Nebraska's JD Spielman returns a punt for a touchdown in the third quarter against South Alabama on Saturday at Memorial Stadium.
FRANCIS GARDLER, JOURNAL STARWelcome to the Hot Topic, a weekly look at the state of Nebraska football. Each week on the Husker Extra Podcast, Parker, Steve and Chris will discuss an important topic heading into that week's game, and that discussion will appear in the Journal Star's Husker Extra section on the day before gameday.
Sipple: In the context of back-to-back 4-8 seasons, and in the context of a roster full of guys that have experienced some pretty severe lows, and in the context of a Nebraska team that's swerved out of control a few times over the past couple years, you wonder how a loss would affect them.