Nebraska Cornhuskers NCAA Football News

Going into the 2008 season, one of the concerns for Husker fans was about receiving talent.

LINCOLN ? Bob Brown and some of his 1962 teammates will be coming back ? and so will the football jerseys Nebraska wore when it started its NCAA-record streak of 297 consecutive home sellouts.

The consensus of opinion to this point by college football prognosticators is that Kansas and Nebraska will finish neck and neck at about twenty-third in the country.

The opportunity to finish a turnaround season in a New Year's Day bowl, to end coach Bo Pelini's debut season as a head coach with a victory, was dependent on Alex Henery's right leg.

On Sept. 19, the Cornhuskers will hit the road for the first time during the 2009 season and venture to Blacksburg, VA to play Virginia Tech... by Andy Purvis 2 15 reads On Sept.

Husker student-athletes produced another stellar year at the University of Nebraska, continuing NU's tradition of academic success.

If it's Friday, it must mean it's time to crack open the mailbag. Here are some of the better questions I received this past week.

2. Brian Price, UCLA- Disruptive line presence who seemed to be the only thing keeping the UCLA defense from falling apart last season.A Crafty player with outstanding interior pass rushing skills.

We spent a lot of time on this site last week discussing the word average. It started when Steve explored where Nebraska may or may not benefit from regressing to the mean in the upcoming season.

The old statistician's joke goes, "she said I was average, but she was just being mean". But being average is only a bad thing if you're aspiring to something greater.

While looking at Arkansas State, I see a team that has the ability to make some plays, and make things difficult for its opponents on both sides of the ball... by Andy Purvis 4 reads Preview/Prediction While looking at Arkansas State, I see a team that has the ability to make some plays, and make things difficult for its opponents on both sides of ...

ESPN did some investigative reporting around Nebraskaa s wrestling program. At issue were the two wrestlers who were dismissed from the team after posing nude on a pornographic web site aimed at gay men.

Any Given Wednesday For workout warriors like NU s Paul and Okafor, time spent at Redzone is `so much more.

Special teams maybe aren't the most exciting part of football, but they can be awfully important.

Starting today and continuing through the summer I will be taking a weekly look at the 12 regular season games on the 2009 schedule for the Nebraska Cornhuskers... by Andy Purvis 2 34 reads Starting today and continuing through the summer I will be taking a weekly look at the 12 regular season games on the 2009 schedule for the Nebraska ...

When Tyler Gabbert committed to play at Nebraska this past week, it was not altogether surprising.

It was no surprise when Bill Callahan was hired as head coach at Nebraska that many of the fairly meager passing records at the school would begin to fall.

He's a football player who wrestles. He's only the third junior selected as The World-Herald's Nebraska high school boys athlete of the year.

How about a little competition among the Gabbert brothers in the Big 12 North in the next few years? His older brother, Blaine, is the No.

This is a followup to an earlier article that I wrote: The Five College Football Teams That Might Surprise You in 2009.