The Nebraska football team has played in a lot of close games over the years, and it seems like they end up on the losing side of almost all of them. That has been the theme for the Cornhuskers throughout the past five years or so. Head coach Matt Rhule was brought in to fix it, and while there have been some improvements, Nebraska still hasn’t been able to find a way to win a lot of those tight battles during his tenure.
So, what is it about the Nebraska football team and losing close games? A lot of people thought it might go away after Scott Frost’s departure, but it’s a lingering issue. Matt Rhule addressed it on Wednesday, and he was 100% honest about why he thinks these heartbreaking defeats have been a problem.
“I think we lost a lot of those games because we just weren’t good enough,” Rhule said, according to an article from On3. “I think it’s just sometimes a great storyline to say, ‘Hey, you know what, close loss here, close loss there.’ And there’s some of it, but our focus has been on just improving as a team. Because they don’t all have to be close. Some of those games, why don’t we win by 14?”
While last season wasn’t great for Nebraska, it was still a step in the right direction. The Cornhuskers went bowling for the first time since 2016, and they got a win in the Pinstripe Bowl. A lot of people argue that non-College Football Playoff bowls are meaningless, but it was a very important game for this program.
“I saw a different mindset from our team in the Pinstripe Bowl,” Rhule added. “We were up and they came back. We had to make a couple plays. Dylan (Raiola) made a play. Rahmir Johnson hit a power to win the game on fourth-and-2. And what I saw for the first time was not a lot off panic. But that panic comes from when you don’t think you control what happens. When you’re…
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