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00:00 Welcome to the Carriker Chronicles, the people show.
00:12 Chuck in the Post, Rescue the Nation brought to you by DPS Concrete Construction.
00:14 This is my gut reaction to Iowa's 13 to 10 victory over Nebraska in football today.
00:20 Now before I, we're just going to chat.
00:21 I mean, I got millions of notes just like always, but we're going to chat about this
00:25 game.
00:26 But before I dive into that, make sure you support Nebraska Volleyball as they travel
00:29 to Wisconsin and they face the Badgers in a rematch of a great volleyball match from
00:32 earlier this year.
00:33 Also, Nebraska Soccer is playing in the Elite Eight versus Stanford.
00:38 They're both coming up here shortly.
00:40 Make sure you support those teams and programs as well.
00:43 I think what's challenging, not just this game, because I'm looking back at this game,
00:48 but also the last four games.
00:50 It's challenging how we lost.
00:52 It's challenging that the games were close.
00:54 It's challenging that we couldn't find ways to win.
00:56 It's challenging that we look like the better first half team versus Wisconsin and then
01:00 no adjustments in the second half.
01:02 It's challenging that Iowa was the better first half team today.
01:05 We were the better second half team and yet they find a way to win.
01:08 These weren't uber tough opponents, okay, week after week.
01:11 Couldn't find a way to win.
01:13 Just things here and there.
01:15 Alright, here we go.
01:19 Nebraska has lost 23 straight games, now 24 versus ranked opponents.
01:22 Now, if you're as frustrated with how we lost these last four games in a row, whether it
01:27 be game management, clock management, poor uses of timeouts, just finding ways to lose
01:34 a bunch of these close games as opposed to finding a way to win, smash the like button.
01:38 Alright, real quick, coming in.
01:39 Now this is Brian Ferenc, baby Ferenc, third to last game he was going to coach.
01:43 He's going to coach the Big Ten Championship game.
01:44 He's going to coach in the bowl game after this.
01:47 Now, backup quarterback, Deacon Hill, okay, after Cade McNamara, the transfer from Michigan,
01:52 got hurt earlier this year, been done for the year.
01:54 Deacon Hill came in and he struggled.
01:55 Guy looks like a defensive lineman, I can say that.
01:58 I used to be a D lineman quarterback in high school.
02:00 He looks like a big old D lineman playing quarterback out there.
02:03 Okay, his first three starts he was awful.
02:05 He had a 34% completion percentage.
02:07 His last three games had changed a lot.
02:08 He was completing 65% of his passes, 78% completion percentage on first down coming into this
02:13 game.
02:14 Now Iowa's defense, very good as we know.
02:16 Alright, seven straight games, under 17 points they've allowed to their opponents coming
02:21 into the game.
02:22 This is all pre-game, the longest active streak in America.
02:25 Okay, plus their opponents, they've held them four straight games under 300 yards, which
02:29 is the second longest active streak in the country.
02:32 And they were without defensive back and returner stud, Cooper Jejean, who's going to be a first
02:36 round draft pick.
02:37 Okay, so hopefully he gets healthy sooner rather than later.
02:39 Just root for him on an individual basis.
02:42 Chippapurty starts his second straight game, by far our best passing quarterback, and yes,
02:46 I know how the game ended today.
02:48 I'll get to that, okay.
02:49 He had over 100 yards rushing last week, so he can run, he can throw, he's a dual threat
02:53 guy.
02:54 Alright, if you didn't catch it during the broadcast, because they only mentioned it
02:57 15 times, he was a higher ranked recruit than his older brother Brock Purdy coming out of
03:02 high school.
03:03 Brock's now the 49ers starting quarterback.
03:05 Last week, Purdy had 274 total yards of offense, the most by any Husker quarterback this year.
03:13 The Black Shirts coming into this game.
03:14 Again, I always go pre-game, during the game, then I give my final thoughts at the end of
03:17 the videos.
03:18 Okay, Black Shirts, a top 10 defense in the nation in three different defensive categories
03:22 coming in today.
03:23 Top 20 in the FBS in five different defensive categories.
03:26 And now that Ty Robinson has declared he's going to come back, they're going to have
03:29 at least nine returning starters coming back next year.
03:32 Alright, Nebraska versus Iowa, this is their 54th all-time meeting was today.
03:36 There's only like a four-hour drive between the two schools.
03:38 Alright, the Huskers lead the series 30, now 21, and three after today.
03:43 Bryce Benhart started his 41st career game today, tying the all-time Husker record for
03:48 a Husker offensive lineman.
03:50 Kirk Ferentz is 25th season at Iowa, the longest tenured active head coach in the country.
03:54 The second is Mike Gundy, okay, at Oklahoma State.
