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There are no watch sites, but if anyone is down there, let me know a good place to watch the game.

Heading to the game this weekend, I have one of those neck fans to help you keep cool. Since it’s going to be like 97 degrees. Is that something I’ll be allowed to bring in or not?

Can someone send the specific link so I can re-watch the Purdue game with Huskers Radio audio being played over? Can’t seem to find anything online for this game like I’ve been able to for the others.

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It has been years since I've gone to a husker game. As a fan period where is the best place fort? A few forty year old guys to sit around and drink beer before the game. Last time I tailgated, we used to go to the native american reservation by the national guard.Is that still a thing?

What makes a 5 Star player different from a 4 star or a 3 star? How do the sites determine these. Well, I don't know *all* of the answers, I'm just an average Redditor, but I'm going to try my best to explain these how I understand them.

The first thing to understand is there are four major recruit ranking websites right now. 247Sports, Rivals, On3 and ESPN. Each of these sites employe a number of scouts and evaluators who will watch thousands of recruits film and give them a prospect grade. Every site has a different ranking system. On3 and 247Sports give a grade out of 100 (A recruit with a 100 grade in their system is considered a "perfect" prospect, but they are weird and sometimes give out 101 grades as well). ESPN also uses a scale that maxes out at 100, but they tend to be much more conservative with their rankings, and their star ranges reflect that. Rivals tops out their grades at 6.1 as far as I can tell.

There's no site that gets perfect rankings, and some of the misses can be bad. For instance, 247 Sports gave DJ U a 101 grade, or grading Brock Vandagriff and Tyler Buchner over Jalen Milroe. At the end of the day, these grades are the reflections of opinions of scouts. Sometimes they'll give a blurb and a comparison, or sometimes (like with On3) they'll drop a player from top 10 to 74 without giving an explanation and there being no noticeable drop off in the quality of their play. (And yes I am referring to Dylan with that one).

Star grades an artificial representation of those rankings, for the most part.

On3 and 247Sports use the following scale:

97+ is a 5 Star Recruit

90-96 is a 4 Star Recruit

80-89 is a 3 Star Recruit

70-79 is a 2 Star Recruit

*(We don't usually see recruits lower than 2 stars ranked at all).

As I mentioned earlier, ESPN is more conservative with their grades, so they use the following scale:

90+ is a 5 Star

80-89 is a 4 Star

70-79 is a 3 Star

60-69 is a 2 Star

Rivals has a much more narrow range in their ratings

6.1 is a 5 Star

5.8 - 6.0 is a 4 Star

5.5 - 5.7 is a 3 Star

5.2 - 5.4 is a 2 Star

In my experience, these are usually what the star ranges are supposed to represent:

5 Stars - Elite Prospects. If their development in College goes correctly, these guys are projected to be First Round picks in the NFL in a few years. They can sometimes start for a team right away and instantly make an impact. We are seeing that a lot this year with players like Dylan, Ryan Williams, Jeremiah Smith, and Dylan Stewart.

4 Stars - Four Star players often have the high end talent that the five stars have, but they aren't quite as perfect of prospects for whatever reason. Make no mistake though, they're serious talents and can contribute to a team right away. Or maybe they need a bit more development time. Keeping with my Metaphor of NFL draft picks, these guys are 2nd Round picks at the high end, or 3rd round picks at the low end.

3 Stars - These players usually lack the elite talent that the 4 and 5 Stars have, so they often need more development time before they're ready to continue at a high level. The majority of players at the Power Five level are 3 Star Players. The "Projection" for a 3 star player is that they usually redshirt and sit for a few years before becoming a starer, and then they'll usually wind up as a solid contributor who is picked on Day 3 of the NFL draft (Rounds 4-7). Kirk Cousins is a prime example. He signed to Michigan State as a 3 Star QB and redshirted, before taking over as starter in his third year, and he had a solid career with them before being chosen in the 4th round by Washington.

