Nebraska rolled past Fordham in the home opener. Listen to Huskers head coach Scott Frost speak to the media after the game Saturday.
Sometimes, a team that’s stuck in a rut just needs a spark.
Sometimes, that spark comes from an unpredictable place.
For Nebraska on Saturday against FCS team Fordham at Memorial Stadium, the spark came from a special teams unit.
After a quarter-plus of looking the approximate on-field equal of its Big Ten foe, Fordham lined up for a field-goal attempt that, if successful, would have leveled the score at 10.
Instead, senior Nebraska safety Marquel Dismuke blocked the kick with his facemask.
The offense finally kicked into gear and scored twice in the final 7 minutes, 40 seconds, before halftime to take a three-score lead, and the Huskers reeled off the game’s final 45 points in a comfortable 52-7 home-opening victory.
“We needed it,” NU coach Scott Frost said. “We had such a good camp and going into that first game had high hopes. The kids really believe in how much progress they’ve made and how much better of a team they are. Then Game 1 didn’t go the way we wanted it to, but that doesn’t change the progress that we’ve made. We’ve got a tough slate of games, we’ve got a long season. We’ve got to keep getting better.
“This team is going to compete with anybody we go on the field with, and then it’s a matter of playing clean and making somebody else beat us, not beating ourselves.”
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