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Nebraska Cornhuskers football
File:University-of-Nebraska-Lincoln-logo.png
First season1890
Head coach
2nd season, 14–5 (.737)
StadiumMemorial Stadium, Lincoln
(capacity: 81,067 [1])
Field surfaceFieldTurf
LocationLincoln, Nebraska
DivisionNorth
All-time record821–338–40 (.701)
Bowl record23–22 (.511)
Claimed national titles5
Conference titles46
Heisman winners3
Consensus All-Americans52[2]
Current uniform
File:Big12-Uniform-NEB.PNG
ColorsScarlet and Cream
   
Fight songThere is No Place Like Nebraska, Hail Varsity
MascotHerbie Husker, Lil' Red
Marching bandCornhusker Marching Band (The Pride of All Nebraska)
RivalsOklahoma Sooners, Colorado Buffalos, Missouri Tigers
Websitehuskers.com

The Nebraska Cornhuskers represent the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in college football. The program has established itself as a traditional powerhouse, and has the fourth-most all-time victories of any NCAA Division I-A team. The Cornhuskers are currently in their 119th season and hold an all-time record of 821–338–40. Nebraska is one of only 7 football programs in NCAA Division I-A history to win 800 games. The Cornhuskers have the best winning statistics of the college football program over the last 50 years, both by winning percentage and number of wins.

The Cornhuskers' three national championships in Division I collegiate football over the past 25 years are the second most of any university. They have five all time.

History

Husker football began play in 1890, with a 10–0 victory over the Omaha YMCA on Thanksgiving Day, November 27.[3] During the early years of the program, the team had a number of nicknames: "Bugeaters", "Tree Planters", "Nebraskans", "The Rattlesnake Boys", "Antelopes", "Old Gold Knights" and "Cornhuskers". The name Cornhuskers first appeared in the school newspaper as "We Have Met The Cornhuskers And They Are Ours" referring to a 20–18 upset victory over Iowa in 1893. The name would be used again, this time to refer to Nebraska by Charles "Cy" Sherman in The Nebraska State Journal during the 1899 season and would replace all other names by 1900.[2][4]

Nebraska has claimed 46 conference championships and part or all of five national championships: 1970, 1971, 1994, 1995, and 1997. The titles in the 1990s marked the first time since Notre Dame in 1946–49 when a team won three national championships in four seasons. The 1994 and 1995 seasons still stand as the only consensus back-to-back national titles by any Division 1-A school since Oklahoma in 1956-57. Nebraska posted a 60–3–0 record between the 1993-97 seasons. ESPN.com has named the 1971 Nebraska Cornhusker team the greatest team of all time.[5]

The Nebraska Cornhuskers also have five undefeated seasons that they were not the national champions; 1902, 1903, 1913, 1914, and 1915. Between 1912 and 1916, a 34 game win streak was recorded by then head coach Ewald O. Stiehm.[6] Famous former Huskers include Heisman Trophy winners Johnny Rodgers, Mike Rozier, and Eric Crouch. Rodgers was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame and for the new millennium he was voted the team's "Player of the Century"; his Cornhusker jersey (No. 20) was retired. Rozier was likewise inducted into the hall in 2006. Other Husker players and coaches who are members of the College Football Hall of Fame include: Forrest Behm, Bob Brown, Guy Chamberlin, Sam Francis, Rich Glover, Wayne Meylan, Bobby Reynolds, Dave Rimington, George Sauer, Clarence Swanson, Ed Weir, and coaches Gomer Jones, Pete Elliott, Francis(Close the Gates of Mercy) Schmidt,Dana X. Bible, Bob Devaney, Biff Jones, Tom Osborne, Eddie "Robbie" Robinson, and Fielding Yost.[7]

The most notable rivals of the Cornhuskers are the Oklahoma Sooners[8]. Nebraska and Oklahoma regularly battled for the Big Eight Conference title until 1996 when the conference became the Big 12. Out of the Big Eight's 89 year history, Nebraska or Oklahoma won or shared the conference championship 71 times.[9] The Cornhuskers and Sooners also played several games during the 1970s and 1980s that decided the national championship.[10] Nebraska and Kansas, though not considered a big rivalry, play in the nation's longest uninterrupted series. They have played each other every year since 1906.

