Matt Rhule and his Nebraska Cornhuskers took on the Boston College Eagles in the Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl on Saturday. Ultimately, the Huskers came away with a 20-15 victory, but it wasn’t the prettiest.

Special teams were a mess for the Huskers on Saturday. The team had a punt blocked, an extra point blocked, and a failed fake field goal. After the game, Rhule was asked about the sloppiness and didn’t hold back with his response.

“It wasn’t very good. You can’t get a blocked punt. I didn’t even see necessarily what happened, who was wrong or who was right, so I have to see that. Obviously DeShon is on the punt team, and he came off so I don’t know if it was him… (The blocked PAT) just a bad snap. We had snapping issues all year long, and I think we’ve already tried to address that for next year,” said Rhule.

As Rhule mentioned, snapping has been an issue all season for the Huskers. Kevin Gallic, a long snapper from New Hampshire, has already been brought in via the transfer portal to help alleviate those issues in 2025.

To be fair, the special teams did have 1 good play on Saturday. The team was able to convert on a fake punt in the 3rd quarter.

“But I thought we did some good plays, too,” the coach explained. “The fake punt was kind of a big call, a gutsy call. And the fake field goal was (a situation where) we probably should have dropped back and thrown it again. But we had the numbers there, it was just the kid made a good play.”

Finally, the coach admitted that the team has to get better on both sides of the ball while saying the special teams unit may need a “complete overhaul” entering 2025. Rhule has traditionally produced a Year 3 breakthrough at his previous coaching stops, so he will be looking to build for something special next fall.

“There’s no secret, to be where we want to be next year we have to be the same defensively, probably a bit better in some areas. We have to really improve on offense… and special teams we need a complete and total overhaul of that,” Rhule explained. “We have to be better at that… We’ll get it done but it has not been good enough this year.”