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Will Compton abruptly ghosts reporter over Colorado question at Super Bowl Opening Night

Podcaster was pressed about Husker's lack of success against the Buffs
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Will Compton abruptly ghosts reporter over Colorado question at Super Bowl Opening Night
Will Compton abruptly ghosts reporter over Colorado question at Super Bowl Opening Night

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Will Compton hasn't been out of the NFL an entire year but is starting to make waves as a media personality. He really seems to be enjoying life outside of football and taking it easy in Las Vegas. 

The proceedings took a sudden turn, however, after Compton fielded a question from DNVR's Ryan Koenigsberg that began when the reporter asked a fill-in-the-blank question during Super Bowl Opening Night. He wanted to know what happened 4,819 days ago, which the former Husker was stumped trying to answer. And, of course, it's the last time Nebraska beat Colorado on the gridiron. 

Compton didn't even respond and decided to exit stage left. Perhaps the best part is that CU's current winning streak has lasted longer than his NFL career. 

BuffsBeat's Brian Schaible caught up with Compton later in the night and was again asked about the longstanding rivalry.  He said this year will be different for Nebraska because it's "Matt Rhule's second year" in Lincoln. 

"Look, hats off to Coach Prime. He's an incredible coach, but what we've got in-house at Nebraska... The culture coach Rhule is building at Nebraska... All the position coaches he has there.... The culture and everything else... I think this is where they make a big jump. Look for the boys to battle now for the conference title." 

Compton wasn't satisfied by leaving his response at that and took it even further.  

"Look, you take away the turnovers and Nebraska is bowling last year. Bowling. What was their record last year? 5-7... and we were the most turnover team in the country." He went on to say, "You eliminate the turnovers, the boys are bowling, and we're probably 9-3."    

Except numbers don't lie. Nebraska lost games by a double-digit average last season and boasted one of the nation's worst offenses. Rhule will try to dig his roots deeper in the college game after his short-lived stint with the Carolina Panthers. 

Colorado heads to Lincoln on Sept. 7 for the backend of a home-and-home affair with Nebraska. The Buffs have won all three meetings in the non-conference portion of the series since 2018. Shedeur Sanders threw for 393 yards with three total touchdowns in CU's 36-14 win in Boulder last year.

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JOSH TOLLE

Josh Tolle is a writer covering college sports for On SI. Outside of storytelling, the multi-talented broadcaster has play-by-play experience at the professional and collegiate levels. In 2018, he began calling games for the National Women’s Soccer League. He has also called games for the United Soccer League, Concacaf, and the U.S. Open Cup. He has called hockey for the Premier Hockey Federation for the past three seasons and was the play-by-play voice for the Superior RoughRiders of the Western Hockey League. He has provided play-by-play for various other sports including football, basketball, baseball and volleyball events. Since 2015, Tolle has been the voice of Colorado School of Mines Athletics having called football, men's and women's basketball and soccer. He previously wrote for SB Nation.

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