USC enraged at Nebraska football players during pregame prayer

It appears that USC is looking for ways to get fired up ahead of its game against the Nebraska football team. That’s really about the only explanation that really makes sense for why they took such great offense to the Huskers praying at midfield before the game.

To be clear, NU has done this before every game this season. While this is only the fourth road game Nebraska has played in, none of the other three teams had an issue with the team prayer at midfield.

If USC was looking for reasons to get mad, it appears it worked, because the tussle became big enough that local police officers had to get involved. That there were Trojans coaches involved would certainly seem to indicate someone saw the Nebraska football team out there and decided to use it as a motivator.

Nebraska football gets into a pre-game tussle with USC players

On3’s Sean Callahan wrote on Twitter that he heard some Trojans players who were still quite made after the scrape walking back to their locker room.

“The game hasn’t event started and they are starting sh**,” Callahan claims he heard the player say.

This isn’t the first time in the Matt Rhule era that his team and an opponent have had words about the pregame prayer. In the second game of the season, the Colorado Buffaloes took great issue with the same situation and were so angry about it that starting quarterback Shedeur Sanders complained about the “lack of disrespect” after the game.

Here’s hoping Nebraska football allows this incident to fire them up, rather than USC. The Huskers lost that game last year to Colorado 36-14.