Nebraska before a game versus USC

The Husker defense is known by the nickname of the "Blackshirts." Depictions of the Blackshirts often include a skull and crossbones. This nickname originated in the early 1960s and continued as a reference to the black practice jerseys worn by first-string defensive players during practice. This tradition developed when Bob Devaney had Mike Corgan, one of his assistant coaches, find contrastive jerseys to offset the red jerseys worn by the offense in practice.[11] Further credit is given to George Kelly, Devaney's defensive line coach until 1968, who frequently referred to the top defensive unit by the name; eventually the rest of the coaching staff caught on, while the first mention of the Blackshirts in print was not until 1969.[11]

Since the 1994 season, Nebraska's home games have always opened with the Tunnel Walk. Before the team enters, the HuskerVision screens light up with a burst of computer animation, and "Sirius" (an instrumental by The Alan Parsons Project) blares from the speakers. Accompanied by cheers from the crowd, the Huskers take the field. When the Cornhuskers play at home in Memorial Stadium, the stadium holds more people than the third-largest city in Nebraska. They currently hold the record for the most consecutive sold out home games, which celebrated its 300th occasion on September 26, 2009 when the Huskers played host to the Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns. The sellout streak dates back to November 3, 1962 during Bob Devaney's first season at Nebraska. The Huskers lost the first game in the current streak, a Homecoming game, to Missouri 16–7; 56,501 fans were in attendance.

Logos and uniforms

Nebraska has worn traditional uniforms through out its history. The helmet has remained unchanged since 1970, with the exception of the face mask, as it was changed from grey to red in 1982. The uniforms have only been altered a few times, with the addition of shoulder stripes off and on, until 1996 when stripes were added to the lower shoulder and remained since. The team traditionally wears white pants at home and red on the road, although there have been exceptions. The pants have usually had two stripes on the sides, though they were plain white or red from 1995 through 2003.

Adidas is the official supplier of Husker uniforms, shoes and gear.

On September 26, 2009, for the first time in school history, the Cornhuskers wore "throwback" uniforms from 1962 in honor of Nebraska's 300th consecutive sell out.

File:Big12-Uniform-combination-NEB.PNG
Nebraska's uniform combinations

Coaching

Coach Tom Osborne

The coach who brought about the most wins in Cornhusker history is Tom Osborne, who led the team for 25 seasons, from 1973 to 1997; his final record at Nebraska was 255 wins, 49 losses and 3 ties. During his tenure, the team won three national titles, including one in his final season. Osborne-led teams won at least 9 games every season and 5 times managed to win 12 or more.[12] By the time he was finished the Nebraska coach had compiled a winning percentage of 83.6%, a higher rate than those held by Bobby Bowden, Paul "Bear" Bryant, and Joe Paterno.[13]

Frank Solich

Osborne's handpicked successor was Frank Solich, a Nebraska assistant coach and former player. Solich had coached freshmen from 1979–1983 and running backs from 1983–1997.[14] This was following in a tradition because Osborne had been a long-time Cornhusker assistant before Devaney chose him as his successor. Like Osborne, Solich also had big shoes to fill. In his first season, the team got off to a 5–0 start before falling to Texas A&M 21–28. The team went on to a 9–4 record ending up with the most losses since the 1968 season.[15] Over the next three seasons Solich produced better results: 12–1 in 1999 and 10–2 in 2000. The 2001 season looked to be a special one with Heisman candidate Eric Crouch at quarterback. Going into the regular season finale with Colorado, the Cornhuskers were ranked first in the BCS standings and seemed headed to the national championship game.[16] The Colorado Buffaloes proceeded to beat Nebraska 62–36. The 62 points were the most ever allowed by Nebraska up until that point.[16] Solich's team still managed to get into the BCS championship game but it was soundly beaten by the Miami Hurricanes 37–14.[15] The next year the team went to a 7–7 record as many speculated about a hangover from those two losses. Several streaks ended in 2002: 21 years ranked in the top 25, and 44 years since finishing with 3 straight losses.[17] Solich fired several staff members and hired Bo Pelini as his new defensive coordinator and Barney Cotton as offensive coordinator.

