Harbaugh is a classic football guy. Could be wrong, but I get the sense that he's genuinely excited for this game simply because of the way his team and the Huskers share similar play styles. Harbaugh and Rhule both broke down the game in similar ways.

Vegasinsider shows those spreads at several Vegas sportsbooks.

who is your rival on this site? do you even have one? what points drive this rivalry? is it one-sided?

i do not have a rival. maybe i did back on tOS, but i don't know who it would be. nobody even tries with me anymore.

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Link: Omaha World-Herald

Link: Lincoln Journal Star

Link: NebPreps

Link: Huskerland Preps 11-man | 8-man / 6-man

Link: NCN

Link: Lincoln Prep Sports

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Composite rankings

CLASS A
1. Omaha Westside (6) (5-0) - 60 pts
2. Millard South (5-0) - 54
3. Millard West (4-1) - 46
4. Omaha North (4-1) - 38
5. Kearney (5-0) - 37
6. Elkhorn South (4-1) - 30
7. Gretna (4-1) - 21
8. Lincoln East (4-1) - 16
9. Grand Island (4-1) - 15
10. Bellevue West (3-3) - 7

Contenders
Papillion-LaVista (4-1) - 4
Omaha Creighton Prep (2-4) - 2

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CLASS B
1. Bennington (6) (5-0) - 60 pts
2t. Elkhorn North (5-0) - 48
2t. Omaha Skutt (4-1) - 48
2t. Waverly (5-0) - 48
5t. Plattsmouth (4-1) - 29
5t. York (3-2) - 29
7. Seward (4-1) - 17
8t. Grand Island Northwest (2-3) - 13
8t. Scottsbluff (3-2) - 13
10. Elkhorn (2-3) - 9

Contenders
Blair (3-2) - 8
Omaha Gross (4-1) - 6
Crete (4-2) - 1
Norris (2-3) - 1

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CLASS C1
1. Boone Central (6) (5-0) - 60 pts
2. Wahoo (5-0) - 54
3. Ashland-Greenwood (4-1) - 48
4. Pierce (4-1) - 38
5t. Adams Central (5-0) - 28
5t. Omaha Roncalli (4-1) - 28
7. Aurora (3-2) - 27
8. Douglas County West (4-1) - 22
9. Minden (4-1) - 11
10. Sidney (5-0) - 9

Contenders
Columbus Scotus (4-1) - 4
Broken Bow (4-1) - 1

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CLASS C2
1. Norfolk Catholic (6) (5-0) - 60 pts
2. Battle Creek (5-0) - 54
3. Oakland-Craig (4-1) - 42
4. Hastings St. Cecilia (5-0) - 40
5. Wahoo Neumann (4-1) - 34
6. Ord (3-2) - 30
7. Malcolm (4-1) - 27
8. Fillmore Central (5-0) - 21
9. Yutan (3-2) - 13
10. Mitchell (4-1) - 7

Contenders
Hartington Cedar Catholic (3-2) - 1
North Bend (4-1) - 1

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CLASS D1
1. North Platte St. Patrick's (5) (6-0) - 59 pts
2. Stanton (1) (5-0) - 54
3. Cross County (5-0) - 48
4. Sandy Creek (5-0) - 31
5. Crofton (5-0) - 25
6. Elmwood-Murdock (5-0) - 23
7t. Hi-Line (4-1) - 21
7t. Thayer Central (5-0) - 21
9. Exeter-Milligan/Friend (4-1) - 19
10. Shelby/Rising City (5-0) - 14

Contenders
Plainview (5-0) - 9
Alma (4-1) - 3
Arapahoe (5-0) - 3

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CLASS D2
1t. South Loup (5) (5-0) - 54 pts
1t. Wynot (5-0) - 54 pts
3. Central Valley (5-0) - 43
4. Howells-Dodge (4-1) - 38
5. Dundy County-Stratton (1) (5-0) - 36
6. Ainsworth (5-0) - 32
7. Johnson-Brock (5-0) - 31
8. Humphrey St. Francis (4-1) - 17
9. Sandhills/Thedford (4-1) - 10
10. Bruning-Davenport/Shickley (4-1) - 7

Contenders
Bloomfield (4-1) - 6
Nebraska City Lourdes (4-1) - 2

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CLASS D6
1. Sumner-Eddyville-Miller (4) (4-0) - 58 pts
2. Arthur County (1) (4-0) - 50
3t. Pawnee City (4-0) - 48
3t. Potter-Dix (1) (5-0) - 48
5. Parkview Christian (3-1) - 30
6. Wilcox-Hildreth (3-1) - 27
7. Red Cloud (3-1) - 24
8. Hampton (3-1) - 14
9. Stuart (3-2) - 10
10. Sioux County (4-1) - 9

Contenders
Cody-Kilgore (3-2) - 5
Southwest (3-1) - 3
Franklin (2-2) - 2
Shelton (3-1) - 2

Cool insight from Jordan Larson yesterday who’s currently only a few days into her new role as Nebraska’s assistant coach. Hit the link.

