Eastern Kentucky vs. Nebraska–Omaha

Nebraska–Omaha won their only meeting, in 1954.

Eastern Kentucky wins
0
Nebraska–Omaha wins
1
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1954
Longest streak
1 Nebraska–Omaha
Current streak
1 Nebraska–Omaha
Last 10 meetings
Nebraska–Omaha 1–⁠0
Most recent
1954

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Eastern Kentucky and Nebraska–Omaha, 1954 on1300150017001960197019801990200020102020

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.

Stars of the series

Named most valuable

Bill Englehardt1954

Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1954 game: Omaha Eleven Nips East Kentucky, 7-6

    1954 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Jan 2, 1955

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

Jan 1, 1955Nebraska–Omaha 7, Eastern Kentucky 6Neutral siteTangerine Bowl

Every game is listed as played on the field.