When the college football season kicks off Saturday morning in Dublin, Ireland, the pubs will be open early and Nebraska fans will be ready to celebrate the start of coach Scott Frost’s first winning season.
This is the fifth year of the Frost era, so if it’s not his first winning season, it will probably be his last. The Cornhuskers are expected to be improved this year, seriously, and they need to be significantly better after posting records of 3-9, 3-5, 5-7 and 4-8 under Frost.
“Nebraska is one of those teams we’ve been saying the same thing about for five seasons, but it has not turned around,” Gaughan Gaming bookmaker Vinny Magliulo said. “I think it’s a make-or-break year for Frost and that staff.”
The Cornhuskers are 13-point favorites — up a tick from the South Point opener of 12.5 — against Northwestern in a unique setting. It’s the earliest date for a conference game in Big Ten history, and both teams are eager to move forward and forget last year.
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