Report Card: Purdue Boilermakers 31, Huskers 27

Thomas J. Russo-USA TODAY Sports Yikes. Nebraska football, meet banana peel. Again. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Against Purdue, Nebraska played sloppy and allowed the Boilermakers to pull off the upset with their third-string quarterback engineering the game winning drive. And now, Husker Nation is full of questions and doubts. Some are enraged; some are starting to become apathetic.

We thought last year would be better than the year before; it was, but the record was the same. We thought this year would be better than the year before, but it’s not. The dangerous talking point is to say that there’s been zero progress in the program, and some people seeming to start looking for the panic button…