Let's begin with the bottom line.
We were all dead wrong.
Did anybody in the free world predict the Nebraska football team would be 3-6 (1-4 Big Ten) at this point?
None of the media that regularly covers the team predicted it. That includes 20-some people who watched several practices in August. I know of nobody in that crowd who predicted the Huskers would win fewer than seven games total.
I considered Nebraska a contender to win the Big Ten West Division. In cleveland.com's annual preseason poll, NU was picked second in the West and received five of 40 first-place votes.