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Lucky Named Walter Camp Offensive Player of the Week






Nebraska I-back Marlon Lucky quickly began to collect honors for his career performance in Nebraska’s 52-10 win over Nevada on Sept. 1, by being selected as the Walter Camp Football Foundation National Offensive Player of the Week on Sunday.

The award recognizes the most outstanding offensive and defensive performances of the week as selected by a panel of national media members and administered by the Walter Camp Football Foundation.

Lucky was awarded the recognition following a landmark afternoon this past Saturday, when he pounded out a career-best 233 rushing yards on 30 carries for the Huskers and scored four total touchdowns. The North Hollywood, Calif., native’s 266 all-purpose yards led the way for 625 total yards of offense by Nebraska, the most under Head Coach Bill Callahan.

Lucky returns to the backfield for the Huskers next weekend, as Nebraska heads to its first road contest of the season at Wake Forest on Saturday, Sept. 8 at 11 a.m. The game will be broadcast live on ESPN.


Run Lucky run, OL was dominate the entire game winning this one easily. Bad start for Keller but he got much better as the game went on and avoided being sacked with really no pressure thanks to the strong performance of the line. Blackshirts were at the top of their game getting the Wolfpack to go 3 and out almost every time which took a heavy toll on the Nevada defense.

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Huskers coach's deal extended through 2011 season

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Yeah I knew that would happen, once Pederson's got extended I knew Callahan was next, they're like two peas in a pod.

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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Sam Keller nearly gave away the game during his first road start at Nebraska. Zack Bowman jumped up to take it back for the Cornhuskers.
Three plays after Keller threw an interception deep in Nebraska territory, Bowman picked off a Wake Forest pass in the end zone and the 17th-ranked Cornhuskers held on to win 20-17 on Saturday.
"Sometimes you're going to have to come away with a character win, and we did that today," Keller said. "Somebody had to step up, and we did. ... You come into the defending ACC champions' house and take one from them — that's big time."
Nebraska (2-0) lacked the gaudy offensive numbers of last week but withstood its first real challenge of the season and now can focus on next week's visit from No. 1 Southern California.
Keller completed 24-of-41 passes for 258 yards, was picked off twice and led an impressive scoring drive late in the second quarter that ended with his lone touchdown pass.

"There's a couple of plays I think he'd like to have back ... (but) in the 2-minute drill, that's where I thought he really emerged," Nebraska coach Bill Callahan said. "He made some outstanding plays under duress."
Wake Forest had a prime opportunity to take the lead — or at least tie it — midway through the fourth quarter, when defensive end Zach Stukes smothered Keller and John Russell intercepted the pass at the Nebraska 10. The Huskers took it back three plays later when Bowman stepped in front of Brett Hodges' pass with 6:05 to play.
"It was there. I just had to make the catch," Bowman said.
Wake Forest's last chance came after stopping Nebraska on downs with 1:54 to play. Ben Eisenhart seemed to intercept Hodges' third-down pass near midfield, but replay officials reversed the ruling. It didn't matter — Hodges' final pass missed Kenny Moore, allowing the Huskers to run out the clock.
Nebraska — which rushed for 413 yards in a rout of Nevada — managed just 27 on the ground at halftime against Wake and finished with 115. Marlon Lucky, who had a career-high 233 yards rushing last week, had just 90 yards on 24 carries.
Hodges was 12 for 24 for 140 yards with two interceptions in his first start for the Demon Deacons, who were significantly better running the ball than they were last week. Held to just 2 yards rushing by Boston College, Wake Forest had 236 yards on 53 carries but fell to 0-2 for just the second time under coach Jim Grobe and first since 2005.
"Last year, we were making the plays in the tough situations," Moore said. "This year, so far, we haven't made the plays we've needed to make. A couple of mistakes — still got some young guys who need to get some more game experience, but we're right there. We'll be OK."
Moore, a receiver, had 116 yards on the ground — with most coming on misdirection handoffs out of the shotgun. His 5-yard touchdown capped Wake Forest's first possession after halftime, giving the Demon Deacons a 17-13 lead.
The Cornhuskers countered by moving 74 yards in eight plays, with Lucky bouncing a run outside and racing 22 yards down the right sideline to make it 20-17.
Nebraska traveled 1,165 miles to play its only non-conference road game of the season, but the predominance of red inside 31,500-seat Groves Stadium — the smallest venue the Huskers have played since 1971 — made it seem a little like Lincoln, and early on had Keller feeling right at home.
The Arizona State transfer led the Huskers' two-minute drill late in the second quarter, with his 25-yard touchdown pass to Sean Hill with 16 seconds before halftime giving the Huskers a 13-10 lead.
"We really felt that we had them on the ropes right there," Callahan said. "We felt that we had them out of condition there for a moment. I thought they were dragging. I thought we had a chance to come out in the third quarter and put them away."
Hodges' prettiest pass was a 62-yarder to Kevin Marion, who caught the pass in stride while crossing the field and stepped out just before reaching the pylon. That set up Hodges' 1-yard sneak three plays later that gave Wake Forest its first lead at 10-6 with 5 minutes before halftime.
Alex Henery kicked a pair of 22-yard field goals in the first half for Nebraska, and Sam Swank converted from 25 yards out for Wake Forest.



