We begin with the first meeting last October, and the eyes. May as well have been a neon billboard screaming for attention.

“He was worn out. A little beat up, tired,” Dana Holgorsen says of his first meeting with Nebraska quarterback Dylan Raiola. “His head was spinning.”

This felt all but inevitable with Raiola . Just a matter of when, and who would pick up the pieces when it broke.

That someone was Holgorsen, who fittingly was in the process of reorganizing his own unraveling as – get this – a defensive analyst at Nebraska. One of college football’s elite offensive minds and a year removed as head coach at Houston, Holgorsen was breaking down defensive game film last season for Cornhuskers coach Matt Rhule when hope in Lincoln began to look a whole lot like the ugly that got Rh

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