Nebraska vs. Washington State
Nebraska and Washington State have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1920; Washington State leads the series 3–1 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Washington State 3–1. Share
- Nebraska wins
- 1
- Washington State wins
- 3
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1920
- Longest streak
- 3 Washington State
- Current streak
- 1 Nebraska
- Last 10 meetings
- Washington State 3–1
- Most recent
- 1995
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1950s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1970s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1990s | 1–0 |
- Average margin
- 11.5 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Nebraska
- 1–3 Nebraska’s record at home
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
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
1920 · East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, Oregon, Nov 26, 1920
1957 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Sep 22, 1957
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
| Sep 30, 1995 | 2Nebraska 35, Washington State 21 | at Nebraska | ||
| Sep 10, 1977 | Washington State 19, 15Nebraska 10 | at Nebraska | ||
| Sep 21, 1957 | Washington State 34, Nebraska 12 | at Nebraska | ||
| Nov 25, 1920 | Washington State 21, Nebraska 20 | at Nebraska |
Every game is listed as played on the field.