While former Ohio State coach Urban Meyer called Nebraska “a very fragile team” following its overtime loss to Colorado last weekend, the Big Ten Network analyst said he believes Nebraska still has the ability to turn things around heading into the Big Ten Conference schedule.

“That was a terrible loss,” Meyer said during an appearance on the Big Ten Network. “I was one of the guys who thought Nebraska — I still think they can — (win the West). They still have great players. I love their quarterback. He just hasn’t found his rhythm yet this year. The way they finished the year last year, I think they have a good staff, good players. We lost early in 2014 in a terrible loss to Virginia Tech and you just have to rally the troops. This is where Coach Frost and the staff and the leaders on that team earn their stripes and keep swinging. That was a bad loss on the road, but there’s a lot of football left. The most important games are still to come. I still have confidence they’ll get that thing going.”

The Ohio State loss Meyer referred to was a 35-21 loss to Virginia Tech at home in its second game of the season. Ohio State rebounded, winning out before beating Wisconsin 59-0 in the Big Ten title game, then knocking off Alabama and Oregon to win the national championship. Nebraska would certainly take that kind of success following the loss to Colorado, but the Huskers would just like to rebound and play good football.

The Huskers will host a pesky Northern Illinois team on Saturday that is just two years removed from beating Nebraska in Memorial Stadium, and played a ranked Utah team tough on the road last week.

Nebraska will be looking for more consistency on offense. Against Colorado, the Huskers played solid football in the first half, running out to a 17-0 lead before going into a shell in the third quarter when they had a chance to close out the game.

Meyer is right that Nebraska is looking for a bit more from quarterback Adrian Martinez. The sophomore is 29-of-48 for 468 yards passing with two touchdowns and two interceptions in his two games. Martinez has also rushed for two touchdowns this season, but fumbled twice against Colorado.

Nebraska head coach Scott Frost said Monday that Nebraska has to be more consistent to turn things around this season.

“Our margin of error is pretty small right now,” Frost said. “We had a pretty big margin in that game and as a head coach I've got to find a way to get that down and the consistency too, and the players do too. There needs to be a sense of urgency to get it done. I think, third quarter our offense needs to out with a purpose a little more. Defensively, I don’t know if we got tired. I think it might be a little bit of mentality things. Instead of thinking, 'let’s stay on the attack,' we've got to be thinking, 'is this gonna happen?' It happened to us once or so last year, and that’s a hurdle you need to get over as a team to make sure you win those games. And again, that’s on us as coaches to make sure that we get that mentality.”