What is this strange feeling? It feels strange but also really good. I think it’s what some people call “hope”???

Yes, as a fanbase, we haven’t dared have hope for many years. Not to relive the past decade but everytime we had enough enthusiasm to ‘hope’, we were taken out with a sledge hammer at the ankles, (å la Stephen King’s Misery) crippling all further dreams of the Huskers ever being good again.

Huskers are 5-1, the Hoosiers are 6-0, and both teams are coming off a bye week. Saturday will be the showdown in Bloomington Indiana at 11 am central. Nebraska is the “underdog” this week with Indiana being a -6.5 favorite.

The Cornhuskers are very familiar with being the underdogs, especially the veterans on the team who came back for another year to prove that this team that began a rebuild last season is a WINNER.

Indiana, on the other hand, is in the first year of their rebuild. Curt Cignetti is a good head coach whose record at his previous schools shows he knows how to win. However, this is the Big Ten, and winning here ain’t that easy (just ask Scott Frost). This season, Indiana has defeated UCLA and Northwestern, both in the Big Ten BUT both are in major overhaul mode after losing their head coaches (UCLA this season, NW last season).

As Husker fans, we have been here before, it’s hard to drink that ‘Rhule-ade’ after so many disappointments but tonight we will echo the sentiments that Andy Dufresne wrote in Stephen King’s The Shawshank Redemption; “Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies”

Go Big Red!