Choose Your Adventure: 3-2 on the road or 2-2 at home?
You can lock in one of those results in Big Ten play for Nebraska in 2026. Which do you choose?
Today only, the college football gods have given me the authority to allow you to lock in one of two scenarios for Nebraska football in 2026. By choosing one scenario, you lock out the other but only as it is specifically outlined. This is an important provision.
For example, if Scenario A is “Nebraska will run the damn ball in 2026” and you choose that over Scenario B, “Lil’ Red will retire in July,” it means Nebraska will run the damn ball this season and Lil’ Red will not retire in July. That’s it. Lil’ Red could still be kidnapped or be made an Admiral in the Great Navy of the State of Nebraska, an honor that would surely make him feel more entitled to power and probably lead to an extinction-level event. You don’t know. All outcomes other than the one selected and the one not selected are possible.
The actual scenarios I can offer today are much less serious.
Scenario A: Nebraska will go 2-2 at home in Big Ten play. Those games include, in order, Maryland, Indiana, Washington and Ohio State. The Huskers will win two of those, and they specifically won’t…
Scenario B: Go 3-2 in Big Ten road games, which are all the road games in 2026, and that 3-2 record will include consecutive road victories for the first time since 2020. The away slate includes, also in order, Michigan State, Oregon, Illinois, Rutgers and Iowa.1
It’s kind of a lot to process, I know. But you have to act now. This deal won’t last long. I don’t want to put my thumb on the scale—the football gods would frown on that, but they haven’t subscribed yet so my thoughts are safe behind the paywall—but I think there’s an obvious choice.
