Nebraska vs. Rutgers

Nebraska and Rutgers have 7 meetings on file, the first in 1920; Nebraska leads the series 7–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 7 meetings it’s Nebraska 7–⁠0, and Nebraska has won the last 7.

Nebraska wins
7
Rutgers wins
0
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1920
Longest streak
7 Nebraska
Current streak
7 Nebraska
Last 10 meetings
Nebraska 7–⁠0
Most recent
2024

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1920s1–⁠0
2010s3–⁠0
2020s3–⁠0
Average margin
12.6 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Nebraska
3–⁠0 Nebraska’s record at home
At Rutgers
0–⁠4 Rutgers’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 win1920: Nebraska 28, Rutgers 0by 28 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Nebraska and Rutgers, 1920 on1300150017001900192019401960198020002020

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 The New York herald's story of the 1920 game: NEBRASKA'SRED FLARES IN FRONT Cornhuskers Beat Rutgers on Polo Grounds Gridiron, 28 Points to O. FORWARD PASSES HELP Jerseymen Make Gritty De- fence, but Meet Team of Higher Grade. FORWARD PASSES HELP

    1920 · The New York herald, New York, N.Y., Nov 3, 1920

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

Nov 14, 2026Nebraska at Rutgers upcomingat Rutgers
Oct 5, 2024Nebraska 14, Rutgers 7at Nebraska
Oct 7, 2022Nebraska 14, Rutgers 13at Rutgers
Dec 18, 2020Nebraska 28, Rutgers 21at Rutgers
Sep 23, 2017Nebraska 27, Rutgers 17at Nebraska
Nov 14, 2015Nebraska 31, Rutgers 14at Rutgers
Oct 25, 201416Nebraska 42, Rutgers 24at Nebraska
Nov 2, 1920Nebraska 28, Rutgers 0at Rutgers

Every game is listed as played on the field.