Nebraska vs. Northwestern

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

1. Nebraska’s biggest win2021: Nebraska 56, Northwestern 7by 49 points
2. Northwestern’s biggest win1931: Northwestern 19, Nebraska 7by 12 points
3. Upset2011: Northwestern 28, Nebraska 25Northwestern had a 17% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset2015: Northwestern 30, Nebraska 28Northwestern had a 34% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Ranked showdown2000: Nebraska 66, Northwestern 17No. 18 Northwestern at No. 9 Nebraska

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Nebraska’s side (Pelini 3–⁠1 against Fitzgerald). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

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.

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

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  1902 · The Topeka state journal, Topeka, Kansas, Nov 28, 1902

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  1931 · Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, Texas, Oct 4, 1931

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.

Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.

Every game is listed as played on the field.

• Nebraska vs. Kansas109 meetings, Nebraska 88–⁠18–⁠3
• Nebraska vs. Iowa State102 meetings, Nebraska 84–⁠16–⁠2
• Nebraska vs. Missouri96 meetings, Nebraska 60–⁠33–⁠3
• Nebraska vs. Kansas State95 meetings, Nebraska 77–⁠15–⁠3
• Northwestern vs. Illinois119 meetings, Northwestern 55–⁠59–⁠5
• Northwestern vs. Wisconsin103 meetings, Northwestern 37–⁠62–⁠4
• Northwestern vs. Minnesota99 meetings, Northwestern 38–⁠56–⁠5
• Northwestern vs. Purdue90 meetings, Northwestern 36–⁠53–⁠1