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With an embarrassing 62-3 loss to College Football Playoff contender Ohio State last week knocking it out of CFP contention, Nebraska sets its sights on winning the Big Ten West title and hoping Tommy Armstrong Jr.is healthy.The 19th-ranked Cornhuskers host Minnesota on Saturday (7:30 p.m. ET, Big Ten Network) in Lincoln, Neb., with their senior quarterback in concussion protocol and questionable to play after banging his head hard on the Ohio Stadium turf following a big hit. He went to the hospital, but returned to the sideline in street clothes.This is out of our hands, which is a good thing, Nebraska coach Mike Riley said. That decision will be made medically.The Cornhuskers are in a three-way tie with Minnesota and Wisconsin atop the West at 7-2, 4-2 Big Ten. Nebraska lost at Wisconsin 23-17 in overtime Oct. 29, so a loss to Minnesota would virtually eliminate it from contention. Wisconsin hosts Minnesota in the regular-season finale Nov. 26.The Golden Gophers ride a four-game winning streak into Memorial Stadium, defeating four of the five worst teams in the Big Ten -- Maryland, Rutgers, Illinois and Purdue.It feels good, but we have bigger goals, Minnesota sophomore running back Rodney Smith told the Minneapolis Star Tribune. This week coming up is a big week for us, and we know that. Weve just got to fix our mistakes and prepare for Nebraska.If Armstrong cannot play, fifth-year senior Ryker Fyfe will call the signals against Minnesota. Fyfe was 5 of 18 for 52 yards with an interception after taking over for Armstrong last week. He has completed 51.7 percent of his 89 career passes with seven touchdowns and six interceptions.Hes been here for five years, just like Tommy, so were confident what he can do, Cornhuskers center Dylan Utter told the Omaha World-Herald.Riley is confident his team can bounce back after a demoralizing loss, but said: You dont exactly flush it. Its not that easy.Nothing has come easily in the passing game lately for Nebraska, which completed 21 of 64 passes for 279 yards with four interceptions against Wisconsin and Ohio State.Part of the reason is the quarterback isnt allowed any rhythm, Riley said. Weve got to do a little cleaner job there. Weve got to run the ball better. And my guess if we do that, our passing percentage will go up.If Armstrong cannot play, the Cornhuskers also lose a significant part of their running game (4.5 yards per 98 attempts, seven touchdowns). Senior running back Terrell Newby (133, 4.8, five) and sophomore running back Devine Ozigbo (90, 3.8, 5) would be left to carry the load.I think that the number one thing we need to do is establish two identity runs that we can repeat better throughout the ballgame that look good, Riley said. Sometimes when youre not doing well, you jump around a little bit. So I think establishing identity well in that way and really rehearsing that is really going to be big for us and proving that and getting back to it.The Golden Gophers defeated Purdue 44-31 last week and are 7-2 for the third time in four years. Part of their success comes from an opportunistic defense that has helped them rank third in the nation in turnover margin at plus-12 and tied for fifth with 21 takeaways.Going into the last three games, this is everything weve wanted, Minnesota quarterback Mitch Leidner told the Star Tribune.Said Golden Gophers coach Tracy Claeys: After our first two conference games nobody gave us a chance ... to be in here. They kind of said the season was over. We just kept battling one game at a time and we fought our way back into this thing.Smith averaged 127 yards and scored eight touchdowns during the winning streak. He leads the Big Ten with 14 touchdowns (13 on the ground) and is second in rushing yards with 954.Im proud of the way hes been rewarded for the work hes put into it, Claeys said of Smith. Hes become a much more complete back.Nebraska is 3-2 versus Minnesota since joining the Big Ten, including a 48-25 victory in Minneapolis last year. 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Its December, and in some cities the weather is bad, the football is worse.While overall attendance in the NFL is up -- credit in great part the Rams move from St. Louis to Los Angeles -- those empty seats you see in several stadiums are no mirage.There are even lots of empties in the LA Memorial Coliseum; maybe there was no honeymoon period with the Rams returning to LA.Jacksonville, Cincinnati, Miami, San Francisco, Cleveland and the Jersey Meadowlands when the Jets are home have had rows and rows of unused tickets. Other than Miami, those clubs have losing records this season.The Dolphins (8-5) have announced sellouts each week, but there have been thousands of empty