Nebraska starts the Scott Frost era at 0-1 after losing to Colorado. (Getty) This was not the debut that Nebraska fans had waited so long to see. Colorado scored a touchdown with 66 seconds left to take a 33-28 lead over Nebraska and held on as backup quarterback Andrew Bunch had to try to lead Nebraska on a game-winning touchdown drive. Bunch was called on because starter Adrian Martinez was sitting on the bench with ice on his right knee. The Huskers got down to Colorado’s 21 but the drive stalled with a formation penalty that caused Nebraska to use its final timeout. The Huskers then didn’t get any closer to the end zone and lost in the first game of Scott Frost’s tenure as the team’s head coach. Penalty helped lead to game-winning TD Colorado’s own game-winning drive looked toast after a pass on third-and-24 fell incomplete. But Nebraska’s Antonio Reed was called for a hit to a defenseless receiver — a penalty that resulted in an automatic first down instead of the fourth down the Buffaloes were staring in the face. With first down at the Nebraska 40, QB Steven Montez found WR Laviska Shenault in the end zone for a 40-yard score and a five-point lead. Montez and Shenault have been one of the best quarterback-receiver combinations through the first two weeks of the season. Shenault had 11 catches for over 200 yards in Week 1 and had 10 catches for 177 yards and the TD on Saturday. Colorado’s Jay MacIntyre also scored two touchdowns for the Buffaloes. He’s the son of Colorado coach Mike MacIntyre, who was emotional after the game when talking about getting to see his son score. Martinez accounted for three scores The biggest concern in Lincoln surrounds the health of the Huskers’ true freshman quarterback. Martinez threw for two touchdowns and ran for another until he injured his knee late in the fourth quarter. He was tended to by Nebraska’s medical personnel in the team’s injury tent and was briefly shown limping across the field when the game was over. Martinez won the starting job before the season and became the first Nebraska freshman to begin the season as the team’s starting quarterback. He was 15-of-20 passing for 187 yards and had 15 carries for 117 yards in his debut on Saturday. Story continues “[Martinez is] a heck of a player. I sure hope he’s OK,” MacIntyre said. Nebraska’s first game of the season — and Frost’s first with the team since he was a quarterback in the 1990s — was Saturday because its Week 1 game against Akron was rained out. The Cornhuskers may end up making up the game with the Zips on Dec. 1 if it’s needed for bowl-eligibility purposes. – – – – – – – Nick Bromberg is a writer for Yahoo Sports. More from Yahoo Sports: • Report: Alabama’s Jalen Hurts to redshirt 2018 season • Ray Allen praises Celtics teammates during Hall of Fame ceremony • Pete Carroll unconcerned about reports that he coddles Russell Wilson • Lee Corso gets emotional on ‘Gameday’ while talking about Burt Reynolds<doc-sep>Adrian Martinez suffered a knee injury in Nebraska’s season-opening loss to Colorado. The play was a controversial one, as the Huskers later revealed that they sent in video of the play to be reviewed. Nebraska released the video that was sent in on Wednesday. Nebraska head coach Scott Frost updated Martinez’s status for this Saturday’s game earlier in the week. He said that Martinez was taking things day by day and that a decision on playing could be made at game time. Frost had another update on Martinez this afternoon. Not much has changed. Martinez continues to be evaluated. Frost added that a decision on his status for Saturday could be made “two minutes” before kickoff. “Scott Frost said he might make a decision on Adrian Martinez ‘2 minutes before kickoff.’ Said Martinez will warm up at the very least. Said decision to play or not play Martinez will be ‘strictly physical,'” Sam McKewon tweeted. Scott Frost said he might make a decision on Adrian Martinez “2 minutes before kickoff.” Said Martinez will warm up at the very least. Said decision to play or not play Martinez will be “strictly physical.” #huskers — Sam McKewon (@swmckewonOWH) September 13, 2018 Martinez played really well in the Week 1 loss to Colorado. He threw for more than 180 yards and rushed for more than 110 yards. Martinez had a couple of costly turnovers, but that was probably expected considering it was his first college game. Nebraska is looking to rebound from that loss this weekend. The Huskers are set to host Troy.