After two games on the road, Ainsworth is heading back home. They will welcome the Creighton Bulldogs at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. One thing working in Ainsworth's favor is that they have posted at least 31 points every time they've taken the field this season.
If Ainsworth beats Creighton with 70 points on Friday, it's going to be the team's new lucky number: they've won their past two contests with that exact score. Ainsworth blew past North Central, posting a 70-30 victory on the road. Given the Bulldogs' advantage in MaxPreps' Nebraska football rankings (they are ranked 42nd, while the Knights are ranked 134th), the result on Friday wasn't entirely unexpected.
Morgan Kinney was his usual excellent self, rushing for 88 yards and four touchdowns on only eight carries, while also picking up 51 receiving yards and a touchdown.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Creighton). They put the hurt on Neligh-Oakdale with a sharp 72-46 win on Friday. Winning may never get old, but the Bulldogs sure are getting used to it with their fourth in a row.
The match pitted two dominant signal callers against one another in Taylor Nilson and Corbin Hoefer. Nilson had a great game and threw for 315 yards and six touchdowns while completing 71.9% of his passes. Meanwhile, Hoefer was balling out in the loss, picking up 60 receiving yards and two touchdowns, while also rushing for 87 yards and a touchdown on only nine carries.
Creighton didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off two passes before the game was over. The picks came courtesy of Jorgan Condon and Ethan Kuhl. Kuhl also set a new season high mark in receiving yards with 130.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Creighton was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 255 rushing yards. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Neligh-Oakdale only rushed for 159.
The victory got Ainsworth back to even at 3-3. As for Creighton, they pushed their record up to 5-1 with the win, which was their fourth straight at home dating back to last season.
Ainsworth was taken down by Creighton 68-20 in their previous meeting back in October of 2019. Will Ainsworth have more luck at home instead of on the road? Come back here after the game to get an analysis of the match and other football content.
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