Jay Calderok/DN
Photos clockwise from
bottom right:
WINGRACKJONVEDRAL
(right), tight end Sheldon
Jackson (center) and tight end
Vershan Jackson celebrate
after Verhsan Jackson scored
on the Nebraska’s opening
drive.
VEDRAL DIVES for a pass
from Husker quarterback
Scott Frost.
BRIAN SCHUSTER and
Vedral rejoice in the third
quarter after Schuster scored
on a 15-yard run, his first
career touchdown.
I-BACK AHMAN GREEN
evades the grasp of Colorado
State defensive end Steve
Trammell.
SPLIT END BRENDAN
HOLBEIN is tackled by
Colorado State free safety
Kevin McDougal.
Scott Bruhn/DN
Rams Mow opportunities,
Lubick says NUs
10 points to close the
first half deflated CSU.
By Trevor Parks _
Senior Reporter
7ust when it looked like the Colo
rado State football team was ready to
challenge Nebraska Saturday, every
thing backfired.
Trailing 14-0, quarterback Moses
Moreno threw a 32-yard touchdown
pass to Geoff Turner, cutting the
Comhusker lead to 14-6 with 3 min
utes, 27 seconds remaining in the sec
ond quarter.
But Nebraska answered, scoring on
Scott Frost’s four-yard touchdown run
two minutes later. CSU got the ball
back at its 15-yard line with 51 sec
onds left But instead of running out
die clock, die Rams tried to get things
going for a quick score.
On first down, Calvin Branch was
stuffed for no gain and Moreno fever
ishly called a timeout. On second
down, Damon Washington picked up
five yards, but NU called a timeout.
Moreno’s pass fell incomplete on third
down.
Following a 13-yard punt return by
Mike Fullman, the Huskers added a
27-yard field goal to take a 24-6 half
time lead.
“They played it real smart, and I
didn’t play it real smart,” CSU Coach
Sonny Lubick said. “We probably
could have run the ball another play
or two and stopped a field goal.”
Moreno said he was confident his
team could move the ball down the
field, but by giving up 10 points, die
complexion of the game changed.
“Those last 10 points,” Moreno
said, “I think it took its tafia little bit.
wejrere cxpcctmg to go into naittiate
not being too Fair behind.’”"
Turner, whah$d 125 yardsrec&Vr
ing his fourfe straight game wp
mopthan 100 yards — said he didn't
thin& the end of the firsQ)idf chaiiged
the game.
“Wocame inat halftime still in the
game/’he said, ‘Hind then things didn’t
go ottr Uragt after that.” '#*^81
Not much went right for the Rams
afterhalftime. &
Colorado State’s first possession of
the second half ended when a Moreno
pass bounced off tight end Eli
Workman’s shoulder'pad and was in
tercepted by Jamel Williams. Four
plays later, NU scored again.
CSU, which came into the game
averaging 499 yards and 39.5 points
per game, had only 329 yards Satur
day.
“What I told them was that we just
ran into a good football team that has
the capabilities of blowing people out,”
Lubick said.
That was magnified by the fact that
CSU starts just three seniors on offense
and two seniors on defense.
4 “You always dread something like
ithis when you’ve got a young football
team and come into a place like this,”
Lubick said. “We just have to forget
this, and hopefully we’ve got guts
enough and character enough to
^bounce back.”
Moreno said the team will bounce
back.
“In my mind it’s forgotten already,”
he said. “We can’t dwell on this for a
long time. This game has no meaning
to us.”
Matthew Watte/DN
