Nebraska vs. Stanford
Stanford won their only meeting, in 1940. Share
- Nebraska wins
- 0
- Stanford wins
- 1
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1940
- Longest streak
- 1 Stanford
- Current streak
- 1 Stanford
- Last 10 meetings
- Stanford 1–0
- Most recent
- 1940
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.
Stars of the series
Named most valuable
| Pete Kmetovic Stanford | 1940 |
Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).
From the newspapers

1940 · The Daily Alaska empire, Jan 2, 1941
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
| Jan 1, 1941 | 3Stanford 21, 8Nebraska 13 | Neutral site | Rose Bowl |
Every game is listed as played on the field.