In less than four weeks, Nebraska will kickoff its 137th college football season with a home game vs the Ohio Bobcats on September 5th.Husker head coach Matt Rhule has been saying he believes this year’s team is his best at Nebraska. He cites that his team is bigger, faster and stronger than the previous three years at NU. Perhaps even more important is the depth is much better this year.
Nebraska is coming off back-to-back 7-6 seasons and ended last year with three blowout losses.Needless to say, Rhule had to make some off season changes. He fired his DC (John Butler) and hired Rob Aurich from San Diego State
as his new DC. Aurich brought with him a new defensive scheme (4-2-5). Rhule also replaced his ST coordinator (Mike Ekeler) with former Husker placekicking great Brett Maher.
Rhule used the portal to upgrade his QB room, offensive and defensive lines, linebackers and secondary. The additions are ample reason for Rhule’s optimism going into this fall.Maybe the biggest off season catch was UNLV dual threat quarterback transfer Anthony Colandrea. Husker OC Dana Holgorsen might have his prototypical QB in Colandrea.
The running back room looks good, the receiver room looks explosive and the O-line looks strong and deep. The D-line looks to be better than last year’s version as does the linebacker corps. NU’s secondary will have a great deal of talent and depth.The big question mark might be that of special teams. Last year’s coordinator Mike Ekeler took Nebraska from 86th in the nation to number 3. But Ekeler has moved on to Southern California. Brett Maher is in charge at Nebraska this season. It’s hard to imagine special
