On Thursday, the Nebraska Cornhuskers learned that the College Football Playoffs are changing their format this year. Instead of the top-ranked division winners getting the Top four seeds and byes, the format will be straight seeding.
That means that the Top 4 ranked teams will get the four byes. This isn’t a massive change when it comes to the Big Ten and may not affect Nebraska for several more years. But it would have changed how the playoffs went off last year, and could change how everything unfolds come the postseason.
Nebraska Cornhuskers enter construction season
On Thursday, Husker AD Troy Dannen announced the changes coming to Memorial Stadium. One of those changes is more red on the field, which is getting a wide range of responses.
Some fans worry that the players will be confused, and others don’t like the look. Summer tends to be complaint season for Nebraska Cornhuskers fans, and it looks like summer arrived a bit early this year.
The final two in tight end recruiting
The Huskers have been having quite a bit of success lately on the recruiting front. That has included going hard after a talented tight end who has something in common with the town Matt Rhule hopes he’ll go to college in.
Lincoln Watkins announced he’s taking official visits only to Nebraska and the Florida Gators. His recruiting could be wrapped up by the end of June, and Rhule hopes to pull the trigger for his program when all is said and done.
Nebraska football SP+ is not great
On Thursday, ESPN’s Bill Connelly announced his SP+ post-spring update, and the Nebraska Cornhuskers didn’t get a lot of love. They’re No. 34 in the rankings and No. 9 in the Big Ten. That’s far from where Husker fans would like them to be, but not a terrible place to start from in May.