LINCOLN, Neb. – The starters beat up on the backups at Nebraska’s spring game, the first of the Scott Frost era, as a near-capacity crowd celebrated the return of the former championship-winning quarterback after his two seasons as coach at Central Florida.
Starters treating backups like traffic cones is a springtime tradition across the country, with Nebraska being no exception. Well, with one exception: According to Jay Sims, a former Nebraska running back from the 1990s, the only time the Cornhuskers’ backups have won the annual spring game was in 1995, when they were quarterbacked by – you guessed it – Scott Frost.