Nebraska at Arizona

Holiday Bowl - Qualcomm Stadium - San Diego, CA. Behind the best player in the country, Ndamukong Suh, the Cornhuskers have a good defense - something the Arizona Wildcats have not seen this season. How good is this defense? Nebraska held Oklahoma and Texas to a combined 16 points! Texas is playing in the National Championship game on January 7 thanks to an offense that put up 432 yards and 41 points per game, but they almost got bumped by this Cornhuskers team that held the Longhorn's to just 202 total yards. Arizona is going to have trouble scoring anything in this one against the Huskers defense that allowed 11.2 points per game. The Cats faced a No. 11 ranked Iowa defense earlier this season and scored only 3 legitimate points in the game. They had an INT for a TD and a late courtesy TD with less than two minutes to play down 27-10. They managed just eight first downs the entire game! Nebraska will use field position to score points as FG kicker Alex Henry has already made good on 20 this season and has range in excess of 50 yards. The Wildcats, in the role of a favorite, have been “Mildcats” as they are just 14-33 ATS in their last 47, and the Huskers have come up big as a dog with a 4-0 ATS mark. Nebraska was 4-2 on the road this season (one foot away from 5-1) and I think they should be the favored team. I like Corn here.