Ooo, boy, did Nebraska football coach Matt Rhule have some major questions to answer on Wednesday afternoon.

It was National Signing Day across college football, and Rhule secured his third consecutive recruiting class ranked inside the Top 25 nationally and Top 6 in the Big Ten* with a total of 20 signees – thanks to a mega Signing Day flip of four-star receiver Cortez Mills from OU to NU and nixing a potential flip of Jeremiah Jones from NU to Mizzou.

But the Huskers' haul on Wednesday was, quite ironically, not even close to the main topic during Rhule's National Signing Day press conference.

*Nebraska finished No. 4 in the Big Ten for the Class of 2023 and 2024 but No. 6 for the Class of 2025.

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Instead, the Husker head coach had a litany of key questions to answer and had a lengthy opening statement regarding the "handshake controversy" in the Nebraska-Iowa game to begin the presser.

Read up on Rhule's response to "HandshakeGate" HERE, read up on all of Inside Nebraska's NSD coverage spearheaded by our recruiting analyst Tim Verghese HERE, and read up BELOW on Rhule's comments regarding why Tony White left, who will be the Huskers' defensive coordinator for their bowl game, the status of Terrance Knighton and Garret McGuire, the future of Marcus Satterfield, new receivers coach Daikiel Shorts (first name pronounced "duh-KEL") and the team's plans for bowl game practices.

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