What an awful week to be associated with the Wisconsin football program.

With bowl eligibility and salvaging the 2019 season on the line, Nebraska had to beat its pesky rival Iowa to be 6-6 and make a bowl game. As …

There were no fans to witness a beat down reminiscent of the Mike Riley days on Saturday. Nebraska came in as a 16-point favorite and lost 41-…

Nebraska’s blowout loss to Illinois last weekend was dumbfounding for many. 

Quarterbacks: C

Nebraska went into the game against Illinois as a 16-point favorite, and came out embarrassed. The Fighting Illini forced five turnovers and s…

Nebraska football has turned in some puzzling performances in the two-and-a-half year tenure of head coach Scott Frost.

Less than 24 hours after the Big Ten Conference released a 20-game conference schedule for the 2020-21 men’s basketball season, the Huskers an…

Four games down, four games to go.

Fresh off its first win of the season, Nebraska handed out its first Blackshirts of the season after an impressive defensive performance last …

A few firsts came for Nebraska football last Saturday. 

Quarterback: B

It wasn’t going to be as easy in the second half as it was in the first for Nebraska football on Saturday afternoon against Penn State.

Nebraska football (1-2) earned its first win of the year on Saturday in the home opener against Penn State (0-4). The Huskers were underdogs h…

Fireworks fired off into a sunny sky as the clock hit double zeros in front of a quiet stadium. Instead of the screams of 90,000 fans, the onl…

Drake Keeler, senior sports editor: Penn State 38, Nebraska 30

The last time Nebraska football played a home game, it was 349 days ago in front of a sold-out Memorial Stadium crowd. 

Nebraska’s first home game comes against a Penn State team that was ranked No. 8 before the season started and was expected to compete for the…

Prior to the Big Ten announcing its revamped schedule and nine-game regular season, almost nobody anticipated this matchup to be between teams…

In this edition of Huskers in the NFL, we’ll look at all of the highlights of former-Husker players, including the ending of a touchdown droug…

Nebraska football’s home opener on Saturday against Penn State will be a matchup of two teams searching for their first win of the season. 

Just as everyone expected, Indiana, Northwestern and Maryland have more combined wins than Minnesota, Michigan and Penn State through three we…

As a part of our initiative called Curious Cornhuskers, an anonymous reader asked The Daily Nebraskan, “Are the covid tests done on the footba…

In 1892, the 2-year-old Nebraska Bugeaters football team had its first conference game scheduled. Having joined the Western Interstate Univers…

Nebraska football’s defense had major positives against Northwestern to push off from going into its matchup with Penn State. 

The cursed stadium that is Ryan Field has been nothing but nightmares for opposing teams. Whether it’s the high school stadium atmosphere or N…

Quarterbacks: B

Once again, a football game between Nebraska and Northwestern came down to the final play.

Nebraska football scored 13 points in the second quarter to take a six-point halftime lead against Northwestern on Saturday, but the Wildcats …

It’s easy to point fingers when a team loses, especially when said team delivers an undisciplined performance as Nebraska did in its 21-13 los…

Drake Keeler, senior sports editor: Northwestern 23, Nebraska 20

It’s no secret where Saturday’s game will be won when Nebraska and Northwestern square off: the trenches.

Nebraska football takes on an undefeated Northwestern squad this Saturday in Evanston, Ill., after the Huskers’ home opener against Wisconsin …

Halloween weekend was supposed to be a celebration in Lincoln. The cancellations and weird scheduling quirks of the Big Ten schedule would fin…

Over Halloween weekend, Husker players stayed home instead of playing their first home game of the season.

All league-wide awards in the NFL are given out at the end of the year, but as the league nears the halfway point of the regular season, it’s …

So much went on in the Big Ten this week that it was easy to forget Nebraska had the conference’s first canceled game of the season.

While the rest of the Big Ten played their second game of the year on Saturday, all Nebraska was allowed to do was sit back and watch. 

The 2020 Nebraska School Activities Association football playoffs, featuring 136 Nebraska high school football teams battling for six titles, …

Nebraska football’s home opener against No. 9 Wisconsin has been canceled due to an outbreak of COVID-19 in the Badgers program, announced by …

Nebraska quietly has some hope going up against its divisional rival in No. 9 Wisconsin on Saturday, despite last week’s 52-17 drubbing agains…

During Tuesday's press conference, Nebraska coaches and players learned that Wisconsin’s starting quarterback and redshirt freshman Graham Mer…

Nebraska kicked off its first game of the 2020 season Saturday against Ohio State, but it is never too early to take a look at the future lead…

The much-anticipated return of Big Ten football arrived over the weekend, and it was thankfully met without any COVID-19 interruptions.

When Lincoln Southeast varsity football head coach Ryan Gottula first met Taveon Thompson, he knew right away that Thompson would be successful. 

Even in a blowout, Nebraska football showed signs of growth from last year’s team in a 52-17 loss to Ohio State.

Nebraska football stormed down the field in its opening drive of the 2020 season to take a 7-0 lead against No. 5 Ohio State in Columbus on Sa…

Quarterbacks: C+

For Nebraska, the fun in Columbus on Saturday lasted about a quarter and a half.

There is little room for mistakes when attempting to upset a top-five team in the country. 

Drake Keeler, senior sports editor: Ohio State 41, Nebraska 17

Nebraska football’s boogeyman arrives one week before Halloween this year.

The Bill Callahan era at Nebraska was mostly a disaster, as the Huskers went 5-6 during his first season as head coach in 2004. The losing sea…

In 2019, Nebraska football came into the season with a top-25 ranking and high expectations for head coach Scott Frost’s second year with the …

Big Ten and Nebraska football will officially be back this weekend as the Huskers take on No. 5 Ohio State. 

The number of Huskers making an impact in the NFL continues to dwindle. Many younger players are still waiting to break through and make impac…

Nebraska football will battle No. 5 Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio on Saturday at 11 a.m. to begin the much-anticipated 2020 season. 

Three schedules, three opening dates and countless upset players and fans later, Big Ten football is finally back.

On Sept. 24, senior running back Dedrick Mills wrote about his journey over the last several years on Huskers.com, specifically the mental hea…

The conversation is over.

One of the most bizarre storylines in an incredibly bizarre 2019 Nebraska football season was the weekly revolving door at kicker.

The Nebraska football team returns just 554 yards of production from last season’s wide receiving corps.

COVID-19 schedule shuffling has begun in the NFL. It has affected plenty of former Huskers, including New England Patriots running back Rex Bu…

From 1962-1997, Husker football flourished under head coaches Bob Devaney and Tom Osborne. The Huskers had not won a bowl game until a Gotham …

One day after Pinnacle Bank Arena had announced it would open for a socially-distanced watch party for Nebraska football’s season opener again…

Nebraska football will be faced with newness in every sense of the word this season. 

Nebraska held a scrimmage on Oct. 10 in an empty Memorial Stadium. That scrimmage marked two weeks before the season's start and for players, …

Pinnacle Bank Arena will be hosting a watch party for Nebraska football’s season opener, a road contest at Ohio State on Oct. 24. 

Senior wide receiver JD Spielman was on pace to break several Nebraska receiving records before making the decision to throw his name into the…

After Bob Devaney and Tom Osborne guided Nebraska football to five national championships and 21 conference titles between 1962 and 1997, the …