Nebraska Football: Predicting the Huskers’ 2022 schedule

The Nebraska football team’s tilts against Purdue have been much better than people expected when the Huskers joined the Big Ten.

Nebraska is just 1-3 against the Boilermakers under Frost and one has to wonder if that poor record has to do with the then new Huskers head coach calling his game against Purdue a “winnable” game.

The West Lafayette school definitely took offense to that comment, beating NU 42-28 that year. That score does happen to be the largest point spread in the last four games between the division rivals and last year’s 28-23 loss for Nebraska was another one of those “close” contests.

I think this year, with Aidan O’Connell having the chance to prove that he’s the best quarterback in the conference not named CJ Stroud, this game could be leaning more towards a bit of a blowout.

When looking at the Huskers schedule, people tend to point to Iowa and Wisconsin and even Minnesota as the big slugfests on the schedule. Purdue should really be considered more of a threat than they are.

I think this game has the ability to be the first real stinker the Cornhuskers have, for a couple of different reasons. They might be overconfident with that 5-1 record. It will also be the first time all year they’ve played two straight road games.

And it just feels like there’s going to be one of those games every year where Nebraska just looks pretty incompetent. Mostly, it’s been against bad enough teams that the games didn’t turn into blowouts. This time it does.

Purdue 38, Nebraska 20 (Huskers are 5-2, 3-1 in the Big Ten)