Football

Arizona State took the opening kickoff and drove 80 yards on 10 plays for a touchdown, on a 25-yard pass from Jake Plummer to Keith Poole. As it turned out, that’s all the Sun Devils needed. As Tom Osborne indicated following Nebraska’s 1996 opener two weeks before, a...

Emmett Johnson is going into the 2025 Nebraska football season with one goal in mind, and that's to do his part to help the Huskers win as many games as possible. The junior running back said as much during the Huskers’ media availability after day one of fall camp on...

A Husker legend has decided to hang up his cleats after 13 seasons in the NFL. On July 12, defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh announced his retirement from the NFL on the one-year anniversary of his father's death....

A dream is coming true for a Husker alumna. Millard West graduate and former Nebraska dancer Maddy Unger grew up watching the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, and now she’s set to become one of them. She got the call on July 16 that she was one of six rookies chosen after...

Nebraska quarterback Dylan Raiola is making kids’ dreams come true. Raiola hosted his first youth football camp at Memorial Stadium on Saturday. The quarterback and some of his teammates taught the campers drills, signed autographs and more. Growing up, Raiola...

Beginning this week, Hail Varsity Historicals will go game-by-game through Tom Osborne’s 1996 season, preceding his third national championship with Nebraska football. After Nebraska opened the 1996 season with a 55-14 victory against Nick Saban’s second Michigan...

Hundreds of people came out to Memorial Stadium on Sunday to show their support for the fight against pediatric brain cancer. The Nebraska football team and Team Jack Foundation held their 13th annual Road Race event over the weekend. This event was created in 2013 to...

Tom Osborne understated top-ranked Nebraska football's performance in the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 2, 1996, you might say. He “felt we had a little better defense than they’d seen and a better running game than they’d seen,” Osborne said, referring to the second-ranked...

Oklahoma, under first-(and only)-year head coach Howard Schnellenberger, came to Memorial Stadium to face Nebraska football the day after Thanksgiving 1995 with a 5-4-1 record. The Sooners had lost three of their last four, including a 12-0 loss at home to rival...

Tom Osborne was a little “apprehensive” before Nebraska football's game against Iowa State the previous week, considering a possible emotional letdown after back-to-back victories against top-10 teams. As indicated in the previous Historical, there was no letdown. The...

Fresh off his commitment to Nebraska football, 2026 running back commit Jamal Rule joined Hurrdat Sports Live to share more about why he chose the Huskers. Rule hails from Charlotte, North Carolina, where he is considered a three-star recruit according to 247Sports...

Nebraska football's new play-by-play announcer Kyle Crooks is excited to start calling games for the Huskers in August, and he shared why recently on Hurrdat Sports Live. Athletic director Troy Dannen announced the hiring of Crooks on Monday. Before coming to...

Following back-to-back victories against top-10 teams and climbing atop the national rankings, Coach Tom Osborne had some concern when Nebraska football played Iowa State in early November 1995. That despite the game being played at sold-out Memorial Stadium and the...