Nebraska football: Ranking the 2018 Huskers’ opponents
When the Nebraska football team clashes with Ohio State this season, they will likely be playing a team that is staring straight ahead at a National Championship game.
The Buckeyes are likely the best team in the Big Ten and that makes them the best team on the Cornhuskers’ schedule. It doesn’t help Scott Frost’s efforts that Nebraska has to go into Columbus.
When talking about the Buckeyes, you’re talking about a team that doesn’t seem to have many weaknesses. That is as long as Dwayne Haskins is as good as advertised.
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That’s where the team’s only weakness comes in. Haskins will be starting for the first time next year.
He’ll be taking over the reigns of an offense that was the seventh-best offense in the country. They were also the sixth-best scoring offense in the country.
One of the ways the Buckeyes stand out is that they were great on offense and defense. While they were the seventh best offense, they were also the ninth best defense in the country.
A team that is breaking in another new defense and a brand new quarterback is going to have its work cut out for it when it comes to attempting to not even win, but just not get embarrassed.
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The Buckeyes absolutely dominated the Huskers last season. While there were plenty of blowout losses in 2017, the Ohio State game might have been the worst of all simply because they did whatever they wanted at all times to the Nebraska football team. We’ll see if that’s a repeat of 2017, or if a change is indeed coming.