Postgame notes: 2025 Nebraska football vs. Utah

Courtesy of Nebraska Athletics

  • The appearance in the Las Vegas Bowl was Nebraska’s 55th all-time bowl game. Nebraska now owns a 27-28 all-time bowl record.
  • Nebraska now owns a 4-1 lead in the all-time series with Utah, with the most recent meeting before today in 1992.
  • Nebraska redshirt freshman running back Mekhi Nelson rushed 12 times for 88 yards and a 38-yard touchdown. His previous career high was 19 rushing yards against Michigan.
  • Nelson’s 38-yard first-quarter touchdown run was the second of his career, with his previous TD against Akron. The 38-yard run was also a career long for Nelson.
  • Nelson also added 48 receiving yards to give him a career-high 136 scrimmage yards.
  • Sophomore receiver Jacory Barney Jr. scored on an eight-yard touchdown reception in the first quarter for his fifth receiving touchdown of the 2025 season.
  • Barney finished the game with two receptions for 21 yards, giving him 100 career receptions. He joins JD Spielman (121) as the only Huskers with 100 or more receptions in their first two seasons. Barney is the 13th player in school history with 100 career receptions.
  • Redshirt freshman safety Caleb Benning had 13 tackles in the game. He entered the game with 11 career tackles, including seven in 2025.
  • Sophomore linebacker Vincent Shavers had a career-high nine tackles. His previous career high was nine tackles earlier this season against Michigan State.
  • Redshirt freshman safety Rex Guthrie had three tackles in the game. He finished the 2025 season with 63 tackles, the second-most ever for a Husker freshman (trailing only Michael Rose-Ivey’s 65 tackles in 2013).
  • Junior defensive end Cameron Lenhardt had a nine-yard sack in the second quarter, marking his second sack of the season.
  • Sixth-year senior Turner Corcoran started at right tackle marking his 40th career start. Corcoran started at least one game in each of the past six seasons.
  • Nebraska committed one turnover in today’s game and finished the season with just 11 turnovers. That set a school record for fewest turnovers in a season, bettering 12 turnovers in 1992.
  • NU finished the 2025 season with a +2 turnover margin, marking the first season the Huskers have had a positive turnover margin since 2016.
  • Nebraska allowed two touchdown passes in the game, and only nine passing touchdowns this season. This marks the first season Nebraska has allowed fewer than 10 passing touchdowns since allowing seven in 2009.