1). What is the current planned completion date?

2). What’s the reason for the extended completion delay?

Looking at it yesterday, it’s a long way from a Grand Opening.

I was posting about a recruit’s weight and autocorrect changed potatos to potatoes. Am I the only old guy who remembers a VP candidate getting destroyed by the media for spelling potatoes with an E? 🤔

Couple things to be on the lookout for in the near future:

– Memorial Stadium renovation plans will be going public tomorrow. Trev will be going in front of the BoR to propose the new "modernization effort," as he put it, next Thursday (Oct. 5) and the meeting agenda has to be public one week prior.

– Not sure when, but it sounds like we're not too far away from getting the 2024 Big Ten Schedule Release 2.0

– Trev is putting his best foot forward to get the Huskers a *gasp* HOME GAME as their first Big Ten game of the season. Six straight on the road to open B1G play including four in a row in Week 1 is kinda ridiculous.

The Husker men's basketball team let a handful of media members observe practice this morning. Here are some thoughts along with a few video highlights:

Texas A&M -8.5
K state -4
IRISH +3.5
FSU -2
Syracuse -13
Kentucky -13
Oregon -21
Maryland -7
Ole miss +7
Okie st +3.5
Ark +18
Missouri -6.5
Penn st -15
north carolina -7
USC -34


Whats everyone else on? Maybe the best football weekend of the year. Lots of chalk above. All leans. Only locked in Irish, FSU, and ole miss.

Brooks Robinson passed away today. He was a two time MVP and won 16 consecutive gold gloves. I am old enough to say I got to see him play. RIP

Like clockwork

I have been greatly impressed by this years Freshman class of Volleyball. It really reminds me of the Fab 5 from the MSU basketball back in the day with Magic Johnson. The quality of talent is very impressive. It should be a great ride the next four years. Or as Buzz Lightyear would say "to infinity and beyond.'" GBR

Michigan vs. Nebraska Prediction and Game Preview
by Pete Fiutak, CollegeFootballNews.com

Michigan (4-0) at Nebraska (2-2)
Saturday, September 30 - 3:30 PM (ET) - FOX

Why Michigan Will Win
Michigan has been the epitome of consistency so far, and it hasn't exactly pushed the envelope offensively. It hasn't needed to.

The running game is fine, the passing game effective, and the defense hasn't allowed much of anything, giving up seven points or fewer in every game.

Nebraska doesn't have any sort of scoring pop to push through the Wolverine and nation's No. 1 scoring D. There's zero passing game for Michigan to worry about, the Husker secondary won't be able to stop J.J. McCarthy from keeping the chains moving, and forget it if the turnovers start coming.

The Huskers gave it up eight times in the first two games and .......

Why Nebraska Will Win
......the mistakes stopped, and all of a sudden the Huskers started to win.

Granted, playing Northern Illinois and Louisiana Tech had something to do with it -- there wasn't much need to press, and replacing Jeff Sims with Heinrich Haarberg calmed the turnovers down with just one in the last two games -- but Michigan isn't forcing mistakes.

Nebraska has to be flawless. Penalties aren't a problem, the running game that's been able to get to 220 yards or more in each of the last three games has to control the tempo, and the nation's No. 1 run defense has to keep on being amazing -- it allowed under two yards per carry and just 185 total yards in the first four games.

Who Will Win
You know how this works, Michigan types.

The team gets off to a slow start, the other side will keep the game from getting out of hand, and then the second quarter starts.

Michigan has allowed only 23 points and ten of them came in the fourth quarter when everything was essentially over. This is the first road game for the Wolverines and the second game back for Jim Harbaugh, and it'll be a nice test.

The running game will have to fight a bit, but the offense will balance out as -- like always -- the Wolverines start to kick everything in after the first quarter.

Prediction
Michigan 30, Nebraska 10

Spread
Michigan is favored on the road by 17 points. The O/U is set at 39 points.

nice midweek read. some things that stood out:

Last winter, after the sprint to sign a class of recruits and scour the transfer portal for reinforcements in the wake of Rhule’s post-Thanksgiving introduction, the coaches watched video cut-ups from practice and games of all the returning Huskers.

Rhule and Satterfield noticed Haarberg’s athleticism and strong throwing mechanics. The coaches also heard about various opinions that Haarberg would make a good tight end or fullback. Rhule recalls pulling Haarberg aside in the football offices.

“I said, ‘Hey, Heinrich, let me talk to you for a second,’” Rhule said. “‘Everybody says you should go play tight end, you should go play fullback.’ I could kind of see this look of disgust on his face. And I said, ‘I think you should go play quarterback.’”
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“I love everything that [Haarberg] does,” Grant said.

