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Steven M. Sipple: NU's 'three-game season' builds toward climax

PISCATAWAY, N.J. — The eyes had it.

The three-game season plan took hold.

There was Nebraska's awful loss Oct. 31 at Purdue. Then, there was a moment in the NU locker room the following week. That's how Husker safety Nate Gerry describes it — a moment.

It now appears to be a critical moment.

"I think it was one of those things where everybody just kind of looked at each other in the eyes before practice one day," Gerry said of when the three-game season plan originated. "When you see something in everybody's eyes, you knew everybody was going to buy in and things were going to start clicking.