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Nebraska–Oklahoma football rivalry
	Nebraska Cornhuskers Oklahoma Sooners
Sport	Football
First meeting	November 23, 1912; Nebraska 13, Oklahoma 9
Latest meeting	September 17, 2022; Oklahoma 49, Nebraska 14
Next meeting	September 15, 2029 ; (Norman, OK)
Statistics
Meetings total	88
All-time series	Oklahoma leads, 47–38–3
Largest victory	Nebraska, 69–7 (1997)
Longest win streak	Oklahoma, 16 (1943–1958)
Current win streak	Oklahoma, 3 (2010–present)

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The Nebraska–Oklahoma football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team of the University of Nebraska and Oklahoma Sooners football team of the University of Oklahoma. The rivalry continued in the Big 12 Conference until 2010, though the rivalry was more prominent when both teams were members of the former Big Eight Conference before 1996. The annual series effectively ended when Oklahoma was lined up in the Southern division of the newly formed Big 12 to maintain its rivalry with Texas and also its recruiting hotbeds in Texas.^[2]^[3]^[4] As both teams won their respective divisions in 2010, they met in the 2010 Big 12 Championship Game. Following the 2010 season, Nebraska left the Big 12 for the Big Ten Conference. As a result, the 2009 meeting turned out to be the last regular-season scheduled meeting. Nebraska's departure left the future of the rivalry in doubt. The two teams agreed to play a home-and-home non-conference series scheduled for 2021 in Norman (to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1971 classic) and 2022 in Lincoln. Additional games have also been scheduled for 2029 and 2030.^[5]

The rivalry had been less intense since the 1996 forming of the Big 12 Conference. This was due to the split-division nature of the Big 12 that scheduled the Cornhuskers and Sooners to meet only twice every four years. Before the beginning of Big 12 play in 1996, the Cornhuskers and Sooners had met for 71 straight years.

The 1923 game, only the fifth time these teams met, was the first game played in Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.

These teams have been involved in several historic match-ups, such as the Game of the Century (November 25, 1971), where the teams came into the game ranked one and two in the Associated Press Poll, often making these games of great importance in deciding the national championship. Historically, the rivalry's most distinguishing quality had been the grudging respect and appreciation between the two tradition-rich programs. Also of note is the game's former status as the premier Thanksgiving Day game (or Friday) for the middle of the country.

Oklahoma gave Nebraska their only regular-season losses in 1964, 1966, 1975, 1979, and 1987, while Nebraska did the same to Oklahoma in 1971 and 1978, when they met twice; once in the regular season with a Nebraska home win (to stop a six-game Sooner streak),^[6]^[7] and at the Orange Bowl with an Oklahoma victory.^[8]^[9]

The 1959 meeting is often considered Nebraska’s biggest upset ever. On that Halloween day, the unranked Cornhuskers defeated No. 19 Oklahoma 25–21 in Lincoln, ending the Sooners' 74-game conference win streak and their 16-game win streak over Nebraska.^[10]

The 1963 matchup was almost canceled because of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy the day before, but ultimately both schools agreed to go ahead with the game. It was one of only 6 played that day (the others were Tulane-LSU, Texas Tech-Arkansas, Florida State-Auburn, Florida-Miami and Kentucky-Tennessee) as all others around the country were canceled.

Former Nebraska head coach Bo Pelini served as an assistant at Oklahoma in 2004.^[11]

End of the rivalry

When the Big 8 Conference merged with Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Texas, and Baylor to form the Big XII, Oklahoma sided with the majority of conference members and voted against having an annual division-crossover rivalry game. The new conference was split into divisions, with Nebraska in the North and Oklahoma in the south, where they would play one another twice every four years.

On June 11, 2010, the University of Nebraska announced that its regents had unanimously voted to end the university's affiliation with the Big 12 Conference, and would be joining the Big Ten Conference beginning with the 2011 season.^[2]^[3]^[4] The two teams met one final time in the 2010 Big 12 Championship Game before Nebraska joined the Big Ten, which Oklahoma won 23–20.^[12]

The two teams would renew their rivalry with a home-and-home series in 2021 and 2022. In 2016, the schools announced another home-and-home series, this time for 2029 and 2030.^[5]

