Each week during the high school basketball season, select coaches from the six Nebraska classes rate the teams in their class and our Tony Chapman compiles the rankings. Here is the sixth poll for the 2024-25 season. Records are through games played on Saturday,...
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Hail Varsity Digest | Mike Babcock Edition | 01/14/25
GOODBYE GIFT Nearly 30 years have passed. Times have changed, as they always do. On December 10, 1997, four days after No. 2 Nebraska defeated No. 14 Texas A&M 54-15 in the Big 12 Championship game in San Antonio, a Wednesday, Tom Osborne held a news conference...
Hail Varsity Digest | Mike Babcock Edition | 01/07/25
UP TO THE CHALLENGE Texas A&M outside linebackers John Roper and Chris Wallace were nicknamed the “Blitz Brothers.” Nebraska had to deal with them in the first game of the 1988 season, the Kickoff Classic. Roper and Husker outside linebacker Broderick Thomas...
Hail Varsity Digest | Mike Babcock Edition | 12/31/24
HERE AND THERE Since the Digest following Nebraska’s victory against Boston College in the Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl focused on game MVP Rahmir Johnson, here are a couple of other takeaways. Ty Robinson was among the seniors who opted to play even though he’s a...
Hail Varsity Digest | Mike Babcock Edition | 12/27/24
NUMERICAL CONSIDERATION During a news conference before the Huskers left for New York City, offensive coordinator Dana Holgerson was asked how Donte Dowdell’s decision to enter the transfer portal would affect the running back room—Dowdell led Nebraska in scoring with...
Hail Varsity Digest | Mike Babcock Edition | 12/17/25
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,...
Nebraska Football Beating Iowa Changes Everything: Hurrdat Sports Radio
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...
Hail Varsity Digest | Mike Babcock Edition | 11/26/24
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...
Hail Varsity Digest | Mike Babcock Edition | 11/07/24
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...