This week might not have been the most natural time for tempo to come up for the Nebraska football program.
After all, the Cornhuskers are coming off a game in which they ran 88 plays against Northwestern, most since 95 against Illinois in September 2019 and second most since head coach Scott Frost took over.
Maybe it is in part because that 95-play outing last year resulted in 42 points (and 87 plays against Maryland netted 54) compared to the paltry 13 against Northwestern. And maybe it was because it just felt like the Huskers had another gear that they didn’t consistently hit against the Wildcats.