There is going to be a 25th Nebraska Cornhusker varsity team.
The University of Nebraska Athletic Department announced on Friday the addition of women's flag football. This coincides with the NCAA’s approval of women’s flag football as an NCAA Emerging Sport for Women.
Flag football will be the 15th women's team on campus. There are also 10 men's teams. The last program to be added at Nebraska was beach volleyball in 2013.
Nebraska is the first Power Four Conference school to announce the addition of women’s flag football.
The Huskers will play their inaugural competitive flag football season in the spring of 2028, with the season consisting of at least 12 games from January to May. Nebraska will immediately begin the process of searching for a head coach and building a roster this spring, with plans to have a coach hired by summer and recruit a roster of approximately 15 players by the start of the fall 2026 semester.
