The Nebraska football season is still very, very far away, but there are plenty of reasons to be optimistic, including already being favorites against the Colorado Buffaloes.
The Nebraska football team has a lot of work to do before September. It has lots of questions to answer, including just who is going to be the starting quarterback. However, it appears that Vegas believes some questions already have answers, even seven months before the start of the 2023 season.
Some very, very early lines were released this week and some of them tell the tale about what the oddsmakers think about the upcoming season. Some of those odds were about how many games a team might win here or there. Others, like an interesting one involving the Nebraska football team are all about whether or not they’re going to be favorites in an early season tilt. It turns out that at least for now, the Huskers have the advantage against the Colorado Buffaloes.
According to very early lines by Fan Duel, the Huskers are currently seven-point favorites against the new look Buffs and their much-celebrated head coach, Deion Sanders. The Huskers and Buffaloes will restart their old Big 8 and Big 12 rivalry again this year after taking a few years off. And when they do, it will be a game between two coaches who are both hoping to finally bring their schools back to the glory days after a long, long period of time being rather bad.
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There’s quite a bit at stake for Nebraska football this fall. Scott Frost had two excellent chances to beat Colorado and couldn’t do it either time. There’s also the fact that Matt Rhule likely wants a fast start to his Husker head coaching career, even if he’s saying all the right things about taking it slowly. After a season opener against Minnesota that could go either way, it’s going to be imperative not to start the Rhule era the same way that the Frost era began six years ago. 0-2 would be a huge deal.
Nebraska football no longer plays Colorado every year and even when it did, there were plenty of Husker fans that wouldn’t admit the annual tilt was really a rivalry. But it was. And it is again thanks in no small part to “Coach Prime” coming hard after Cornhuskers prospects like Malachi Coleman. The Nebraska football team now kicks off 2023 as the odds-on favorites to start this new rivalry off on the right foot.