Mike Babcock is in his 47th season covering Nebraska football. Babcock also covered most other Husker sports at some point in his journalism career. Mike earned his undergraduate degree in English from Cal State-Chico and Masters in English (teacher preparation) from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Babcock spent seven years teaching English and Introductory Literature at Parkland Community College. Mike wrote sports part-time at the Champaign-Urbana Courier as well as for Lincoln Journal and Star for 17 years for the sports department covering Nebraska as a sports columnist. Babcock then wrote for Huskers Illustrated before Hail Varsity and Hurrdat Sports.
For the first three quarters, Nebraska football controlled the game, you could say. The Huskers, not Indiana, played like the seventh-ranked team in the nation. And when Anthony Colandrea broke loose on a 39-yard touchdown run to increase Nebraska’s lead to 17-6 with...
Welcome Coach Curt Cignetti and his Associated Press seventh-ranked Indiana football team. “I’ve never been to the state of Nebraska, and I’m looking forward to it; heard great things about the stadium, the fans,” Cignetti said during his Monday news conference. He’s...
Nebraska football fans of a certain age remember Matt Davison’s remarkable catch on the final play of regulation to force overtime in the Huskers' 45-38 victory at Missouri in 1997. But why begin with that when the subject is the 1998 game against the Tigers? Missouri...
They were who we thought the were, the Maryland Terrapins. They were if we thought they were the team that lost to UCLA a week ago, 54-3. Afterall, Nebraska football improved to 5-0 by defeating the Terrapins 48-23 Saturday. Except Maryland led in the first half until...
Never mind the final score of Maryland’s loss to UCLA. Never mind 54-3. Expect the 2-2 Terrapins to come to Memorial Stadium Saturday with something to prove against Nebraska football. “I don’t believe last week carries over to this week,” Coach Matt Rhule said...
Nebraska football took charge of the line of scrimmage against Kansas in mid-October of 1998, meeting the expectations of a night-time Memorial Stadium crowd of 76,174. After two games under 200 yards rushing, the Huskers ran for a season-high 466 yards on 79 carries....
Vincent Genatone spent the week leading up to the Michigan State game on the Nebraska football scout team. He “played Cam Edwards,” Coach Matt Rhule said following the 31-13 victory. Cam Edwards is Michigan State’s top running back, by far. But he didn’t play the...
Excuse the language, but there’s a reason for beginning with it in this Nebraska football preview. “I’m pissed. I’m pissed,” Michigan State Coach Pat Fitzgerald said following the Spartans’ 27-10 loss at Notre Dame Saturday. Fourth-ranked (now third) Notre Dame, it...
Frank Solich’s five-game winning streak to open his first season as Husker head coach ended, as did Nebraska football’s 19-game winning streak, as did its 40-game regular-season conference winning streak on Oct. 10, 1998. Texas A&M snapped the streaks, 28-21, in...