2013 HUSKER FOOTBALL Nebraska Media Relations w One Memorial Stadium w Lincoln, NE 68588-0123 w Phone: (402) 472-2263 w [email protected] 2013 Nebraska Schedule Date Opponent (TV) Time/Result Game 11: Aug. 31 Wyoming (BTN) W, 37-34 Sept. 7 Southern Miss (BTN) W, 56-13 Nebraska at Sept. 14 UCLA (ABC) L, 21-41 Sept. 21 South Dakota State (BTN) W, 59-20 Penn State Oct. 5 Illinois (ESPNU) W, 39-19 Oct. 12 at Purdue (BTN) W, 44-7 Nov. 23, 2013 | Beaver Stadium Oct. 26 at Minnesota (ESPN) L, 23-34 Huskers State College, Pa.| 2:30 p.m. Nittany Lions Nov. 2 Northwestern (BTN) W, 27-24 Record: 7-3, 4-2 Record: 6-4, 3-3 Nov. 9 at Michigan (ABC) W, 17-13 Rankings: AP–RV; Rankings: not ranked Nov. 16 Michigan State (ABC) L, 28-41 Coaches–RV; BCS–NR Game Information Last Game: Nov. 23 at Penn State (BTN) 2:30 p.m. Last Game: Television: BTN def. Purdue, 45-21 Nov. 29 Iowa (ABC) 11 a.m. lost to Michigan St., 41-28 Radio: Husker Sports Network Coach: Bill O’Brien Capacity: 107,282 All times Central Coach: Bo Pelini Career/PSU Record: Surface: Natural Grass Career/NU Record: 14-8/2nd year Series Record: Nebraska leads, 8-7 Television 56-23/6th year vs. Nebraska: 0-1 Last Meeting:Nebraska, 32-23, 2012 in Lincoln BTN vs. Penn State: 2-0 Eric Collins, Play-by-Play Chuck Long, Analyst The Matchup Jon Jansen, Sidelines Nebraska makes its final road trip of the season on Saturday when the Huskers travel east to take on Penn State in a matchup of two of college football’s traditional powers. Game time for the contest at Penn State’s Beaver Stadium Radio is set for 3:30 p.m. local time in State College (2:30 p.m. CT), with the game televised by BTN. Husker Sports Network Nebraska enters the game at 7-3 overall and 4-2 in Big Ten Conference play following a 41-28 loss to Michigan State last Saturday in Lincoln. The Huskers battled the division-leading Spartans, but could not overcome five costly Greg Sharpe, Play-by-Play turnovers in the setback. The loss to the Spartans ended Nebraska’s hopes of returning to Indianapolis for the Big Matt Davison, Analyst Ten Conference Championship Game. With two remaining regular-season games and a bowl game, Nebraska will Lane Grindle, Sidelines be looking for a victory that will move them closer to a sixth straight nine-win season. Penn State comes into the contest with a 6-4 overall mark, including a 3-3 record in Big Ten Conference play. The Internet Nittany Lions are coming off a 45-21 victory over Purdue on Saturday at Beaver Stadium, improving to 5-1 at home this Huskers.com season. Penn State has won each of its three Big Ten home games, including overtime wins over Michigan and Illinois. HSN free audio The Nittany Lions feature a strong passing attack that averages better than 255 yards per game, helping Penn Live stats, game-day information, photos and more State average 434.6 yards per game in total offense. Other The Series Satellite Radio Nebraska has won the first two meetings between the schools as members of the Big Ten Conference and three Sirius Channel 108, XM 197 straight overall in the series. The three-game win streak has given the Huskers an 8-7 edge in the overall series between the schools. Penn State holds a 5-2 series lead in State College. The Coaches Connect With the Huskers Nebraska: Bo Pelini (Ohio State, ‘90) owns a 56-23 record (.709) in his sixth season. Pelini has guided NU to nine or more wins in each of his first five seasons as head coach, joining Bob Devaney and Tom Osborne in accomplishing that feat at Nebraska. Pelini is one of five coaches in Nebraska history to win 50 games on the NU sideline, joining Dana Bible, Bob Devaney, Tom Osborne and Frank Solich. Penn State: Bill O’Brien (Brown, ‘92) is in his second season as the head coach at Penn State and owns a 14-8 record with the Nittany Lions. O’Brien guided Penn State to eight victories last season. Before taking over at Penn Facebook.com/huskers State, O’Brien served for five seasons as an assistant with the New England Patriots. He had college assistant coaching stops at Duke, Maryland, Georgia Tech and Brown. Nebraska Football Nebraska is 863-356-40 all-time, one of just eight schools with 800 all-time victories w Nebraska has won five @huskers national championships (1970, 1971, 