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Episode Date: October 16, 2025

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We are back here on one-on-one. Just a few minutes before, Adam Carrier will take over with the Adam Carrier show. Of course, this is Game Day Eve, $5 bits of broken chair trophy around the corner with Nebraska, Minnesota. Austin, how much do you like the Nebraska- Minnesota rivalry? Would you put it, you know, the Big Ten decided year or year so ago to only protect the Nebraska Iowa robbery. They're scheduled moving forward. I thought Minnesota might have been. The next closest on that, the Wisconsin rivalry seems to have been too one-sided to really ever pick up too much steam.

So what do you feel about Nebraska, Minnesota? It's weird because it's, it might be a rivalry. They've played a lot of games before they ever joining the Big Ten. It's not like a hate rivalry at all. It's kind of just for fun. It's kind of a Minnesota, you piss us off because you beat us too much sort of thing. Minnesota was good like an early, early, early college football. Yeah.

And then I don't know if they were in the, you know, Nebraska glory days from the, the mid-60s through the late 90s. But I think if you think about just the Big 10 era, it's a, it makes sense to me why Nebraska would only protect Iowa in that, that format. Minnesota would have been down my personal list. I think there's a bunch of, you know,

cultural similarities between Nebraska and Minnesota, you know, Midwest, nice, Great Lakes, nice. They all get along, you know, we'll be kind to each other, that sort of thing. But then you throw the PJ Fleck of it into the mix. than Nebraska fans. I don't know if they want to think of it as a rivalry because they think of Minnesota as just some program that they can stomp on and move on.

I don't think about you. It's not being a pain in the butt. I think it's a better series than Nebraska fans would have given it credit for, for the most part, entering the Big Ten. Certainly not all the way to full rivalry status. In my eyes, certainly one you get up for.

When Nebraska entered the Big Ten, I think Iowa was the natural fit. Of course, in the legends and leaders, you did have Nebraska in Michigan. that's when I think the Big Ten wanted to take off Nebraska, Michigan State is, I think, an even better underrated kind of rivalry in the Big Ten. Not as many similarities between Nebraska, Michigan State as there are in Nebraska, Minnesota. But I think the games have been better between Nebraska, Michigan State.

That's a game I would like to see three times out every five years if I had my pick. Wisconsin should have been. I mean, that's the natural fit. I think, you know, the Red versus the Red, the Nebraska connections with Barry Alvarez, both teams kind of being in that, you know, nine to 10 win race. when Nebraska entered the conference. That should have been, I think, Nebraska's second rivalry behind Iowa.

And at one time it was. But instead, it wasn't for a year. For a few years, yeah, I think so. And then it disappeared behind Nebraska Northwestern. Right. So. Yeah, it is sad. I don't even, it's tough to say. Nebraska fans live through.

We don't have to like go through. But it's, I mean, at the beginning of the Nebraska, Wisconsin robbery, I mean, those games really did have like, this is new rivalry, new hate type of stuff. And it just dweigned over the years because Wisconsin was just so, it was such a one side of rivalry. And to your point, unfortunately under PJ Fleck,

it's pretty much been the same way with Minnesota. Yeah. Six and one, PJ Fleck is against Nebraska. They won the last five. And so we'll see what kind of happens here. It's, Minnesota as a team,

you know, Nebraska, I think, though being five and one, I still kind of, I was thinking about this the other day. Obviously, their schedule is a bit, a little bit lighter than some others. You know, I, I want this to be a game in that position where the top 25,

they're 5 in one, I would want this to be a game that I think Nebraska could win handily. And I think that is a possibility. I mean, I think that that's something that I think is more likely, I guess, than not. And I'm almost over the point of, well, but this is Nebraska. Here comes the mistakes, right? And so you've been there before, though, and that's when usually. It kind of happens, right? But I think this is, this is a game Nebraska should be able to win with a little bit of

comfortability behind it. If it's close, similar to last week, that's where I worry about a coy parish moment. I think he might be the best player on the field. And I think, but I think Nebraska's got the best team. I think Minnesota has, you know, while they're four and two, kind of similar to Nebraska, they've got solid record, just hasn't been all that impressive. but it kind of depends too on which Minnesota you get, the one that couldn't score against Cal,

who isn't all that great, or in my mind, a Rutgers team that probably is going to be bowl eligible, a solid Rutgers team. You know, they had to scrap out and get a win there. So it kind of depends on what look we get from Minnesota. So when Minnesota went to Cal,

Cal was actually playing pretty well. They've kind of fallen off a little bit. The Rutgers game sticks in my brain, because I was watching that one unfold. I'm like, okay, going back and forth. There's a surprising amount of points for these. two teams and Minnesota Devil Magic is still real. Rutgers was driving and then the center misheard the quarterback missed time the snap something and it goes through Calais's legs.

It was perfect for him to catch it. But if it's one inch higher, he's sore for a second, but it's a, what, like a 47-yard field goal or 42-yard field goal? No, instead of the ball just falling harmlessly to the turf, it goes through his legs, he has to run around. So, 15-yard loss. Instead of a five-yard loss, you have like a 62-yard or 52-yard, whatever, feel goal to win it. Right. How does that happen for Minnesota? On paper, on paper, a lot slants Nebraska's way. Except for, I'm not over the Minnesota factor. I think there's something about that program in PJ Fleck that they're going to be ready, especially seeing a bold number 25 by Nebraska's name. Darius Taylor, the running back, his status is still up in the air, but

you know, Minnesota's going to want to run the ball. Matt Rule said it yesterday. The one run play Nebraska's consistently struggled against his outside zone. What does Minnesota do really well? Outside zone. This can't look like Michigan where Nebraska is good, good, good, explosive big play against the run. Good, good, good, explosive big play. That can't happen.

If Nebraska cuts out the explosives, yeah, they'll be fine against Minnesota. But if they're able to hit a couple of those big ones, the gophers are, I start getting a little nervous. Yeah, we'll see how it plays out. It'll be a fun one. Of course, we've got plenty more to talk about throughout the day. leading into tomorrow for that Nebraska, Minnesota game. Thanks for joining us for one-on-one.

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