Nebraska Football: 3 takeaways from heartbreaking loss at No. 24 Iowa

1. Scott Frost has to be feeling pressure

Nebraska wanted football this season. Two games into the season, that looked like a mistake as the Cornhuskers lost to Ohio State and Nebraska and had a game against Wisconsin cancelled. It seemed like this team may go winless.

And then the Cornhuskers beat Penn State in a feel-good win that seemed to get Scott Frost and the entire program back on track.

A follow-up game against Illinois was just supposed to add confidence, but the Cornhuskers showed up completely unprepared and the Fighting Illini smacked Nebraska in Lincoln by 18. There was much more energy from Nebraska on Friday at Iowa, but the Cornhuskers still couldn’t beat the Hawkeyes, losing 26-20 in heartbreaking fashion.

Sure, Iowa is a good team but Frost was hired to win games like this and the heartbreaking fashion in which Nebraska lost with an ill-advised fumble where Adrian Martinez didn’t sense the pressure on him from his blindside was just another nail in his coffin.

Frost has to be feeling the pressure to win in 2021 after this horrid 1-4 start to the 2020 season. If he doesn’t turn Nebraska around next year, the Cornhuskers may be searching for a new boss before 2022.