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Steven M. Sipple: Huskers' breakfast preference: A heaping slice of normalcy, please

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Nebraska might find one item on the breakfast menu Saturday at Memorial Stadium to be particularly appealing.

If you bleed Husker red, you crave normalcy in the form of a comfortable win against a Northern Illinois program that has been known in recent years to cause headaches for Power Five programs.

In the context of the season's first two weekends, Nebraska (1-1) doesn't need any additional headaches, or aches of any sort, for that matter. The Husker injury list is concerning. It threatens normalcy.

Nebraska for the third straight week will face a spread offense that often plays with tempo.