Scott Frost hasn’t won a lot at Nebraska, so it should come as no surprise that he’s winless against ranked opponents.

He’s 0-8 as the Huskers’ head coach and those losses are by an average score of 40-19, which is a point shy of the betting line, as of Tuesday, for Saturday’s matchup at No. 3 Oklahoma.

It gets worse in games against teams in the top 5 (both Ohio State). That average loss is 50-12.

Do better than that this week and perhaps you have a moral victory. But Frost is past that point — he needs his own “game of the century.” Without better than 5 wins or a 5th-place finish in his 4 seasons so far, he certainly could use a stunner to give himself a status upgrade and extra time.

No No. 1 or No. 2 ranking is walking through that door, but the No. 3 Sooners provide the challenge — and an opportunity.

“One of the best rivalries in sports. It’s kind of a shame it went away,” Frost said. “It’s going to be special to be a part of it in a different role.”

He means as a coach, not a player, but the Huskers are also adjusting to a new place in the college football hierarchy since they last met the Sooners. That was a 23-20 Big 12 Championship Game loss 11 years ago.

From conference title contender in 2010 to hoping to be Appalachian State to Oklahoma’s Michigan in 2021. Well, we won’t go that far … yet. But players and coaches alike think everything needs to go just right for the Huskers to have a chance.

“I wouldn’t say we have to play a perfect game, but we definitely have to be dialed in on everything,” wide receiver Samori Toure said. “We can’t beat ourselves and shoot ourselves in the foot. We have to play with discipline.”

His quarterback agrees.

“We need to execute and start fast and finish,” Adrian Martinez said. “Start to finish, we have to come play our game. We need to be able to run the game and execute. No turnovers. The stuff we’ve been talking about all year long as a team needs to happen on Saturday. Obviously a top five team in the country and a very good team. We need to come ready to go in all phases of the game.”

It’s a tall order. The Huskers have given the ball away in every game this season, even the blowout. And in Frost’s 8 games against ranked teams, Nebraska has walked off the field with the turnover edge only once.

“Turnovers and special teams, if you’re going to beat a team that’s really talented, you’ve got to win those,” Frost said. “Make a big play on special teams, get a turnover here and there. We’ll see if we’re up to the challenge.”

It might sound simple and impossible at the same time, but others have shown that the top-ranked mountain is not insurmountable.

Speaking of Mountaineers, we already referenced the 34-32 upset as 33-point underdogs in the Big House. It wasn’t the only upset in 2007, a year of college football chaos. Pitt upset No. 2 West Virginia as a 4-touchdown dog and Stanford beat No. 2 USC with a 41-point spread.

But for this exercise, for now, let’s limit our search to the past decade when looking for a comp that Nebraska can aspire to.

Toure said the Huskers don’t need a perfect game, but no one would refuse what Purdue and Iowa did to top 5 Ohio State in back-to-back years: 55-24 vs. No. 5 (2017) and 49-20 vs. No. 2 (2018) were unlikely results, but when everything goes right, anything can happen.

The Huskers don’t need a rout; they’d take a 1-point win, like Iowa’s 14-13 victory over No. 3 Michigan a year before the Buckeyes beatdown.

Of course, those we’re all home games for the winners. Let’s keep looking outside the Big Ten.

Nope. Georgia Tech’s upset of No. 9 Florida State in 2015 and Iowa State’s 37-31 2OT surprise against No. 2 Oklahoma State in 2011 were both in friendly confines, too.

Just how rare of a feat are we asking for here?

Some have speculated that 2021 will be the second coming of 2007 in college football. So maybe we should take a second look at that chaos.

No. Nebraska is not Appalachian State. Nebraska needs to be Notre Dame.

Set the time machine to 1957, Doc.

An unranked Irish team walked into Norman as 19-point underdogs and little chance to beat No. 2 Oklahoma, which was riding a 47-game winning streak. Sports Illustrated called the Sooners “unbeatable” on their cover. Any “SI jinx” was just getting started, but what happened that November day fed into it. The game was scoreless until the final frame and Notre Dame prevailed 7-0, the first time Oklahoma had been blanked in 123 games.

The last time the Sooners were shut out was 1998, so they’re due. You know who else is due? Struggling kicker Connor Culp. So instead of a 7-0 win, let’s go with a fourth-quarter field goal for the win: 3-0 Huskers.

The formula: Turnovers + special teams + execution. Anything is possible, like Toure said:

“What type of team would we be if we didn’t believe in ourselves?”

Frost is going to need anything and everything to pull this off. Belief is just the start.