Big Red's Big Talk

Good friend Julio alerted me to this story, just a few days before the beloved Big Red is to get its first major challenge of the season, a trip to Los Angeles to face the juggernaut USC Trojans.

I won't get into this too much, my superstitious side won't allow me to. But let's just say, in my unconditional support for all that is Nebraska, I appreciate our boys going in with confidence and talking big, but the last thing anyone needs to be doing is giving a team that's won 27 straight at home. It's a new team there in L.A. but it's still the fourth-ranked team in the nation and firing them up isn't always advised. So can we please just all calm down?

Perhaps that's the weak me talking — the guy who doesn't even want to utter words of impending games because of my belief if jinxes the good guys.

That said, Nebraska is a three-touchdown road dog in this game, which makes little sense to me. Hopefully the Huskers use that as their motivation to counteract what will undoubtedly be a fired up USC group in light of Jones' remarks.