1994, 1995, 1997). w The Cornhuskers have won 43 conference championships. w NU’s 49 all-time bowl appearances rank third nationally. w Since 1970, NU has 429 wins, 25 more than any other school. w Nebraska’s 106 football Academic All-Americans lead the nation. w The Huskers have 110 first-team All- Americans in school history. Game 11 at Penn State 2013 Nebraska Football Huskers.com Nebraska-Michigan St. Stat Wrap Noting Game 10...Michigan State 41, Nebraska 28 Team Stats MSU NU Michigan State’s victory over Nebraska marked the Spartans’ first win in eight games in the series. The loss also First Downs 18 19 ended Nebraska’s streak of seven straight wins in the month of November. Rushes-Yards 48-168 32-182 Passes 15-32-0 17-32-1 The loss ended a streak of seven straight wins in Big Ten home games for Nebraska and dropped the Huskers to Passing Yards 193 210 9-2 in Big Ten home games since joining the league in 2011. Total Offense 361 392 Nebraska lost its second straight home game against a ranked opponent (UCLA) after winning its four previous 3rd-Down Conversions 11-of-21 5-of-12 games at Memorial Stadium against ranked teams. Turnovers 0 5 Penalties 6-60 3-30 As a team, Nebraska rushed for 182 yards on 32 carries against the Spartans, becoming the first team to rush for Time of Possession 38:37 21:23 more than 100 yards against Michigan State since NU ran for 313 yards on 40 carries last season in East Lansing. MSU was allowing just 43.4 rushing yards per game entering the contest. Nebraska had two of the three longest runs of NU Rushing Leaders the season against Michigan State, a 51-yard TD run by Imani Cross and a 29-yard run by Ameer Abdullah. Ameer Abdullah–22 carries, 123 yards Imani Cross–3 carries, 50 yards, TD Junior I-back Ameer Abdullah rushed 22 times for 123 yards, the most against Michigan State’s top-ranked rush defense NU Passing Leaders in 2013. Abdullah is the first runner to top the century mark against Michigan State since 2012 when Abdullah rushed Tommy Armstrong Jr.–9-21-1, 143 yards, 2 TD for 110 yards against the Spartans, and quarterback Taylor Martinez had 205 yards rushing against the MSU defense. NU Receiving Leaders With his 123 rushing yards, Abdullah pushed his season rushing total to 1,336 good for ninth place on the NU Kenny Bell–7 receptions, 81 yards, TD single-season rushing list. Abdullah’s rushing total is the sixth-most yards for a Nebraska player through 10 games. Sam Burtch–5 receptions, 86 yards, TD NU Defensive Leaders Abdullah rushed for 100 yards for the ninth time in 10 games in 2013 and the 15th time in his career. The nine Ciante Evans–6 UT, 2 AT, 8 TT, 1-8 sacks, 2-9 TFL 100-yard rushing games ties for the fourth-most in a season in Nebraska history, and the 15 career 100-yard rushing Randy Gregory–3 UT, 5 AT, 8 TT, 1-9 sacks, 4 QB hurries games are tied for fifth in school history. Abdullah’s seven straight 100-yard rushing games are tied for the fifth-longest David Santos–5 UT, 3 AT, 8 TT, 2-4 TFL streak in school history. Jason Ankrah–3 UT, 1 AT, 4 TT, 1-5 TFL, 2 PBU, QB hurry Abdullah increased his career rushing total to 2,623 and moved up two spots to 14th on the NU career rushing list, 2013 Big Ten Standings passing Correll Buckhalter (2,522) and Jammal Lord (2,573). Legends Division Sophomore I-back Imani Cross had a 51-yard touchdown run in the third quarter to cut the Michigan State lead to Records 20-14. The 51-yard run was the longest of Cross’ career, bettering a 44-yard run last season against Arkansas State. Team Big Ten Overall Next Game The TD run was Cross’ team-leading 10th of the season and the 17th of his career. Michigan St. 6-0 9-1 at Northwestern Minnesota 4-2 8-2 Wisconsin Nebraska senior defensive back Ciante Evans had an eight-yard sack in the second quarter, his 10th tackle for loss of Nebraska 4-2 7-3 Michigan State the season. He added a TFL later in the game to give him 11 TFL on the season, the most ever by a Nebraska defensive Michigan 3-3 7-3 at Iowa back, suprassing the previous record of nine TFL by cornerback Al Larson in 1969. All 11 of Evans’ TFL have come in Iowa 3-3 6-4 Michigan Big Ten Conference play. Evans finished the game tied with four other Huskers for the team lead with eight tackles.