Scott Frost’s seat is only getting hotter.
The Northwestern Wildcats took down the Nebraska Cornhuskers 31-28 on Saturday in Dublin, Ireland as the headliner of college football’s opening week.
Northwestern entered the game as a 12-point underdog and trailed by as many as 11 points (28-17) in the third quarter.
The Wildcats got the go-ahead score on a four-yard touchdown run from Evan Hull with 11:34 remaining in the fourth quarter.
Northwestern takes a 31-28 lead! 🏈🇮🇪 pic.twitter.com/jvMFjl9L2g
— The Comeback (@thecomeback) August 27, 2022
And Northwestern’s Xander Mueller intercepted a pass from Nebraska quarterback Casey Thompson (who did make an incredible play) to secure the win. Nebraska turned the ball over three times, while only forcing one turnover.
Northwestern with an interception to put the game away vs Nebraska! 🏈🇮🇪 pic.twitter.com/wvnRcEORtB
— The Comeback (@thecomeback) August 27, 2022
It all went downhill for Nebraska after a bizarre decision by Frost to attempt an onside kick with an 11-point lead in the third quarter.
Nebraska attempts an onside kick with an 11-point lead. pic.twitter.com/DlOPkwuNpB
— PFF College (@PFF_College) August 27, 2022
Following this onside kick with 9:09 to play in the third, Northwestern outscored Nebraska 14-0. pic.twitter.com/F5vXV99LMP
— CBS Sports (@CBSSports) August 27, 2022
After the game, Frost admitted, “If I did it over, I wouldn’t make that call.”
Scott Frost says he made the onside kick call.
"If I did it over, I wouldn't make the call."
— Amie Just (@Amie_Just) August 27, 2022
So, it’s another brutal loss for a Nebraska team that last won at least six games in 2016. The Huskers are now 15-29 under Frost.
(At least there was free alcohol — and a massive cup snake — for Nebraska fans to consume — until it ran out — at Aviva Stadium.)
It’s a fantastic win for Pat Fitzgerald and Northwestern, though. The Wildcats have already matched their 2021 Big Ten win total with the victory.
Here’s a look at how the college football world is reacting to Northwestern’s upset win over Nebraska:
David Pollack said “I’m picking Nebraska as well, so screenshot this in case we’re all wrong”
And here we are much to the chagrin of Husker fans pic.twitter.com/CauSBtA9lR
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) August 27, 2022
If you ever wanted to see many, many people do simultaneous surrender cobras, here's the crowd feed at the Nebraska watch party on that last interception pic.twitter.com/oFRa3GIqI5
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) August 27, 2022
Nebraska is now 5-21 in one-score games under Scott Frost.
…and 3-21 when trailing at the half. pic.twitter.com/PZKPYmLlNZ
— CBS Sports (@CBSSports) August 27, 2022
Nebraska falls to Northwestern 31-28. The Cornhuskers are the first Power 5 team to lose 9 consecutive 1-score games since Iowa State did so from 2014-16.
Since hiring Scott Frost in 2018, the Huskers are 5-21 in 1-score games. That's the worst record in FBS over that span. pic.twitter.com/FjQzALh6EC
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) August 27, 2022
Northwestern waking up and realizing it's an even year: pic.twitter.com/gm5VhgAL1e
— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) August 27, 2022
That even year feeling 😤 pic.twitter.com/jRufU4UwnD
— Northwestern On BTN (@NUOnBTN) August 27, 2022
Before boarding the bus Tuesday on the way to the airport, Pat Fitzgerald told me: “No one’s giving us a f—ing chance.”
After having his least-competitive Northwestern team, a heartening start for Fitz.
— Adam Rittenberg (@ESPNRittenberg) August 27, 2022
Scott Frost's UCF went 4-0 in 1-score games in 2017. In his other 5+ years as HC, he is 6-24 in them.
Defies pretty much everything we've ever thought we knew about close games and randomness.
— Bill Connelly (@ESPN_BillC) August 27, 2022
Reminder that Nebraska didn’t schedule a bye the week after going to Europe and has to play a prickly FCS team with “Dakota” in its name in seven days
— Alex Kirshner (@alex_kirshner) August 27, 2022
