BTN analyst Gerry DiNardo, who has forgotten more about football than most media will ever know, watched Nebraska's practice Monday as part of the annual BTN bus tour. Here are seven of his takeaways, as told to the Journal Star as the tour made its way to Iowa:
1. Nebraska looks much better physically across the board than it did a year ago, he said.
"It's not even close," he said. "The best way to describe it is, when you looked at them last year, you'd say, 'This doesn't look like Nebraska.' This year, you'd say, 'This is what Nebraska's supposed to look like.