• The Huskers will try to right the ship against a Rutgers team whose last Big Ten win came nearly two years ago. Here are the pregame reads from Lincoln (1, 2, 3),* Omaha (1, 2),* Grand Island (1, 2), Trenton and Newark. Commentary: Sipple,* Shatel,* Callahan, Dunleavy, Christopherson.

• Gene Moody today will attend his 400th consecutive Husker home game, a streak that stretches back 62 years.

• Ameer Abdullah will receive the Detroit Lions' Ed Block Courage Award.

• A Husker football film reel from 70-plus years ago has been removed from a state unclaimed-property auction and will be returned to the owner, a granddaughter of Hall-of-Famer Clarence Swanson.

• At Central Florida, Scott Frost addresses the rumblings from Nebraska boosters who want him to return to Lincoln.

• Nebraska's football program is valued at more than half a billion dollars, fourth in the Big Ten, in a finance professor's analysis.

• The last three weeks have put a damper on expectations about the Huskers' season. Can the next three weeks turn that around?

• Brenden Jaimes' start against Rutgers will be a rarity* for a true freshman offensive lineman at Nebraska.

• Sam McKewon analyzes the Eichorst era* and why it ended as it did.

• Former Husker Keyuo Craver will be at the Rutgers pregame tailgate.

• Adam Carriker goes over what Mike Riley must do to keep his job.

• In the latest “Through These Gates” Lost Tapes, Milt Tenopir recalls the pride he felt in the 1994 Huskers' win over Warren Sapp and Miami.