03:57 Nick Staben's been at Alabama for 17 years.
04:00 Now let's get to the game.
04:01 430 left in the first quarter.
04:02 The Huskers fumble a punt return, and I'm thinking, "Great, here we fricking go."
04:06 Iowa recovers around our 10-yard line.
04:08 Iowa had just had a fumble themselves that Nebraska did not get.
04:12 They put it on the ground a few times today, we didn't get it.
04:15 They took advantage of all of our opportunities, seemingly, that we gave them to take the
04:18 ball away from us.
04:19 Now the Blackshirts held strong, forcing Iowa field goal.
04:22 Alright, the Hawkeyes make it, but there's a delay of game.
04:26 And then, on the next field goal attempt, the Blackshirts, because it's basically the
04:30 defense out there, but the special teams, the Blackshirts, the defensive guys on special
04:34 teams, your field goal block unit, block the field goal, and that was huge at that point
04:38 in time.
04:39 Now just a couple minutes left in the first quarter.
04:41 The score is 0-0.
04:42 At this point, it's been really, it actually was an interesting game to watch with all
04:46 the back and flow and ebbs and flows and kind of ugly football times.
04:50 At that point, alright, a couple minutes left in the first quarter, score is 0-0.
04:54 We had three punts, one block field goal, 74 combined total yards between the two teams.
04:58 Alright, this was the lowest over/under coming into this game at 24 and a half points in
05:02 the history of college football, and they were still under.
05:06 Had a total of 23 points between the two teams.
05:08 13-22 left in the first half.
05:10 Finally, our first score of the game, okay.
05:15 I don't mean for Nebraska, I just mean in general.
05:17 Alright, Iowa quarterback Deacon Hill scores on a third and goal for the Hawkeyes on a
05:21 quarterback sneak.
05:23 Now, he reached the ball over.
05:25 The ball crossed the plane, but it looked like it was loose.
05:29 I wanted another look at it.
05:30 I couldn't tell if he had full control over the ball as it crossed the plane, because
05:34 it definitely ended up being a fumble, but I wanted to get another look at it, but I
05:37 couldn't see it.
05:38 Iowa leads 7-0.
05:39 The Huskers' next possession, Chubba Purdy fumbles.
05:42 He's running around.
05:43 He does kind of like a little pitch forward pass thing, and actually it got knocked loose
05:48 right before he did it.
05:49 Otherwise, it would have been an incomplete pass, but he fumbles it.
05:51 Okay, they get the ball on Nebraska's 44-yard line.
05:55 That's Nebraska's 30th fumble of the year, 15th lost fumble of the year at that point
05:58 in time.
06:00 Both, as of right now, are then lead the nation.
06:02 Alright, with 5-44 before halftime, Iowa attempts another field goal 28 yards away.
06:08 They make it.
06:09 They're up 10-0 on the Huskers.
06:10 At that point in time, Iowa had 37 plays.
06:12 The Huskers had 13.
06:13 The time of possession advantage for the Hawkeyes was over.
06:16 They had the ball over 18 minutes.
06:18 Nebraska had it 5-49 at that point.
06:20 Iowa, okay, had 10 first downs, I'm sorry, and they had 10 third down attempts to convert
06:26 a first down already at that point in time.
06:28 That just shows how much they control the ball.
06:30 Okay, Nebraska had only had two first downs.
06:32 The Hawkeyes had 135 yards total offense.
06:34 Nebraska had 44 at that point.
06:36 Now right after that, after I wrote that, Chubba Purdy hits, lightly recruited, true
06:41 freshman, speedy wide receiver Jalen Lloyd from Omaha, Nebraska on a 66-yard touchdown
06:45 pass.
06:46 Now at halftime, this was over half of our total yards that we had going into halftime.
06:50 Okay, but this puts the, gives the Huskers their first score, makes the score 10-7.
06:56 This was the longest play Iowa's defense had given up all year.
06:59 Reminded me of Trey Palmer from a year ago.
07:01 Okay, this Jalen Lloyd, as far as his ability to take the top off of defense and make some
07:05 big catches, because he's done it now two weeks in a row.
07:08 Now basically what happened on this play was Iowa, both their safeties, fake blitz, they
07:11 ended up covering the underneath routes, which left Jalen Lloyd's man covering him one-on-one
07:16 with no safety help, deep, and he beat him on a post route.
07:19 Okay, now Matt Rule loves not only his raw talent, but his mental approach, talking about
07:24 Lloyd.
07:25 Now Iowa's offense was doing a lot of three tight ends this game.
07:28 A lot of 13 personnel, one running back, three tight ends.
07:31 And I was like, that's interesting.
