College football’s “Week Zero” action is always a bizarre affair. While addicts of the game line up every year to eagerly ingest whatever gridiron action the scheduling gods see fit to grant them, more casual fans can be forgiven for not getting too worked up over a headliner matchup between two teams with a combined 6-18 record last season being played on an entirely different continent. Still, there were a few interesting observations to be gleaned from college football’s kickoff to the 2022 season, particularly for viewers who follow the Big Ten.
Nebraska Still Sucks
As dedicated Iowa fans, it is tough not to experience some level of schadenfreude watching Nebraska sink further still into its never-ending death spiral.