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Brian and Brennan Downs — father and son in Evansville, Indiana — are creatures of habit and the Huskers are their beasts of burden.

For the past eight years, you can count on one hand the number of games — no matter where — they've missed.

They've been all over the country — Miami, Arizona and last week in Boulder, Colorado, to see Coach Prime's home debut.

On a typical road trip to Lincoln — 8 hours and 45 minutes, as the Ford Econoline conversion van flies — Brian drops off the dogs at a kennel early Friday and they're on the road by 7:15 a.