Football

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...

Nebraska football defensive coordinator John Butler knows he needs to see more out of his Blackshirt defense after a disappointing performance against Minnesota on Friday. Nebraska lost 24-6 to the Golden Gophers, allowing junior running back Darius Taylor to rush for...

Beginning this week, Historical focuses on the 1997 national championship season for Nebraska football, Tom Osborne's last. First up for Nebraska in 1997, Akron at Memorial Stadium. First down, no surprise; Akron, 59-14. “These kind of games don’t give me any great...

Nebraska football coach Matt Rhule is taking accountability after the Huskers’ dismal loss to Minnesota Friday night. Nebraska fell to the Golden Gophers 24-6 after trailing 7-6 at halftime then collapsing in the second half, marking their sixth consecutive loss to PJ...

Nebraska football fans might’ve done a double take, wondering if the Huskers were wearing maroon-and-gold instead of all-white — with pink on shoes, helmet stripes, Ns and face masks for Breast Cancer Awareness. Friday night’s game at Huntington Bank Stadium in...

Nebraska football fans weren’t waiting in line to buy tickets in advance of the 1996 New Year’s Eve FedEx Orange Bowl against Virginia Tech. Quite the contrary. Each team received 15,000 tickets. If not sold the university had to make up the difference. That was no...

Matt Rhule sent his players back out from the locker room to the field following Nebraska football's 34-31 victory at Maryland Saturday. Of course that’s not something he ordinarily would do. But the energy from Husker fans, about a quarter of the 39,623 in Maryland...

Matt Rhule’s comment was light-hearted, with an element of intent. “It’s OK to say something positive,” he told media during his Monday news conference. The comment came on the heels of questions related to issues needing correction. So let’s begin with some positives...

Texas gambled. And the gamble paid off. With time running out in the first Big 12 Championship Game in St. Louis on Dec. 7, 1996, the Longhorns faced fourth-and-inches at their own 28-yard line. Nebraska’s defense, which had already allowed 30 points, lined up to stop...

After a 38-27 comeback win over the Michigan State Spartans, Nebraska football head coach Matt Rhule said he's looking forward to the Huskers’ first Big Ten road test against Maryland on Saturday. "Maryland will present quite a challenge," Rhule said Monday afternoon....