The next year the team improved to a 9–3 regular season record but that wasn't enough to save Solich's job. Steve Pederson, the university's recently hired athletic director, fired the coach shortly after a come-from-behind victory at Colorado. "I refuse to let this program gravitate to a level of mediocrity," Pederson said of his reasoning.[18] Despite this "mediocrity", Solich's 58 wins during his first six seasons as Nebraska's head coach exceeded that of his two College Football Hall of Fame predecessors: Bob Devaney (53 wins) and Tom Osborne (55 wins) [19]. Following Solich's dismissal, Pederson named Pelini the interim coach for the Alamo Bowl, improving Solich's team to 10–3 with a 17–3 win against Michigan State; finishing the season ranked #18. In the four years that followed under the Pederson/Callahan leadership, the Huskers finished one season ranked #24, and all others unranked.

Bill Callahan

Nebraska's Five National Championship Trophies

A 40-day coaching search ensued after the firing. Pederson conducted the search by himself but rumors of candidates spread through messageboards and traditional media.[20] Houston Nutt, the University of Arkansas' football coach, was rumored to have been offered the job but this was denied by Nebraska officials.[20] In the end, Pederson decided to hire the former coach of the Oakland Raiders, Bill Callahan.

Callahan represented a break from tradition in many ways. First, Callahan was the first head coach in recent history not to be hand-picked by his predecessor. Second, Callahan implemented the West Coast Offense at Nebraska. For years the Huskers had been known for their power-running, option-I offense. The new system relied heavily on a balance between the run and the pass. Interest in Callahan's new system increased amongst Nebraska fans when Nebraska cruised to 56–17 win over the Western Illinois Leathernecks, a Division I-AA team they were heavily favored to beat. However, the excitement quickly faded when Nebraska lost a home game to Southern Mississippi. Things were dismal for Callahan when he returned to Lincoln from Lubbock, Texas, losing by the largest margin in school history: a 70–10 loss to Texas Tech, the first time Nebraska had ever lost to them.[21] In Callahan's first season as head coach in 2004, the team recorded 5 wins and 6 losses. This was the first losing season in over 40 years.[15] This did not go over well with many Husker fans who were used to Nebraska's winning ways. Speculation that the West Coast Offense could not work at Nebraska began to rise. Since then, the team improved to records of 8–4 in 2005 and 9–5 in 2006.

The Nebraska faithful became increasingly alienated from Pederson. Pederson started off on the wrong foot by firing Solich without consulting Osborne. While he reached out to former Huskers who were currently in the NFL, he did not show the same consideration to other ex-Huskers. He would not allow former Huskers on the sideline—not even Rodgers, named the team's "Player of the Century". Rodgers did, however, have seats for himself and a guest in Nebraska's press box. At least Rodgers could get tickets; another member of the Nebraska All-Century team, Jason Peter, reported that when he was living in California, he called to try to get tickets for USC's visit to Lincoln in 2006 and was turned down. In an equally symbolic move, Pederson had pictures of Cornhusker All-Americans and Hall of Famers that lined the walls surrounding the coaching offices removed and replaced with pictures of current players. Many boosters were angry enough to threaten to stop donating to the athletic department. Perhaps most astonishingly, Tom Osborne, long the face of the Huskers program, stopped attending games, and even began serving as a consultant to the athletic program at Creighton University, a school located in Omaha.[22]

Due to conflicts created within the athletic department, and with the community due to his management style, Steve Pederson was fired[23] on October 15 2007. The next day, former coach Tom Osborne was hired to replace Pederson on an interim basis.[24] The day after he was hired, Osborne began mending fences with former Huskers, sending an email to notify them that a limited number of sideline passes would be issued again and that all would be entitled to free game tickets. Later that day, he had the pictures of former players removed by Pederson taken out of storage and hung on a vacant wall in the team offices, and then attended the Huskers practice, inviting several former players to join him.[22] After the Huskers slipped to a 5–7 season in 2007, with the once-mighty Huskers defense torched for 76 points by longtime Big 8/Big 12 doormat Kansas and 65 by Colorado, Osborne fired Callahan.[25]

In October 2006, Nebraska became one of only four Division 1 football teams to have 800 lifetime wins, with a win over Kansas State. Michigan, Notre Dame and Texas also have 800 wins. Nebraska also has the longest continuing series in college football, having played Kansas every year uninterrupted since 1906. The rivalry with Kansas also includes the second longest streak by one team over another.[26] Nebraska ranks 7th in the list of College football's ten most victorious programs, whether judged by total number of wins or by winning percentage.

