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We size up the Nebraska football team and more in this week's 3-2-1 column.

Nebraska running back coach Ryan Held knows his group has one of the largest question marks by it heading into the season. He is buckling down on finding a starter and several other players he can rely on. “This year as the running backs coach, I’m definitely going to earn my money,” Held said on the Sports Nightly on Tuesday. Nebraska is desperate for consistency at the position and to have a good rotation of players that are talented and can stay healthy. Marvin Scott III had the most game-time experience of the returning running backs during the 2020 season with 24 carries...

The bruising back walked on for the Huskers, but an outstanding spring season landed him a scholarship

We don’t know how the Big Ten Conference will handle COVID-19 Handling COVID-19 in 2020 included postponing the season before bringing it back with a conference-only schedule. Once the season did begin, a complex metric of positivity rates was used to decide if games would even be played. Players were also held out a certain number of days for a positive test or close contact. Nebraska missed out on playing Wisconsin when the Badgers went onto a program pause, and most teams lost out on at least one game. No non-conference games were allowed to replace lost contests. That means we missed ou...

These were my surprises of the week: No Big Ten teams will host a regional: I shouldn’t be surprised, but I still am. The fact the Big Ten didn’t have one of the possible 20 NCAA host regional sites was a blow. It also was a message to the league’s tone-deaf leadership that decided to do their own thing by being the only high-profile league in the country to not allow non-conference games. Phalen Sanford’s testing marks: When former strength coach Boyd Epley used to list the top winter conditioning marks over 20 years ago at NU, it allowed Husker fans to get to know a few under-the-ra...