Roster breakdown

Nebraska is an older, more blue-chip-loaded roster than us — 61% upperclassmen against our 43%, and 31% blue-chip rate on matched players at a 3.31★ average versus our 17% at 3.18★, so the talent ceiling is legitimately higher even if their 114-man depth chart isn't dramatically bigger. Their offensive continuity is almost entirely gone — only 24% of rush production and 28% of pass production return, which means they're rebuilding skill execution from scratch despite that upperclass experience base, a mirror image of our situation where 95% of pass production comes back. We have zero visibility into how they assembled this — Nebraska publishes no prior-school data, so we can't quantify transfer reliance the way we can our own 32-player, 29% transfer share — but the 0 redshirts and 1.83-year experience average suggest they're burning eligibility broadly and will feel a real 25% SR/GR exit after this season. DMV connection is thin: Hill, Koch, and Babalade are the three locals, none at premium positions that would make the recruiting angle particularly relevant to us.