2 Stars - It's very rare to see 2 Star recruits playing on Power 4 teams. There's usually more fundamental flaws to their game and/or a lack of athleticism that will prevent them from competing at the higher level, but they might still have a solid college football career at either a G6 or FCS program, or as a walk-on at a Power 4 school.

Keep in mind too, there are THOUSANDS of College Football prospects. It's almost impossible for these sites to keep up and rank everybody, so sometimes players who are unranked at the time will commit to certain teams. Sometimes if that happens, the sites will give a default ranking. For instance, if Rivals has not yet ranked a player who signs with an FBS team, they'll give them a default ranking of 3 Stars.

And I cannot state these enough, these rankings can often have very WILD swings. For instance, Shea Patterson was the #1 QB in the 2016 Class, ahead of players like Jalen Hurts, Dwayne Haskins (Both 4 stars) and Justin Herbert (3 stars). Arguably the two best QBs in the NFL right now, Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen, were both 3 stars. Suh was a high 4 star and was arguably the greatest defensive player in the history of college football, but we've had a lot of 4 star busts in the past like Alante Brown or Patrick O'Brian.

These services will often disagree with each other about certain players. Take for example Cam Lenhardt. 247Sports and On3 have him as a high 3 star, while Rivals and ESPN had him as a 4 star. Going back to Dylan, even though he was downgraded from the perfect 100 grade he was at early in his recruiting process, he was still a consensus 5 Star QB... except for On3, who downgraded him to a 4 star for reasons that are still unclear.

This is partially why I prefer composite rankings, especially at the end of the recruiting process. Composite rankings are an aggregate of all of the major services, and they'll usually tell you what the "consensus" ranking on a player is. Using my two examples above, the grades on Lenhardt averaged out to a 4 star, while for Dylan he was still firmly as a 5 Star even though On3 downgraded him in their personal rankings. (On3 also shows their Industry Composite in a higher priority than their own personal rankings, which is interesting.)

Does this mean that recruiting rankings 're a complete crapshoot and should be disregarded entirely? Absolutely not. For instance, Jadeveon Clowney was considered by many to be the best prospect ever (247 Sports went as far as to give him a 105 grade, which I believe is their highest ever) and he had a dominant college career and was picked #1 in the NFL draft. Trevor Lawrence and Justin Fields were both 101 graded prospects in 2018. They both had dominant College Careers and were first round picks, and appear to generally be by far and away the best two QBs from that class. There's also the matter of the "Blue Chip Ratio".

4 and 5 Star players are considered "Blue Chip" prospects. There's no formal definition of "Blue Chip" but they're considered players with Elite Talent that can usually have an impact right away. The last thirteen National Champions have had rosters comprised of majority Blue Chip recruits. The three lowest being 2016 Clemson at 52%, 2013 Florida State at 53% and 2024 Michigan at 54%.

Overall, scouting is a complicated and deeply flawed profession. At any level, scouts are going to have big hits and massive misses, but they usually have good reasons for thinking the things they do. They do this for a living and look at thousands of prospects. At the end of the day though, I think CBS says it best in their article about the Blue Chip Ratio. This isn't a substitute for proper coaching and development. Many coaches have been great recruits or signed highly ranked classes that never panned out (Cough cough Jimbo Fisher, Frost's staff also had a high miss rate on 4 Stars).

Going to the game tomorrow and was told to park on the north side of the stadium. Anyone know of some good places? Also seats are in sections 20 and 22. Will those be in the sun at 3 pm??

I won a couple tickets for tomorrow in a raffle. Does anyone know how the seats/view are from Section 36B, Row 73?

In town for the game and looking to buy a raiola jersey. All the shops I’ve been to so far have either not had them or only had them in 2xl or larger. Are there any good spots that I should check out that might have them?

Any good husker bars in Vegas?

Anyone else about Satterfield’s strategy going into this game? Rutgers is better against the pass than they are the run. I think we handle them fairly easily if we call the right game, but…we’ve heard Satterfield talk about how important running the ball is so the opponent is tired in the 4th quarter…but we saw the opposite against Illinois.

