the best 3-9 team in college football history

The best 3-9 team in College Football history is easily the 2021 Nebraska Cornhuskers. This team was a statistical outlier in multiple ways. Not only did they outscore all of their opponents by 63 points (335-272), but they also tied with all of their Big Ten opponents (239-239) despite going just 1-8 in Big Ten play. They beat Northwestern by 49 points, and then lost eight Big Ten games by a combined 49 points. They also played a very tough schedule, and came close to beating multiple top teams. Watch the entire 12 minutes video to see how close they came to beating teams like Michigan State, Michigan, Ohio State, and Iowa. The fact that Nebraska outscored all of their opponents by 63 points and nearly beat multiple top 25 teams makes it hard to argue that they are not the best 3-9 team in college football history.

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[pschighlights]

I think this one is hard to argue against. Nebraska outscored all of their opponents by 63 and tied with all Big Ten opponents despite going 1-8 in Big Ten play (they beat Northwestern 56-7 and lost 8 Big Ten games by a combined 49 points). They were also very competitive with every top 25 team they played. Did you guys like this style of video? I haven’t done a season recap video like this before so let me know if there’s anything I could do to improve.

[jimapplebee]

The Cornhuskers were the most dangerous team in college football this year. There was no other team that could beat BOTH teams on the field every game.

[Cryogenx]

Nebraska having a point differential of ZERO against B1G opponents this past season is absolutely bonkers

[Drew]

Nebraska should get a special coach designated for the 4th quarter.

[lbsquat]

they went 1-8 in conference and weren't even outscored! that will never happen again in college history.

[danielfolkers]

At the very minimum, 3 of these losses can be directly blamed on special teams mistakes. At the very least, that's the difference between 3-9 and bowl eligible.

[crogthecavonmoon]

For such a loyal fan base, they really deserve so much better

[IAMGavinMitchell]

9 games decided by single digits.

8 to Illinois
7 to Oklahoma
3 to Michigan State in OT
3 to Michigan
7 to Minnesota
5 to Purdue
9 to Ohio State (two possession game)
7 to Wisconsin
7 to Iowa

A 3-9 team that had a +63 scoring margin is unheard of. That team lost 8 one possession games is also unheard of. Mind-blowing in itself.

[thejaymartino]

So I'm a student at Nebraska rn. Went to every home game, watched every away game. Was there on that first Michigan drive when it was deafening. Drove up to Minnesota to watch that awful loss. And I can say without a doubt Nebraska is as close to the cusp of being "good" as you can get. New hires in WR coach Mickey Joseph, OL coach Donovan Raiola and OC Mark Whipple give me great hope for next season. I think our kryptonite is our special teams, which have given up over 50 combined points on missed extra points, field goals or punt returns. That's absolutely terrible, and taking away even 1 special teams play wins the games against Michigan State and probably Wisconsin. For a 3-9 team that stadium was at 95% capacity to above every single game this season. I hope the Huskers can pull it together cause I know all of us fans want a winning season so bad we can taste it. Thanks for the video PSC!

[captaingramcrackergrams]

As someone who was born and raised in Nebraska and a lifelong SKERS fan I've never experienced this season that gave me so much hope but so much pain all in the same motion every damn week...

[PierreRousselot]

The piece de resistance of this masterpiece has to be the Huskers losing the MSU game without the Spartans picking up a SINGLE first down in the second half. The program who, in recent history, loses an incredible number of games it should have won finds its perfect foil in the program who wins an incredible number of games that it should have lost.

[MSU-DetroitFan]

When You Realize Nebraska almost beat 5 Teams in the AP Poll
Oklahoma
Michigan State
Michigan
Ohio State
Iowa
(I feel your pain Nebraska fans try watching the Lions that's worse)

[chrismartindale]

I'm guessing this is why Scott Frost is being given one more chance next year. Hard to believe you can blow that many opportunities. They seemed jinxed this year.

[nathanlong]

This reminds me a lot of the video Jon Bois did on the 2010 Chargers. They were dominant on both sides of the field: offense and defense, but struggled with special teams and that's the reason they didn't make the playoffs that year. I think a lot of these losses can be boiled down to special teams blunders so I just think the two teams are extremely similar

[ZachCallaway]

Nebraska student here. Also a Chargers fan so seeing these late 4th quarter mistakes cost us big games has been something i've been used to by my Chargers, but being in person at most of them especially both Michigan and Iowa was insane.

This year I think was our first REAL rebuilding stage.

[dadestarmysteries]

I guess Nebraska has gone full circle, from firing a guy going 9-3 to keeping the guy going 3-9.

[barnuner]

Seems like they lost 3 games just on terrible special teams blunders and missed kicks.

[bagelman]

They also had pretty much the hardest possible schedule a big ten team could have. They’re in the big ten west so they only play against 3 of the 7 big ten east teams every year and this year those three were Ohio state, Michigan, and Michigan state who also happened to be the three best teams in the big ten this year. Oh and they also played Oklahoma in the nonconference slate.

[anthonygonzalez]

As a UM fan this is 100 percent facts!!!! Cornhuskers scared me before the game and without a great play from our defense we lose this one. Much respect for the Nebraska program!

[zdlbkrn]

Living in Nebraska and being a Nebraska fan, I just want everyone know that you do not know how painful it is, we didn’t lose by double didgets. A big part is our special teams