Go Canes 🙌

Let’s go!!

7-0 is amazing and #1

But we have to get better, and we can.

Watch and comment your opinion.

This weekend I'm visiting the San Francisco area and meeting up with a fellow Canes fan. I'm staying in Sausalito. Anyone have recommendations on where we can catch Saturday's UM v UNC game while we grab a bite and a couple drinks?

Any Given Saturday! Go “U” Canes!

We can't put him on the punt return team. The return on that is some extra yards, but a possible hard shot is way too high for those extra yards. We must have other surehanded catchers out there. I don't get that logic risking our best guy out there.

We need Upshaw, Barkate, Lofton, etc to get some solid reps and catches. Once Toney was out for a couple of plays because of his ankle, our offense was not locked in. Dropped passes (Upshaw) and not following through (Barkate). I think we have to force Mensah to work on his other guys and keep our offense unpredictable. Toney been so elite at clutch plays it's masking our other guys. And once we face real elite teams with elite DBs, it'll be trouble.

And side note, I hope our DBs working on punching balls in the air so we don't get busted by hail maries over and over. It's actually pretty bad to me how those low percentage plays are basically high upside passes now.

If VT manages to beat SMU in Dallas, there’s a good chance they enter Hard Rock 8-2 and ranked, and would be the most compelling Week 12 matchup for College GameDay.

Not saying it’ll happen, but worth getting your affairs in order in case it does.

Husker fan visiting in peace to say congrats on coming in first in SillyRankings™.

SillyRankings™ is a simple ranking system that ONLY cares about wins and losses of your team and the teams you played made extra silly by a meaningless trademark symbol. I started making this ranking during the "greatest 3-9 team ever" phase of Husker football because sometimes a loss is just a loss and playing great teams close really doesn't mean as much as the voters and other computer rankings think it does.

SillyRankings™ points are awarded as follows:

+2 Points per win

+1 Point for each win that a team you beat has

-2 Points per loss

-1 Point for each loss a team that beat you has

Fan bases to this point have had mixed feelings about this random post from an outsider, but I do SillyRankings™ for the Husker subreddit already and some fanbases seem to enjoy it, so why not share! I will not be offended with downvotes or the post being removed if that is the will of the sub either.

A little asterisk to the good news here though, I believe at least one team in the number one spot of SillyRankings™ has lost in each of the last 5 weeks. As a husker fan and given our programs' histories, I won't lie, I would be a little happy if that streak continued!

It seems these discussions with Amazon have become more serious. The timing to negotiate is great considering last season’s run and current status at #1.
Not sure how I’d feel about having to stream all our games on Prime. Do any others think this could work?
The marketing deal makes this more attractive imo. Nike is going to pump major money into NIL marketing strategies for student athletes on our behalf. This was part of our new overarching contract with Nike beginning July 27.
I don’t think we’re bluffing at this point. If changes aren’t made to that bill, and neither the SEC or BIG come calling quickly, we will opt out.
Things are moving fast…

Maybe not against UNC, but when we play Notre Dame or any better defense that bunch formation has gotta be a nightmare to defend, especially when we shift into it.

We should be running this formation and moving the bunch all Over the place and not just out wide.

Mensah has proven that he’s a good decision maker and that formation forces the defense to make quick decisions in coverage where we can take advantage of Toney’s gravity even when we don’t target him.

We can get a lot more creative play-calling from this formation than screens.

And even when we aren’t using that formation, we should be shifting guy more frequently than we do. This offense is already great, but against better defenses we should be doubling down on forcing the defense to make quick coverage adjustment decisions.

Due to other games today, even if Miami accidentally loses an ACC game, they will still be guaranteed a spot in the championship game. They are the only team undefeated in conference play and the two 1-loss teams (SMU and Wake Forest) play each other later. So Miami must lose at least 2 of their 4 remaining conference games to not be guaranteed a spot.

I think, if we are not already there, Mali will clearly wind up on many folks Mt. Rushmore of Canes greats. So the question is who is your current Rushmore and who drops off if Mali joins?

My current is Reed, Taylor, Irvin, Lewis. I have no idea who drops off for Mali.

Classic

This video gave me chills

I feel like I have the craziest déjà vu watching the Canes blowout Pitt in the 2001 cover throwbacks. Lowkey, I hope they bring these back with Nike for one game a year or something like that.

it’s nice to see other top ranked teams (indiana, BYU) go into overtime against unranked opponents with mediocre records. at least FSU is a rivalry

Broke it out! Let’s kick some teeth in!!!! Let’s honor the greatest team in college football history with a statement ass beating!!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

Missed the game so I went to catch up on YouTube TV - suppose it’s time for a refresh on my Spanish anyway 🤩🤩 Canes allllll day!! 🙌🙌🙌

This doesn’t get spoken about by the media much at all, but thru one and a half seasons including the playoff run Toney has zero dropped passes.

2025: Zero drops on 141 targets
2026: Zero drops on 56 targets

For comparison purposes, Jeremiah Smith has 5 career drops include 2 this year.

Toney has 50 catches on 56 targets so far this year so he’s basically catching damn near every pass thrown to him with only 6 being considered uncatchable.

An absurd stat that really shows how good he is.