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Receiver Alex Bullock said Haarberg possesses “all the attributes you look for in a leader.”

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“The biggest thing is for him to have support from his teammates,” said Eric Crouch, the 2001 Heisman Trophy winner. “It can get a little hairy in the quarterback room if you let it.”

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Marcus Satterfield, the first-year Nebraska offensive coordinator, had no experience with option football until this year.

Coach Matt Rhule and his offensive staff for the past month have received a crash course in option principles from Ron Brown. A longtime former assistant under Tom Osborne, Frank Solich and Bo Pelini, Brown works this season for Rhule as the director of player support and outreach.

Enter Brown, with his expertise. And Haarberg.

“It’s a balance,” Haarberg said. “We don’t sit down and watch ’90s film. We install new stuff, new pass plays. (The coaches) pump out new plays all the time.”

GBR

With the addition of USC, UCLA, Oregon, and Washington, the B1G will be more than just a two team conference like it has been recently.

He seems like a must get right now
Seems to be tearing up Texas football at the moment

I’m concerned about your defense. We don’t do well with the 3-3-5, with lots of movement and confusion. I don’t know if you saw the TCU game but it was probably my least favorite game from last year. I didn’t like it and would prefer to avoid a repeat. Would you guys mind just lining up like men and doing something we are more comfortable blocking? Thanks in advance.

Husker punter Brian Buschini was named a semifinalist for the 2023 William V. Campbell Trophy, college football’s premier scholar-athlete award.

The award recognizes an individual as the absolute best in the country for his combined academic success, football performance and exemplary leadership, and the candidates also comprise the pool of nominees for the 2023 National Football Foundation National Scholar-Athlete Awards.

Buschini is looking to become the Huskers' third Campbell Trophy Award winner, joining Rob Zatechka (1994) and Kyle Vanden Bosch (2000).

September 27
1540 - Pope Paul III approved the charter for the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), founded by St. Ignatius Loyola.

1779 - John Adams was named by Congress to negotiate the Revolutionary War's peace terms with Britain.

1825 - The first locomotive to haul a passenger train was operated by George Stephenson in England.

1854 - The first great disaster involving an Atlantic Ocean passenger vessel occurred when the steamship SS Arctic sank off Newfoundland; of the more than 400 people on board, only 86 survived.

1928 - The United States said it was recognizing the Nationalist Chinese government.

1939 - Warsaw, Poland surrendered to the Nazis and Soviets after weeks of resistance during World War II.

1959 - Typhoon Vera battered the Japanese island of Honshu, killing nearly 5,000.

1964 - The Warren Commission report concluded that there was no conspiracy in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.

1979 - Congress gave its final approval to forming the U.S. Department of Education.

1991 - President George H.W. Bush announced in a nationally broadcast address that he was eliminating all U.S. battlefield nuclear weapons, and called on the Soviet Union to match the gesture.

1994 - More than 350 Republican congressional candidates gathered on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to sign the "Contract with America," a 10-point platform they pledged to enact if voters sent a GOP majority to the House.

1996 - In Afghanistan, the Taliban, a band of former seminary students, drove the government of President Burhanuddin Rabbani out of Kabul, captured the capital and executed former leader Najibullah.

1999 - Sen. John McCain of Arizona officially opened his campaign for the 2000 Republican presidential nomination, the same day former Vice President Dan Quayle dropped his White House bid.

2013 - President Barack Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani spoke by telephone, the first conversation between American and Iranian leaders in more than 30 years.

2017 - Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner died at the age of 91.

2018 - During a day-long hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Christine Blasey Ford said she was "100 percent" certain that she was sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh when they were teenagers, and Kavanaugh then told senators that he was "100 percent certain" he had done no such thing.

2021 - R&B superstar R. Kelly was convicted in a sex trafficking trial in New York, after decades of avoiding criminal responsibility for numerous allegations of misconduct with young women and children.

Birthdays
20 - Amira Harvey (actress)
21 - Jenna Ortega (actress)
31 - Sam Lerner (actor)
32 - Sierra Hull (singer)
35 - Cathy Kelley (TV host/model)
37 - Arielle Vandenberg (model)
39 - Avril Lavigne (singer)
41 - Lil' Wayne (rapper)
41 - Anna Camp (actress)
51 - Gwyneth Paltrow (actress)
52 - Amanda Detmer (actress)
53 - Mark Calderon (singer)
55 - Patrick Muldoon (actor)
58 - Steve Kerr (basketball player/coach)
60 - Marc Maron (comedian)
65 - Shaun Cassidy (singer/actor)
74 - Mike Schmidt (baseball player)
76 - Liz Torres (actress)
89 - Claude Jarman Jr. (actor)
90 - Kathleen Nolan (actress)

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Today in Sports History - September 27

1902 - Nebraska defeats Doane 51-0.

