Drake vs. Nebraska
Drake and Nebraska have 6 meetings on file, the first in 1900; Nebraska leads the series 5–1 in the games on file. Over the last 6 meetings it’s Nebraska 5–1. Share
- Drake wins
- 1
- Nebraska wins
- 5
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1900
- Longest streak
- 4 Nebraska
- Current streak
- 1 Nebraska
- Last 10 meetings
- Nebraska 5–1
- Most recent
- 1926
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 22.7 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Drake
- 1–0 Drake’s record at home
- At Nebraska
- 5–0 Nebraska’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 5
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Drake’s biggest win1925: Drake 14, Nebraska 0by 14 points
- Nebraska’s biggest win1916: Nebraska 53, Drake 0by 53 points
Both programs through the years
Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.
From the newspapers
1900 · Evening times-Republican, Marshalltown, Iowa, Oct 22, 1900
1906 · The Minneapolis journal, Minneapolis, Minn., Oct 14, 1906
1916 · The Birmingham age-herald, Oct 8, 1916
1925 · Evening star, Nov 8, 1925
Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.
Every game
| Oct 2, 1926 | Nebraska 21, Drake 0 | at Nebraska | ||
| Nov 7, 1925 | Drake 14, Nebraska 0 | at Drake | ||
| Oct 7, 1916 | Nebraska 53, Drake 0 | at Nebraska | ||
| Oct 2, 1915 | Nebraska 48, Drake 13 | at Nebraska | ||
| Oct 13, 1906 | Nebraska 5, Drake 0 | at Nebraska | ||
| Oct 20, 1900 | Nebraska 8, Drake 0 | at Nebraska |
Every game is listed as played on the field.