That was a performance Minnesota hadn’t shown all season. The team that couldn’t run the ball against teams like Georgia Southern, South Dakota State and Fresno State gashed Nebraska for 322 yards.
That was a performance Nebraska has shown far too often in recent years, being pushed around by a team that Nebraska fans have the right to expect to at least compete with. You could shrug and try to explain the Ohio State game away by saying “talent gap”.
You can’t do that this week. Blame the weather? Well, Minnesota apparently embraced it. You might have thought last week the ice buckets were a Flake - y stunt, but the bottom line says it worked.