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!