To start the 2nd half, 10 of his 13 play calls were passes. Resulting in a 3 & out. A 4 play drive that ended in a punt. & a 5 play drive that resulted in 7. Then came the 10 play drive where he DID give the ball to the backs on 5/9 plays for 20 yards rushing, leading to the missed FG.

Then he finished it out in OT with 5 pass plays, where Illinois recorded half of their sacks for the game (3 of 6).

Perhaps if we’d done what Satt claimed he wanted to, our o-line isn’t tired and beaten down to the point of 3rd & 42 in OT. They had to pass block & allow Illinois’ D to bring the hit to them on 18 of the 24 plays in the 2nd half and OT. Illinois had only felt our o-line deliver the hit 6 times the entire 2nd half (compared to 35 times in the first half). It’s no wonder why Illinois’ pass rush looked so fresh in OT.

I know you all will bash me and tell me to move on, yada yada. I can move on from the loss to Illinois, they’re a tough, well-coached football team. What is hard to move on from is our self-described, “dumbest guy in the room” OC.

To me he’s a “what if” play caller rather than an “if, what” play-caller. “What if” we throw it deep here?” “What if, rather than lining up in I, we run outta shotgun instead?” “What if we hand it to HH so he can throw it back to Dylan and he can throw it again?! TWO passes in one play!” I want an “if, what” play-caller. “IF the defense is giving us this, WHAT plays do we have to successfully attack that.” This probably comes from the PTSD watching HH play a pro-style system last year, but is anyone else uneasy now when we’re facing real opponents?

I really want to get wrestling season tickets and was wondering when they go on sale. Thanks for the help!

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Hello Husker fans! I am a lifelong Tennessee Vols fan but I am also just a huge fan of college football in general. I love reading about and studying the history of college football, and I have tons of respect for Nebraska with all its tradition and championships, outstanding fan support, legendary coaches and players, etc.

Anyway, I am going on a business trip to Omaha (it will be my first time visiting NE) from Oct 30th to Nov 1st. I have decided to stay an additional two days so that I can go down to Lincoln and attend the Nebraska vs UCLA game. I will be going with a high school friend who now lives in Grand Island, NE (he is also a Tennessee fan, and this will be his first Nebraska game as well). I have been to almost all the SEC stadiums and a few non conference stadiums but I’m really excited to visit The Sea of Red! I actually have been to one Nebraska game before when you all played Tennessee in the Music City Bowl in Nashville in 2016; you all had great fans who were very friendly.

So, I just have a couple questions I wanted to ask you all. First off, does anyone have any idea what time the UCLA game will likely be? I checked out the Nebraska Athletics website, and it still just shows TBA on there.

Also, do you all have any recommendations on cool places to visit near or on campus before or after the game? Are there any Nebraska themed bars or restaurants that you all would recommend? I generally always tailgate prior to games but as we don’t know anyone else that will be at this game, we’ll probably end up at a sports bar somewhere.

We aren’t flying back until late afternoon on Sunday. Is there anything in Lincoln that you all would recommend we do or see on Sunday morning?

And finally, since I’ll be there over Halloween (I’ll still be in Omaha on Halloween night), are there any cool haunted corn mazes to visit? I’ve been to haunted corn mazes in Tennessee and Georgia, but I figure Nebraska has to be THE PLACE to go for this! And I don’t mind having to drive a little while. Thanks so much!

I’m typically overly optimistic about Nebraska, but I am already having those end of game one possession feelings about this game.

The heat and wind is going to wear on our D Line and Butler is dinged up.

That Illinois game just made me lose the trust that NU can close a game.

Purdue is so bad, that last week doesn’t count.

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My son and I are going to the Rutgers game this Saturday and he really wants to get player autographs. I think last season I saw some kids hanging around a part of north stadium waiting for players, but I have no idea if anyone regularly signs stuff outside of Fan Day? Appreciate any info!