Nebraska football coach Matt Rhule met with the media on Wednesday in Lincoln inside the Hawks Championship Center to discuss Nebraska's 2025 recruiting class that officially became Husker football players on the first day of the early signing period.

But before Rhule talked about the future of his program, he wanted to clear the air about something in the past: handshakes.

Or more more accurately, the lack of handshakes in Iowa City that Hawkeye players said motivated them.

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