Nottingham Trent University won the men's football contest on penalties after the match finished one apiece after extra time.

[9] The men's 1st XI hockey match ended 2-2 with Ben Scott scoring a last minute equaliser from and Alastair Wilson pass.

On 6 March 2006, the University of Nottingham secured victory in the football match, winning 2–0 for the third time in four years.

[19] A sell-out crowd of 7,000 saw the University of Nottingham win their first ice hockey match against Trent in Varsity competition.

[3][19] Such was the demand for tickets that the University of Nottingham's television station, NUTS, aired the ice hockey match live online.

[22] Also, for the first time in recent Varsity history, drawing was eliminated and penalty shoot-outs would determine the outright winner.

While the American football, ice hockey, rugby union, football, swimming and hockey remain at their fixed venues, the tradition of alternating the host for the other events will continue, so the University of Nottingham will host the rugby league, netball, basketball and cricket.

Nottingham Trent University won the opening event – the American football, again hosted on the day of the Super Bowl – by eight points to zero, scoring a single touchdown along with a two-point conversion.

The University of Nottingham, however, had the better of the day, as they struck back with narrow victories in the women's netball and men's basketball matches.

The University of Nottingham then took a narrow series lead by winning its third and fourth consecutive events in the women's and men's hockey games; the former a tight 1–0 victory and the latter a 3–3 draw eventually decided on penalties.

For Varsity 2012, Nottingham Trent University hosted the traditional 'swing events' (basketball and netball) and an eleventh sport was introduced: field lacrosse.

American football was scheduled to open the series on 5 February, but the game was postponed due to the snowy weather.

Broadcast live online, in a joint venture between NUTS and Trent TV, was the Series' premier event: the ice hockey at the sold-out Capital FM Arena.

On 2 March, the universities met at the Harvey Hadden stadium for the American football event which had been postponed due to adverse weather conditions.

Later, the Trent men's team edged victory on penalty flicks after the game ended two apiece to leave the series level at 3–3.

The Varsity Football matches were held in honour of Ariel Olsen, a NUWFC player who had died of meningitis during the Easter holidays.

The Varsity Swimming was brought forward due to the Uni team competing in BUCS finals on the pre-arranged date of Super Wednesday.

With 7 victories, Trent needed to secure the Lacrosse match to remain in contention for the Varsity Championship.

For the men's match, Trent continued their momentum to take the game in the second-half, scoring two goals and resigning Uni to another defeat in consecutive years.

Immediately following, the men's match again carried Uni's momentum as Trent fell apart, costing them needed points.

Women's rugby union was still part of the series, taking place at Nottingham Trent's Clifton Campus.

Trent led 3–0 at the end of the first period, but Uni managed to return 4 unanswered goals over the next two periods, scoring its final goal ten minutes before the final whistle, winning a second consecutive ice hockey match for the first time since 2010.

American Football was scheduled to take place on Friday 31 January, but was postponed due to safety concerns at the venue.

The men's fixture began as a much closer affair before Uni's impressive momentum shone through, winning comfortably 75–43.

At the start of March, Uni continued its dominance of the pool in the Swimming Varsity, smashing Trent 143–77 to take a two-point lead.

Later in the week Trent drew level, with a clean sweep in the netball and table tennis double header.