The Nebraska Cornhuskers are preparing for a busy recruiting weekend. Starting this Saturday, February 1, they will host more than 20 recruits from the classes of 2026 and 2027 on campus.

Matt Rhule and his staff have been traveling the country, visiting high schools from coast to coast. Now, they will have the opportunity to host some of the country’s top high school talent.

Nebraska’s class of 2026 currently has three commitments. The trio is led by Dayton Raiola, a three-star quarterback, and the younger brother of starting quarterback Dylan Raiola.

The group also includes 3-star receiver Dveyoun Bonwell Witte of Sioux Falls, SD, and 3-star cornerback CJ Bronaugh of Winter Garden, FL.

The Huskers are coming off a successful transfer portal window that saw the team add 15 players for the upcoming 2025 season. Now is a chance for Matt Rhule and his staff to return to recruiting high school prospects.

Scroll down to find a list of recruits visiting the Lincoln campus this weekend.

Jordan Campbell, Linebacker (Miami Commit), 2026

Miami Carol City High School (Miami Gardens, FL)

6-2/200 pounds

4-Stars

Kelvin Obot, Offensive Tackle, 2026

Fruitland High School (Fruitland, ID)

6-5/265 pounds

4-Stars

Claude Mpouma, Offensive Tackle, 2026

Mount Carmel High School (Chicago, IL)

6-8/260 pounds

4-Stars

Lincoln Watkins, Tight End, 2026

Port Huron Northern (Port Huron, MI)

6-4/225 pounds

3-Stars 

Kasen Thomas, Linebacker, 2026

Bishop Heelan Catholic (Sioux City, IA)

6-1/190 pounds

3-Stars

Dayton Raiola, Quarterback (Nebraska Commit), 2026

Buford High School (Buford, GA)

6-1/205 pounds

3-Stars

Jase Reynolds, EDGE, 2026

Elkhorn North High (Elkhorn, NE)

6-2/190 pounds

No Stars

Rex Waterman, Offensive Tackle, 2026

Hamilton High School (Chandler, AZ)

6-5/295 pounds

No Stars

Noah Roberts, Running back, 2027

Basha High School (Chandler, AZ)

6-1/190 pounds

No Stars

Matt Erickson, Offensive Tackle, 2027

Millard West High School (Omaha, NE)

6-7.5/283 pounds

No Stars

McHale Blade, Defensive Line, 2026

Simeon High School (Chicago, IL)

6-5/230 pounds

4-Stars

Jabari Brady, Wide Receiver, 2026

Monarch High School (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

6-2/190 pounds

4-Stars

Jacob Eberhart, Athlete, 2026

Kirkwood High School (Saint Louis, MO)

6-1/210 pounds

3-Stars

Devin Jackson, Safety, 2026 (Florida Commit)

The First Academy (Winter Garden, FL)

6-2/185 pounds

3-Stars

Ryan Mosley, Athlete, 2026

Carrollton High School (Carrollton, GA)

6-2/205 pounds

4-Stars

Danny Odem, Cornerback, 2026

The First Academy (Orlando, FL)

6-0/175 pounds

3-Stars

Gregory Patrick, Inside Offensive Lineman, 2026

Portage Northern (Portage, MI)

6-4.5/280 pounds

4-Star

Valdin Sone, Defensive Line, 2026

Blue Ridge School (Dyke, VA)

6-5/290 pounds

4-Stars

Luke Sorensen, Tight End, 2026

Servite High School (Anaheim, CA)

6-4/230 pounds

3-Stars

Dominic Turnbull, Cornerback, 2026

True North Classical Academy (Miami, FL)

6-2/165 pounds

4-Stars

The 7th-ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers are back in the Delaney Center Friday night for a Big Ten Conference dual with the Wisconsin Badgers. The match is scheduled to start at 9 p.m. ET (8 p.m. CT) with TV coverage on BTN and streaming on-demand.

• How to watch: Live streams of the Nebraska vs. Wisconsin match are available with offers from FuboTV (free trial), SlingTV (low intro rate) and DirecTV Stream (free trial).

Wisconsin Badgers (4-8) at #7 Nebraska Cornhuskers (8-2)

NCAA wrestling match at a glance

When: Friday, Jan. 31 at 9 p.m. ET (8 p.m. CT)

Where: Delaney Center, Lincoln, Neb.

TV channel: BTN

Live streams: FuboTV (free trial) | SlingTV (low intro rate) | DirecTV Stream (free trial)

The Huskers are back in Lincoln after a dominant weekend in the state of Michigan, opening with a big 38-6 win over No. 18 Michigan on Friday and following with a 38-3 win over Michigan State. Nebraska has remained within striking distance of the Big Ten’s big three while handling the competition for that honor, assembling an 8-2 dual record with losses only to No. 1 Penn State and No. 10 Northern Iowa.