In 2008, Nebraska earned bowl eligibility for the 38th time in the past 40 years.

Current coaching staff

[27][28]

Name Title First year
in this position		 Years at Nebraska Alma Mater
Bo Pelini Head Coach 2008 2003, 2008- Ohio State
Carl Pelini Defensive Coordinator
Defensive Line		 2008 2003, 2008- Youngstown State
Shawn Watson Offensive Coordinator
Quarterbacks		 2007 2006- Southern Illinois
Tim Beck Running Backs 2008 2008- Central Florida
Ron Brown Tight Ends 2008 1987-2003, 2008- Brown
Barney Cotton Associate Head Coach
Offensive Line		 2008 2003, 2008- Nebraska
Mike Ekeler Linebackers 2008 2008- Kansas State
Ted Gilmore Assistant Head Coach
Receivers
Recruiting Coordinator		 2008 2005- Wyoming
John Papuchis Defensive Ends 2008 2008- Virginia Tech
Marvin Sanders Secondary 2008 2003, 2008- Nebraska
Jeff Jamrog Assistant AD for Football 2008 1988-1989, 2000-2003, 2008- Nebraska
James Dobson Strength and Conditioning 2008 2008- Wisconsin
Curt Baldus Graduate Assistant 2008 2006, 2008- St. Cloud State
Ross Watson Graduate Assistant 2008 2008- Mount Union

Bowl results

Italics denote a tie game, of which there are none.
* - Denotes National title

Date played Winning team Losing team notes
January 1, 1941 Stanford 21 Nebraska 13 1941 Rose Bowl
January 1, 1955 Duke 34 Nebraska 7 1955 Orange Bowl
December 15, 1962 Nebraska 36 Miami 34 1962 Gotham Bowl
January 1, 1964 Nebraska 13 Auburn 7 1964 Orange Bowl
January 1, 1965 Arkansas 10 Nebraska 7 1965 Cotton Bowl
January 1, 1966 Alabama 39 Nebraska 28 1966 Orange Bowl
January 2, 1967 Alabama 34 Nebraska 7 1967 Sugar Bowl
December 20, 1969 Nebraska 45 Georgia 6 1969 Sun Bowl
January 1, 1971 Nebraska 17 LSU 12 1971 Orange Bowl*
January 1, 1972 Nebraska 38 Alabama 6 1972 Orange Bowl*
January 1, 1973 Nebraska 40 Notre Dame 6 1973 Orange Bowl
January 1, 1974 Nebraska 19 Texas 3 1974 Cotton Bowl
December 31, 1974 Nebraska 13 Florida 10 1974 Sugar Bowl
December 26, 1975 Arizona State 17 Nebraska 14 1975 Fiesta Bowl
December 31, 1976 Nebraska 27 Texas Tech 24 1976 Bluebonnet Bowl
December 19, 1977 Nebraska 21 North Carolina 17 1977 Liberty Bowl
January 1, 1979 Oklahoma 31 Nebraska 24 1979 Orange Bowl
January 1, 1980 Houston 17 Nebraska 14 1980 Cotton Bowl
December 27, 1980 Nebraska 31 Mississippi State 17 1980 Sun Bowl
January 1, 1982 Clemson 22 Nebraska 15 1982 Orange Bowl
January 1, 1983 Nebraska 21 LSU 20 1983 Orange Bowl
January 2, 1984 Miami 31 Nebraska 30 1984 Orange Bowl
January 1, 1985 Nebraska 28 LSU 10 1985 Sugar Bowl
January 1, 1986 Michigan 27 Nebraska 23 1986 Fiesta Bowl
January 1, 1987 Nebraska 30 LSU 15 1987 Sugar Bowl
January 1, 1988 Florida State 31 Nebraska 28 1988 Fiesta Bowl
January 2, 1989 Miami 23 Nebraska 3 1989 Orange Bowl
January 1, 1990 Florida State 41 Nebraska 17 1990 Fiesta Bowl
January 1, 1991 Georgia Tech 45 Nebraska 21 1991 Citrus Bowl
January 1, 1992 Miami 22 Nebraska 0 1992 Orange Bowl
January 1, 1993 Florida State 27 Nebraska 14 1993 Orange Bowl
January 1, 1994 Florida State 18 Nebraska 16 1994 Orange Bowl
January 1, 1995 Nebraska 24 Miami 17 1995 Orange Bowl*
January 2, 1996 Nebraska 62 Florida 24 1996 Fiesta Bowl*
December 31, 1996 Nebraska 41 Virginia Tech 21 1996 Orange Bowl
January 2, 1998 Nebraska 42 Tennessee 17 1998 Orange Bowl*
December 30, 1998 Arizona 23 Nebraska 20 1998 Holiday Bowl
January 2, 2000 Nebraska 31 Tennessee 21 2000 Fiesta Bowl
December 30, 2000 Nebraska 66 Northwestern 17 2000 Alamo Bowl
January 3, 2002 Miami 37 Nebraska 14 2002 Rose Bowl
December 27, 2002 Mississippi 27 Nebraska 23 2002 Independence Bowl
December 29, 2003 Nebraska 17 Michigan State 3 2003 Alamo Bowl
December 28, 2005 Nebraska 32 Michigan 28 2005 Alamo Bowl
January 1, 2007 Auburn 17 Nebraska 14 2007 Cotton Bowl
January 1, 2009 Nebraska 26 Clemson 21 2009 Gator Bowl