Not a great game they could of very easily lost this one. Defense couldn't stop the run which was held to 0 yards last week. Lucky was not at all like last week, receivers dropped passes, Keller over threw a few, and the defense bailed them out late in the game for a win. Wake Forest continued to run the same play which couldn't be stopped and had a huge play down field to a wide open receiver for 6 but was incomplete then threw the late INT in the end zone. It was a good thing Skinner didn't play or this game might have turned out bad. Great showing by the big red fans, looked more like a neutral site game. Got USC next at home they need to play much better if they want to win that one.

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prediction:
USC 34
Nebraska 13

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they were disapointing last week but i don't think they wanted to show any more than they had too. the D got more presure in the last drive with the game on the line than they had all day. SC 31 huskers 24

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What a horrible game Cosgrove made no adjustments he's an absolute loser USC did whatever they wanted job well done much respect.

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Four more years! Four more years!

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"Well we gave them a week at the start of the semester rather than at the end but here's my point, OK. It's Division I football! It's the Big 12! It ain't intramurals! You've got two weeks after finals, you've got a week of July Fourth and you get a week before camp starts. That's a month that's probably more vacation then you get and we're a little bummed out that we don't get three weeks? Go play intramurals brother, go play intramurals."

Dan Hawkins

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One of us here can be feeling optimistic with our coach.

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Yeah good luck with that

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Originally Posted by Blaze_1UP

Yeah good luck with that

You saw what he could do with 1 and 2 star recruits at Boise, imagine what he'll do with the extra resources here.

I'll give Callahan some credit, maybe he knew what he was doing riding the brakes against USC last year.

Justice thomas is a Husker fan too, that game must have been like a pubic hair in his coke.

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The WAC is nothing compared to the Big XII if thats the criteria Colorado fans go by more power to ya. Hawkins has done absolutely nothing but lose and Buffs are happy with that, I guess it's just expected in Colorado. USC won by 18 same as last year nothings changed at least it's recognized instead of oh well another losing season won't hurt. Clarence Thomas is a Husker fan I could care less but you can't blame him for jumping on the band wagon.

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Originally Posted by Blaze_1UP

The WAC is nothing compared to the Big XII if thats the criteria Colorado fans go by more power to ya.

Yep smaller budget, harder recruiting and blocked out by the power conferences.

Hawkins has done absolutely nothing but lose and Buffs are happy with that, I guess it's just expected in Colorado.

It's expected after lackluster recruiting classes that don't fit his system, a debt ridden athletic department, a hostile state goverment and a police force that thinks the law applies to football players.

USC won by 18 same as last year nothings changed at least it's recognized instead of oh well another losing season won't hurt.

That wasn't the same 18 as last year. That was a 32 point loss scewwed thanks to a couple of garbage time touchdowns

Clarence Thomas is a Husker fan I could care less but you can't blame him for jumping on the band wagon.

found some kindred spirits in Phillips, Peter and Purify.

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Like I've said before good luck with that