07:33 And why I think they did it is they were trying to get even more bigger bodies on the field
07:37 rather than extra wide receivers, or whatever the case may be.
07:39 Let's have our own line, let's have extra tight ends, and let's take advantage of this
07:43 fast yet undersized 3-3-5 Nebraska defense.
07:47 At least that's what I think their approach was.
07:49 Now, Iowa's offense breaks the big run, first and goal, Blackshirts force a field goal,
07:53 and it's blocked again.
07:54 This was freaking huge.
07:55 Okay, this really gave Nebraska a chance to win the game.
07:58 Alright, this time it was Nash Hutmaker, easy for me to say Nash Hutmaker.
08:03 Alright, that's six points off the board and a momentum swing for Nebraska.
08:06 Good God, Hutmaker and Robinson will be so fun to watch together again next year.
08:12 Alright, now real quick, this is halftime.
08:15 Here's what I put out on Facebook and Twitter at halftime.
08:17 Go give me a follow on social media, #GPLUG.
08:20 Not a fan of some of the play calling and clock management so far, but we've really
08:24 also been outplayed to this point.
08:26 Thank God for big plays.
08:27 Two blocked field goals and a 66-yard touchdown pass to Jaylon Lloyd.
08:30 The longest play Iowa's defense has given a ball.
08:32 Your offense has had to find a way to get something, has to find a way to get something
08:35 going.
08:36 Our defense has had some big stops, which they had, but they have to stop getting gashed.
08:40 And when we needed this big stop at the end, it got gashed again with a couple of missed
08:43 tackles.
08:44 I said, I'll tell you what, you can't fault their efforts so far, but the Blackshirts
08:47 have to tackle better.
08:49 Now you go into halftime.
08:50 Here's some of the interesting stats.
08:52 We'd already given up 200 yards to Iowa, a team that only averages 245 yards of total
08:56 offense a game, 130th in the FBS.
08:59 We only had 118 yards at halftime.
09:01 They had ran 45 plays to our 19 and we had thrown the ball more than we'd ran at 10 passes
09:06 to nine runs at that point.
09:08 They've had the ball 15 more minutes than we had at that point in time.
09:12 That's just in the first half alone.
09:14 We also had two turnovers and they'd had multiple fumbles, but they'd recover it.
09:19 Their fumbles, we had not had such luck.
09:21 Iowa leads 10 to seven.
09:22 Nebraska had only had two plays in Iowa's territory to that point in the first half.
09:27 We were so lucky not to be down by more.
09:30 We got the block field goals.
09:31 Also their top wide receiver, Caleb Brown, also dropped a touchdown pass right in his
09:35 hand.
09:36 Somehow that got overlooked.
09:37 By the way, I just got to mention, it was kind of annoying to me, these announcers,
09:41 how they would just keep repeating things and then they kind of disagree with each other.
09:44 Did you hear?
09:45 Caleb Brown is the most highly recruited wide receiver Iowa's ever had.
09:50 Did you hear that?
09:51 Because he only mentioned it like five times.
09:53 To me, I was like, who cared?
09:54 That's like being the best ice fisherman in the state of Florida.
09:59 And I got to give props to Sean Callahan.
10:00 That is not an Adam Carriker original saying right there.
10:02 630 left in the third quarter.
10:04 Huskers drive into Iowa territory.
10:05 Tristan Alvano makes a 44-yard field goal.
10:08 We're tied at 10 to 10.
10:10 And to this point in the game, Chubba Purdy was 7 to 16 passing.
10:15 Seven completions to seven different receivers.
10:18 Now 410 left in the third quarter.
10:20 Nebraska, in the third quarter alone, has 61 yards of total offense.
10:25 Iowa had only had seven.
10:26 You could see we made halftime adjustments.
10:28 You could see we made in-game adjustments.
10:30 We were the better second half team until the last five minutes.
10:33 We'll get to that.
10:34 Okay.
10:35 And I even said, did we make good halftime adjustments and in-game adjustments?
10:39 I guess we'll see.
10:40 Now, at this point, Iowa's quarterback Deacon Hill was one of his last 10 when it came to
10:44 passing in the game for a total of nine yards.
10:46 The Blackshirts really played a lot better for the most part in the second half.
10:50 Beginning of the fourth quarter, the Huskers pinned Iowa on their own one-yard line.
10:54 The special teams, for the most part, had really been huge for Nebraska today.
10:57 Okay.
10:58 Nebraska gets the ball back at their 50-yard line.
11:01 They drive down for a 44-yard field goal attempt.
11:03 Okay.
11:04 Purdy, during that drive, converted two crucial third-down conversions through the air.
11:09 Okay.
11:10 Unfortunately, Alvano missed the field goal.
