Here's a new line out that isn't asking too much of the Huskers.

Diamond Sportsbook International set the over-under on wins and losses for Nebraska in the regular season in 2018 at 5 1/2.

The Huskers are right there with Indiana at 5 1/2, and projected by the sportsbook just above Purdue, Maryland, Rutgers and Illinois, which all have lines of 5 wins or less.

Ohio State has set number of 10 1/2 wins, Wisconsin is at 10, Penn State at 9 1/2, Michigan and Michigan State at 8 1/2, Northwestern and Iowa at 7 1/2, and Minnesota at 6.

Besides Nebraska going 4-8 this year and set to start a new quarterback, the road schedule that features trips to Michigan, Wisconsin, Northwestern, Ohio State and Iowa is weighing heavy in preseason lines like these.

Big Ten win totals and national title odds from @BetDSI pic.twitter.com/yFqrIfsMuv — Tom Fornelli (@TomFornelli) April 30, 2018

For what it's worth, Nebraska was sitting +20,000 on its national championship odds, in the same company of Iowa and Louisville. The teams with the best odds to win the national title are rated as so: Alabama, Ohio State, Clemson, Georgia, Penn State, Michigan, Miami, Texas, Auburn and Oklahoma.

Whatever the predictions may be for Nebraska, offensive coordinator Troy Walters spoke with confidence in the spring, saying, "We didn't come here to be 6-6. We didn't come here to be average."

While the Huskers do have a difficult road schedule, the home schedule is more than manageable if the team makes significant improvements from a year ago. It's a schedule that features Akron, Colorado, Troy, Purdue, Minnesota, Illinois and Michigan State.

On paper, the Spartans look to be the toughest of those foes, though non-conference games against Colorado and Troy could be tricky for Nebraska. Troy went on the road and knocked off LSU a season ago.

ESPN's national writer Mark Schlabach wrote earlier this spring that he thinks Frost will lead a Husker turnaround sooner than later, "a 6-6 record and return to the postseason might be a more realistic expectation for Frost in Year 1.

Coming out of spring, Frost made it clear there's a long way for this team to go.

"There ought to be more done in the summer," Frost said last week during a radio appearance on the Husker Sports Network. "We weren't happy with where the guys were from a conditioning standpoint, or a strength standpoint, when we got here. (Strength coach) Zach (Duval) is the right guy for the job. We had a lot of ground to cover. Really, this past winter was a lot of weight lifting to get the guys a base that they could build from. This summer will be more lifting, but we'll also run them a little bit more and try to get them in a little bit better shape, a little better conditioning, try to improve the speed.

"We covered a lot of ground in the winter. But the summer has to be even better than the winter."

It is a hard-charging summer that the Huskers will need to sail over some of these preseason win-loss expectations in the fall.

“The standards are high here at Nebraska,” Walters said. “We’re trying to win championships. And that’s the mindset the guys have, and that’s the culture we want to create.”