Series Records vs. Big Ten Indiana Series Football Next Scheduled Meeting: Oct. 1, 2022 in Lincoln Illinois Series Games: 21 Next Scheduled Meeting: Oct. 10, 2020 in Lincoln Standing: Indiana leads, 10-8-3 Games: 17 At Lincoln: Indiana leads, 8-5-2 Standing: Nebraska leads, 13-3-1 At Memorial Stadium: Indiana leads, 8-5-2 At Lincoln: Nebraska leads, 9-1-0 At Bloomington: Nebraska leads, 3-2-1 At Memorial Stadium: Nebraska leads, 5-1-0 Current win streak (start): Indiana, one game (2019) At Champaign: Nebraska leads, 4-2-1 Current win streak (start): Nebraska, four games (2016) Rank Date Site NU/IND Result Score Rank 10/17/1936 Lincoln / W 13-9 Date Site NU/ILL Result Score 10/30/1937 Lincoln 11/ W 7-0 10/24/1892 Lincoln / W 6-0 10/15/1938 Lincoln / T 0-0 11/26/1903 Lincoln / W 16-0 9/30/1939 Bloomington / T 7-7 11/24/1904 Lincoln / W 16-10 10/12/1940 Lincoln / W 13-7 11/30/1905 Lincoln / W 24-6 10/18/1941 Lincoln 15/ L 13-21 10/6/1923 Champaign / L 7-24 10/10/1942 Lincoln / L 0-12 10/4/1924 Lincoln / L 6-9 10/9/1943 Lincoln / L 13-54 10/3/1925 Champaign / W 14-0 10/14/1944 Bloomington /19t L 0-54 9/26/1953 Champaign / T 21-21 10/13/1945 Bloomington /8 L 14-54 9/21/1985 Lincoln 18/ W 52-25 10/26/1946 Lincoln / L 7-27 9/20/1986 Champaign 6/ W 59-14 9/27/1947 Lincoln / L 0-17 10/5/2013 Lincoln / W 39-19 9/30/1950 Lincoln / T 20-20 9/27/2014 Lincoln 21/ W 45-14 10/20/1956 Lincoln / L 14-19 10/3/2015 Champaign / L 13-14 10/17/1959 Lincoln / L 7-23 10/1/2016 Lincoln 15/ W 31-16 9/20/1975 Lincoln 6/ W 45-0 9/29/2017 Champaign / W 28-6 9/18/1976 Bloomington 8/ W 45-13 11/10/2018 Lincoln / W 54-35 10/1/1977 Lincoln 11/ W 31-13 9/21/2019 Champaign / W 42-38 9/30/1978 Bloomington 12/ W 69-17 10/15/2016 Bloomington 10/ W 27-22 Series scoring Total Average 10/26/2019 Lincoln / L 31-38 Nebraska 473 27.3 Illinois 251 14.8 Series scoring Total Average Nebraska 376 17.9 Highest NU score: 59 in 1986 (59-14) Indiana 427 20.3 Widest NU margin: 45 in 1986 (59-14) Highest ILL score: 25 in 1985 (52-25) Highest NU score: 69 in 1978 (69-17) Widest ILL margin: 17 in 1923 (24-7) Widest NU margin: 52 in 1978 (69-17) Highest-scoring game: 89 in 2018 (NU 54, ILL 35) Highest IND score: 54 in 1943 (54-13), 1944 (54-0), and Lowest-scoring game: 6 in 1892 (NU 6, ILL 0) 1945 (54-14) Longest NU win streak: four games, three times Widest IND margin: 54 in 1944 (54-0) Longest ILL win streak: two games, 1923-24 Highest-scoring game: 86 in 1978 (NU 69-17) Shutouts by (last time): NU 3 (1925), ILL none Scoreless tie: 1938 Longest NU win streak: five games, 1975-2016 Series Notes: Nebraska and Illinois meet every season as Longest IND win streak: seven games, 1941-47 members of the Big Ten West Division. Since Nebraska joined Longest IND unbeaten streak: 10 games, 1941-59 the Big Ten in 2011, the teams have met in the Big Ten opener Shutouts by (last time): NU 3 (1975), IND 4 (1947) for both schools four times - all since 2013. In 2021, the teams open the season against each other in a Week Zero matchup in Series Notes: After making its first trip to Lincoln for a Big Ten Dubin, Ireland, marking Nebraska’s second-ever international Conference game in 2019, Nebraska and Indiana will not face game and first-ever game in Europe. Nebraska has won six each other again until a 2022 matchup in Lincoln. The Hoosiers of seven matchups as Big Ten opponents, including each of were the last Big Ten team to make the visit to Memorial Stadium the past four meetings. The Huskers are 9-1 against Illinois in league play. Indiana and Nebraska met for the first time as in Lincoln, including a 4-0 mark as conference foes with all Big Ten opponents in Bloomington in 2016 with 10th-ranked four wins coming by at least two touchdowns. Nebraska’s Nebraska winning 27-22. The schools did not meet in the first 54-35 win in 2018 marked the Huskers first 50-point game five seasons Nebraska was a member of the conference. Prior in Big Ten Conference play. Nebraska’s win in 2019 marked to 2016, the four previous meetings came under Coach Tom the 900th win in program history. The only meetings between Osborne, and the Huskers posted a combined margin of 190-43. 