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Nebraska opens second half vs. Minnesota with double-pass touchdown
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Nebraska needed a score after a disjointed first half.
How about a disjointed play that leads to a score?
On a second-and-9 play from just inside the Minnesota 35, Nebraska ran a double-pass play that looked for a moment like it would end in disaster. Quarterback Jeff Simms pitched it to tailback Anthony Grant tunning toward the boundary. Grant stopped and threw it back to Simms at midfield.
Sims wasn’t about to handle the pass, but a fortuitous bounce helped him regain possession. He settled himself and fired downfield. Alex Bullock was waiting wide-open in the endzone to give NU a 7-3 lead.
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Sims needed the score. He made things happen with his legs in the first half, but had two of his nine passes picked off as the Huskers went into the break with a donut on the scoreboard.
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