Big Red Rundown: Super Regional set, new in-state offer for Nebraska football, more

Welcome to the Big Red Rundown, your daily stop for the latest Nebraska football news, recruiting buzz, transfer portal updates, and Huskers headlines. Here’s a quick look at the latest storylines surrounding Nebraska athletics.

For the first time ever, Nebraska softball will host a Super Regional. Call it the Jordy Frahm effect.

Nebraska went from winning 67 percent of its games to over 81 percent when it signed Jordy Frahm out of the transfer portal. In three straight wins over South Dakota and GCU (twice), Frahm pitched 11 innings. She didn’t allow a run and surrendered just a single hit.

On Saturday, she was dazzling. Frahm had 16 strikeouts, a career high, while not walking a single batter in a complete-game, one-hit shutout. She followed that up by striking out five of six batters on Sunday in the third and final win of the Regional.

That gives her 21 strikeouts and one hit allowed over nine innings.

Frahm is the best pitcher — the best player in college softball. She proved it once again this weekend and will continue to prove it over the next few weeks. Oklahoma State, a program with a Nebraska-born pitcher, who is elite in her own right, Ruby Meylan (29-7, 2.12 ERA), will be a difficult out.

The Cowgirls come to Lincoln on Thursday for a three-game series. Game one is at 8 PM CST (ESPN 2). Expect Frahm to get the ball. This is the best chance the Huskers have had at getting to the Women’s College World Series in more than a decade.

As great as Alexis Jensen has been, and she could start game two, Frahm deserves to be in the circle all seven innings on Thursday night. Maybe Friday and Saturday, too. This is why Rhonda Revelle saved her, and coming into the weekend, she has pitched 75 fewer innings than Meylan this season.

That could be a huge advantage.

Nebraska football makes first in-state offer in 2028

Nebraska football is starting to trend to land three-star center KD Jones over the weekend. He’s in the 2027 recruiting class. Looking ahead to 2028, the latest news is that the Huskers have finally extended an in-state offer.

Justin Parish Jr, a 6-foot-4, 270-pound offensive tackle from Omaha Westside, announced his Nebraska football offer on Sunday night. He’s ranked No. 1 in the state for the 2028 class and No. 302 overall, via the 247 Sports composite rankings.

Tennessee, Iowa, Iowa State, Kansas, and Missouri have also offered. They each beat Nebraska to the punch, but it feels like this recruitment could be more of a national one, which means the Huskers could have a fight on their hands.

Nebraska baseball has a big week

The Huskers are ranked No. 21 in the latest Baseball America poll. The Huskers are ranked in all the various polls. RPI has them near the top 10, which should have them in contention for a top-eight seed in the NCAA Tournament. Nebraska has 41 wins and should it win a third straight Big Ten tournament title this weekend, it would have a strong case to make for hosting a Super Regional, if it happened to advance that far.

Of course, winning the Big Ten Tournament would likely mean knocking off top-ranked UCLA, but if Nebraska has more Omaha magic, the path back for the College World Series might not leave the state of Nebraska (top-8 seed).

At any rate, the seven-game winning streak to end the regular season has the Huskers in a very strong position to at least host a regional on the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament.

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