USC players interrupting Nebraska’s pregame midfield huddle led to a brief scuffle

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Opposing players often clash at the end of a game or just after it’s ended when emotions and adrenaline are running high. But sometimes, things get heated during pregame when both teams are on the field warming up, like before Saturday’s Nebraska-USC game.

The Cornhuskers were on the road in Los Angeles on Saturday, and, as is tradition under head coach Matt Rhule, they huddled at midfield for a pregame prayer and meeting. Apparently, some USC players took exception to that and appeared to successfully interrupt the meeting.

As the Lincoln Star Journal noted, some Trojans were stretching and “involved themselves in the meeting,” which led to a small and brief scuffle, forcing members of both teams’ staffs to intervene.

It doesn’t look like any punches were thrown, but there was some shoving and a lot of animated words.

More via the Lincoln Star Journal:

Nebraska defensive line coach Terrance Knighton attempted to control the situation on one side of the huddle, while veteran leaders such as Ben Scott and Isaac Gifford exchanged words with USC’s Elijah Hughes.

A USC staffer eventually removed Hughes from the huddle, with a limited amount of pushing and shoving as Nebraska vacated the midfield area.

Good thing this situation didn’t escalate, especially before kickoff. But here are a couple other angles of the brief clash between players.

USC did not like Nebraska doing its pregame prayer at midfield of the Coliseum. Things got pretty chippy when the #Huskers were at midfield. Overhead a USC player walking up the Tunnel after saying, “The game hasn’t event started and they are starting sh**.”

Quite an… pic.twitter.com/BhzvTzqkdC

— Sean Callahan (@Sean_Callahan) November 16, 2024

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Publish date : 2024-11-16 21:37:50

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