The team was coached by Bill Callahan and played their home games in Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Nebraska experienced many changes to their team's roster; not only did key wide receiver Ross Pilkington leave the team after he gave up football, but after the spring game, new junior college transfer Zac Taylor replaced the 2004 starter Joe Dailey at the key position of quarterback.

The team went on to crush the Wake Forest Demon Deacons (Zac Taylor's former four year college) 31–3.

Pittsburgh's kicker looked as though he would have made the field goal had it not been blocked by Nebraska's Adam Ickes.

The Red Raiders were given a second-chance and with time winding down threw the game-winning touchdown pass to defeat Nebraska.

The Huskers lost 3 of their next 4 games, including losses to their rival Missouri Tigers, who defeated them 41–24, a crushing 40-15 defeat to the Kansas Jayhawks (which snapped a 36-year winning streak over Kansas), and rival Oklahoma Sooners, the latter being lost in the final minutes of the game.

Zac Taylor was on the receiving end of a hard hit that landed him with a mild concussion, removing him from the game.

Zac remained on the ground for a couple of minutes with Callahan and KSU's Bill Snyder towering over him.

Backup quarterback, freshman Harrison Beck, burned his redshirt in order to record his first action in a college football game.

This was a risky move as the wind was swirling and was so strong that it ripped the stadium's mammoth U.S. flag off a crane that was suspending it, seemingly as a testament to its power.

With 2 seconds left in the game the Wolverines trailed the Cornhuskers 32-28 and set up the hook & lateral play for a miracle touchdown.

[2] The following Nebraska players who participated in the 2005 season later moved on to the next level and joined a professional or semi-pro team as draftees or free agents.