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Week one of the college football season has come and gone, and we’re ready to do it all again this weekend. The week one slate had some pretty good matchups, but week two seems to be a little bit more action-packed. One of the best games this weekend will be taking place under the lights […]

In their Week 2 matchup, Colorado football (1-0) will travel to Lincoln to face their most heated rival, Nebraska (1-0). This game features two programs that appear to be on upward trajectories. Both have faced a decade or more of hardships, struggling to find a worthy head coach and failing in multiple facets. Deion Sanders, […]

With Week 1 in the books, college football fans are already looking ahead to Week 2. The latest AP Top 25 Poll, released on Tuesday, reflected the highs and lows from the opening weekend. There were some expected shifts in the rankings: while two of the top 10 teams held their positions, others saw slight […]

As Nebraska football star freshman Dylan Raiola looks to improve after an impressive debut, he next faces the Colorado football team as head coach Deion Sanders had some fond words for the young star. The Cornhuskers got the opening win over the UTEP Miners, 40-7, in the lead up to battle the Buffaloes in which […]

Nebraska football quarterback Dylan Raiola is carefully monitoring where he needs to improve as the season moves forward. Raiola, a freshman, is preparing to lead his Cornhuskers into a key non conference game against Colorado. Raiola sees an area open to improvement. “Progressing through reads. That’s probably going to be my answer to you every […]

The Nebraska football team has a huge game this weekend as they will be hosting Colorado football under the lights. The Cornhuskers and Buffaloes met last season in Boulder, and Colorado cruised to a lopsided victory. One notable thing from last year’s game was some drama between Nebraska head coach Matt Rhule and Colorado quarterback […]

One of the biggest college football games of week two will take place in Lincoln, Nebraska this week as Nebraska football and Colorado football will go to battle. The Cornhuskers and Buffaloes both won their week one games, and each will hope to improve to 2-0 this Saturday. Nebraska head coach Matt Rhule is looking […]

Before the regular season starts, teams usually look to add players to their team, but the Los Angeles Rams are taking another approach. The team is adding Scott Frost to their coaching staff, who was most recently the head coach at Nebraska and went 13-0 as the head coach of UCF in 2017. Frost is […]

Nebraska football is thrilled to have QB Dylan Raiola under center. Raiola quickly ingratiated himself with the Nebraska fanbase, dominating in a 40-7 victory over UTEP in Nebraska football’s season opener. He also showed flashes of brilliance in his collegiate debut. Raiola put up a monster performance against UTEP, logging 238 yards and two touchdowns […]

Kansas City Chiefs’ champion quarterback Patrick Mahomes shouted out Nebraska football’s rookie QB Dylan Raiola for his incredible 59-yard touchdown pass to rookie wide receiver Isaiah Neyor against UTEP on Saturday. Raiola, whose face resembles the Super Bowl champion quarterback, landed the perfect pass through two defenders before Neyor ran it to the end zone […]

The fireworks are already lit in Dylan Raiola’s Nebraska football debut against UTEP. With just over 10 minutes left in the second quarter, Raiola let it rip on a deep ball to Isaiah Neyor for a 59-yard touchdown pass to extend the Cornhuskers lead to 16-7. Dylan Raiola with a DEEP pass to Isaiah Neyor […]

The UTEP Miners (0-0) are on the road to take on the Nebraska Cornhuskers (0-0) for the start of the 2024 college football season. It is time to continue our college football odds series with a UTEP-Nebraska prediction and pick. We will also let you know how to watch the game. Here are the College […]

From 1969 until 2001, the Nebraska football program went 33 straight seasons with nine or more wins, including five national championships. Since then, they’ve won nine games or more just 10 times and have only six bowl game victories. There have been no national title appearances since their last one in the 2001 Rose Bowl […]

College football season is officially here. With Week Zero now behind us, the real fun begins with an entire slate of games in Week 1. We’ve already seen one of the top 25 teams go down in No. 10 Florida State. Does their loss now leave room for a dark horse contender to jump in […]

Nebraska football may have a pile of riches at the quarterback position. While Dylan Raiola is set to start for the Cornhuskers this season, backup play caller Heinrich Haarberg is likely to play too. Cornhuskers offensive coordinator Marcus Satterfield anticipates Haarberg and Raiola will be on the field a lot together, per the Omaha World-Herald. […]

The Big Ten Conference just got a whole lot bigger. There will be new conference rivals due to the entry of new squads from across the nation. Despite this, the Nebraska football program is going to stick with what they have and knows well. After a horrid 2023 season, Matt Rhule is looking to get […]

Nebraska football didn’t exactly have the best season in 2023 during Matt Rhule’s first year in charge, as they finished with just a 5-7 record. Still, it was their best season since 2019 when they finished with the same record, and if you ask Joel Klatt, he believes that the Cornhuskers could end up taking […]

Nebraska football head coach Matt Rhule has reportedly named Dylan Raiola the starting quarterback for Week 1 of the season, per Brett McMurphy of Action Network. Raiola, a five-star freshman, will start the August 31 season-opener against UTEP. Nebraska landed Raiola after he flipped his commitment from Georgia. The Cornhuskers have belief in Raiola’s ceiling. […]

The Arizona State Sun Devils are another program that has finally come to a decision on its starting quarterback. The battle was between former Nebraska signal-caller Jeff Sims and Michigan State transfer Sam Leavitt. On Monday, Pete Thamel of ESPN reported that Leavitt earned the job. “Sources: Sam Leavitt has been named the starting quarterback […]

