Friday Husker Pick’em – Kansas

On Saturday, Nebraska and Kansas will play for the 105th consecutive year.

That streak will come to a close next season as Nebraska moves to the Big Ten. Nebraska has dominated the series, winning 90 of the meetings.

Panelist records After last week’s squeaker at Iowa State, our panelists records are: Dr. Hill, 8-1 Team Runco, 8-1 Dr. Ringenberg, 7-1

But KU did take the Huskers down twice in the past decade, which in historical context could be considered somewhat regular.

Below, our panelists, who all correctly (barely) called for Nebraska wins last week at Iowa State, talk Nebraska-Kansas below.

Dr. Hill says, “Close call last week. This will be an interesting game. We need quarterback Taylor Martinez. This should not be close but I thought that last week, too.” NU 42, Kansas 14

Team Runco/Kelsay says, “With all due respect to Coach Turner Gill, (who we are major fans of), KU is a very bad football team currently. We believe they’ll get better, and they will always play hard. They just aren’t that good. Last week’s performance, while exciting to watch as a pure football fan, only solidifies the fact that Colorado is even worse. Assuming we are fairly healthy at quarterback this week, this will be a blowout.” NU 34, Kansas 10

Dr. Ringenberg says, “Turner Gill is a great person and coach but he has a bad team. KU is overmatched at every position on the field and NU should have minimal difficulty with them — although we have felt this way before. Look for NU to try to exert their dominance in the running game while trying to limit the number of hits Taylor Martinez takes — assuming he plays. We need him healthy for the stretch run.” NU 48, Kansas 10