The 2026 Nebraska high school football season heads into its waning weeks and the playoff picture is becoming much clearer as the Nebraska School

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2026 Nebraska High School Football Top 25 Rankings - Oct. 18

On a night where Millard South's Trae Taylor (6) passed for over 300 yards, he also rushed over a hundy and scored once. Patriots needed all of it it to hold off Millard North, 35-34.

ON3 - Trae Taylor 6 RUSH

2026 Nebraska High School Football Top 25 Rankings - Oct. 12

Millard North has surged into the top five of the Nebraska high school football rankings after picking up a hard-fought road win at Elkhorn South

ON3 - Aidan Marshall, Millard South 7 RUSH

After last week's close call against a mighty Millard North, this Friday senior Aidan Marshall (7) and Millard South will be out ot defend our state's football honor against Lee's Summit North.

Nebraska High School Football Rankings: Top 25 Teams - Oct. 4

Gretna East has continued its surge up the Nebraska high school football rankings. One week after making a major leap up to No. 6, the Griffins are

ON3 - Millard North 2 - Matt Erickson, Tory Pittman III

Nebraska High School Football Rankings: Top 25 Teams - Sept. 27

The top five high school football teams in Nebraska — according to the Massey Ratings — remain unchanged following the fourth week of the 2026

Nebraska High School Football Rankings: Top 25 Teams - Sept. 20

Gretna is now a top-five team in the state of Nebraska after a statement road victory over rivals Gretna East last week. That's the biggest change

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Nebraska High School Football Rankings: Top 25 Teams - Sept. 15

The rust has been shaken off and the 2026 Nebraska high school football season is now two weeks deep. Each of the state's top 10 teams remains the

Every reason to believe Westside will be a major player when it comes to the 2026 Class A state title. Especially with guys like these: (front row, left to right) Michael Madsen (51), Tay  Tay Jenkins (6), Micah Benning (7), Luke Noonan (59); (back, l-r) Micah Santiago (74), Justin Parrish (72), Braylon Warren (2), and Graham Hoffart (56).

ON3 - Omaha Westside 8

Nebraska High School Football Rankings: Top 25 Teams - Sept. 6

High school football has officially returned in Nebraska. The 2026 season got underway this weekend and there was no shortage of action. Millard

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Nebraska High School Football Rankings: Top 25 Teams - Aug. 30

Bellevue East CHIEFTAINS  Returning five starters on both sides of scrimmage, the Chieftains will be in pursuit of their first playoff berth since

Like every year, there are several teams which could make ol' Huskerland Bob look a bit foolish with his preseason rankings. Zack Wolfe (80) and his Elkhorn North team, there's one...

ON3 - Zach Wolfe, Elkhorn North

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Complete Class A Team Previews: Part 3

With the earliest practice sessions kicking off this week across the country, preseason rankings are also starting to roll out as the countdown to

ON3 - Taylor Mendenhall, Millard South INTRODUCTION

Millard South's first-year head coach, Taylor Mendenhall, is honored by Huskerland as our 2025 Class A state championg head football coach.

Preseason 2026 Nebraska High School Football Top 25 Rankings

Class A  First Round: No. 1 Omaha Westside (23-4) over No. 8 Lincoln High (16-8), No. 4 Lincoln Southwest (21-4) over No. 5 Millard North (19-6), No.

After last year's state runner-up finish there seems a pathway, as they say, for senior Emre Gedik (3) and his team to finish the job in Class A.

ON3 - Emre Gedik, Omaha Westside 3

Huskerland Bob's Boys State Basketball Crystal Ball: Class A Picks and More

District B-1: Well, Skutt’s in this one. Not a lot conversation necessary when the three-time defending state champs have won 17 in a row, not losing

ON3 - Jase Reynolds, EN 2, Chris Garner Jr. N 10

Both Elkhorn North's Jase Reynolds (2) and Norris's Chris Garner Jr. (10) figure to be playing in the state basketball tournament. Pretty sure you know what I mean by that.

Class B Boys District Projections: There Will Be Upsets

My guess is, they’d almost all pay their 17 dollars again, even for just that one game. It was that kind of great day of basketball at the 2026

ON3 - Sawyer Smith 33 Drives, Landon Mohs 4

Sawyer Smith (33) got his 23, his Ogallala team ended mighty Ashland-Greenwood's 31-game winning streak, and now we await a C-1 state final rematch. It can't be that simple, can it?

Ogallala Ends A-G Win Streak, and Other Heartland Hoops Stuff

Class A4. Will Anderson, QB, Bellevue West, Soph. 6-1, 190. Other stats NA. We’ve seen this act before. Like this year’s Belle West starter, future

Back in 2023, Shelton's Will Stewart (12) was Huskerland's No. 4-ranked underclassman in Six-Man football.

2023 - ON3 - Will Stewart, Shelton 2022

2023 Huskerland Top 225 Underclassmen: The 4s

The book is closed on the 2026 recruiting class. But there was some history made in the class. That class in Nebraska was headlined by the first

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Nebraska High School Football: Ranking top 100 players in 2027 class

Elkhorn (Neb.) North three-star linebacker Barry Fries was one of the many prospects out of Nebraska who signed with Iowa State earlier this month.

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2026 LB Barry Fries the latest to be released from signing with Iowa State

Get to know each of the Iowa State Cyclones' defensive football commitments in the 2026 recruiting class with this feature from CycloneReport.com

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A few final thoughts on the Week 9 football scene, and related matters. (And some Huskers, of course.)  The Huskerland headline for last weekend was

ON3 - Grant Traynowicz, Lincoln Southwest Coach

From a Scrub's Standpoint

If you think college football has been whacky, the high school football scene hasn’t been that far behind whatsoever. The week of Oct. 22-25 provided

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High School Football: Winners and Losers from Oct. 22-25

As usual, when the playoffs start each game is marked by a rush of emotion on both sides of the field.  Sometimes that rush of emotion on both sides

ON3 - Sam Stanley, Elkhorn North Coach 2025

On an Evening Dripping With Emotion, Coach Sam and His Team Win the Big Game

Class AA  TeamRecordLast Week@HuskerlandBob Sez1. Millard South4-1Beat Lincoln Southeast, 77-0.Maybe - maybe - somebody plays them within 60. So we

ON3 - Jett Thomalla, Millard South

Huskerland's Week 5 Top Tens: 11-Man

@HuskerlandBob Sez:  This feature story was originally published in the 2025 Huskerland Prep Report high school football magazine. Since then, Jase

ON3 - PORTRAIT - ELKHORN NORTH - Jase Reynolds, Barry Fries

Two of a Kind: Jase Reynolds, Barry Fries, Elkhorn North

Class A  2. Darion Jones, WR-DB, Omaha North. 6-2, 180. You just don’t get many Class A players who compete at superstar level on both sides of the

ON3 - Callen Schnitzer, Lourdes Central Catholic

2025 Huskerland Top 225 Seniors: The 2s

Class A  3. Isaac Jensen, TE, Millard South. 6-6, 230. Other stats NA. Committed to Missouri in June, ending an intense recruiting journey which

ON3 - Barry Fries, Elkhorn North 2025

2025 Huskerland Top 225 Seniors: The 3s

Class B  5. Ian Christo, LB, Elkhorn North, Jr. 6-1, 190. Bench - 220, Squat - 325, 40 - 4.8. Stepped right in as a sophomore, starting linebacker

ON3 - Wyatt Schroth, Plainview

2025 Huskerland Top 225 Underclassmen: The 5s

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