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Nebraska Post-Game Notes
Nebraska vs. Michigan State, Nov. 7, 2015, Memorial Stadium, Lincoln, Neb.
17 –– The 39-38 victory marked Nebraska’s 17th straight victory in a night game at Memorial Stadium, dating back to 2008. The Huskers have lost just five times in night games at Memorial Stadium.
12 –– Nebraska trailled 38-26 with under two minutes remaining. The 12-point fourth-quarter comeback tied for the largest fourth-quarter comeback in school history. It marks the fourth time NU has erased a 12-point deficit in the fourth quarter and rallied for victory. The last time is occurred was in 2012, when Nebraska trailed 28-16 at Northwestern and won 29-28.
6 –– Nebraska defeated a top-six opponent for the first time in 14 seasons, dating back to a 20-10 win over No. 2 Oklahoma in Lincoln on Oct. 27, 2001. The win marked only the ninth time in school history that Nebraska has defeated a top-six opponent at Memorial Stadium. The win was Nebraska’s first victory over a top-10 opponent in five seasons, dating back to a 24-3 win over No. 9 Michigan State on Oct. 29, 2011.
The win marks Mike Riley’s sixth victory over a top-10 opponent in the past 10 seasons, and is the second straight season he has coached his team to a win over an opponent ranked seventh or higher in the AP poll.
Nebraska knocked off an unbeaten opponent in the month of November for just the sixth time in school history and for the first time in 16 seasons, dating back to a 41-15 victory over a 9-0 Kansas State squad on Nov. 13, 1999.
The win over No. 6 Michigan State marked the highest ranked opponent a first-year Husker coach has ever defeated. The previous high had been Nebraska’s 19-3 victory over Texas in the 1974 Cotton Bowl following Tom Osborne’s first season as head coach in 1973.
3 –– The win marked only the third time in school history that an unranked Nebraska team upset a top-10 opponent. It was the first such upset in nearly 40 years dating back to Sept. 17, 1977, when unranked Nebraska knocked off No. 4 Alabama, 31-24.
98– Senior I-back Imani Cross rushed a season-high 18 times for a season-high 98 yards. His previous highs were eight carries for 39 yards at Purdue. Cross also had a season-long 21-yard run in the third quarter. Cross had a one-yard touchdown run in the third quarter for his 25th career rushing touchdown. Cross is the 21st player in school history with at least 25 rushing touchdowns.
2 –– Tommy Armstrong Jr. moved into the No. 2 spot on the Nebraska career passing list. Armstrong completed 19-of-33 passes for 320 yards, pushing his career total to 6,032 yards, moving past Zac Taylor (5,850) into the second spot. Armstrong also moved into the top 10 on the season passing list. His 2,372 passing yards this season rank seventh on the NU season chart. Armstrong’s 2,695 yards last season rank third.
7,000 –– Armstrong accounted for 339 yards of total offense in the game to push his career total to 7,216, becoming the third Husker with 7,000 career total offense yards. He joins Taylor Martinez (10,233) and Eric Crouch (7,915) in the 7,000-yard total offense club. Armstrong moved into the top 10 on the season total offense list. His 2,648 total offensive yards rank seventh on the NU season chart.
300+ –– Armstrong’s 339 yards of total offense mark his ninth career game of more than 300 total yards, which ties a school record held by Joe Ganz and Taylor Martinez.
143–– Junior receiver Jordan Westerkamp caught nine passes for 143 yards, including a 38-yard first-quarter touchdown. The 38-yard reception was a season long reception for Westerkamp and his sixth touchdown reception of the 2015 season.
Westerkamp increased his season receptions total to 58 moving him to fourth place on the Nebraska season receptions list. Westerkamp is five receptions from the most catches by a Husker receiver in a season (63 by Nate Swift in 2008). Westerkamp has 801 receiving yards this season, which ranks sixth all-time at Nebraska. Westerkamp moved up one spot to sixth on the career receptions list with 122, passing Quincy Enunwa (115) and moved up to fourth on the NU career receiving yardage list with 1,831 yards, passing Terrence Nunn (1,762). Westerkamp has a catch in 23 straight games and has had five or more catches in four straight games.
Westerkamp has four 100-yard receiving games this year, which ties a school record accomplished by four other players, five times (Johnny Rodgers twice).
30–– Junior receiver Brandon Reilly had a 35-yard reception in the third quarter and a 30-yard touchdown reception in the fourth quarter to give Nebraska the lead, marking his seventh and eighth receptions of at least 30 yards this season. Reilly entered the game averaging 19.4 yards per reception. Reilly caught three passes for 87 yards tonight.
40+–– Nebraska place-kicker Drew Brown connected on a 44-yard field goal to open the scoring and had a 43-yarder in the second quarter. Brown has 11 field goals of at least 40 yards this season and is 17-of-23 on field goals this season. Brown has made seven consecutive field goals overall. With 17 field goals this season, Brown is one field goal shy of the top five on the NU season field goal chart. Brown has six games this season with multiple field goals.
Other Notes...
* Junior wideout Alonzo Moore had a career-long 43-yard reception to set up a third-quarter touchdown. The 43-yard catch matched a 43-yarder last year at Michigan State. His previous season-long reception was 41 yards.
* Stanley Morgan Jr. had a 34-yard kickoff return in the first quarter and a 32-yarder in the second quarter. Morgan has the three longest returns by a Husker this season, also including a NU season-long 42-yard return at Purdue.
* The attendance of 90,094 was a season high at Memorial Stadium.