University of Nebraska football coach Scott Frost has announced, via the Huskers Radio Network, that Casey Thompson, an offseason transfer from the University of Texas, will start in the NU season opener against Northwestern on Saturday in Dublin, Ireland.
Thompson started 10 games for the Longhorns last season, completing 2,422 yards for 30 touchdowns. He beat out Florida State transfer Chubba Purdy and sophomore Logan Smothers for the starting job at Nebraska.
The Cornhuskers “Week 0” game will open both the regular and the Big Ten season for a Nebraska program hoping to reverse a recent trend of losing football for the tradition-rich program that has yet to win a conference championship in over a decade in the soon-to-be 16 school Big Ten.
