Nebraska Cornhuskers
FBS
Big Ten Conference · NEB
Team Vitals
+19.7
power · 2026 · #40 D1
+14.2 / +5.5
off / def (higher = better)
2–0
2026 record
117
roster (2026)
Team profile 2025 · vs 136 FBS teams
Percentile against every FBS team, from 2025 play with garbage time excluded. No 2026 game has been played yet, so this describes last season.
- Win rate 43%ile 0.538
- Offense (PPA/play) 45%ile 0.169
- Defense (PPA allowed) 43%ile 0.173
- Offensive success rate 78%ile 0.462
- Defensive success rate allowed 43%ile 0.417
- Explosiveness 1%ile 1.109
- Explosiveness allowed 48%ile 1.280
- Plays per game 15%ile 56.2
median · bars right of it are above the FBS average · pace is a style, not a grade
Upcoming 2026
| Date | Wk | Opponent | Site | Model Lean |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-19 | Wk 3 | North Dakota FCS | HOME | Nebraska 86% |
| 2026-09-26 | Wk 4 | Michigan State FBS | AWAY | Nebraska 55% |
| 2026-10-03 | Wk 5 | Maryland FBS | HOME | Nebraska 70% |
| 2026-10-10 | Wk 6 | Indiana FBS | HOME | Indiana 77% |
| 2026-10-17 | Wk 7 | Oregon FBS | AWAY | Oregon 69% |
| 2026-10-31 | Wk 9 | Washington FBS | HOME | Nebraska 51% |
| 2026-11-06 | Wk 10 | Illinois FBS | AWAY | Illinois 51% |
| 2026-11-14 | Wk 11 | Rutgers FBS | AWAY | Nebraska 84% |
| 2026-11-21 | Wk 12 | Ohio State FBS | HOME | Ohio State 79% |
| 2026-11-27 | Wk 13 | Iowa FBS | AWAY | Iowa 66% |
Recent Results
| Date | Season | Wk | Opponent | Result | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-12 | 2026 | Wk 2 | Bowling Green vs | W | 56–7 |
| 2026-09-05 | 2026 | Wk 1 | Ohio vs | W | 49–21 |
| 2025-12-31 | 2025 | Bowl | Utah @ | L | 22–44 |
| 2025-11-28 | 2025 | Wk 14 | Iowa vs | L | 16–40 |
| 2025-11-22 | 2025 | Wk 13 | Penn State @ | L | 10–37 |
| 2025-11-08 | 2025 | Wk 11 | UCLA @ | W | 28–21 |
| 2025-11-01 | 2025 | Wk 10 | USC vs | L | 17–21 |
| 2025-10-25 | 2025 | Wk 9 | Northwestern vs | W | 28–21 |
| 2025-10-17 | 2025 | Wk 8 | Minnesota @ | L | 6–24 |
| 2025-10-11 | 2025 | Wk 7 | Maryland @ | W | 34–31 |
| 2025-10-04 | 2025 | Wk 6 | Michigan State vs | W | 38–27 |
| 2025-09-20 | 2025 | Wk 4 | Michigan vs | L | 27–30 |
Season by Season
| Season | W | L | PF | PA | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 105 | 28 | +77 |
| 2025 | 7 | 6 | 373 | 320 | +53 |
| 2024 | 7 | 6 | 306 | 253 | +53 |
| 2023 | 5 | 7 | 216 | 219 | -3 |
| 2022 | 4 | 8 | 271 | 331 | -60 |
| 2021 | 3 | 9 | 335 | 272 | +63 |
| 2020 | 3 | 5 | 185 | 235 | -50 |
| 2019 | 5 | 7 | 336 | 333 | +3 |
| 2018 | 4 | 8 | 360 | 375 | -15 |
| 2017 | 4 | 8 | 309 | 437 | -128 |
| 2016 | 9 | 4 | 345 | 311 | +34 |
| 2015 | 6 | 7 | 427 | 362 | +65 |
Injuries
Not an injury report. College football has no league-wide mandated one, and the ESPN feed we poll has carried the same three players all season — so an empty table here means nothing has been reported to us, not that the team is healthy. Nothing on this page, and nothing in our model, uses it.
