Nebraska football is about to embark on its hardest schedule in several years. To believe that — and some may think I’m nuts for writing it — you’d have to believe, as I do, that Nebraska’s 2016 schedule was quite a plum. It was about the only easy thing about last season, tragedy-laced as it was, but NU finished with a 9-3 regular season record while averaging fewer yards per play than it gave up. The year before, the opposite was true, and NU finished 5-7 in the regular season. That’s part of why analytics expert Jeff Sagarin had the 2015 Husker team No. 42 in his final ratings and the 2016 team No. 44. The schedule. The 2016 home schedule was a dream. NU finished 7-0 at home. The road schedule was tough — as seen in losses at Wisconsin, Ohio State and Iowa — but since those are…
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