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.
As was the case the previous game, a 27-14 upset at AP second-ranked Washington, now third-ranked Nebraska football relied on the run to overwhelm No. 17, or 16 depending on the poll, Kansas State 56-26 at Memorial Stadium in early October 1997. The victory was the...
No Dylan Raiola? No problem for Nebraska football. As you know, Raiola didn’t make the trip to UCLA. He’s recovering from surgery to repair a broken fibula suffered in the USC game. Nebraska defeated the Bruins in the Rose Bowl 28-21 Saturday night. And freshman TJ...
Nebraska football heads to southern California this weekend, as you know, without Dylan Raiola, who’s been lost for the season with a broken fibula. It’s a “Brook Berringer moment,” you might say, with previously second-string quarterback TJ Lateef stepping up....
Washington did what Arizona State had done in upsetting top-ranked Nebraska football the previous season. The Huskies’ defense crowded the line of scrimmage to stop the run. What it didn’t do, however, was cover Husker center Josh Heskew. And “if the center isn’t...
To quote a Sonny and Cher song, “And the beat goes on, the beat goes on” — for Nebraska football. Actually, the “beat” hasn’t been that long. Nebraska has only played USC seven times. But the Trojans have won six, with one tie, the sixth coming Saturday night at a...
When Matt Rhule walked into the media room for Monday’s Nebraska football availability, he saw the mannequin on the far side of the podium. “That’s stupid,” he said, a statement he recounted during the session. He was referring to the mannequin, not the football...
Media members knew the plan for Nebraska football. Fans did not. “We told reporters yesterday, and that’s the thing I want to get very clear to everybody who goes to that stadium, what we’re trying to do is make ourselves a better football team,” Tom Osborne said...
As Nebraska baseball coach Will Bolt says: Gritty beats pretty. That describes the Husker football team’s play in its 28-21 victory against Northwestern Saturday at Memorial Stadium. It wasn’t particularly pretty, though any victory is pretty compared to the...
Run the damn ball. Northwestern has, averaging 190.1 rushing yards per game, while Nebraska football hasn’t to the degree it probably needs to, though Emmett Johnson ranks 11th nationally, averaging 101.2 yards rushing per game. Johnson ranks fifth nationally in yards...