Player grades 2026 season
Box production, opponent-adjusted, ranked within position (50 = positional average). OL rows are team-inferred — college football publishes no individual OL box stats. Full leaderboard →
| Player | Pos | Grade | Pos rank | G | 2026 season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jamal Rule | RB | 85 | #13 | 2 | 210 rush yds · 3 TD · 2 rec |
| Jacory Barney Jr. | WR | 82 | #35 | 2 | 13 rec · 175 yds · 2 TD |
| Kwazi Gilmer | WR | 78 | #60 | 2 | 11 rec · 97 yds · 3 TD |
| Mekhi Nelson | RB | 77 | #49 | 2 | 112 rush yds · 1 TD · 4 rec |
| Anthony Colandrea | QB | 76 | #27 | 2 | 497 pass yds · 7 TD · 1 INT |
| Jamir Conn | DB | 74 | #167 | 2 | 12 tkl · 1 PD |
| Donovan Jones | DB | 74 | #168 | 2 | 9 tkl · 2 PD · 1 INT |
| Dexter Foster | LB | 68 | #203 | 2 | 10 tkl · 1.0 TFL |
| Jahsear Whittington | DL | 66 | #459 | 2 | 4 tkl · 0.5 sacks · 0.5 TFL |
| Riley Van Poppel | DL | 64 | #600 | 2 | 4 tkl · 1.0 sacks · 2.0 TFL |
| Andrew Marshall | DB | 63 | #589 | 2 | 9 tkl · 1 PD |
| Kyle Cunanan | K | 63 | #79 | 2 | 15 XP · 15 pts |
| Rex Guthrie | DB | 63 | #600 | 2 | 8 tkl · 1 INT |
| Isaiah Mozee | RB | 62 | #283 | 2 | 86 rush yds · 1 TD · 1 rec |
| TJ Lateef | QB | 59 | #185 | 1 | 60 pass yds · 1 TD · 0 INT |
| Luke Lindenmeyer | TE | 57 | #204 | 2 | 4 rec · 38 yds |
| Kwinten Ives | RB | 57 | #440 | 1 | -2 rush yds · 2 rec |
| Cameron Lenhardt | DL | 56 | #1139 | 2 | 3 tkl |
| Dawson Merritt | LB | 54 | #715 | 2 | 5 tkl · 1.0 TFL |
| David Hoffken | DL | 54 | #1280 | 2 | 2 tkl · 0.5 sacks · 0.5 TFL |
| Dwayne McDougle III | DB | 54 | #1174 | 2 | 9 tkl |
| Malcolm Simpson | DL | 54 | #1302 | 1 | 1 tkl · 1.0 sacks · 1.0 TFL |
| Victor Evans III | DB | 54 | #1212 | 2 | 2 tkl · 2 PD |
| Derek Wacker | LB | 50 | #918 | 2 | 2 tkl |
| Williams Nwaneri | DL | 50 | #1686 | 2 | 2 tkl |
| Vincent Shavers Jr. | LB | 48 | #1045 | 2 | 6 tkl |
| Kade Pietrzak | DL | 47 | #1894 | 1 | — |
| Anthony Jones Jr. | DL | 47 | #1893 | 1 | 3 tkl |
| Cortez Mills Jr. | WR | 47 | #1118 | 1 | 2 rec · 23 yds |
| Owen Stoudmire | DL | 45 | #2072 | 1 | 3 tkl |
| Nyziah Hunter | WR | 45 | #1220 | 2 | 2 rec · 21 yds |
| Jeremiah Charles | DB | 44 | #1970 | 1 | 3 tkl |
| Owen Chambliss | LB | 44 | #1219 | 1 | 4 tkl |
| Jordan Ochoa | DL | 42 | #2318 | 1 | 2 tkl |
| Quinn Clark | WR | 42 | #1342 | 2 | 2 rec · 16 yds |
| Mario Buford | DB | 38 | #2407 | 1 | — |
| Conor Booth | RB | 37 | #1079 | 1 | 9 rush yds |
| Justyn Rhett | DB | 36 | #2492 | 2 | 2 tkl |
| Archie Wilson | P | 34 | #231 | 1 | 3 punts · 40.0 yd avg |
| Jasin Shiggs | DB | 32 | #2710 | 1 | 1 tkl |