1904 - Nebraska defeats Lincoln High 17-0 in an exhibition game.

1930 - Hack Wilson (Chicago) hit two home runs to give him 56 for the year.

1930 - At the annual NHL Governor's meeting a new rule was passed concerning offsides. The rule was that "the puck must be propelled into the attacking zone before any player of the attacking side can enter that zone."

1942 - The New York Giants defeat the Washington Redskins 14-7 without recording a single first down.

1947 - Nebraska opens the season with a 17-0 loss to Indiana.

1952 - Nebraska defeats Oregon 28-13.

1953 - The St. Louis Browns played their final game before moving to Baltimore to become the Orioles.

1956 - Olympic track and field gold medalist and Hall of Fame golfer Babe Didrikson Zaharias died in Galveston, Texas, at age 45.

1958 - Purdue defeats Nebraska 28-0.

1969 - Nebraska defeats Texas A&M 14-0.

1973 - Nolan Ryan (California Angels) struck out 16 batters for the Minnesota Twins. The feat established a modern day single season mark of 383 strikeouts in a season.

1975 - #4 Nebraska defeats TCU 56-14.

1980 - #3 Nebraska defeats #11 Penn State 21-7.

1983 - Larry Bird signed a seven-year contract with the Boston Celtics worth $15 million. The contract made him the highest paid Celtic in history.

1986 - #4 Nebraska defeats Oregon 48-14.

1998 - In the final game of the regular season, Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit his 69th and 70th home runs of the season, establishing a new single-season major league record; Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs ended the season with 66 home runs. Both Sosa and McGwire surpassed the old single-season record of 61 set by Roger Maris.

1998 - Greg Vaughn (San Diego Padres) hit his 50th home run of the season. It marked the first time that four players finished the regular season with 50 or more home runs. (McGwire, Sosa, Ken Griffey Jr.)

2000 - Donovan McNabb (Philadelphia Eagles) signed a 12-year contract that involved a $20.5 million signing bonus. The deal made McNabb the highest paid NFL player in history.

2000 - The United States wins the Olympic gold medal in baseball at the Summer Games in Sydney, Australia; the team was managed by Tommy Lasorda.

2005 - The Atlanta Braves win a record 14th consecutive division title.

2008 - Greg Maddux wins the final start of his career, No. 355.

2008 - Virginia Tech defeats Nebraska 35-30.

2009 - The Detroit Lions defeated the Washington Redskins to end a 19-game losing streak dating back to December, 2007.

2012 - NFL referees returned to the field after a tentative deal with the league ended a lockout.

2014 - #21 Nebraska defeats Illinois 45-14.

Login to view embedded media Coach Rhule Press Conference (September 25th) Notes: -Great opportunity to play Michigan -See how Heinrich and Jeff practice to get a full picture on who will start -Luke Reimer still questionable for Michigan -"Nobody came to the University of Nebraska to not play good teams" -We're not hear to complain, here to play good football -Rush offense and defense rankings is a step in the right direction, though Coach is not a big stats guy -We're going to build this program by developing -Coach Harbaugh's blueprint is completely in-line with how Coach Rhule wants to build Nebraska -Heinrich needs to stop being something he's not: "if the plays not there, don't make a bad play worse" -Just because you win doesn't mean theres not the same issues if you lost -Tailbacks did a good job -Bryce Benhart is playing well -OL has to learn a lot when the option is thrown in the mix -Tommi Hill is explosive, "I just think when you have good players, you use them" -Tommi Hill is currently playing receiver, cornerback, and kick returner -Have to be content with 2-3 yard runs vs. Michigan. There won't be gaping holes -DLine is playing with more extension, getting off blocks, communication -Teddy Prochazka has a role, Turner Corcoran is still the starter -This week, FB "Lindenmeyer was the guy" -Heinrich has done a good job running option, zone reads -Coach recognizes that Heinrich tends to keep the ball more often than pitching -"It's really great when you have guys that aren't sensitive" when talking about HH -Going to keep playing Tristan Alvano until he gets comfortable -Important for players to understand "we love it when people love us" -"Make everything football and things will work out for you" -Coach shows the team every Kobe Bryant video -QB situation is unique, because they have two QB's that couldn't finish a game -J.J. McCarthy has tremendous protection, and operates on time, he's got poise. -Blake Corum has elite burst, tough to tackle -Going to have to rotate lots of guys at LB, especially if Luke Reimer is out -Modern day "protect your kids from going through hard things" is not good -"If I could make them all turn off their social-media mentions, I would, but I can't" -Guys need to just play in the moment, stop thinking ahead -Coach Rhule struggles with that too, mentions anxiety -"Mental toughness is not beating players down, it's by lifting" #GBR