11:12 To this point, and I'll say it again, we looked like the better second half team with good
11:16 halftime adjustments.
11:17 Everything I've already mentioned.
11:18 There's five minutes left in the game.
11:20 It's a 10-10 tie.
11:21 Who's going to find a way to win?
11:24 The Blackshirts had only allowed 24 total yards to Iowa in the second half up to that
11:28 point with five minutes left.
11:29 We had more than four times as many yards as they did in the second half and had the
11:34 ball nearly 13 more minutes.
11:35 We'd almost flipped the script.
11:37 So now that we're back to even, now that it's 10-10, now that it's square one, now that
11:40 we've done some things that are good, who's going to find a way to win?
11:45 Iowa's offense had four consecutive three and outs.
11:47 Let's see how this game ends up.
11:49 Now random side note.
11:50 The last time Nebraska blocked two field goals in a game was in 2005.
11:54 It was a game that I happened to play in, but back to what matters.
11:56 Alright, the last five meetings between the Huskers and the Hawkeyes.
11:59 The average margin of victory was only five points.
12:02 Several of them had come down to last second place.
12:04 I believe there was an overtime game in there, I could be wrong, but it's always close.
12:08 40 seconds left in the game.
12:09 The Blackshirts intercept Deacon Hill and I'm thinking, boom, we got it.
12:14 We're either going to win it here or we're going to take it to overtime and we've been
12:16 the better team, but we're going to win it in overtime.
12:19 We get the ball at our own 45 yard line.
12:22 Iowa a couple plays later does a zone blitz.
12:25 Basically you blitz, you drop some defensive linemen, defensive ends, quarterbacks aren't
12:28 looking for it, which is why a lot of times those defensive ends get picks thrown right
12:32 to them and that's exactly what happened.
12:33 Unfortunately, Chepa Purdy throws it right to Iowa's defensive end.
12:37 Hawkeyes drive into field goal range, bringing their backup field goal kicker to attempt
12:43 his first field goal kick of the year.
12:45 He makes it and Iowa wins 13 to 10.
12:49 Now the announcers did point out there was a point, maybe a minute or two earlier in
12:53 the game where 12 seconds didn't run off the clock, that could have ran off the clock and
12:57 maybe that alters the outcome of the game.
12:58 I don't know.
12:59 We can whine, complain and moan.
13:01 Things happen.
13:02 Yeah, it sucks.
13:03 It is what it is.
13:04 Final thoughts and I got four.
13:05 First, my heart breaks for these seniors.
13:08 What a tough way to go out on senior day, on your home field, to your rival, trying
13:12 to go to a bowl game.
13:13 My heart just breaks for them.
13:15 Number two, seriously.
13:17 Seriously.
13:18 They didn't find a way to win one of the last four games.
13:22 Some of them versus not great teams, by the way.
13:24 Number three, this is why Iowa is the first team in college football history to win 10
13:30 games while only averaging 245 yards of offense a game.
13:35 They find ways to win.
13:37 It is butt ugly football and they're good at it.
13:40 They embrace it and they win with it somehow.
13:43 And we don't.
13:44 Number four, it's not all doom and gloom.
13:47 There's a lot of young talent on this Nebraska football team.
13:50 A lot of young talent.
13:53 These coaches got some things to learn for the Huskers and that's pretty obvious, but
13:57 it is just year one under Matt Ruhle.
13:59 I got three questions for you fine folks at home.
14:03 Number one, Nebraska is 5-7.
14:05 If they're offered to go to a bowl game, should they go?
14:10 No I don't think that's a dumb question.
14:11 Number two, do you feel better or worse about Matt Ruhle after year one?
14:16 Number three, what are your thoughts on Marcus Satterfield's play calling throughout the
14:21 game?
14:22 And my final thoughts on the game, the last four games, year one under Matt Ruhle.
14:28 I can see some positives.
14:30 I can see where we're better at running the football.
14:32 No not versus Iowa, they're really freaking good and we aren't there yet.
14:36 Our defense is better, but they struggle against really good offenses.
14:39 At times, there was crucial times where they couldn't get the crucial stop, but overall
14:42 they're by far our best unit and Tony White's a really good coach.
14:46 Our special teams was up and down this year, but our special teams gave us a chance to
14:49 win today.
14:50 There are pluses, there are minuses.
14:53 In this moment, I'm uber frustrated that we can't find ways to win close games, game after
14:57 game after game after game versus not great teams.
14:59 And yes, Iowa, all due respect, won 10 games this year.
15:02 I'm talking about some of the other opponents and Iowa who we were favored to beat at home.
15:07 But there is some positives.
15:08 There is talent, there is young guys.
15:11 It's a gut reaction ladies and gentlemen.
15:13 I'm allowed to be all over the place.
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