1953 and 2013 came in 1985 and 1986 when the Huskers Those victories snapped a 10-game NU winless streak in the easily won both ends of a home-and-home series. One of the series that dated back to a 13-7 win over Indiana at Memorial more memorable wins in the first half-century of Nebraska Stadium in 1940. Fifteen of the 21 games in the series have football was a 14-0 victory over Red Grange and the Illini on been played in Lincoln. IU has enjoyed success, posting an Oct. 3, 1925. It was the only time in Grange’s career that he 8-5-2 record in its trips to Nebraska. In fact, from 1940 to was held scoreless in a home game. NU’s second-ever meeting 1959, Indiana went 7-0-1 at Memorial Stadium. Nebraska has with a Big Ten school came against Illinois with a 6-0 victory on been ranked in the top 12 of the AP poll in five of the last six Oct. 24, 1892. NU opened the series with four straight wins in meetings between the schools. Lincoln from 1892 to 1905. Illinois has never been ranked at game time in 17 meetings with NU. 140 2020-21 Nebraska All-Sports Record Book 2020-21 Nebraska All-Sports Record Book Iowa Series Series Notes: Nebraska and Iowa began the Heroes Game Next Scheduled Meeting: Nov. 14, 2020 in Iowa City tradition with the first meeting as Big Ten opponents in 2011. The Games: 50 road team has won six of the past eight games. Iowa extended its Standing: Nebraska leads, 29-18-3 win streak in the series to five games with a 27-24 win in Lincoln At Lincoln: Nebraska leads, 15-6-1 in 2019, the second straight year the Hawkeyes won with a field At Memorial Stadium: Nebraska leads, 11-5-0 goal in the closing seconds. Iowa’s 56 points in 2017 were the Football At Iowa City: Nebraska leads, 10-8-0 the most points the Hawkeyes have scored in 50 meetings with At Neutral Sites: 4-4-2 (Omaha 3-3-2, Council Bluffs 1-1-0) the Huskers. Iowa was ranked No. 3 entering the 2015 game in Current win streak (start): Iowa, five games (2015) Lincoln, the first time NU has faced a ranked Hawkeye team (Iowa was also ranked in 2019). In 2014, Nebraska rallied from Rank a 17-point second-half deficit, tying the largest road comeback Date Site NU/IOWA Result Score in school history. The Huskers prevailed 37-34 in overtime. The 11/26/1891 Omaha / L 0-22 teams have met on the day after Thanksgiving the past nine 11/24/1892 Omaha / T 10-10 seasons, but begin a two-year break this season from meeting 11/30/1893 Omaha / W 20-18 in the regular-season finale. No. 1 Nebraska rolled to a 42-13 11/29/1894 Omaha / W 36-0 win at Memorial Stadium in 2000 in the final non-conference 11/28/1895 Omaha / W 6-0 meeting, a year after the No. 5 Huskers cruised to a 42-7 11/26/1896 Omaha / T 0-0 victory in Iowa City in 1999. NU was ranked at game time in 11/28/1896 Omaha / L 0-6 eight straight meetings from 1979-2012. The Huskers were 7-1 11/25/1897 Council Bluffs / W 6-0 in those contests, suffering a 10-7 defeat to the Hawkeyes on 11/24/1898 Council Bluffs / L 5-6 Sept. 12, 1981. Nebraska held the Hawkeyes to 13 or fewer 11/4/1899 Omaha / L 0-30 points in seven straight matchups from 1980 through 2012. 10/31/1903 Iowa City / W 17-6 NU is 15-6-1 all-time against Iowa in Lincoln, including 11-5 at 11/5/1904 Lincoln / W 17-6 Memorial Stadium. The first true home game in the series was 10/31/1908 Iowa City / W 11-8 played at Iowa City on Oct. 31, 1903, with Nebraska coming 10/23/1909 Lincoln / T 6-6 away with a 17-6 win. The previous 10 meetings had come on 11/22/1913 Lincoln / W 12-0 neutral fields in the Omaha/Council Bluffs area with the two 11/21/1914 Iowa City / W 16-7 teams battling to a 4-4-2 deadlock. 11/20/1915 Lincoln / W 52-7 11/26/1916 Iowa City / W 34-17 10/13/1917 Lincoln / W 47-0 Maryland Series 10/5/1918 Lincoln / L 0-12 Next Scheduled Meeting: Nov.