Where to start? All the hoopla of playing one of the first games of the 2022 FBS season in Ireland, a new starting quarterback, and the possibility of breaking their six-game losing streak ended in more than a heartbreaking loss.
It was a gut-wrenching, punch-in-the-face, rip-your-heart-out, arm-twisting, stepping-on-a-Lego brick, TV remote-throwing defeat that could have easily been avoided.
Scott Frost showed once again that he could not win games that could go either way. Instead of leaving the casino while he was up, he gambled everything that the Huskers had worked for away with an onside kick while leading 28-17 in the third quarter.
Many viewed Northwestern as a winnable game that the Huskers needed to become bowl eligible. One would hope that Frost could lead Nebraska to wins over North Dakota and Georgia Southern in the next two weeks but any misstep there will surely show him the door.
Nebraska takes on Oklahoma in Week 4 and their final six games on the schedule are particularly brutal as a whole with the exception of Illinois.