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Nebraska football gets its fourth commitment for 2014, getting a verbal from offensive lineman Tanner Farmer from Highland, IL. He had offers from Illinois, Minnesota, and Missouri. Farmer is 6’4, 300 pounds and has bench pressed as much as 225 pounds, 33 times. To give you an idea of how good that is…if he went to the NFL combine, he would have been in the top 10 this past February.
Sean Callahan, a contributor to Nebraska Radio Network has more on Farmer.
ESPN/ABC and the Big Ten Conference announced on Friday that Nebraska’s Sept. 14 home game against UCLA will kick off at 11 a.m. CDT. The game will be televised on ABC.
Nebraska and UCLA will be meeting for the 12th time overall and the sixth time at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska leads the overall series between the two schools, 6-5, including a 4-1 edge in games played at Memorial Stadium. The last meeting between the two schools in Lincoln was in 1994, when No. 2 Nebraska defeated 13th-ranked UCLA 49-21. Last season, UCLA defeated Nebraska 36-30 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
With the announcement of the game time and television for the UCLA contest, Nebraska has learned game times for five of its eight home games in 2013. The Huskers will open the season on Aug. 31 with a 7 p.m. game against Wyoming on BTN. The following week, Nebraska will play host to Southern Miss with kickoff set for 5 p.m. CT on BTN. The Huskers’ Oct. 5 Homecoming contest against Illinois will start at 11 a.m. with television arrangements to be determined. The Huskers’ regular-season finale against Iowa on Friday, Nov. 29 will also kick off at 11 a.m. CT and will be televised by ABC.
Game times and television information for the remainder of Nebraska’s 2013 schedule will be determined six to 12 days in advance.
Nebraska 2013 Schedule
Aug. 31 Wyoming 7 p.m. (BTN)
Sept. 7 Southern Miss 5 p.m. (BTN)
Sept. 14 UCLA 11 a.m. (ABC)
Sept. 21 South Dakota State TBD
Oct. 5 Illinois 11 a.m. (TBD)
Oct. 12 at Purdue TBD
Oct. 26 at Minnesota TBD
Nov. 2 Northwestern TBD
Nov. 9 at Michigan TBD
Nov. 16 Michigan State TBD
Nov. 23 at Penn State TBD
Nov. 29 Iowa 11 a.m. (ABC)
The Big Ten office announced the conference schedule for the 2015 football season, which will consist of eight games for each of the Big Ten’s 14 teams before the conference moves to nine-game schedules in 2016. The 2015 schedule starts on Sept. 19 and will wrap up with the fifth annual Big Ten Football Championship Game.
2015 Nebraska Schedule
Sept. 5 BYU
Sept. 12 South Alabama
Sept. 19 at Miami, Fla.
Sept. 26 Southern Miss
Oct. 3 at Illinois
Oct. 10 Wisconsin
Oct. 17 at Minnesota
Oct. 24 Northwestern
Oct. 31 at Purdue
Nov. 7 Michigan State
Nov. 14 at Rutgers
Nov. 21 BYE
Nov. 27 (Fri.) Iowa
Dec. 6 Big Ten Championship Game
Nebraska’s Rex Burkhead and Emily Wong were honored by the Big Ten Conference, as they were named two of 24 Outstanding Sportsmanship Award winners for the 2012-13 academic year. Burkhead and Wong were chosen from a group of over 300 student-athletes throughout the academic year who have displayed positive sportsmanship.
Burkhead was a four-year performer at running back for the Husker football team and was recently drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals. As a Husker, he finished his career as one the top five all-time rushers in Nebraska school history with 3,329 yards while also rushing for 30 career touchdowns. As a senior, Burkhead rushed for 685 yards and five touchdowns in eight games, highlighted by a season-best 140 yards in the Capital One Bowl against Georgia. Off the field, he named a two-time CoSIDA First-Team Academic All-American (2012-12) and was chosen the captain of the Allstate AFCA Good Works Team in 2012.
Wong is a junior gymnast for the Huskers and finished third at the 2013 NCAA Championships in both the all-around and on floor exercise. She earned four All-America certificates at the 2013 NCAAs and won four of five individual titles at the 2013 Big Ten Women’s Gymnastics Championships. A two-time Big Ten all-around champion, Wong ranks fourth in school history with eight All-America honors. In the classroom, she was a first-team Academic All-District VII member and is a candidate for CoSIDA Academic All-America honors.
One member of each varsity sports team on every campus was chosen by his or her institution as a Sportsmanship Award honoree. From each university’s list, two Outstanding Sportsmanship Award winners were then selected. All of the Sportsmanship Award honorees have distinguished themselves through sportsmanship and ethical behavior. In addition, these student-athletes must be in good academic standing and must have demonstrated good citizenship outside of the sports-competition setting.
Four former Husker greats, including a trio of defensive backs, lead the 2013 class of inductees into the Nebraska Football Hall of Fame.
All-American defensive back Keyuo Craver and All-Big Eight safeties Reggie Cooper and Russell Gary anchor an award-winning group of Blackshirts being inducted into the Hall of Fame. The trio of ball-hawking defenders is joined by All-Big Eight offensive lineman John Havekost, who helped his 1978 Husker team lead the nation in total offense.
All four of the Huskers being inducted into the Hall of Fame were either drafted or played in the NFL. Gary, a seven-year NFL veteran who played with the New Orleans Saints and Philadelphia Eagles, brings the most NFL success to the group. Craver, who also spent three seasons with the Saints, also spent seven seasons in professional football by adding four years in the Canadian Football League.
Nebraska Wesleyan All-America wide receiver Tim Beebe will join the Huskers in this year’s class of Hall of Famers. Beebe earned All-America honors at NWU in 1987.
The Hall will also recognize Ernie and Jan Thayer of Grand Island with its Clarence E. Swanson Meritorious Service Award. Tom and Mary Hansen of Papillion will be honored with the Lyell Bremser Special Merit Award.
The Nebraska Football Hall of Fame is sponsored by the Nebraska Chapter of the National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame. The College Football Hall of Fame opened in South Bend, Ind., in 1995.
This year’s Nebraska Football Hall of Fame class will celebrate with an induction dinner on the University of Nebraska campus on Friday, Sept. 20. The class will be introduced prior to Nebraska’s football game with South Dakota State at Memorial Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 21.
The 2013 Inductees