<doc-sep>The Journal Star on Wednesday afternoon obtained the video submitted by the University of Nebraska to the Pac-12 and Big Ten that shows the play on which freshman quarterback Adrian Martinez was hurt. NU submitted the video, which the Journal Star obtained via a records request, for review because they wanted the leagues to look into whether Martinez was intentionally injured with 3 minutes, 29 seconds remaining in the Huskers' 33-28 loss to Colorado. Coach Scott Frost on Monday referenced a video angle that was not available at the time publicly. Now, you can see that angle and more. Support Local Journalism Your membership makes our reporting possible. {{featured_button_text}} Colorado announced Monday night that freshman linebacker Jacob Callier (No. 44) will not be suspended for his role in the play, though it does appear that he grabs and pulls Martinez's leg at the bottom of the pile. Frost said Tuesday he is done commenting on the matter. Martinez escaped serious injury and coaches have said he will be a game-time decision Saturday against Troy. Contact the writer at pgabriel@journalstar.com or 402-473-7439. On Twitter @HuskerExtraPG. Love 12 Funny 10 Wow 3 Sad 8 Angry 163 Be the first to know Get local news delivered to your inbox! Sign up! * I understand and agree that registration on or use of this site constitutes agreement to its user agreement and privacy policy.<doc-sep>And when Nebraska needed a touchdown in the game's dying moments, Bunch led the Husker offense onto the field with 1:03 left and immediately completed a 14-yard pass to Mike Williams to get NU going. Williams said his message to Bunch when he entered was simple. "It's your team now," Williams said he told Bunch. "We've got you. We've got your back." Bunch ran a spread offense in high school, throwing for nearly 8,000 yards and 79 touchdowns and rushing for 1,140 yards in his three-year career as a starter. He won a state championship as a senior, throwing for 3,405 yards and running for 520 more. After one season at Scottsdale Community College in Arizona, he saw an opportunity in Lincoln and walked on. Now, suddenly, he was on the field in front of nearly 90,000 fans trying to engineer a miracle finish. He and the Huskers came up short. A pass to an open Stanley Morgan in the end zone was a second or so too late. After a throw-away to stop to clock, two more throws from the Colorado 20-yard line went begging, including a last-gasp jump ball with Spielman and Stanley Morgan, two of NU's top playmakers, trying to make the catch.<doc-sep>
Photo : Nati Harnik ( AP Photo With 3:29 remaining in the fourth quarter and Nebraska leading Colorado 28-27, the Huskers were at midfield and driving toward the end zone when freshman quarterback Adrian Martinez took the ball and sprinted on a designed run to the right. Martinez hadn’t been perfect in his first-ever start, but with one score through the air and another two on the ground, he had his offense in position to protect and boost its slim lead. As Martinez made his cut upfield, his own lineman threw a Buffalo defender into his path. That’s when he got his knee rolled up—or, if you go by what the Huskers are saying and what the video shows, he got his knee rolled up, twisted, and yanked by Colorado linebacker Jacob Callier. The play knocked Martinez out of the game and thrust back-up Andrew Bunch into the action, which lead to a quick punt three plays later. Colorado scored on the ensuing series, taking the lead and forcing Bunch to play the hero. On what would be the last series of the game, Bunch took the Huskers from their own 36-yard line down to the Colorado 20-yard line with just seven seconds to spare. On the final play of the game, pressure forced the right-handed Bunch to sprint to his left and heave a ball that cleared the back of the end zone by at least five yards. In the aftermath of the season-opening loss, Nebraska has been openly pissed off about the injury to their rookie quarterback. First-year head coach Scott Frost immediately submitted the play for review to the Big Ten and Pac-12 offices on Monday, according to the Lincoln Journal-Star. In coach-speak, Frost told reporters he knows what he saw and that regardless of intention, the twisting on Callier’s part was too far. “You never want to think someone on the football field would try to intentionally hurt someone,” Frost said. However, he added, “We have an angle that doesn’t look very good. I don’t know what the intentions were, but the angle out there that I’ve seen doesn’t look good at all.” When Colorado was contacted by a Journal-Star reporter, the athletic department spokesperson claimed the Pac-12 had already completed its review and ruled the play to be clean. However, when an AP reporter hit up the Pac-12, the conference said it had made no such decision and that it was still reviewing the play. Meanwhile, Buffaloes head coach Mike McIntyre has been mum on the entire snafu, only acknowledging that Frost submitted the play and saying no suspensions have been handed down. As Colorado fans have pointed out, the whole game was chippy, and Callier’s hit-and-twist was far from the only rough play to go unflagged, but taking a late hit while standing up and moving forward is a little different than having your dang knee turned into a Bop-It while two lineman sit on your face. Lucky for Martinez and the Huskers, 24/7 reported Monday that there was no ligament damage and that he might even be ready to go for this upcoming Saturday’s game against Troy. It should probably go without saying, but to all the Power Five college football players who apparently think they’re still in high school: Everything you do on the field is on-camera; don’t try to pull bullshit like this!