Husker Football Game Watch vs Wisconsin – October 31st
The college football season is in full swing, finally. Ohio State is good, no great, like some of our...
In Their Words: Illinois Fighting Illini As Previewed By The Champaign Room
| Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images More about Illinois! Each one of our Big Ten sites put together a preview of their 2020 football team. Everyone answered the same questions, as to create some uniformity across the league. We’re going to do these by schedule order, then we’ll put the others at the end because I know you’re all interested in the Big Ten as a whole – even Rutgers. Here we have the Illinois Fighting Illini. Nebraska hosts the Illini in Lincoln Week Five. Illinois... |
Counter Bootleg: A Nebraska Football Short – Episode 3 What Happened With The Wide Receiver Room
| Photo by Steven Branscombe/Getty Images Welcome to episode three where I take 10 minutes to talk about the Nebraska wide receivers and how we got to this point of depending on the services of a JUCO Wide Receiver in Omar Manning. Thank you all for listening, the numbers are better than I expected and it seems like this is something that might actually end of working. Genuinely thank you! Please subscribe and download the podcast. Leave a review and let me know what you think!... |
Nebraska Football Announces Five Captains For 2020 Season
| Photo by Keith Gillett/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images All hail the leaders! Nebraska earlier today announced the captains for the 2020 football season. Your 2020 Nebraska Football Captains#GBR x #thegoodlife pic.twitter.com/F2oF3WeQDs— Nebraska Football (@HuskerFBNation) October 17, 2020 Your captains for the 2020 season: Adrian Martinez, Quarterback Kade Warner, Wide Receiver Matt Farniok, Guard Dicaprio Bootle, Cornerback Collin Miller, Inside Linebacker Martinez was a captain last season, and an interesting pick as he’s reportedly in a battle for the starting quarterback position with Luke McCaffrey. He’s... |
SB Nation Reacts: Who Will Win It All?
| Photo by Kent Gidley/Collegiate Images/Getty Images Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NCAA. Each week, we send out questions to the most plugged in Nebraska Cornhuskers fans, and fans across the country. Sign up here to join Reacts. Fans this week were asked who they think will win it all. If you picked Ohio State, then you went against the majority. Alabama and Clemson were the runaway favorites, garnering 61-percent of the total vote. Personally, I would rather go to... |
Fantastic Friday Night Game Thread!
| Photo by Ken Murray/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images It’s fun Friday!!!!!! Hey y’all it’s Friday night! We are ONE WEEK AWAY from Big Ten football as Wisconsin starts the season against Illinois next Friday night! WHY WAIT? There might be some decent football tonight! Here are your games! SMU at Tulane – 5:00 pm – ESPN / ESPN Video BYU at Houston – 8:30 pm – ESPN / ESPN Video In personal news, the ebook version of my book, “Been Dead, Never Been To Europe”,... |
Nebrasketball: Press Conference & First Practice Recap, Other News
| Photo by Rich Schultz/Getty Images Basketball season is more or less officially underway this week as practices have begun. With that at the forefront of the team’s mind, we have a recap of the team’s press conference on Tuesday with Coach Hoiberg, along with players Yvan Ouedraogo and Dalano Banton. Some footage from the first practice yesterday follows, and finally a few other noteworthy news items relating to the team wrap it up at the bottom. But first up, Happy Birthday wises are in order:... |
Thursday Night Game Thread!!!!
| It’s not really the same, is it? | Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images There is college football tonight. Georgia State @ Arkansas State at 6:30 PM on ESPN Does that sound exciting? Probably not, but last night’s game was entertaining. Coastal Carolina earned their first victory over a ranked opponent by beating Louisiana 30-27. The Chanticleer’s won the game with a 40-yard field goal with :04 left. There is no NFL game tonight. Why? Read this mess. That’s why. Several of us at CN will... |
In Their Words: Northwestern Wildcats As Previewed By Inside NU
| Photo by Michael Allio/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images A win or a loss for Nebraska? Each one of our Big Ten sites put together a preview of their 2020 football team. Everyone answered the same questions, as to create some uniformity across the league. We’re going to do these by schedule order, then we’ll put the others at the end because I know you’re all interested in the Big Ten as a whole – even Rutgers. Here we have Northwestern. That other “NU”, who has... |
Nebrasketball Player Profiles: Bret Porter
| Bret Porter, official UNL headshot 2020-21 Nebraska native and walk-on Bret Porter is back for another season with the Huskers Redshirt freshman forward Bret Porter weighs in at 228-pounds and stands 6-foot-5. The Omaha native worked extensively on the scout team in practice last season and has four seasons of eligibility remaining as the 2020-2021 season is set to begin. Porter played at Millard North High School for Head Coach Tim Cannon. During his high school career, he scored 701 points, grabbed 317 rebounds, and... |
Nebraska Football Position Preview: Running Backs
| Here we are rolling right over the Buckeyes, baby. On this play anyway. | Photo by Steven Branscombe/Getty Images Dedrick Mills is going to start and get most of the carries. Oh darn, I just spoiled it for everyone, didn’t I? Here we go into the petri dish. I won’t lie to ya’, I think this is one of the dumber things being attempted in college football’s desperation to rake in what cash they can this fall. And that couldn’t happen without their practically free... |
Spooky Flakes
| Photo by Andreas Arnold/picture alliance via Getty Images It’s alternate uniform time of year. Rob Zombie directed this video. The Legend of the Blackshirts ☠️Available in stores 10/26 Worn by the Huskers in ‘20 ???Stay Tuned…#TeamAdidas x @AdidasFBallUS pic.twitter.com/nD6rutO4fd— Nebraska Football (@HuskerFBNation) October 13, 2020 If 2020 wasn’t weird enough, the Nebraska Athletic Department decided to throw this into the deepest depths of your memory so you can’t sleep at night. To be honest, it feels very 2005. But that’s just me. Nice alternates though.... |
Huskers in the NFL Week 5
| Photo by Steven Ryan/Getty Images Which Huskers Shined during Week 5? Through five weeks of the NFL season we have seen a lot from our former Huskers including some game alternating plays and true highlights. However this week was not one of them as most of the Husker alumni struggled or just had quiet games. But I still look at how each player did during the week along with my top performer and notes along the way. Top Husker Performer Alex Lewis, New York Jets... |
