So Monday, you probably liked when you didn't have to go to class.

Time off after not having to do much work seems like a good deal -- unless you're the Penn State football team trying to have its first solid season in three years.

Under the original plan for the Nittany Lions' schedule, after opening its season against Central Florida, Penn State would play Virginia before welcoming Nebraska.

However, that plan went out the window when Virginia notified Penn State that it had inadvertently scheduled South Carolina on the same day, at which point the Cavaliers asked Penn State to move their contest back to Nov. 9. Penn State coach Joe Paterno was less than thrilled about the change.

"We are going to play a Nebraska team a week from this coming Saturday, a team which will have had three games while we will have had one," Paterno said. "I was not for it, but supposedly there was no way they could get out of the contract."

The end result of all this shuffling is that when the No. 9 Cornhuskers arrive Sept. 14, they will have already played three games as opposed to Penn State's one. While Nebraska's toughest opponent during that stretch will be Arizona State, whom it defeated 48-10, the games still give the Huskers plenty of time to get settled into the season.

Making due with what they perceive as a bad situation, the Lions will use the off week to get prepared for Nebraska's running attack that clashes sharply with the air-it-out style of UCF. The big adjustments will be on defense, trying to prevent the kind of early-season slip-ups such as missed assignments and incorrect line-ups that plagued the victory against the Golden Knights.

"It's one of those things, it's a positive and a negative," safety Paul Cronin said. "They have gotten all their first few games jitters and bugs out. We'll still be getting them out. But they also have to play four weeks, we'll be well-rested and well-prepared."

The one thing that both coaches and players agree on is that the next two weeks will be focused solely on what could be the most difficult game of the season for a team that, in many positions, is still playing inexperienced players.

"They're going to be playing a good football team in a couple of weeks and it's either kill or be killed," Paterno said.