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)

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

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