Report Card: Huskers 44, Wisconsin Badgers 25

Nebraska is bowl eligible.

The most ignominious streak of football incompetence is FINALLY over. After nine straight losses following a fifth win in a season, Nebraska finally found a way to get that sixth win of a season. And frankly, the game wasn’t really much in doubt past the first quarter.

Nebraska only won four games in 2017, 2018 and 2022. Three in 2020 and 2021. They lost to Iowa in 2019 after blowing out Maryland the week before. Last season, Nebraska went 0 for November after winning the fifth game against Purdue in late October. The perpetual losing streak became an albatross around the program as Nebraska’s bowl-ineligible streak was the longest of any current Power Four…