Husker bowl opportunity seems likely despite losing record

Nebraska head coach Mike Riley and defensive end Jack Gangwish (95) as the seniors are honored before the Iowa game at Memorial Stadium on Friday, Nov. 27, 2015.Jack Gangwish didn't want it to end that way. Not with an "L." Not with a bunch of Hawkeyes throwing a party on your field.

Just one more game, please.

"To some people who would say that we're not good enough to go to a bowl, maybe they're right," Gangwish said Friday. "But I'd sure like to go. So that's where I'm at."

But where are the 5-7 Huskers at in the bowl talk after Saturday's games? Most years the season would be dead. Time for summary stories and talk of 2016.

But the overabundance of bowls — 40 of them! — means 80 teams have…