DEFINING LOSS It was arguably the most meaningful game in Tom Osborne’s coaching career until the national championship run in the 1990s, and maybe the most defining overall. Undefeated and No. 1 Nebraska lost to No. 5 Miami 31-30 in the Orange Bowl—the 50th. Miami,...
Today on Hurrdat Sports Radio host Ravi Lulla and Austin Jacobsen tackled the importance of the final regular season game for Nebraska Football against Iowa and the significant roster shifts looming on the horizon. A Pivotal Game Against Iowa With Nebraska securing...
11-26-24 AIRING IT OUT Eric Crouch could run. One piece of evidence: he ran for a then-NCAA-quarterback-record 59 touchdowns during his career. He also could pass, as the Iowa game in 2000, his junior year,showed. The game was the last the Huskers and Hawkeyes...
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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