Florida Atlantic just asked for a redder behind than they were already going to be leaving Lincoln with, and it was all after FAU head coach Howard Schnellenberger lit a match.

The Owls burned an N resembling their first opponent in 2009 in the Nebraska Cornhuskers to start their annual school bonfire.

However, what was meant as a commemorative symbol to start the 2009 school year down in Florida has ruffled a couple of feathers in Lincoln.

No coach or player would talk about it, but NU safety Larry Asante alluded to it during the weekly Tuesday press conference.

To say the least, the guy that will be able to hit players with FAU on their helmet come Saturday wasn’t happy, and frankly was a little ticked off.

“Coach came in and he gave us a little speech that I can’t go into, but what they are doing down there–that’s not football,” Asante said. “You should just show up and play and let all the other stuff take care of itself.”

As if Nebraska wasn’t already fired up enough to finally get out there and play somebody else besides themselves, now they get this. This piece of bulletin board material is offered up by a team that lost 52-10 to Texas in their season-opener last season.

Now granted, Nebraska may not have the firepower to cook the Owls quite as handily as the Horns did last season, but this YouTube clip should add fuel to the fire.

View clip here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z05bhLj-FEM

Nebraska right now is favored to beat the Owls by 22 points, but don’t be surprised if that gets bumped up a little more at least in the minds of NU.

Who knows, maybe Nebraska will scorch the Owls by a score similar to 52-10 and they will have something to commemorate themselves.

Dumb move by the Owls–we’ll see how much it hurts them come Saturday.