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As Big Ten Media Days come to a close today in Las Vegas, fall Saturdays are starting to feel close. And at Nebraska in 2025, fall Saturdays also include two Fridays and a Thursday.

“I don’t know if I necessarily love that,” Matt Rhule said this week, “but it is what it is.”

And so it is. The Huskers open the season on a Thursday in Kansas City against Cincinnati. Nebraska faces Minnesota in Minneapolis on a Friday in October before the traditional Black Friday game with Iowa to close the regular season.

Rhule dove deeper into the discussion of days during his 45-minute stint with the media.

“There’s twice this year where we’re going to go on the East Coast and then come back and play on a Friday,” he said. “We study different metrics than everybody else. We look at how many days rest we have compared to other teams. There are some teams in our league that they’ve got plus-days rest compared to the teams they play. This year again we’re a minus, eight days less rest than the teams we play. We pay attention to all that because it affects your practice week.”

This was far from the most attention-grabbing item to come out of Nebraska’s time in Vegas, but Rhule clearly puts value in it. So, let’s discuss rest.