Week 11: Kansas State at Nebraska

It’s Senior Day in the Husker Nation. Is it also the last home game for Nebraska coach Bill Callahan?

The 76 point his team allowed at Kansas just might have been the end for Callahan, whose Huskers have lost five in a row. That hasn’t happened at Nebraska since 1958. The Jayhawks scored on 11 out of 12 possessions, including 10 in a row, to leave the Huskers in ruins.

Is Nebraska recovered and able to pick up the pieces? We’ll see. Huskers quarterback Joe Ganz hopes this isn’t Callahan’s final sideline appearance in Lincoln. That decision obviously will be in the hands of athletics director Tom Osborne. Ganz, though, wants Osborne to know he’s behind B.C.

“I hope we can win these last two games for him. Players want him back,” Ganz said. “It’s a shame (if any players don’t feel the same way). From what I see, we’re behind him 100 percent. I know I am.”

K-State could be licking its chops when it sees the product Callahan’s defense puts on the gridiron. The Huskers got shredded by KU, and now it’s the Wildcats’ turn to take a crack at the Huskers.

When asked if his team would respect Nebraska’s lame D, K-State coach Ron Prince alluded to the Wildcats’ inability to post enough points to defeat previously-Big 12 winless Iowa State last weekend.

“If we need any validation, all we have to do is look at our own game tape,” Prince said. “We shouldn’t really be thinking that way about anything or anybody.”

K-State has injuries issues, too. Defensive tackle Steven Cline was lost for the remainder of the season at Iowa State with a knee injury, and defensive end Clayton Cox, who had his career-best performance two games ago against Baylor, also is out with an injury.

BOTTOM LINE: This could be a track meet. It doesn’t look like Nebraska could stop a high school team, and K-State has slid on the defensive end as well. The Wildcats, though, have the best player on the field in Jordy Nelson.

K-State by 5