seats.Detroit, perhaps on its way to a first-round playoff bye, has seen the same; last weekends win over the Bears drew 61,726 to the 65,000-seat facility.Atlanta is tied for the NFC South lead and has sold out 67 straight games, but the stands have not been filled for much of this season, including a crowd almost 3,000 under capacity for the opener.The Bucs, tied atop the NFC South with the Falcons, are averaging 60,423 through seven games, 5,000 under capacity.When the 49ers hosted the Jets last Sunday, Levis Stadium was about half full. Of course, the matchup was a weak one, but the Niners havent drawn well for other contests, including against division rival Arizona.It appears to be a combination of the team consistently losing, people not enamored of the stadium and its location in Santa Clara, and, on hot days, the sun baking a significant number of seats, making it uncomfortably hot.Dont think the players dont notice, either. San Franciscos Ahmad Brooks called it disrespectful that so many Patriots fans were in the building on Nov. 20. Minnesotas Stefon Diggs said it was a great crowd when most of the fans in Jacksonville on Sunday were wearing purple.I almost thought it was a home game it was so loud for us at times. Its louder back home, but it was great fan support for us today. They came out and showed a lot of love.Theres not much love being shown in Cleveland, which seems logical given the Browns chase of infamy. Browns fans are among the most loyal in football, but an 0-fer is a bit too much to bear.That means plenty of empty orange seats at FirstEnergy Stadium. The crowds have gotten noticeably smaller and last Sunday the stadium was only half-filled for Ohio rival Cincinnati. For other games, notably against Pittsburgh and Dallas, there were thousands of opposing fans.Well, we did that to ourselves, said tackle Joe Thomas, Clevelands best player. Were the ones that didnt win the games. If we would be 13-0, I guarantee it would be packed, theyd be selling tickets for a thousand bucks a pop.So its not discouraging any more than the record that we havee is discouraging.dddddddddddd Thats the nature of the NFL. If you dont win, people dont want to watch you.In Tampa, which has a young and exciting team building something impressive, the first game in which there wasnt a massive presence of fans in visiting regalia was against Seattle -- the Bucs sixth home game.Visiting fans dont have problems getting seats because there are so many tickets available.After last weeks 16-11 win over New Orleans, Bucs quarterback Jameis Winston said: People want to come to these games and see the Bucs play now. Thats fun. Thats fun as a team to know that were coming into a building and everyone is here for us, not the other team. Thats great.This weekend could provide quite a test of fans allegiances for the Bengals and the Jets. Cincinnati has advertised the availability of tickets for Sundays matchup with the Steelers, so theres a decent chance Paul Brown Stadium will be full -- of Terrible Towels.New York has a Saturday night matchup against the Dolphins, one of its top rivals. Dont expect to see waves of green throughout the stands at MetLife Stadium, particularly with a chance of nasty weather.Ryan Bosma, a Jets season ticket holder since 2009, gave his two tickets to friends.Its challenging when the Jets are down the drain, he says. There are just so many tickets available on the secondary market, and supply and demand does not work out in your favor. The market is just flooded with tickets, so to get any kind of return on tickets, its virtually impossible.Yet people keep buying season tickets, hardly an inexpensive venture, particularly when personal seat licenses (PSLs) are involved. Giving away tickets, selling them for less than face value or, even worse, eating them only exacerbates the costs, particularly for fans financing the PSL payments.Bosma admits he chose to purchase the seats and PSLs, so he is stuck with the payments. Hes also stuck with a product that can be woeful. Just like his brethren in several other cities where, despite the overall health of the 32 NFL franchises, pro football is not a slam-dunk attraction.I was on the waiting list for five or six years, Bosma says. They were going into a new stadium and a lot of people decided not to do PSLs, and I went right up the list.Now, he doesnt feel so fortunate. But at least he has company.It is an endless cycle with the Jets, he says with a chuckle and no apparent bitterness. Its the Jets fans life.---AP Sports Writer Charles Odum, Josh Dubow, Joe Kay, Mark Long, Fred Goodall, Tom Withers and Larry Lage contributed.---For more NFL coverage: http://www.pro32.ap.org and http://www.twitter.com/AP-NFL ' ' '

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