CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — After the latest flop on his Nebraska resume, Scott Frost seemed to have a little humility knocked into him. He dispensed with the terse-and-tough act he’d tried with the local media in the past week, when he spoke twice for a total of seven minutes and 55 glaring seconds. This time, he answered questions about the Cornhuskers’ debacle of a season opener Saturday with greater expansiveness, and something approaching candor.
“It looked like the same movie,” Frost said after Illinois beat Nebraska 30–22. “I just got done telling our guys we can’t have this season be the same movie, because this game looked like the same movie today.