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In Saturday's season opener in Ireland, Ryan Hilinski threw for 313 yards and two touchdown to help lead Northwestern to a 35-28 victory over Nebraska.
The Cornhuskers lost for the seventh time in a row, this time by a single digit, and added more pressure on coach Scott Frost, who took the blame for a failed onside kick.
"I made that call so that's on me," he said. I thought the game was over for us at that point. We could end the game if we got it.
After we played well to start the second half on offense, you can't expect them to score 14 straight. Those are excuses, again. I would not make the call if I had to do it over.
Since then, Nebraska has not won.
The Cornhuskers are the first major-conference team in the AP Poll Era to lose seven games in a row.
The team and its fans who made the trip are bitterly disappointed after a 3-9 season.
The quarterback had a big game in his Nebraska debut, but he made a mistake in the fourth quarter. The ball was returned almost 40 yards. Evan Hull ran it in from the 4 to give the Cats a 35-28 lead. Hull carried the ball for 118 yards.
The Wildcats sealed the win when the ball bounced off the hands of Liewer and into the air.
Anthony Grant scored two more times in the third quarter, including a 46-yard touchdown. He ran it in from 3 yards on the first drive of the second half to give Nebraska the lead. Grant had 19 runs.
Pat Fitzgerald said the onside kick swung the game in his favor.
He said that they went down and punched it in to get back in the game.
The Huskers had built a 14-3 lead after Thompson threw a touchdown pass and then punched it in from the 1-yard line. The 120 yards on four catches was the most by a single person.
In the final 25 seconds of the first half, Hilinski threw a 6-yard touchdown pass to Donnie Navarro to give the Cats a 17-14 lead.
Hilinski hit Raymond Niro III for a 41-yard touchdown in the second quarter.
After Niro's touchdown, Nebraska was on the move again when Greyson Metz ripped the ball from Garcia-Castaneda and ran it back for a touchdown.
The AP contributed.
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