Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football (folding chairs sold separately at Tulane):
FIRST QUARTER: NEBRASKA NEEDS A HUG
You’ve really got to hand it to Nebraska (1) for finally figuring out where it stands in the football hierarchy. The Cornhuskers are just a piece of background furniture, part of the scenery, another mediocre program out there trying to scrape its way to bowl eligibility for the first time in four years. They have been a subpar member of the Big Ten, and they’ve finally overcome their own institutional arrogance long enough to acknowledge it.