NEBRASKA (0-0) vs. Ohio U. (0-0) – The Slate Is Clear Till 11AM Saturday: HOW TO WATCH/LISTEN

Frank Solich might be making one other look in Memorial Stadium when he takes midfield pre-game because the honorary coin-tosser earlier than the one two faculties at which he head-coached go at it on a steamy Saturday morning to kick off one other season of Nebraska Cornhuskers soccer.

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However he can march proper again out that gate so far as I am involved.

Coach Frank is coming in as a impartial observer for this one and, after all, who can blame him for precisely the explanation above?

Properly, brother, that is the house of Huskers soccer and I am not on the lookout for somebody straddling the road should you ask me. Give me Bud Crawford, Tommie Frazier, Alex Gordon, Sam Hoiberg or Tom Osborne, dammit. Okay, high-quality, I bought excited. We do not want that type of firepower for Ohio. However let Frank flip a coin for Illinois or one thing the place he might be 100% behind the Massive Pink, dammit.

I child, after all.

Having Solich come out and shake the palms of the present captains of his former groups earlier than tossing the coin is the right strategy to contain him on this sport, and, after all, he must be concerned. He’ll really feel some delight at midfield round 11am and he ought to. The sold-out crowd will respect him too and we’ll hear it.

All that being mentioned, Nebraska higher exit and care for enterprise. As Mike Jaixen advised us is his Ohio Opponent Preview a number of weeks in the past, Ohio is within the midst of rebuilding this season. However they’re additionally rebuilding after a 4-year run of 9+-win seasons, so there’s nonetheless loads of gamers who do not precisely know tips on how to stop. The coaches and gamers of DONU have been attempting to warn everybody of that this week and I am going to write about it tomorrow.

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However earlier than kickoff, let’s present Coach Solich our appreciation.

And our gratitude it wasn’t somebody popping out for a coin toss who adopted up the Nebraska years at a dung-hole like Texas or Iowa.

There’s limits to these things. Now on to the HT Watch:

HOW TO WATCH

Time: 11:00am CST

Location: Memorial Stadium, Lincoln, NE

Floor: Hellas Turf (Blessed by the Bobfather himself in Husker Valhalla)

Wagering Information: Huskers -23 1⁄2 . O/U – 46 1⁄2. Moneyline Nebraska +105, Ohio +1420 (FanDuel)

Collection File: Saturday’s sport marks the primary matchup ever between the 2 faculties.

TV: The sport will be seen on FS1. Play-by-Play: Eric Collins. Analyst: Spencer Tillman. Sidelines: none listed. It’s also streaming on the Fox Sports activities app.

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Radio: The audio will be streamed stay totally free at Huskers.com or the Huskers App. The crew might be: Play-by-Play: Kyle Crooks. Evaluation: Jay Moore. Sidelines: Jessica Coody. Pre/Publish-Sport: Matt Coatney, Jessica Coody, Ben McLaughlin & Jeremiah Sirles.

Climate: As is usually the case in late August-early September video games, will probably be a steamer. Costume cool, use sunblock and drink loads of water. will probably be principally sunny with temps round 87 at kickoff and rising to 92 or 93 by video games’ finish. The winds will not assist a lot and are anticipated to be round 6-7mph out of the SSE.

HUSKERS HAPPY HOUR

Hey, do you know we have now Corn Nation podcasts each Monday, Tuesday & Thursday? Mine is each Tuesday night time at 8pm CST and is known as the Huskers Completely happy Hour…though it usually goes over an hour. You’ll be able to watch on Corn Nation’s You Tube Dwell Channel or Corn Nation Fb or Twitter/X. An article a pair hours earlier than the present will put up with a hyperlink.

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Subsequent Tuesday’s present would be the first of the season and we’ll hopefully be discussing our 1-0 begin.

The watchers and listeners are inspired to chime into the feedback as they’re fortunately an enormous a part of the present. Pour your personal chilly one – or spiked espresso, we do not decide – and hop aboards!

FACTS & FIGURES

• Nebraska has completed with a 7-6 document every of the final two seasons. The Huskers have posted consecutive successful seasons for the primary time for the reason that 2008-2014 seasons. Coincidentally, this was Bo Pelini’s tenure.

• The Huskers have ranked within the prime 30 nationally in complete protection every of the final three years. Nebraska is one among 10 groups to assert that distinction together with: Alabama, Georgia, Iowa, Miami, Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oregon and Penn State.

• Frank Solich spent everything of his head teaching profession at Nebraska (1998-2003) and Ohio (2005-20), successful 173 video games (115 at Ohio and 58 at Nebraska).

• Matt Rhule has matched or improved his earlier season’s win complete yearly of his faculty teaching profession. Temple went from two wins in his first season to 6 wins in his second season and 10 wins in each his third and fourth seasons. Baylor went from one win in Rhule’s first season to seven wins in 12 months two and 11 wins in 12 months three. Rhule led Nebraska to a five-win season in 2023 and a seven-win marketing campaign in 2024 and 2025.

•  Offensively, Nebraska set faculty information for crew and particular person completion share. The Huskers ranked eleventh nationally in completion share in 2025.

• NU set a faculty document for the fewest turnovers (11) in a season. The Huskers had the ninth-fewest turnovers of any FBS crew in 2025.

• The Huskers scored 373 factors in 2025, this system’s highest-scoring season since 2015.