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The history of Nebraska Cornhuskers football covers the University of Nebraska–Lincoln's football program from its inception in 1890 until the present day. Nebraska competes in the Big Ten Conference as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision and plays its home games at Memorial Stadium , where it has sold out every game since 1962.
Minnesota leads the series 36–25–2, due in large part to a 29-6-2 record against Nebraska from 1900 to 1960. Minnesota gave Nebraska their worst home loss ever with a 61–7 win in 1945. From 1960 to 2018, Nebraska went 19–3 against Minnesota, winning 16 straight games from 1963 to 2012, with an average margin of victory over 30 points.
The Freedom Trophy has been awarded to the winner of the Nebraska–Wisconsin game since 2014. The teams have met eighteen times, with the series dating back to 1901, an 18–0 Wisconsin win. The Badgers lead the series 13–5. Nebraska holds the Freedom Trophy after defeating the Badgers in 2024. The teams play annually.
Nebraska is among the most storied programs in college football history and has the eighth-most all-time victories among FBS teams. [1] NU has won forty-six conference championships and five national championships ( 1970 , 1971 , 1994 , 1995 , and 1997 ), along with seven other national titles the school does not claim.
Nebraska vs. Penn State at the Devaney Center on November 30, 2013. Nebraska's volleyball program is among the best in the history of the sport. The Cornhuskers have won five national championships (1995, 2000, 2006, 2015, 2017) and reached the national semifinal on twelve other occasions. NU has won more games than any other program and ranks ...
Nebraska competes as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, representing the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in the Big Ten Conference. Nebraska has produced 110 first-team, fifty-six consensus, and twenty unanimous All-Americans. [1] Tackle Vic Halligan was named Nebraska's first All-American in 1914.
Barb Boustead remembers learning about corn sweat when she moved to Nebraska about 20 years ago to work for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and found herself plunked down in an ...
The Cornhuskers had the second-largest comeback in program history to defeat the Badgers at Memorial Stadium, 30–27, in the 2012. [5] The two met again just over two months later in the 2012 Big Ten Football Championship Game where the unranked Badgers defeated the heavily-favored, 14th-ranked Cornhuskers at Lucas Oil Stadium , 70–31.