Season results

Year Record Final AP Poll Ranking
2009 4-1 #15 (current)
2008 9-4 NR
2007 5-7 NR
2006 9-5 NR
2005 8-4 #24
2004 5-6 NR
2003 10-3 #18
2002 7-7 NR
2001 11-2 #7
2000 10-2 #7
1999 12-1 #2
1998 9-4 #19
1997 13-0 #1
1996 11-2 #6
1995 12-0 #1
1994 13-0 #1
1993 11-1 #3
1992 9-3 #14
1991 9-2-1 #15
1990 9-3 #17
1989 10-2 #11
1988 11-2 #10
1987 10-2 #6
1986 10-2 #4
1985 9-3 #10
1984 10-2 #3
1983 12-1 #2
1982 12-1 #3
1981 9-3 #9
1980 10-2 #7
1979 10-2 #7
1978 9-3 #8
1977 9-3 #10
1976 9-3-1 #7
1975 10-2 #9
1974 9-3 #7
1973 9-2-1 #7
1972 9-2-1 #4
1971 13-0 #1
1970 11-0-1 #1
1969 9-2 #11
1968 6-4 NR
1967 6-4 NR
1966 9-2 #6
1965 10-1 #3
1964 9-2 #6
1963 10-1 #5
1962 9-2 NR

National championship seasons

Nebraska huddling before a game versus Texas
Season Record Bowl game Coach
1970¹ 11-0-1 Orange Bowl Bob Devaney
1971 13-0 Orange Bowl Bob Devaney
1994 13-0 Orange Bowl Tom Osborne
1995 12-0 Fiesta Bowl Tom Osborne
1997² 13-0 Orange Bowl Tom Osborne
  1. Shared with Texas*
  2. Shared with Michigan

* Texas retained a #1 ranking in the UPI Poll despite a 24-11 loss to Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl, since the UPI at that time released its final rankings prior to bowl games. Nebraska was #1 in the final AP Poll, conducted after the bowl games.

