Nebraska football head coach Matt Rhule met with the media following the Huskers’ 20-17 loss to Michigan State. Rhule expressed his frustration with his team’s continuous turnover problem.
“There’ll never be an excuse for being minus three (in turnovers), right? It’s minus three and you lose by three. I mean, you’re probably a better football team than that. So, as I said to our guys, we’re a good football team. We’re finding out what it’s like to play games with consequences late in the year. When you come in after winning a couple of games they’re finding out for the first time that people are ready for you.”
The Huskers entered Saturday’s game ranked 126th in the nation in turnover margin with a minus nine through eight games. After Saturday’s game against Michigan State, they now sit at minus 12 for the college football season. Rhule admitted that this recent setback is a painful lesson for the team to learn.
“They studied you all week. And you’re gonna have to fight, scratch and claw and not just assume, oh, we stopped them for two drives, we’re gonna get them going now. Or, hey, we ran the ball. For the first drive coming out of halftime we had 30 rushing yards in the drive and then we sputtered. So there’s a lot more lessons to learn from this game. It’s painful, but they have to learn.”
Nebraska now prepares to host the Maryland Terrapins this Saturday with an 11:00 a.m. kickoff on the streaming service Peacock.
Find a photo gallery of Nebraska’s defeat below.