Heisman Trophy winners Johnny Rodgers, Mike Rozier, and Eric Crouch join twenty-four other Cornhuskers in the College Football Hall of Fame.

The Cornhuskers won twenty-four conference championships prior to World War II but struggled through the postwar years until Bob Devaney was hired in 1962.

Eight have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame: Edward N. Robinson, Fielding H. Yost, Dana X. Bible, Biff Jones, Pete Elliott,[b] Bob Devaney, Tom Osborne, and Frank Solich.

[8] Offensive coordinator Tom Osborne succeeded Devaney in 1973, beginning a twenty-five-year tenure that established him as one of college football's greatest coaches.

After a lengthy coaching search, Nebraska settled on Bill Callahan, who overhauled the program in four turbulent years before being fired in 2007 and replaced by Bo Pelini.

[11] Nebraska suffered its worst eight-year stretch in over sixty years under Mike Riley and Scott Frost before hiring Matt Rhule in 2023.

[12] Late-season losses by Texas, Ohio State, and Notre Dame allowed Nebraska to claim the national title with an Orange Bowl win over LSU.

With Tagge as the unquestioned starter, Nebraska spent most of 1971 as the country's number-one team, winning each of its first eleven games by at least twenty-four points to set up a Thanksgiving Day meeting with No.

[16] 1994, 1995, and 1997 After twenty years of close calls and a last-second title game loss in 1993, Tom Osborne entered the 1994 season still seeking his first national championship as a head coach.

Star quarterback Tommie Frazier was ruled out indefinitely in September and backup Brook Berringer led Nebraska through most of an undefeated regular season, including a 24–7 win over No.

[17] Frazier returned to start the 1995 Orange Bowl against Miami; a pair of fourth-quarter Cory Schlesinger touchdowns against a worn-down Hurricanes defensive front gave Osborne his first consensus title.

[18] Frazier and freshman I-back Ahman Green led NU through a turbulent 1995 season, defeating three top-ten opponents in a four-week stretch by an average of 28.3 points.

[16] Nebraska opened 1997 outside the national top five, but quarterback Scott Frost weathered early-season struggles to lead NU to a win at second-ranked Washington.

1 Nebraska beat Missouri in overtime after a game-tying touchdown that was deflected in the end zone (the "Flea Kicker"), but dropped in the AP and Coaches polls.

The Cornhuskers controlled the first half and put the game away with three long third-quarter touchdown drives, after which Frost gave an emotional speech lobbying for Nebraska to be voted number one.

[e][28] In 1915, Nebraska was invited to face Northwest Conference champion Washington State in the second bowl game ever played, but university officials balked at the cost of sending the team to Pasadena and declined.

Nebraska missed a bowl game in 2017 for the first time in ten years, beginning a seven-year stretch without postseason play that covered Scott Frost's entire tenure as head coach.

NU was 28–0–2 at Nebraska Field under Jumbo Stiehm, who was subject to such frequent outbursts that the school established a women's sitting section far from the home sideline.

Stiehm's departure and American entry into World War I temporarily slowed this momentum, but by the early 1920s, with "the present athletic field as inadequate now as the old one was in 1907," the university began plans to build a new stadium.

Major expansions of East, West, and North Stadium between 1999 and 2013 raised capacity to 85,458 and completely enclosed the original superstructure, which remains largely intact.

[36][37] Since 1993, Nebraska's home games have opened with the "Tunnel Walk" as the team takes the field before kickoff, typically to the Alan Parsons Project instrumental "Sirius."

[42] Osborne credited his walk-ons with allowing flexibility to better scout future opponents and provided them the same access to training facilities and academic counseling as players on scholarship.

[53] The rivalry gained traction in 1982 when Bill McCartney declared Nebraska to be CU's primary rival to much ridicule, as the Buffaloes were among the country's worst programs at the time.

[54] McCartney rebuilt Colorado, defeating NU in 1989 and 1990 to become the first program since World War II to wrest control of the Big Eight from Nebraska and Oklahoma in consecutive seasons.

[61] Aggies head coach Guy Lowman claimed a gentlemen's agreement throughout the conference disallowed black athletes, but Nebraska denied this and the game was played as scheduled.

Tommie Frazier led two fourth-quarter touchdown drives to give Osborne his first consensus national title as a head coach after decades of frustration.

In 2014, the $5 Bits of Broken Chair Trophy was created out of a Twitter exchange between the official account for Minnesota mascot Goldy Gopher and the satirical "Faux Pelini.

Switzer controlled the rivalry through the 1970s, defeating Osborne in eight of their first nine matchups; he coined the term "Sooner Magic" to describe OU's uncanny success in these games.

[g][78] NU won 20–10 and a long touchdown pass to quarterback Eric Crouch ("Black 41 Flash Reverse") became the iconic moment of his Heisman Trophy-winning season.

[3] In 2017, the school recognized eight early College Football Hall of Fame inductees, including Guy Chamberlin, whose career predated the use of numbers on jerseys.