Nebraska vs. TCU
Nebraska and TCU have 7 meetings on file, the first in 1951; Nebraska leads the series 6–1 in the games on file. Over the last 7 meetings it’s Nebraska 6–1, and Nebraska has won the last 6. Share
- Nebraska wins
- 6
- TCU wins
- 1
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1951
- Longest streak
- 6 Nebraska
- Current streak
- 6 Nebraska
- Last 10 meetings
- Nebraska 6–1
- Most recent
- 2001
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1960s | 3–0 | ||||||||||
| 1970s | 2–0 | ||||||||||
| 2000s | 1–0 |
- Average margin
- 26.3 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Nebraska
- 4–1 Nebraska’s record at home
- At TCU
- 0–1 TCU’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 1–0 Nebraska first
- Shutouts
- 1
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Nebraska’s biggest win1976: Nebraska 64, TCU 10by 54 points
- TCU’s biggest win1951: TCU 28, Nebraska 7by 21 points
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.
From the newspapers
1951 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Sep 30, 1951
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
| Aug 25, 2001 | 4Nebraska 21, TCU 7 | Neutral site | ||
| Sep 25, 1976 | 6Nebraska 64, TCU 10 | at Nebraska | ||
| Sep 27, 1975 | 4Nebraska 56, TCU 14 | at Nebraska | ||
| Oct 28, 1967 | Nebraska 29, TCU 0 | at TCU | ||
| Sep 17, 1966 | 3Nebraska 14, TCU 10 | at Nebraska | ||
| Sep 18, 1965 | 1Nebraska 34, TCU 14 | at Nebraska | ||
| Sep 29, 1951 | TCU 28, 12Nebraska 7 | at Nebraska |
Every game is listed as played on the field.