Daniel Olinger: Nebraska 22, Northwestern 21
Both of these teams are hard to decipher for diametrically opposed reasons. For Northwestern, they’re coming off a season of immense success that has quickly dissipated following rather decisive defeats to the only two teams that could have posed any challenge to them. Meanwhile, Nebraska has played up quite a few levels in their past two skirmishes, pushing two of the Power Five’s few remaining unbeatens to the absolute brink, yet they have fallen short, and are still tainted by an opening loss to Illinois that becomes more confusing by the day.