Ames, Iowa is about 225 miles from Lincoln, Nebraska. Could that be the next move for Iowa State coach Matt Campbell? With the Huskers having fired Coach Scott Frost following a humiliating home loss to Georgia Southern on Saturday, Campbell is the early frontrunner to be his full-time replacement via SportsLine oddsmakers – although nothing surely will happen until after the season. Mickey Joseph is the interim head coach, and he certainly has a chance at the job if the Huskers finish strong .
This will be the seventh time since Tom Osborne's retirement in 1997 that Nebraska is looking for a coach. Campbell has been mentioned for just about every major opening over the past year. If you can recruit players to Iowa State, you absolutely can do the same at Nebraska in a better conference.
Here's what CBS Sports' Dennis Dodd wrote: “Several sources have told CBS Sports that Campbell is interested in Nebraska. It's certainly more highly resourced than Iowa State, especially with the Big 12 moving down in the pecking order with the forthcoming departures of Texas and Oklahoma.”
Like Frost, Joseph is a former Nebraska quarterback… but might that actually work against him? The Huskers do like to stay in the family as athletic director Trev Alberts was a former star linebacker there. Joseph has never been a major college head coach previously.