Miami vs. Nebraska
Miami and Nebraska have 12 meetings on file, the first in 1951; the series is tied 6–6 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s even at 5–5. Share
- Miami wins
- 6
- Nebraska wins
- 6
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1951
- Longest streak
- 4 Nebraska
- Current streak
- 1 Miami
- Last 10 meetings
- even at 5–5
- Most recent
- 2015
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 1–1 | ||||||||||
| 1960s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1970s | 0–2 | ||||||||||
| 1980s | 2–0 | ||||||||||
| 1990s | 1–1 | ||||||||||
| 2000s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 2010s | 1–1 |
- Both ranked
- 5 meetings: Miami 4, Nebraska 1; 4 both in the top 10
- Average margin
- 10.6 points; 6 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Miami
- 2–0 Miami’s record at home
- At Nebraska
- 4–0 Nebraska’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 4–2 Miami first
- Shutouts
- 1
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Miami’s biggest win2001: Miami 37, Nebraska 14by 23 points
- Nebraska’s biggest win1975: Nebraska 31, Miami 16by 15 points
- Ranked showdown1994: Nebraska 24, Miami 17No. 1 Nebraska at No. 3 Miami
- Ranked showdown2001: Miami 37, Nebraska 14No. 4 Nebraska at No. 1 Miami
- Ranked showdown1983: Miami 31, Nebraska 30No. 1 Nebraska at No. 5 Miami
- Ranked showdown1988: Miami 23, Nebraska 3No. 6 Nebraska at No. 2 Miami
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.
Stars of the series
Biggest days
| Ameer Abdullah Nebraska | 35 carries, 229 yards, 2 TD | 2014 Rushing |
Named most valuable
| Ken Dorsey Miami | 2001 |
| Larry Jones Miami | 1991 |
| Steve Walsh Miami | 1988 |
| Charles Fryer Nebraska | 1988 |
| Bernie Kosar Miami | 1983 |
| Jack Fernandez Miami | 1983 |
| George Mira Miami | 1962 |
Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on). Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).
From the newspapers

1953 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 18, 1953
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
| Sep 19, 2015 | Miami 36, Nebraska 33 | at Miami | ||
| Sep 20, 2014 | 24Nebraska 41, Miami 31 | at Nebraska | ||
| Jan 3, 2002 | 1Miami 37, 4Nebraska 14 | Rose Bowl | Rose Bowl | |
| Jan 1, 1995 | 1Nebraska 24, 3Miami 17 | Neutral site | Orange Bowl | |
| Jan 1, 1992 | 1Miami 22, 11Nebraska 0 | Neutral site | Orange Bowl | |
| Jan 2, 1989 | 2Miami 23, 6Nebraska 3 | Neutral site | Orange Bowl | |
| Jan 2, 1984 | 5Miami 31, 1Nebraska 30 | Neutral site | Orange Bowl | |
| Oct 2, 1976 | 5Nebraska 17, Miami 9 | at Nebraska | ||
| Oct 4, 1975 | 4Nebraska 31, Miami 16 | at Nebraska | ||
| Dec 15, 1962 | Nebraska 36, Miami 34 | Neutral site | Gotham Bowl | |
| Oct 17, 1953 | Nebraska 20, Miami 16 | at Nebraska | ||
| Nov 30, 1951 | Miami 19, Nebraska 7 | at Miami |
Every game is listed as played on the field.