Football
Hail Varsity Digest | Nebraska Football vs. Texas Tech, September 1994 | 2/4/25
Nebraska takes down Texas Tech 42-16 September 8th, 1994.
Hail Varsity Digest | Mike Babcock Edition – Tom Osborne’s First National Championship Season Series | 01/28/25
(*Beginning this week, Historicals will go game-by-game through Tom Osborne’s first national championship season, 1994.) OFF TO A GOOD START At the end of the telecast of Nebraska’s 18-16 loss to Florida State in the 1994 Orange Bowl, NBC’s Dick Enberg noted the...
Hail Varsity Digest | Mike Babcock Edition | 01/21/25
UPON FURTHER REVIEW Unfortunately for Nebraska, the NCAA didn’t institute video review in football games until the 2005 season, after the Big Ten experimented with it in 2004. Had it been used in 1993, Tom Osborne’s national championship run might’ve been four in...
Rest in Peace, Jack
Near the end of the Nebraska football team’s 2013 spring intrasquad game in mid-April, Jack Hoffman took a handoff from quarterback Taylor Martinez and ran 69 yards for a touchdown. Hoffman was accompanied by members of both teams. He was 7 years old. Coach Bo Pelini...
Jack Hoffman | 1/15/2025
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...
Nebraska Football Promising Future After Bowl Win: Sam McKewon on Hurrdat Sports Radio
Today on Hurrdat Sports Radio, Sam McKewon of the Omaha World-Hearld joins hosts Ravi Lulla and Damon Benning to dive into Nebraska football’s bowl game victory over Boston College. Playing under challenging weather conditions, the bowl game highlighted Nebraska's...
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...
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