Sam McKewon breaks down Nebraska's loss to Oklahoma

sooner bummer nebraska goes pretty much 12 rounds with oklahoma today the number three sooners win 23-16 a game that nebraska will find itself kicking itself about as we go forward the huskers had every chance today their defense played pretty darn well their offense had its moments 289 passing yards one of the best games adrian martinez has played in his career and he had a chance on a final drive to maybe tie it they were a long ways away and of course he got sacked a couple of times it was a rough day for nebraska's offensive line oh if nebraska just had an offensive line man if they just had an offensive line they gave up at least five sacks today i believe they had five false starts on a blocked extra point by oklahoma which was returned for two points an offensive lineman got knocked on his butt and the oklahoma defensive lineman blocked the extra point this game comes down to special teams mistakes which nebraska missed a couple of field goals and that extra point and issues on that offensive line which they've got to try to get fixed right now before they go into big ten season otherwise today nebraska's defense played pretty inspired football they played against a darn good quarterback and spencer rattler who made his share of plays but the huskers got stops they got stops late they only gave up three touchdowns today the other two was on that extra point nebraska's offense hot and cold obviously they probably left some points on the board they got down into ou territory three times in the second half they only got seven points out of it once they missed a counter cold field goal another time they got screwed up on downs because one of the one of the first plays on that on that series turned into a a rushed play because they were afraid that they weren't going to get it off with the play clock there was that kind of stuff all day long but adrian martinez he really kept his head in a difficult environment manipulated the pocket threw a long bomb to xavier betts threw a touchdown pass to omar manning you have to be impressed with the way martinez played today and a lot of nebraska's skill players had a good day too austin allen had a good day travis focally who's back had a strong day as well that offensive line admittedly against a really good defensive front from ou their front seven is really good for the sooners but they struggled they struggled and it's not going to get a hell of a lot easier from here michigan state's pretty darn good northwestern's good michigan is really good i think nebraska is going to have to try to go back to the drawing board because i'm not sure they're going to get counter play action throwback passes every single game that they play the huskers you know they've come some ways they've made some progress this is probably the best game they've played against the highly ranked team since 2018 when they took ohio state to the wire they took oklahoma to the wire today they took him 12 rounds they didn't win many of the rounds but they took him 12 rounds they probably won't mind a rematch next year when oklahoma comes to lincoln and maybe nebraska will be a little bit better then but they got to clean this stuff up the penalties are an issue the special teams gaffes are an issue all those small things that oklahoma did just a little bit better today that nebraska spent saying they want to do better they're still not doing better and the big ten season begins next week and it's not going to be easy likelihood michigan state's going to be ranked it's possible if they win at miami today i'm not sure what the final score of that game is but here today nebraska you know fought its tail off they probably should be three and one if they'd beaten illinois they didn't they played horribly that day they did not play horrible today he gave him about a bb plus today but it wasn't enough oklahoma was too good they made too many plays and when it counted nebraska made too many mistakes all right oklahoma 23 16 over nebraska game of the century right not quite but a pretty good game nonetheless for the omaha world herald omaha dot com and husker extra dot com i'm sam mchugh you

Channel: Omaha World-Herald

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Rating: 4.826087 out of 5

Keywords: football, huskers, reed, sports

Id: xVvULC08G_I

Length: 3min 48sec (228 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 18 2021