"There are a lot of things that you hold in your hip pocket, because you don't want to show them if you don't need to show them," Watson said today during the Big Red Breakfast at the Holiday Convention Centre.
The coach referred specifically to misdirection and gadget plays.
The Huskers, perhaps you've noticed, have unveiled little, if any, of the trickery that helped them beat Colorado and Missouri last year.
"You use them in the conference season, which is so important to where we end up and where we go," Watson said. "We've purposely, in all honesty, held things."