The Badgers are limping through the dual season with a 4-8 overall record and four consecutive losses in Big Ten action. Wisconsin has a manageable slate of matches down the stretch after the trip to Nebraska, wrestling Purdue and Michigan State at home next Friday and Sunday.

Nebraska Cornhuskers vs. Wisconsin Badgers: Know your live streaming options

• FuboTV (free trial) – excellent viewer experience with a huge library of live sports content; free trial lengths vary.
• SlingTV (low intro rate) – discounted first month is best if you’ve run out of free trials or you’re in the market for 1+ month of TV
• DirecTV Stream (free trial) – not the same level of viewer experience as FuboTV, but the 7-day free trial is still the longest in streaming.

The Cornhuskers and Badgers are set for a 9 p.m. ET start on BTN. Live streams are available from FuboTV (free trial), DirecTV Stream (free trial) and SlingTV (low intro rate).

In Nebraska, we have a constitutional obligation to provide education for our children in the common (public) schools. It is an obligation we take very seriously. 

And in that obligation, we recognize that we need to provide a variety of learning environments for our students and that parents should have a say in determining that environment. That is why, for more than 30 years, Nebraska’s option enrollment program has enabled tens of thousands of students to choose the public school that best fits their needs, even if that school is not the one right down the street. 

In fact, in my home community of Omaha, in Millard, roughly one in four students choose to attend a public school that is not their neighborhood school.

Proponents of measures that would divert public resources to private schools often claim that public school advocates do not believe in choice. Nothing could be further from the truth. We believe that if a school is funded through public dollars, it should be publicly accountable and should follow the most important belief we hold: that we have the privilege of educating all students who come through our doors. 

During the debate on the first version of the “Opportunity Scholarships” voucher bill, an amendment was proposed to ensure that was the case. The amendment simply required that any private school receiving a publicly funded scholarship would be prohibited from discriminating against students based on elements like race, religion, sexual orientation or disability. 

Supporters of the voucher bill rejected that amendment.   

We strongly believe that education policies should meet the needs of all students. Voucher supporters do not agree. Across the river, in Iowa, we are watching in real time as that state’s school voucher program becomes a massive subsidy for the wealthy. 

Only 12% of the applicants to Iowa’s program had previously attended a public school.  The average income of a family applying for a voucher to move from a public school to a private school in Iowa is more than $128,000.  Perhaps most concerning is the fact that since Iowa passed its voucher program, private school tuition has increased by 25%.

Nebraska needs to heed the warnings from other states. The research has been comprehensive and clear: Large-scale voucher programs do not improve academic outcomes. In fact, in a comprehensive report that was done by Indiana University, after reviewing more than a dozen studies, the report concluded that, “As programs grew in size, the results turned negative, often to a remarkably large degree virtually unrivaled in education research.” 

These programs not only fail to improve academic outcomes, they also drain a disproportionate number of resources away from our public schools. The Nebraska Legislative Fiscal Office noted that the voucher programs proposed would not reduce public school expenses. 

In fact, depending on who takes these vouchers, the proposed programs could result in a loss of millions of dollars of state aid to public schools. Sadly, that isn’t a hypothetical. In Arizona, its voucher program has ballooned to nearly $1 billion in its cost to taxpayers — while the Isaac Public School District does not even have enough money to pay its staff.

Importantly, the people of Nebraska saw the failings in these other states and reinforced their commitment to a school system that welcomes all students, regardless of their background. In November, hundreds of thousands of Nebraskans voted to support their public schools and to reject vouchers for the fourth time in our state’s history. 

The result was consistent across the state, with a majority in 82 of Nebraska’s 93 counties voting to repeal the voucher bill. Our lawmakers in the Legislature should respect the will of the people and acknowledge that Nebraskans do not support using public funds to pay for private schools.

While the evidence may be clear that a voucher program will not improve the educational outcomes in Nebraska, that does not mean we are content with the current state of education. We believe we need to and can improve on how we serve our students in our public schools. 

Yet research, as well as our fundamental belief in public education, leads us to know that voucher schemes are not the solution. We have proposed several measures in this Legislative session that would help address our state’s ongoing teacher retention challenges. 

We are also supporting measures like Sen. Margo Juarez’s Legislative Bill 161, which would increase funding for public preschool. States that have demonstrated the greatest progress in improving math and reading outcomes for students are those that have committed to expanding preschool access. 

We want every child in our state to have the best possible learning environment. The evidence is clear that vouchers are not the answer. The answer is strengthening our Nebraska public schools.

Tim Royers, a public school educator and Nebraska’s 2016 Teacher of the Year, is president of the Nebraska State Education Association. He taught in the Millard Public Schools.