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11-5-24 BRIEF BOWL HISTORY Nebraska first played in a bowl game following the 1940 season. Coach “Biff” Jones’ Huskers played Stanford in the Rose Bowl. Nebraska was 8-1, having lost its opening game at perennial power Minnesota, and ranked No. 7, Stanford 9-0 and...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEBPreps Announces Inaugural High School Football Awards La Vista, NE – NEBPreps is excited to announce the first-ever NEBPreps High School Football Awards, set to take place on December 3, 2024, at the Hurrdat Sports Bar in La Vista, Nebraska....
10-29-24 IT WAS ACADEMIC Nebraska didn’t meet the bowl requirement of six wins. The Huskers’ regular-season record was 5-7. But there weren’t enough six-win teams to fill all the bowls in 2015. So academics came into play. Because of its APR (Academic Progress...
10-24-24 RUN THE DAMN BALL, AND STOP IT Nebraska faces a daunting task Saturday in Columbus, Ohio. No great insight there. Ohio State is ranked No. 4, its only loss 32-31 to No. 1 Oregon, while the Huskers are coming off . . . OK, let’s not go any further with that....
TAKING A PUNCH Rover Isaac Gifford used the image first, because he preceded M.J. Sherman at the podium Tuesday. It summarized Nebraska’s 31-24 overtime loss to Illinois Friday. “Illinois came out and they punched us in the mouth,” he said. “We didn’t respond.” The...
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STEP-UP TIME Nebraska’s defense stepped up and so did its offense. That’s how Coach Mike Riley’s Huskers rebounded from losses against Wisconsin and Ohio State to defeat Purdue 25-24 at West Lafayette in late October 2017—Riley’s last season at Nebraska. First, the...
