1. Maybe I've been hearing a lot of "bowl games don't matter" chatter in our neck of the woods because, well, Nebraska missed the cut for a second straight season.
His Wildcats somehow scored 28 unanswered points Monday night to overcome Utah 31-20 in the Holiday Bowl.
Northwestern finished the season 9-5 after a 1-3 start, and gave the program its first three-game bowl winning streak. The Wildcats captured the Big Ten West by three games and acquitted itself nicely in Indianapolis.
“I feel we laid the groundwork for national titles in the future,” senior quarterback Clayton Thorson told FS1’s Jenny Taft on the field in San Diego.