Nebraska football 2022 season preview | Schedule predictions
This week on the Big 10 Takeover is a season preview of the Nebraska Cornhuskers. When you look at the 2021 season for Nebraska, it was a season truly defined by potential. Despite finishing 3-9 overall, and with a 1-8 conference record, they outscored their opponents by 63 points on the season, and had a net zero point differential in conference play. Some questioned whether Scott Frost had one more chance to get it right, but it seems even after a 3-9 record, the team, athletic department, and school is still bought in, especially after a restructured contract that could keep him in Lincoln until 2026. Can Nebraska finally turn the corner in 2022?
This week on the Big 10 Takeover is a season preview of the Nebraska Cornhuskers. When you look at the 2021 season for Nebraska, it was a season truly defined by potential. Despite finishing 3-9 overall, and with a 1-8 conference record, they outscored their opponents by 63 points on the season and had a net-zero point differential in conference play. Some questioned whether Scott Frost had one more chance to get it right, but it seems even after a 3-9 record, the team, athletic department, and school is still bought in, especially after a restructured contract that could keep him in Lincoln until 2026. Can Nebraska finally turn the corner in 2022?
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2021 Season Review
Nebraska was such an interesting team in 2021.
They finished the season with a 3-9 overall record, and a 1-8 record in conference play.
The saying of “Nebrsaka might have been the most talented 3 win team in CFB history” might be true, and some might think of that as insulting, but I think it shows Nebraska’s potential.
They outscored their opponents by 63 points, and had a point differential of zero in conference play. What does this mean? They were so close to flipping their record around, and it was all due to one-score games.
Illinois 30 Nebraska 23
Oklahoma 23 Nebraska 16
MSU 23 Nebraska 20
Michigan 32 Nebraska 29
Minnesota 30 Nebraska 23
Purdue 28 Nebraska 23
OSU 26 Nebraska 17
Wisconsin 35 Nebraska 28
Iowa 28 Nebraska 21
The constant theme of their season last year was not being able to finish games out. My second & third year at Miami in 2017 / 2018 we had a similar issue, finishing 5-7 and 6-6 both years, but once we figured that out in 2019, we closed out those close games in conference play time and time again, and won a conference championship and made it to a bowl game. Typically when teams have this issue, it’s not a talent problem, it’s not a buy into the culture problem, it’s just something that needs to shift mentally in the athlete’s heads to close those games out.
Head coach Scott Frost and Nebraska agree to a restructured contract that adds 2 years to his deal, which signals some level of trust with his vision, but it also does give some better avenues for him and the university. The AD even said that when both parties have skin in the game, they’re both incentivized to succeed. So while the university has a better out to fire him if needed, Frost has some outs as well. The cost for Nebraska to fire Frost is the same amount of money Frost would owe Nebraska if he decided to return.
2022 Preview
Departures
QB Adrian Martinez
OL Cam Jurgens
CB Cam Taylor Britt
WR Samouri Toure
TE Austin Allen
Key Returners
DE Caleb Tannor
OL Turner Corcoran
WR Zavier Bets (6’2 200) 286 yards
WR Omar Manning (6’4 225) 380 yards 2 TDs
RB Rahmir Johnson 500 yards 4 TDs
New Additions
QB Casey Thompson, Texas
DL Devin Drew, Texas Tech
Schedule
Northwestern → W
North Dakota → W
Georgia Southern → W
Oklahoma → W
Indiana → W
@ Rutgers → W
@ Purdue → L
Illinois → W
Minnesota → L
@ Michigan → L
Wisconsin → L
@ Iowa → L
Overall → 7-5
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2021 Season Review
Nebraska was such an interesting team in 2021.
They finished the season with a 3-9 overall record, and a 1-8 record in conference play.
The saying of “Nebrsaka might have been the most talented 3 win team in CFB history” might be true, and some might think of that as insulting, but I think it shows Nebraska’s potential.
They outscored their opponents by 63 points, and had a point differential of zero in conference play. What does this mean? They were so close to flipping their record around, and it was all due to one-score games.
Illinois 30 Nebraska 23
Oklahoma 23 Nebraska 16
MSU 23 Nebraska 20
Michigan 32 Nebraska 29
Minnesota 30 Nebraska 23
Purdue 28 Nebraska 23
OSU 26 Nebraska 17
Wisconsin 35 Nebraska 28
Iowa 28 Nebraska 21
The constant theme of their season last year was not being able to finish games out. My second & third year at Miami in 2017 / 2018 we had a similar issue, finishing 5-7 and 6-6 both years, but once we figured that out in 2019, we closed out those close games in conference play time and time again, and won a conference championship and made it to a bowl game. Typically when teams have this issue, it’s not a talent problem, it’s not a buy into the culture problem, it’s just something that needs to shift mentally in the athlete’s heads to close those games out.
Head coach Scott Frost and Nebraska agree to a restructured contract that adds 2 years to his deal, which signals some level of trust with his vision, but it also does give some better avenues for him and the university. The AD even said that when both parties have skin in the game, they’re both incentivized to succeed. So while the university has a better out to fire him if needed, Frost has some outs as well. The cost for Nebraska to fire Frost is the same amount of money Frost would owe Nebraska if he decided to return.
2022 Preview
Departures
QB Adrian Martinez
OL Cam Jurgens
CB Cam Taylor Britt
WR Samouri Toure
TE Austin Allen
Key Returners
DE Caleb Tannor
OL Turner Corcoran
WR Zavier Bets (6’2 200) 286 yards
WR Omar Manning (6’4 225) 380 yards 2 TDs
RB Rahmir Johnson 500 yards 4 TDs
New Additions
QB Casey Thompson, Texas
DL Devin Drew, Texas Tech
Schedule
Northwestern → W
North Dakota → W
Georgia Southern → W
Oklahoma → W
Indiana → W
@ Rutgers → W
@ Purdue → L
Illinois → W
Minnesota → L
@ Michigan → L
Wisconsin → L
@ Iowa → L
Overall → 7-5
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