Today's turning point is a quite apparent one.
It is a play that with no doubt will decrease infamy if the Nebraska Cornhuskers stop working to reach a championship game for the ninth straight season.
On 3rd and long, newbie USC beginning quarterback Jayden Maiava hung back to pass. Barrelling down his ideal side was Nebraska's pass hurrying professional, James Williams. Williams squared up to call Maiava's arm mid toss.
The football went fluttering in the air, bounced off the hands of Trojan wideout Makai Lemon, off the head of Nebraska linebacker Javin Wright, then back into the hands of Lemon, who fell simply a half backyard except the very first down marker.
In a video game with a ludicrous quantity of 50/50 balls, this was the one the Big Red required to have. This was the ball they required to get, the turnover they frantically required. This was the minute they might have turned the tide of not just the season however altered the momentum of the instructions of this program.
This NEEDED to be Nebraska's turning point.
One group's missed out on chance is another group's treasure. On the play, USC went from 3rd and long and most likely to leave the field to 4th and brief and prime chance to put a dagger in the back of the Big Red. USC head coach Lincoln Riley chose to go all out, and a perfectly developed choice run put USC within the 15 backyard line.
A number of plays later on and the Trojans discovered their method into completion zone, making it a 28-20 ballgame. Nebraska had a chance to connect the video game, however bad clock management together with the failure to make huge plays in huge minutes haunted this group as soon as again.
We will do this tune and dance for another week as the Huskers will invite the Wisconsin Badgers to Memorial Stadium with a chance to achieve the exact same thing every other Power 4 group in the nation has actually achieved over the last 8 years: reach bowl eligibility.
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