Rex Burkhead started the week with his right foot in a walking boot, but nothing was going to keep him out of this game. After quarterback Taylor Martinez tweaked his left ankle on a first-quarter run, offensive coordinator Tim Beck told Burkhead that he would be the main man. Burkhead told coach Beck, "whatever the team needed to do, pound the rock and throw passes when we needed to". Burkhead pounded away at Iowa's defense 4 or 5 yards at a time and looked like his old self after being held to a season-low 36 yards in last week's loss at Michigan. He finished the game by running for 160 yards and a touchdown on a school-record 38 carries helping the Huskers to a 20-7 victory o over the Iowa Hawkeyes on Friday. With Nebraska having joined the Big Ten this year, Friday's game was long touted as the start of a natural rivalry. Iowa is Nebraska's closest Big Ten opponent, and the farm states split by the Missouri River share a passion for football. The universities further billed it as the inaugural "Heroes Game" and honored "citizen heroes" from each state at halftime. This latest win kept alive the Huskers hopes of landing a berth in the Capital One Bowl, if two Big Ten teams are invited to BCS games, or the Outback Bowl.
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November 25, 2011Capital One Bowl
Monday - January 2, 2012
1:00 pm (EST)
TV channel: ESPN/ESPN3
