Ohio State at Nebraska: game preview, prediction, and 6 things to know

There is no shortage of quotable personae in the college football universe. Hell, sometimes it feels like the game itself was created as sort of an afterthought, a publicly-engaging vehicle used as a front to get these guys’ words out into the mainstream. You’ve got your classics, like Woody Hayes’ seminal “because I couldn’t go for three.” You’ve got your modern iterations, like Boston College’s Steve Addazio, who fails the Hemingway test by a single word in this gem: And then you’ve got first-year Nebraska defensive coordinator Bob Diaco (formerly of UConn and Notre Dame), who is on a galaxy brain meme-worthy level all by himself. Diaco once half-jokingly (we think) proposed that UConn, in an effort to build its brand among younger players, “target six-year-olds to 16-year-olds, how about that? Eventually they’re going to be 18 to 35. Let’s broadcast our games on Nickelodeon.” As Calvin once said, it…

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