STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- As the coming week unfolds for the Nebraska football program and the end of a disappointing campaign draws near, Husker players and coaches insisted Saturday night that they’ll focus exclusively on trying to beat Iowa.
That’s the general status around a team that must beat the Hawkeyes at Memorial Stadium on Friday afternoon in order to avoid becoming the first team here to fail to reach at least five wins since 1961.
Senior linebacker and captain Chris Weber said the Hawkeyes essentially become the Huskers' bowl game now that a trip to a bowl — any bowl — is out of the question following the team’s fifth loss in six games, a 56-44 laugher-disguised-as-a-shootout at No.