96 of their 104 meetings are on file: they first met in 1892, and the earliest on file is 1900; officially, Nebraska leads 65–36–3; as played, 60–33–3 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Nebraska 6–4, and Nebraska has won the last 2. The winner takes home the Victory Bell. Nebraska holds it. The official count covers every meeting. Share
Who holds it comes from the games on file: the winner of the latest regular-season meeting (bowl rematches aren’t played for it); a tie leaves it with the holder (the usual rule; the article doesn’t say). From Wikipedia’s list of rivalry games and the rivalry’s article (CC BY-SA). More on the Victory Bell.
Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Missouri’s side (Henry 3–1 against Bearg). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.
Both programs through the years
Missouri NebraskaTicks under the axis: each meeting, in the winner’s color
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.
1917 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 11, 1917
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.
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