Three Takes on Where Nebraska Football Stands in the Preseason Rankings
The first USA Today Coaches Poll of the season was released last week, and the first AP Top 25 College Football Poll came out just a few days ago. In the age of the college football playoff, these early polls certainly don’t hold as much weight as they used to. But I still get excited […]
Picking Every Game on Nebraska’s Schedule (Part Two)
The Nebraska football team kicks off its season at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City in just over two weeks. The optimism among the coaching staff is palpable, and fans are frothing at the mouth for college football to begin. Can the Huskers take a leap in year three under Matt Rhule? Yesterday we looked at […]
Picking Every Game on Nebraska’s Schedule (Part One)
The Nebraska football team kicks off its season at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City in just over two weeks. The optimism among the coaching staff is palpable, and fans are frothing at the mouth for college football to begin. Can the Huskers take a leap in year three under Matt Rhule? Today we’ll look at […]
Three Games That Will Define the Season for Nebraska Football in 2025
Year three of the Matt Rhule era is upon us. As was the case in 2024, the Nebraska football team faces what is considered to be a manageable Big Ten schedule. Of course, the Huskers are not in a position to take any team for granted. But the Big Red avoids Ohio State, Oregon, and […]
Three Things That Need to Happen for Nebraska Football to Make the “Year 3 Leap” Under Matt Rhule
by Geoff Langenberg It is no secret that Matt Rhule has had success as a turnaround artist at the college level. Whether it was taking a Temple team to its first top 25 ranking, its first conference championship, and two ten win seasons, or coaching a Baylor team that was basically flatlining all the way […]
Five Reasons to Believe Matt Rhule Will Build a Long Term Winner at Nebraska
by T.J. Birkel Happy fall camp, Common Fans. It’s the first full week of August and the Nebraska football team already has a week of practice in the books. Thank God. The dog days of summer are coming to a close. The best time of year is once again upon us. Something is just missing […]
Nebraska’s Superman: How Tommie Frazier Changed Husker Football
It’s the summer of Superman. I’ve heard mixed reviews about the new movie, but haven’t seen it yet. No matter. I’ve already seen the real thing. Tommie Frazier was exactly what the doctor ordered for Nebraska football in the early 1990s. They needed a catalyst; a quarterback whose toughness embodied the physical style that Tom […]
How Tom Osborne’s Consistency Carried the Nebraska Football Dynasty
He was never a yeller. Even in an era when it was much more common for football coaches to cuss and scream, to berate players for making mistakes, Tom Osborne took the opposite approach. Through nearly three decades, 255 wins, 13 conference titles, and three national championships, perhaps Osborne’s most defining trait was consistency. It […]
The 1990 Season Ended in Disaster—Which Was the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Nebraska Football
At the end of the 1990 college football season, the beginning of the dynasty that would change Nebraska football forever was only about two and a half years away. From 1993 to 1997, the Huskers would go on one of the most dominant runs in the history of the sport, putting together a 60-3 record […]
What Steve Taylor’s Recruiting Story Says About Tom Osborne’s Nebraska
Steve Taylor says he won the lottery. He grew up in Fresno, California, and later moved to San Diego to increase his exposure. When his high school coach asked where he wanted to go, he had one answer: Nebraska. Taylor had watched the 1984 Orange Bowl, when the Huskers lost a heartbreaker to Miami in […]