Individual award winners

Players

File:Heisman.jpg

Coaches

Bob Devaney - 1971
Tom Osborne - 1999 (Recognized as coach of the decade)
Tom Osborne - 2007

Nebraska All-Century Football Team

All team members were selected through an on-line poll at www.huskerwebcast.com during the 1999 football season and through the spring game in April. Top Vote Getter (Votes): Offense - Zach Wiegert (7,951); Defense - Grant Wistrom (6,990); Special Teams - Kris Brown (7,938); Overall - Johnny Rodgers (14,467) - (7,109 - Returns and 7,358 - WR)[3]

Nebraska's All-Time Team

As selected by Athlon Sports in 2002. [4]

Permanently retired jerseys

Nebraska has retired only two numbers, choosing to retire the jersey rather than the number for other players.[29]

Outside of Memorial Stadium on the University of Nebraska Campus in Lincoln, Nebraska

Current NFL Players

Future Schedules

2010 Schedule

[30][31]

September 4TBAWestern Kentucky*

- September 11TBAIdaho*

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lincoln, Nebraska

- September 18TBAat Washington*

- September 25TBASouth Dakota State*

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lincoln, Nebraska

- October 2TBAat Kansas State

- October 16TBATexas

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lincoln, Nebraska

- October 23TBAat Oklahoma State

- October 30TBAMissouri

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lincoln, Nebraska

- November 6TBAat Iowa State

- November 13TBAKansas

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lincoln, Nebraska

- November 20TBAat Texas A&M

- November 26 or November 27TBAColorado

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lincoln, Nebraska

-

Template:CFB Schedule End

2011 Tentative Schedule

Some open dates remain unfilled.[32][33]

September 10Fresno State*

- September 17Washington*

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lincoln, Nebraska

- September 24at Wyoming*

- October 8Kansas State

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lincoln, Nebraska

- October 15at Texas

- October 22Oklahoma State

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lincoln, Nebraska

- October 29at Missouri

- November 5Iowa State

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lincoln, Nebraska

- November 12at Kansas

- November 19Texas A&M

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lincoln, Nebraska

- November 25 or November 26at Colorado

-

Template:CFB Schedule End

2012 Tentative Schedule

Some open dates remain unfilled.[34][35]

September 1Southern Miss*

- September 8at UCLA*

- September 29Missouri

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lincoln, Nebraska

- October 13at Texas Tech

- October 20at Iowa State

- October 27Baylor

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lincoln, Nebraska

- November 3at Oklahoma

- November 10Kansas

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lincoln, Nebraska

- November 17at Kansas State

- November 23 or November 24Colorado

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lincoln, Nebraska

-

Template:CFB Schedule End

2013 Tentative Schedule

Some open dates remain unfilled.[36][37]

August 31Wyoming*

- September 7at Southern Miss*

- September 14UCLA*

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lincoln, Nebraska

- October 5at Missouri

- October 12Texas Tech

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lincoln, Nebraska

- October 19at Iowa State

- October 26at Baylor

- November 2Oklahoma

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lincoln, Nebraska

- November 9at Kansas

- November 16Kansas State

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lincoln, Nebraska

- November 29at Colorado

-

Template:CFB Schedule End

2014 Tentative Schedule

Some open dates remain unfilled.[38][39]

September 13at Fresno State*

- September 20Miami*

- October 4at Kansas State

- October 11Texas

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lincoln, Nebraska

- October 18at Oklahoma State

- October 25Missouri

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lincoln, Nebraska

- November 1at Iowa State

- November 8Kansas

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lincoln, Nebraska

- November 15at Texas A&M

- November 28 or November 29Colorado

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lincoln, Nebraska

-

Template:CFB Schedule End

2015 Tentative Schedule

Some open dates remain unfilled.[40][41]

September 5Southern Miss*

- September 12at Miami*

- October 3Kansas State

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lincoln, Nebraska

- October 17at Texas

- October 24Oklahoma State

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lincoln, Nebraska

- October 31at Missouri

- November 7Iowa State

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lincoln, Nebraska

- November 14at Kansas

- November 21Texas A&M

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lincoln, Nebraska

- November 27at Colorado

-

Template:CFB Schedule End

2016 Tentative Schedule

All league and some open dates remain unfilled.[42][43]

September 3Fresno State*

- September 10Tennessee*

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lincoln, Nebraska

- September 17Wyoming*

  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lincoln, Nebraska

-

Template:CFB Schedule End

2017 Tentative Schedule

All league and some open dates remain unfilled.[44][45]

September 9at Tennessee*

-

Template:CFB Schedule End

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nebraska Cornhuskers football.

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