Nebraska vs. Nebraska Wesleyan
Nebraska and Nebraska Wesleyan first met in 1913 and have played 5 times; Nebraska leads the series 5–0. Over the last 5 meetings it’s Nebraska 5–0, and Nebraska has won the last 5. Share
- Nebraska wins
- 5
- Nebraska Wesleyan wins
- 0
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1913
- Longest streak
- 5 Nebraska
- Current streak
- 5 Nebraska
- Last 10 meetings
- Nebraska 5–0
- Most recent
- 1921
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 48.2 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Nebraska
- 5–0 Nebraska’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 4
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Nebraska’s biggest win1917: Nebraska 100, Nebraska Wesleyan 0by 100 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
1917 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 7, 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.
Every game
| Oct 1, 1921 | Nebraska 55, Nebraska Wesleyan 0 | at Nebraska | ||
| Oct 6, 1917 | Nebraska 100, Nebraska Wesleyan 0 | at Nebraska | ||
| Oct 28, 1916 | Nebraska 21, Nebraska Wesleyan 0 | at Nebraska | ||
| Nov 6, 1915 | Nebraska 30, Nebraska Wesleyan 0 | at Nebraska | ||
| Nov 8, 1913 | Nebraska 42, Nebraska Wesleyan 7 | at Nebraska |
Every game is listed as played on the field.