A) Employ Mike Riley's pro style-focused offense, with an emphasis on a short and intermediate passing game. Bronco Mendenhall's defense is a "bend don't break" philosophy meaning that we can expect Nebraska attempt those 8-12 play 40-70 yard type drives that take 5-8 minutes per drive, eating up the clock ending in field goals and at least 2-3 3rd down conversions per drive. This limits the amount of possessions that BYU has on offense, and eventually grinds down BYU's defense by the end of the game.

B) Max Protect (see Oregon St. victory in Provo a couple years ago) their QB, daring BYU to actually get a pass rush, and force their QB to get rid of the ball under 5 seconds.

The good news, for BYU, according to a Nebraska beat writer is that he thinks BYU will be able to really score on Nebraska.... IF BYU can get some push from the O-Line in the Run game.

"For Nebraska, New defensive coordinator Mark Baker will try to shore up a unit that returns exciting talent on the defensive line and in the secondary, but struggled badly in run defense and in preventing big plays. Sometimes they did this at Oregon State. Sometimes they didn't.

If Taysom Hill or whoever is carrying the ball for BYU can get an initial push on that line, they should be able to have some success running the football. Even if they can't, BYU should be able to score on Nebraska.

There's also the fact that in most position groups, BYU's got a pretty experienced team, and understands, schematically, what they want to do. Nebraska is breaking in new systems and new coaches all over the field, and may have mismatched personnel to accomplish what they want to do out of the gate. The best way to attack BYU might be to go after their secondary, but without Pierson-El, and with a quarterback who struggled with accuracy last season in Tommy Armstrong (although to be fair, a lot of his 52% completion percentage came from the kind of throws he was asked to make), Nebraska might not be able to take full advantage of that weakness early in the season."

Thought it was an interesting analysis.

http://www.vanquishthefoe.com/byu-football/2015/8/31/9227681/byu-football-nebraska-football-preview-big-ten