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Nebraska Football: Three toughest games on 2019 schedule

By Cullen Jekel

LINCOLN, NE - OCTOBER 27: Head coach Scott Frost of the Nebraska Cornhuskers leads the team on the field before the game against the Bethune Cookman Wildcats at Memorial Stadium on October 27, 2018 in Lincoln, Nebraska. (Photo by Steven Branscombe/Getty Images)
LINCOLN, NE - OCTOBER 27: Head coach Scott Frost of the Nebraska Cornhuskers leads the team on the field before the game against the Bethune Cookman Wildcats at Memorial Stadium on October 27, 2018 in Lincoln, Nebraska. (Photo by Steven Branscombe/Getty Images) /
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Running back Maurice Washington #28 of the Nebraska Cornhuskers  (Photo by Steven Branscombe/Getty Images)
Running back Maurice Washington #28 of the Nebraska Cornhuskers  (Photo by Steven Branscombe/Getty Images) /

Scott Frost’s second year coaching the Nebraska Huskers looks to be much more successful than his first. But how successful this year depends in large part on how the Huskers perform against the Wisconsin Badgers, Minnesota Gophers and Ohio State Buckeyes.

Imagine if the Huskers win all three of those games. They would then have a legitimate shot at finishing the season either undefeated or with just a single loss. (After all, the Huskers still have a Week Six contest against the Northwestern Wildcats, a game sandwiched in between games against the Buckeyes and Gophers.)

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If the Huskers win these three games as well as all the other games they are supposed to win, not only will they capture the Big Ten West, they could be in conversation for the College Football Playoff.

A lot of things have to go right for that to happen. Even if things don’t go exactly like that, if the Huskers make it through these three games 2-1, they’re set up for a solid bowl game, something that seemed alien after last season’s first six games.

Frost has done this before. At his first head coaching stop, with UCF, he took a team that had just gone winless, and by the time he left for Lincoln, they had gone undefeated.

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It’s a hell of a lot harder to go undefeated in a Power Five conference, especially one with 14 teams and a nine-game conference schedule. That goal is likely unreachable.

But competing for the Big Ten West? Now, that’s attainable–and all dependent on how these three games go.

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