Saturday’s Pinstripe Bowl wasn’t perfect, but the Nebraska football team logged a win over Boston College. While the Huskers were happy about the score difference in the 20-15 win, head coach Matt Rhule was more happy about what going to a bowl meant.
After the game, Huskers’ head coach Matt Rhule talked about a number of different subjects. And at one point, Rhule talked specifically about getting ready for 2025, by also getting ready for the Pinstripe Bowl.
The Nebraska football team has talked quite a bit about what a bowl means. Especially when the team hasn’t had one in nearly a decade. The bowl win is nice because it means the team finishes 7-6. But it’s also nice because it allows Rhule and his coaches get a jump start on seeing who will contribute in 2025.
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“Yeah, I think for us it’s a little bit more in that we haven’t ended many seasons on a win in a while. To go to a bowl game, you have to get used to going to the pro season. We wanted to go to the College Football Playoff. We want to national championships.”
“But playing that last game, going back out on a Tuesday, we came to New York City, we had no distractions, no one was late to anything, no one missed anything. All those things are how you win moving forward in my mind.”
“It was an experience we needed. And we played a lot of young players. Vincent Shavers was all over the field. Donovan Jones, he redshirted this year and he played corner for half the game. Got some young players some experience.”
“I think just the mindset of hey, we got it done in the postseason prepares us for the future. We’ve played a lot of young players, so now they have perspective, and this was a really good three or four weeks for us.”
Now, the Nebraska football team will wrap up 2024 and start looking ahead to 2025.