Crouch was too fast. The well-fed linemen were too strong. Alexander was too crafty. The option was too unstoppable. The Huskers sliced through the Cats' front seven like a hot knife through butter, leaving pancaked defensive linemen and breathless linebackers in their wake.
Offense wins regular season games.
Defense wins Alamo Bowls. The Cats lose three of their top defenders to graduation in Harold Blackmon, Conrad Emmerich and Missouri. The only hope is that Walker takes advantage of his exceptionally talented linebacker quartet of Napoleon Harris, Kevin Bentley, Pat Durr and Silva, and employs a 3-4 defense next season. It would have been nice to see it more Saturday, regardless of how little it had been practiced. Surely the 4-3 wasn't working, and the result was national humiliation.