Year 3 was the season that Matt Rhule turned things around at Temple and at Baylor, but that Year 3 magic didn’t come with him to Lincoln. Rhule closed out the 2025 regular season at Memorial Stadium on Friday with a 40-16 loss to Iowa to fall to 7-5, leading the Cornhuskers to back-to-back bowl games for the first time since the program made nine-straight bowl games between 2008 and 2016.
However, in the process, Rhule fell to 2-10 in the month of November since taking over at Nebraska. Rhule called that record “unacceptable” in his postgame press conference, though it’s not the most humiliating stat to come out of Friday’s blowout loss to Kirk Ferentz’s Hawkeyes.