers. I’m actually very intrigued to see how the offense looks uh in relation to what it used to look like under Dylan. Do you expect *** different looking offense with uh *** more mobile quarterback behind center? I do. I mean, I think you’re gonna see *** lot more zone read, Andy, and, and, and moving the pocket, just getting the ball out, getting the ball down field. I just think it all makes sense. That you build the game plan this week with the with the strengths of TJ Latif and what he does. He’s not Riola, and you’ve got to figure that out and and and build it accordingly. Yeah, but he does have the ability to throw. I mean, we saw in *** limited sample size in those in mop up duties that he can, he can throw the deep ball so it’s not just he’s, he’s not *** runner. I think I remember you saying earlier this week that you know, he was recruited as *** pocket passer, right? Did I hear you say that? Yeah, I mean when I looked at him coming out of high school. He reminded me of like *** CJ Stroud. Like, he can run, but that’s not his first trait. He’s definitely faster than Dylan Riola. He’s definitely *** better runner, um, but in his high school offense, he was more of like *** CJ Stroud. He’ll run when it’s there, uh, but it wasn’t like *** part of his every play repertoire. How much are you looking forward to get back to the Rose Bowl? I know we talked off camera about this, but uh this is trip number what for you at Pasadena. This will be trip number 3. I was there in 2012 for the last Nebraska game, and I was there in ’01 for the Rose Bowl national title game against Miami. So, I was my first trip there, I was *** junior in college, interning for Kevin Cougler. That’s amazing. my own way and I slept on the floor. Seriously, what tell me *** little bit about that. So, OK, Kevin’s like, hey, Sean. Come on out. Yeah, I’m not promising you anything. You can sleep on my floor. Is that what he said? Yeah, that’s how it was. I mean, I, I would go on trips back then. We went to Norman for the 1 verse 2 game in 2000, and we stayed in *** Laquinta Inn and I in Oklahoma, not even in Norman, Oklahoma City, and I, I, I slept on the floor. Did you get *** pillow? Did you get *** pillow? Yeah, I got *** pillow. Big 10 days, um, you know, we went to Dallas and, you know, I was same deal. I mean, we, we had one hotel room for the station and And I was, I was the on-site intern. So give me, yeah, so give me your role. What did you do? Like at that Rose Bowl, what did you do? Were you, were you like during shows you try to go guests to get him to talk to Kevin during the show, I was just *** goer and and bring people over, um, you know, there were so many people there. And we did shows on 1620 at that point, and I can remember like grabbing Bob Ryan and bringing Bob Ryan on the show and sitting him down and I was in it was Kevin and it was Bob Bruce back then, um, who was Kevin’s original partner before Michael Sevier, um, but we were just bringing in people interviewing left and right, and um I what I can remember the night before, two nights before the game. Um, you know, Keyshawn Johnson was there and he had just come out with his Give me the damn ball book with Shelley Smith, the University of Nebraska grad, and I knew Shelly, uh, pretty well, and she threw *** big party for all the media at the ESPN sports zone with Keyshawn, um, so there was kind of this huge like media soiree. And I can remember talking like Dan Levitar and uh Bill Rhoden and and it was *** different era of sports. Bill Rhoden is *** former New York Times sports columnist back then. Um, but Dan Le Batar looks at me and he goes, there’s no chance Nebraska wins this game, you know that, right? Like, I mean, if you know Dan Le Batar, like you could hear him saying like he was just as blunt and prickish as you could be. Yeah, and it turned out to be absolutely 100, Woody, um, Page was there, yeah, around the headline, um, his headline of the column was when Kane Met unable. That’s great. That’s great. Hey, what, what do you, I don’t, I don’t remember *** whole lot about that 2012 game. I remember, uh, Uh, Amir Abdullah had *** good game and they were close and couldn’t get over the hump, right? And I remember being in the Rose Bowl because I had been there *** couple of times covering Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl, but I had been there when it was full, and it was kind of jarring to see empty seats in the Rose Bowl for *** regular season game. I’m, I’m sure we’re going to see that there Saturday. But what, what do you remember most about that 2012 trip out there? Um, what I remember is I believe it was like one of Gus Johnson’s first games he did for Nebraska and You know, Taylor Martinez had kind of one of those games where he had *** bunch of big runs, and they should have won that game. I mean, they just completely squandered it. Brett Maher had *** rare field goal miss. And then there was *** 4th and 1. And they bring in Mike Marrow, um, the son of Vince Marrow, take the carry, and you had Amir Abdullah, you had Rex Burkhead, you