Mar 1, 2026
NFLFirst & TenLincoln
Nebraska opened spring practice. A freshman lined up against upperclassmen for the first time. The combine numbers went quiet. Football was just football again.
Nebraska opened spring practice Saturday, and let me tell you why that matters more than it sounds like it does. Football went away. It went away after the bowl games and the championship game and the portal frenzy, and then there were weeks of combine numbers and draft projections and contract disputes and all the things that are about football without actually being football. And now, in Lincoln, Nebraska on a cold late-February morning, someone snapped a football to a quarterback and a linebacker had to make a decision and a receiver ran a route and football was happening again.
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NCAALincoln
The Cornhuskers enter spring with momentum, a strong recruiting class, and questions at depth that the next eight weeks will start answering.
Nebraska opens spring practice this weekend, becoming the first Power 4 program to take the field in 2026. That's a distinction the program has held before — Nebraska has one of the stronger spring football traditions in college football — and this year it carries more weight than usual. The Cornhuskers enter the spring with genuine momentum. The 2025 season produced results that the program's fan base hadn't seen in years, and the 2026 recruiting class that came in during January was the most talent-dense group the program has assembled in recent memory. Spring is when that talent begins to be evaluated in pads, in real competition, against real depth charts.
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