Nebraska football has underwhelmed in recent seasons, and Matt Rhule’s team is far from the first team fans will think of when asked who they expect to see in the College Football Playoff this winter. Yet, the Huskers could surprise the country and rise to the top of the college football world if a few […]

It’s an exciting time to be a college football fan, and one fan base that is excited for the season is Nebraska football fans. The Cornhuskers have a lot of hype coming into the 2024 season. We’re almost there. Another long college football offseason is almost over as the calendar now reads August, and the […]

The Nebraska football team is getting ready for year two of the Matt Rhule era, and this is a crucial season for the Cornhuskers. We are approaching the 10-year mark for Nebraska’s bowl drought, and after a 5-7 year in 2023, Rhule needs to show that he is the man for the job. Unfortunately for […]

It’s the college football offseason, and you know what that means: It’s time to get on the Nebraska football hype train. The Cornhuskers haven’t had a successful season in nearly 10 years, but every offseason it seems like they are bound to turn it around the following year. Year two of the Matt Rhule era […]

The Nebraska Cornhuskers football program has a storied history filled with national championships, conference titles, and a tradition of producing legendary players who have left indelible marks on the sport. Before Nebraska football kicks off for the 2024 season, we decided to rank the top 10 players in the Cornhuskers history. 1. Rich Glover (DT, […]

Dylan Raiola has taken the internet by storm. No, he didn’t make any viral highlight in practice whatsoever. It just happens to be that in a recent photo, the Nebraska football quarterback looked eerily like Patrick Mahomes. This drew plenty of social media reactions, even from the likes of Tyreek Hill and Mahomes himself. For […]

The college football season is almost here as games kick off in less than a month, and Nebraska football fans are eager for the new year to get under way. The past decade or so hasn’t been too kind to the Cornhuskers, but times could be changing soon. Nebraska fans have high hope for the […]

Nebraska football is holding out hope for a very successful 2024 season. Head coach Matt Rhule is in his second season in Lincoln, and is used to rebuilding programs. While Nebraska lost four games in a row to finish last season, the team lost them all by only one score. A few plays going differently […]

Nebraska football coach Matt Rhule is issuing a mission statement to his team, as the squad prepares for the 2024 campaign. Rhule wants his guys to know how much hard work can truly pay off. “There is NO substitute for hard work,” Rhule posted on his X account, formerly Twitter. Rhule is trying to bring […]

If there is one aspect about the Nebraska football team that will be interesting, it has to be the quarterback room that will go through an old fashioned competition to see who the stater will be by the start of the upcoming season. Cornhuskers head coach Matt Rhule was on “The Pat McAfee Show” on […]

Last season was the first year that Nebraska football had Matt Rhule as their head coach, and it didn’t go as well as Cornhuskers fans hoped. In fact, it had a lot of shades of the Scott Frost era. Nebraska was a very competitive team, but they couldn’t close out games and they lost a […]

With conference realignment creating major shakeups across college football this year, there is a lot of debate about which conference is the best. There are only four power conferences now as the Pac-12 has diminished to just Oregon State and Washington State. Now, it’s just the Big Ten, SEC, Big 12 and ACC. Nebraska football […]

The Nebraska football program is entering its second season with Matt Rhule as the head coach. With Dylan Raiola at quarterback, there are big expectations for the Cornhuskers going into the 2024 season. Rhule’s time in the NFL didn’t pan out as he had hoped, so coming back to the college ranks made sense. While […]

There were a lot of rough outings for the Nebraska football program in the Big Ten Conference during the 2023 season. They finished with only five wins and are hoping to get back into title contention. Dylan Raiola has largely been considered their quarterback of the future and the key to their success. So, Matt […]

Matt Rhule is now entering his second year with the Nebraska football program. There were a lot of growing pains when the Cornhuskers faced the Big Ten Conference as well as their cross-conference rivals. But, those are expected to eventually die down come fall. A big problem they had was their quarterback conundrum. The revolving […]

Spring football is over. The transfer portal is closed. The calendar reads June. You know what that means? College football is almost here. It has now been five months since Michigan took down Washington in the national championship game in Houston, and we have made it through the hardest part of the offseason. We are […]

The Nebraska football team is currently in a down period as it has been nearly 10 seasons since they made a bowl game. The Cornhuskers are one of the most storied programs in college football, but they haven’t looked the part in awhile. Nebraska athletic director Troy Dannen seems to think that NIL could have […]

The Nebraska football team has high hopes for this upcoming season, and a big reason why is true freshman quarterback Dylan Raiola. Raiola is one of the top players from the 2024 recruiting class and he was originally committed to Georgia. He ended up flipping his commitment over to the Cornhuskers. Nebraska fans got their […]

In a pivotal move that could reshape the future of Nebraska football, the Cornhuskers have secured a commitment from TJ Lateef, a four-star quarterback from Lutheran High School, for their 2025 recruiting class (per On3’s Hayes Fawcett). This development comes at a crucial time for Nebraska, which has been keen on bolstering its squad to […]

The Nebraska football team is desperate to find any sort of success as it has been since 2016 that they last went to a bowl game. The Cornhuskers have brought in new head coaches, and nothing changed. Matt Rhule is now the head coach at Nebraska and his squad failed to get a bowl game […]