had CJ Zimmer, you had Andy Janovich. You had *** lot of options, *** lot of options there, and they give it to *** guy that really wasn’t *** proven or great ball carrier in this offense, and he get, he got stuffed and, and that was like the play that lost in the game. Cause I truly believe if they get that first down, they probably win the game. Yeah, isn’t it funny how the the games can turn on one missed 4th down opportunity and we see it all the time. We saw it last week, for goodness sake. How are you getting out there? Are you going through anything? You’re, you’re connecting, um, we’re doing Burbank. I mean, I know out of Omaha you can do the LAX, which is *** great deal. Um, but yeah, I think from everyone I’ve talked to going to Pasadena, you want to go to Burbank. Yep, that’s what we’re doing. We’re flying we’re flying through Vegas, which I don’t know how smart that is to have me on *** trip to Vegas that’s connecting. We’ll see if I get on the connecting flight. I’ve flown into, I’ve done Orange County. I’ve done uh Ontario and obviously LAX. I’ve never done Burbank that I can remember. I might have flown Burbank in ’01, but I was like 21, so I don’t really remember if it was Burbank or Orange County. Uh, but it might have been Burbank way back in the day, but I think it’s *** smaller airport, isn’t it? Yeah, it is *** smaller airport, more manageable from what I’m understanding, and, and, and it seriously, like at least an hour’s difference in terms of getting from the airport to Pasadena, which we’re staying right in that I do think for USC though LAX makes more sense. 100%, no doubt, 100%, and that’s an airport hotel. In my opinion, so, but yeah, because, you know, this is one of these trips though, and you know, we’re talking travel here, but this is one of these trips where Husker fans, you have *** whole bunch of Husker fans trying to get to every Big 10 site. Here’s your chance to go to the Rose Bowl and then you’ve got fans in Phoenix and Vegas in Northern California, Southern California. For those people, this is their trip from North Platte to Lincoln or Carni to Lincoln. I mean this is their. Trip to hey, I’m gonna go to *** Husker game and drive 2 to 4 hours to get to it, right? And they have that big alumni from Nebraska that this is their big Ari Arizonans for Nebraska, I guess. I mean, there’s so many of these West Coast chapters and this is their this is their big one. I mean, just like we saw in Maryland for that group of fans in Maryland and Virginia and DC and Uh, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, that was their game. Yep, yep, and no doubt, and, uh, and, and we saw last year at USC where there was thousands of Husker fans. I’ll be interested to see what the total will be this Saturdaystripe Bowl, you met so many like New Jersey, New York, Nebraska fans. No doubt. Everybody’s got some kind of connection that one, and this is their chance, like you said, and, and for people who think that Nebraska is just this little footprint in the Midwest that is the furthest thing from the truth. What, what is your postgame show going on? Oh gosh, we’re hopeful for 12:30. 12:30 central. Yeah, that’s probably optimistic though. OK, so yeah, 30, uh, yeah, no, we’re, we’re probably 1. OK, all right, 1 o’clock. All right, well, uh, join Sean on his postgame show on Husker online, uh, on their YouTube channel, and you can make sure to get uh. Coach Rule’s comments on either Husker online or KETV’s YouTube channel. The channel that when you subscribe to KETV is still, still working, so people I know I have questions with that. So it’s gonna be an 8 o’clock central time start. It’s on Fox. It’s Nebraska and UCLA for Sean Callahan, I’m Andy Kennedy. Thanks for joining us on Big Red Zone rundown.

Big Red Zone Rundown: Previewing Nebraska’s first game without Dylan Raiola

Updated: 5:05 PM CST Nov 5, 2025

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This week on Big Red Zone Rundown, Andy Kendeigh and Sean Callahan of Husker Online break down what’s next after quarterback Dylan Raiola’s season-ending injury. The guys look back at the grades in the loss to USC and look ahead to an important road game at UCLA.You can see the full discussion in the video player above or you can listen to this episode on KETV’s Spotify.Make sure you can always see the latest news, weather, sports and more from KETV NewsWatch 7 on Google search.NAVIGATE: Home | Weather | Local News | National | Sports | Newscasts on demand |

OMAHA, Neb. —

This week on Big Red Zone Rundown, Andy Kendeigh and Sean Callahan of Husker Online break down what’s next after quarterback Dylan Raiola’s season-ending injury.

The guys look back at the grades in the loss to USC and look ahead to an important road game at UCLA.

You can see the full discussion in the video player above or you can listen to this episode on KETV’s Spotify.

Make sure you can always see the latest news, weather, sports and more from KETV NewsWatch 7 on Google search.

NAVIGATE: Home | Weather | Local News | National | Sports | Newscasts on demand |