Nebraska vs. Stanford

Stanford won their only meeting, in 1940.

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

End-of-season Elo ratings of Nebraska and Stanford, 1940 on1300150017001900194019501960197019801990200020102020

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 Stanford1940

Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

From the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story of the 1940 game: STANFORD WINS FROM NEBRASKA IN GREAT GAME IN ROSE BOWL

    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, 19413Stanford 21, 8Nebraska 13Neutral siteRose Bowl

Every game is listed as played on the field.