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Kansas City Huskers Excited to head Home for Nebraska Football Season Opener
The 2025 season opener will serve as a homecoming for several members of the Nebraska football team when the Huskers take on Cincinnati at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City. Junior defensive back Jamir Conn, senior linebacker Dasan McCullough, freshman running back...
2025 Nebraska Football Position Previews: Linebacker
Nebraska’s linebackers might be the most interesting swing piece on the defense this fall because the room blends proven age with raw, disruptive upside. At the center of it is Vincent Shavers, a favorite inside the program whose profile screams havoc. If he hits his...
Nebraska Football Needs to Depend on “Watering Bamboo”
When you think of Tom Osborne’s national championship teams with Nebraska football, what players first come to mind? Tommie Frazier? Grant Wistrom? Lawrence Phillips? Ahman Green? How about the offensive lines? The “Pipeline” nickname was established in 1994, featured...
Huskers Football Single Digits Set the Standard for 2025 Season
Single digits in Nebraska’s locker room aren’t fashion—they’re a standard. This year’s selections point to rising youth and instant-impact transfers setting the tone, with a headliner in the secondary and a few culture carriers on both sides of the ball. Here’s how...
Former Chief Terry Bradden Returning to Arrowhead for First Game with Nebraska Football
Terry Bradden’s first game as Nebraska’s defensive line coach will take place in the stadium he called home for eight years. The Florida native worked on the Kansas City Chiefs coaching staff from 2017 to 2024, and on Aug. 28, he’ll return to Arrowhead Stadium with...
Hail Varsity Digest | Back on Track, 1996 Nebraska Football Bounces Baylor | 8-19-25
The Nebraska football defense posted a shutout, and the offense scored 49 points against 3-1 Baylor on a 75-degree afternoon in mid-October 1996, before a Homecoming crowd of 75,478 at Memorial Stadium. “We played against the best team in America,” said Baylor Coach...
Raiola Honing Leadership, Mobility for Second-Year Leap with Nebraska Football
Offensive coordinator Dana Holgorsen believes his sophomore quarterback Dylan Raiola has grown leaps and bounds throughout Nebraska football’s fall camp. "It's different when he's out there, just from the communication, the confidence, just making routine plays and...
Single-Digit Dane Key Making Immediate Impact for Nebraska Football
Nebraska football transfer wide receiver Dane Key is impressing his new team through the first couple weeks of camp. In fact, he’s impressed his teammates so much that he was the leading vote-getter on the team during the single-digit jersey number vote. He will be...
Babcock: It’s Off the Field as Well as On for Nebraska Football
Recollection has it that Jon Hesse recounted this, though as long as I’ve been around Nebraska football, details have become jumbled or lost. But I’ll say it was Hesse. He was a four-year Husker letterman (1993-96) at linebacker, playing on two national championship...
Meet Nebraska Football Punter Archie Wilson, the ‘Most Interesting Man in the World’
The “most interesting man in the world” to Nebraska football coach Matt Rhule currently resides in Nebraska’s punter room. Freshman Archie Wilson traveled halfway across the world to punt for the Huskers. Wilson hails from Frankston South in Victoria, Australia, where...
Hail Varsity Digest | Return To Reality, ’96 Nebraska Football Wins at K-State | 8/12/24
Questions remained for 1996 Nebraska football because of the 19-0 loss at Arizona State, even though Nebraska had defeated Colorado State in its third game a week later 65-9. At least some of those questions were answered when the seventh-ranked Huskers defeated...
‘Old Head’ Javin Wright Heading into Seventh Season With Nebraska Football
After facing heart complications before the start of fall camp in 2024, Javin Wright is ready to get back on the field for his seventh year as a Husker. The senior linebacker began his career with the Huskers in 2019 and has battled through the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Riley Van Poppel Ready to Go for Nebraska Football After Redshirt Year
Nebraska defensive linemen Riley Van Poppel is ready to get back on the field after using his redshirt season in 2024. The sophomore said that he believes taking his redshirt last season was very beneficial and taught him a lot. "The biggest thing for me in football...
Professionalism Aids Smooth Transition to Nebraska Football for Andrew Marshall
Nebraska football defensive back Andrew Marshall is fitting in well with his new team. "It's been smooth for me, I can say that they've definitely taken me in," Marshall said. "I'm very appreciative. From the staff to the players to even the community, they've been...
Sky’s the Limit for Nebraska Football, At Least for Now
Optimism is the order of the day, similar to spring practice but with the season at hand. Now, as in the spring, the Nebraska football team can be as good as one’s imagination allows. For instance, though the past is that and nothing more, Matt Rhule’s similar rises...
Competition Driving Improvement for Nebraska Defense
There are question marks surrounding the Nebraska football defense heading into 2025 considering the key pieces the unit lost, but defensive coordinator John Butler wants his team focused on themselves. "We don't care what anybody else says outside of this building,"...
Hail Varsity Digest | 1996 Huskers Rebound, Pound Colorado State | 8-5-25
That Nebraska football had set aside its 19-0 loss at Arizona State, at least to some degree, was reflected in a 65-9 win against Colorado State in the third game of the 1996 season at Memorial Stadium. In addition to the 65 points, the Huskers rolled up 628 yards of...
Nebraska Football Fan Day Photos | 08/02/2025
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