The Nebraska football team still isn’t quite sure who is going to be the starting quarterback on Saturday. That’s one reason the spread is 18.
The Michigan Wolverines are 2-1 and 19th in the country. The Nebraska football team is 0-2 and really, really unranked. It doesn’t take a gambling genius to understand why the Huskers have opened the week as an 18-point underdog in Saturday’s game.
The line has actually gotten a little bit bigger on Tuesday, as the Wolverines are now 18.5-point favorites on some boards. The spread is yet another reminder that the Cornhuskers season is not going as well as hoped.
The bottom line is even if the Huskers were 3-0 entering this matchup, they would still likely be underdogs. They’re going into Michigan for the first time in years.
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Even if Adrian Martinez was healthy, we’d be talking about a true freshman quarterback making his first road start. When you look at it that way, it’s a safe bet the spread would still have been in the neighborhood of a touchdown.
18 points isn’t really all that insulting given the current situation. It could be worse, we could be nearly a touchdown dog, at home like the 0-3 Purdue Boilermakers.
It’s clear the Cornhuskers have something to prove to the college football world. The Huskers might not even need to win in order to start raising eyebrows.
If the team can put up a good fight and take Michigan into the fourth quarter, that might be enough to show the squad isn’t to be taken lightly.
Having said that, Nebraska football fans, players and coaches aren’t going to be happy unless they find a way to leave the “Big House” with a victory.