Does Nebraska play today? College football schedule for Cornhuskers' next game after Week 11 bye

Modified Nov 09, 2024 12:30 GMT

NCAA Football: UCLA at Nebraska - Source: Imagn — Does Nebraska play today? College football schedule for Cornhuskers' next game after Week 11 bye - Source: Imagn

The Nebraska Cornhuskers are 5-4 (2-4 Big Ten) and coming off a 27-20 home loss to UCLA. Nebraska is on its open week.

Does Nebraska play today?

Nebraska doesn't play today as the Cornhuskers are on their open week. Nebraska will return to the field on November 16 against the USC Trojans.

Can Nebraska make the playoffs?

The Nebraska Cornhuskers can't make the college football playoff this season.

Nebraska is unranked and already has four losses. There will be plenty of two-loss teams that don't make the college football playoff.

Instead, the focus for the Cornhuskers is winning one more game to become bowl-eligible.

"You just try to dominate tomorrow. It is what it is. It was a tremendous missed opportunity," coach Matt Rhule said, after the loss to UCLA, via 247Sports. "It's a game that despite everything that happened early on, we weathered the storm and had a chance to win. Now we have to battle back. It was the same question you asked me after Indiana. I said, 'Hey, we'll be back.' I expect us to be back.

"Obviously when something like today happens, people are going to be disgruntled. You're going to hear things, and players are going to hear things. That's all part of it. That's all part of when you lose a game like this," Rhule added. "If I were in the stands today, I'd be frustrated. I know a lot of the guys in the locker room are probably frustrated because they know we're better than that. But we are where we are and you have to just play yourself back into it."

Nebraska has to win just one of its final three games to get to six wins.

"We have three more opportunities to go play football. We've got some great seniors that I know want to win one, if not two or three. So that's what we'll have to do."

The Cornhuskers started the year going 3-0 including a massive 28-10 win over Colorado. Since, Nebraska has gone 2-4 with three straight losses.