For most of three quarters, the new Mike Riley edition of the Nebraska Cornhuskers looked fine. There were some good things, and some things that needed some work; about what you would expect in a debut performance.
But for one quarter - and then one final second - things went south. BYU took command of the game during a lethargic second quarter, and nobody in red could stop it. Halftime adjustments didn't help; Nebraska went three-and-out on the opening possession. But when Sam Foltz went down - a legal hit, as D.J. Foster blocked BYU's Grant Jones into Foltz - the resulting uproar from the crowd finally sparked some life into the crowd, which hadn't had much to cheer about.