LINCOLN, Neb. -- Another chance at a Big Red revival. Another Saturday of being frustratingly close. Another reminder that Nebraska still isn't there despite all the talk of a Year 3 breakthrough under Matt Rhule.

The Huskers' 30-27 loss to Michigan extended one of college football's cruelest streaks: 28 consecutive defeats to AP Top 25 opponents, a drought dating back to 2016. Every time Nebraska circles a game like this -- the kind of program-changing opportunity that's supposed to flip a rebuild from hope to results -- the script ends the same way

This was supposed to be different. Rhule is in his third season in Lincoln, the stage when the other programs he turned around, Temple and Baylor, clicked into full form. Nebraska, which snapped its bowl drought last season, had reason

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