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Nebraska football: Analyst puts wins prediction for Huskers at six

By Oliver VanDervoort

LINCOLN, NE - OCTOBER 25: Nebraska Cornhuskers fans mingle out front before their game against the Rutgers Scarlet Knights at Memorial Stadium on October 25, 2014 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Nebraska defeated Rutgers 42-24. (Photo by Eric Francis/Getty Images)
LINCOLN, NE - OCTOBER 25: Nebraska Cornhuskers fans mingle out front before their game against the Rutgers Scarlet Knights at Memorial Stadium on October 25, 2014 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Nebraska defeated Rutgers 42-24. (Photo by Eric Francis/Getty Images) /
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The Nebraska football team got yet another win prediction and it’s similar to others that have them winning around six games total.

While some Nebraska football fans are expecting a miracle turnaround, most media outlets think the Cornhuskers are going to have some problems.

The team is coming off a 4-8 record and is facing an incredibly tough schedule this season. Add in the fact that the Huskers are breaking in a new offensive and a new defensive scheme and you start to realize why the media has a point.

CBS Sports analyst Tom Fornelli is the latest to take a crack at what he thinks Nebraska is going to do this year and it’s not much better than the others.

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Fornelli sets the over/under for wins for the Huskers at six games. That would mean the program is going to struggle a bit, but would at least make a bowl game again.

That doesn’t mean Fornelli is super confident in his prediction. In explaining why he sets the over/under where he does, with both sides being -110 he says:

“I can’t help but feel like there’s some kind of adjustment period coming, and it’s hard to know how that’ll impact the Huskers in 2018. I think 6-6 is the most likely outcome, but with so much uncertainty, I have to lean toward taking the Under if forced to go a direction”

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If there is a positive to the prediction, it’s that the analyst also makes it clear the Nebraska football team could be better, thanks in large part to the job Scott Frost and his staff were able to do in their two years at UCF. That’s why the setting of the over/under is included with a kind of “tossup” money line. Sooner than you think, we’ll get to see just who is right about the kind of season the Cornhuskers have.

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