What learned about the Nebraska football team in their loss vs Wisconsin

Nebraska football is still looking for an offensive identity

Runningbacks for the Huskers carried the ball a grand total of 10 times last night. To some degree, that was by design because Scott Frost noticed something in the Badgers defense that was susceptible to the pass.

That can be excused for one game, but a problem still exists. It doesn’t feel like the Cornhuskers really know what they want to be on offense yet.

Yesterday was the third straight time Adrian Martinez had more carries than any single back. Maybe you could say an offense that passes about 40 times a game and has the quarterback carry more than anyone else is the identity, except for the season’s first two games.

Those two games, the backs had the bulk of the carries. Greg Bell commented that he wasn’t being used properly and pointed to that as one of the reasons he decided to leave the Huskers.

He might have had a point. It’s possible that some of the mistakes the offense makes on a game by game basis is because the offense doesn’t know what it’s supposed to be doing from game to game.