Keyshawn Johnson calls Nebraska 'sorry' ahead of Colorado matchup in Week 2

Keyshawn Johnson didn’t pull any punches about Nebraska as the calendar turns to the Week 2 matchup against Colorado.

Nebraska gave up 10 points in the fourth quarter against Minnesota in the season opener on the road and fell 13-10, losing the first game of the Matt Rhule era. In contrast, Colorado upset No. 17 TCU 45-42 on the road and looked like the best show on television.

Johnson expects more of the same from Colorado against the Huskers.

“Sold out stadium, sold out at home against, I watched Nebraska against Minnesota,” Johnson said on FS1’s Undisputed. “Nebraska is sorry, man, Nebraska is slow. They’re not gonna be able to keep up.As far as the Big Ten goes, the matchup, Ohio State with all speed playing against Nebraska, think that for Colorado.”

Rhule and Nebraska had to face the “same old Nebraska” claims after Week 1. The Scott Frost era of the last five years never got off the ground and the Huskers failed to make the postseason.

“It’s like I said at the beginning. We’re on the front end of something that we’re building,” Rhule said. “I look at it the other way. To think of the mistakes we made? To have seven penalties, to have the four turnovers and, still, against a good team like Minnesota, who averages nine wins a year, to kick a field goal?”

Even so, this lays a base, even if it’s a negative one, for Nebraska to start from. Rhule thinks they needed this game as a lesson and now, from here, it’s all about building from here and leaving this actual outcome, as well as their other outcomes where they’ve come short in recent years, in the rearview.

“Now, we have to fix it,” Rhule said. “We have to get better. But I’m not even thinking about anything that happened before I got here. It has nothing to do with me. I don’t want our players to think about that. I’m thinking about what’s next, thinking about getting back and watching this tape tomorrow, thinking about next week.”

What’s next for Nebraska? It’s Primetime, Colorado, Shedeur Sanders, Travis Hunter, Dylan Edwards and the list goes on and on.

There was a frenzy about the Buffaloes following the upset over TCU. Now, Colorado and Nebraska will face off in what looks like an old school Big 12 matchup.

Ironically, Colorado will head back to the conference next year, but this looks like a big football game for bragging rights and recruiting territory. If Johnson is right about Nebraska, it could be a long day for the Huskers.