Numbers, Statistics and Lies: Iowa Edition

Photo by Steven Branscombe/Getty ImagesNSL is a weekly dive into statistics. This is not advanced stats; only basic stuff that is cherry-picked based on my whims this week. The numbers the chicken entrails point to carefully selected for further analysis are compared to the eye test. About that ‘eye test’, you should know that I usually forget to DVR the games and even when I do, I have so much stuff going on that I don’t have time to rewatch them. I also think I might need glasses. You’ve been warned.

We’ve reached the end of the Huskers’ 2021 football season. It has been a maddening, heartening and everything-in-between run over 13 weeks. Nebraska is effectively playing for nothing but a…