Nebraska vs. Oregon

Nebraska and Oregon have 9 meetings on file, the first in 1952; Nebraska leads the series 6–⁠3 in the games on file. Over the last 9 meetings it’s Nebraska 6–⁠3, and Oregon has won the last 2.

Scheduled 2027 at Nebraska. As the programs’ Wikipedia articles list them (CC BY-SA).

Nebraska wins
6
Oregon wins
3
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1952
Longest streak
5 Nebraska
Current streak
2 Oregon
Last 10 meetings
Nebraska 6–⁠3
Most recent
2026

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1950s1–⁠1
1970s2–⁠0
1980s2–⁠0
2010s1–⁠1
2020s0–⁠1
Average margin
23.8 points; 4 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Nebraska
5–⁠1 Nebraska’s record at home
At Oregon
2–⁠1 Oregon’s record at home
Shutouts
1

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Nebraska’s biggest win1985: Nebraska 63, Oregon 0by 63 points
  2. Oregon’s biggest win1953: Oregon 20, Nebraska 12by 8 points
  3. Upset1953: Oregon 20, Nebraska 12Oregon had a 30% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Nebraska and Oregon, 1952 on13001500170019001960197019801990200020102020

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

  • The Evening star's story of the 1953 game: Oregon Scores Upset OF Nebraska, 2O.12, In First N Game

    1953 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Sep 20, 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.

Photos

From the rivalry’s and its games’ categories on Wikimedia Commons (free licenses only, each credited).

Every game

Oct 17, 2026Oregon 17, Nebraska 14at Oregon
Sep 9, 2017Oregon 42, Nebraska 35at Oregon
Sep 17, 2016Nebraska 35, 22Oregon 32at Nebraska
Sep 27, 19864Nebraska 48, Oregon 14at Nebraska
Sep 28, 198516Nebraska 63, Oregon 0at Nebraska
Sep 14, 19747Nebraska 61, Oregon 7at Nebraska
Sep 11, 19712Nebraska 34, Oregon 7at Nebraska
Sep 19, 1953Oregon 20, Nebraska 12at Nebraska
Sep 27, 1952Nebraska 28, Oregon 13at Oregon

Every game is listed as played on the field.