New defensive front 4?

He steps in when Frank Clark can't go

Whatever it was it worked very well. Until the very end when it didn't matter, Nebraska couldn't get anything at all on the ground.

I heard that Mattison lets the DEs rotate in and out of the game themselves.  He believes that a couple guys (Beyer, Black, Roh, Clark) are good enough to start, so he lets them all play equally.

I'm guessing that they had a lighter D-line in as a means to counteract Nebraska's speed at the skill positions.

You could say Beyer is doing well.

Has Beyer been doing WELL in practice?

Sorry, my one grammatical pet peeve...

ive been pretty impressed with Heitzman and how far along he has come.

Yeah, when the game first started, I was surprised to see that Big Will Campbell wasn't in the starting lineup.  Not so much surprised, as disappointed that BWC isn't better at this point in his career.  Although I think I saw BWC later in the game....I was too focused on our Offense, which was down right offensive.  It should have come with an R rating-- content not suitable for minors.

Beyer has really added some mass since last season and he's one of the guys in the spring, who said we needed to be more physical.  I think he's going to be a tough customer over the next couple of years.

I don't care who he puts out there. Nobody can run on them anymore

Until the Purdue or Illinois game anyway, I think Black had been third on the depth chart behind Brink (before his injury) and Campbell, and one DE spot had basically been between Black and Clark. Beyer was in there because of Clark's injury, of course, but as others here were, I was a little surprised that Campbell was not starting. The front four for the two games prior was Clark-Campbel-Washington-Roh, and before that Black-Campbell-Washington-Roh. As for Campbell specifically, I think he only has five tackles (3 solo, 2 assisted by my count) in conference play, but I don't know if the coaches thought production was the issue out there or if it was perhaps going a bit smaller against Nebraska to create matchups. That being said, that unit has been pretty good this year statistically - they are still the part of the 9th best defense in the FBS. 

I love Mattison's gameplan and strategy

I know Mattison and Hoke have done some great things on defense, but I still believe we haven't seen the best from this team yet. I think we'll continue improving, but next year and the year after could be reminiscent of 2006

I thought Black played well on Saturday.  I guess we will wait for the UFR but none the less the more qualified trenchmen the better, right?  I gotta admit that when we knew the starting tackles would be BWC and Quinton Washington I thought it was going to be a long year.  Gotta give a lot of credit to the defensive staff and Coach Hoke for developing those young men into quality defenders that appear to be getting better every game together. 

I'm disappointed that Pipkins wasn't red-shirted.