About the time Mike Riley’s current team was stuck in the lowest depths of an ultimately insurmountable deficit, his former team was raking its bitter rival over the coals.
The Nebraska Cornhuskers had an afternoon to forget on the road in Oregon on Saturday, a result that head coach Riley said should make the players “sick” upon reviewing film.
While that was going on, about 1,600 miles away, the team that Riley coached to its last Grey Cup victory in 1990, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, were putting the boots to their neighbours, with a 48-28 win over the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the annual Banjo Bowl.