A few months back, a couple of Mailbag readers challenged me to start a movement for sportswriters to stop using the misleading term “bye week” to describe when a team doesn’t have a game that weekend. I think I’ve become pretty good about it.



So, let’s start this week’s column discussing an ailing 4-3 team currently in the midst of a much-needed idle week.



How worried are you, and how worried should Nebraska fans be about Scott Frost 19 games into his tenure? Also, is there a precedent for coaches who have struggled deep into their second year, and still turned out to be very successful at that school?



Ari S.



I’m more concerned than I was a few weeks ago — not because the Huskers have three losses already, but because of the way they’re losing. While it was never realistic Frost would turn the Mike Riley-depleted Nebraska roster into Ohio State’s or Wisconsin’s in the span of two...