Game results

Nebraska victories	Oklahoma victories	Tie games

No.	Date	Location	Winning team		Losing team
1	November 23, 1912	Lincoln	Nebraska	13	Oklahoma	9
2	October 25, 1919	Omaha	Tie	7	Tie	7
3	October 29, 1921	Lincoln	Nebraska	44	Oklahoma	0
4	October 28, 1922	Norman	Nebraska	39	Oklahoma	7
5	October 13, 1923	Lincoln	Nebraska	24	Oklahoma	0
6	October 11, 1924	Norman	Oklahoma	14	Nebraska	7
7	October 31, 1925	Lincoln	Nebraska	12	Oklahoma	0
8	November 10, 1928	Norman	Nebraska	44	Oklahoma	6
9	November 16, 1929	Lincoln	Tie	13	Tie	13
10	October 11, 1930	Norman	Oklahoma	20	Nebraska	7
11	October 10, 1931	Lincoln	Nebraska	13	Oklahoma	0
12	November 19, 1932	Norman	Nebraska	5	Oklahoma	0
13	October 28, 1933	Lincoln	Nebraska	16	Oklahoma	7
14	October 20, 1934	Norman	Nebraska	6	Oklahoma	0
15	October 26, 1935	Lincoln	Nebraska	19	Oklahoma	0
16	October 24, 1936	Norman	No. 15 Nebraska	14	Oklahoma	0
17	October 16, 1937	Lincoln	Tie	0	Tie	0
18	October 22, 1938	Norman	No. 14 Oklahoma	14	Nebraska	0
19	November 25, 1939	Lincoln	Nebraska	13	No. 14 Oklahoma	7
20	November 2, 1940	Norman	No. 12 Nebraska	13	Oklahoma	0
21	November 29, 1941	Lincoln	Nebraska	7	Oklahoma	6
22	October 24, 1942	Norman	Nebraska	7	Oklahoma	0
23	November 27, 1943	Lincoln	Oklahoma	26	Nebraska	7
24	December 2, 1944	Oklahoma City	Oklahoma	31	Nebraska	12
25	September 29, 1945	Lincoln	Oklahoma	20	Nebraska	0
26	November 23, 1946	Norman	No. 18 Oklahoma	27	Nebraska	6
27	November 22, 1947	Lincoln	Oklahoma	14	Nebraska	13
28	November 13, 1948	Norman	No. 9 Oklahoma	41	Nebraska	14
29	October 22, 1949	Lincoln	No. 4 Oklahoma	48	Nebraska	0
30	November 25, 1950	Norman	No. 1 Oklahoma	49	No. 16 Nebraska	35
31	November 24, 1951	Lincoln	No. 12 Oklahoma	27	Nebraska	0
32	November 22, 1952	Norman	No. 5 Oklahoma	34	Nebraska	13
33	November 21, 1953	Lincoln	No. 4 Oklahoma	30	Nebraska	7
34	November 20, 1954	Norman	No. 3 Oklahoma	55	Nebraska	7
35	November 19, 1955	Lincoln	No. 1 Oklahoma	41	Nebraska	0
36	November 24, 1956	Norman	No. 1 Oklahoma	54	Nebraska	6
37	November 23, 1957	Lincoln	No. 6 Oklahoma	32	Nebraska	7
38	November 22, 1958	Norman	No. 4 Oklahoma	40	Nebraska	7
39	October 31, 1959	Lincoln	Nebraska	25	No. 19 Oklahoma	21
40	November 19, 1960	Norman	Nebraska	17	Oklahoma	14
41	November 25, 1961	Lincoln	Oklahoma	21	Nebraska	14
42	November 24, 1962	Norman	No. 10 Oklahoma	34	Nebraska	6
43	November 23, 1963	Lincoln	No. 10 Nebraska	29	No. 6 Oklahoma	20
44	November 21, 1964	Norman	Oklahoma	17	No. 4 Nebraska	7
45	November 25, 1965	Lincoln	No. 3 Nebraska	21	Oklahoma	9
46	November 24, 1966	Norman	Oklahoma	10	No. 4 Nebraska	9

No.	Date	Location	Winning team		Losing team
47	November 25, 1967	Lincoln	No. 5 Oklahoma	21	Nebraska	14
48	November 23, 1968	Norman	No. 14 Oklahoma	47	Nebraska	0
49	November 22, 1969	Norman	No. 16 Nebraska	44	Oklahoma	14
50	November 21, 1970	Lincoln	No. 3 Nebraska	28	Oklahoma	21
51	November 25, 1971	Norman	No. 1 Nebraska	35	No. 2 Oklahoma	31
52	November 23, 1972	Lincoln	No. 4 Oklahoma	17	No. 5 Nebraska	14
53	November 23, 1973	Norman	No. 3 Oklahoma	27	No. 10 Nebraska	0
54	November 23, 1974	Lincoln	No. 1 Oklahoma	28	No. 6 Nebraska	14
55	November 22, 1975	Norman	No. 7 Oklahoma	35	No. 2 Nebraska	10
56	November 26, 1976	Lincoln	No. 8 Oklahoma	20	No. 10 Nebraska	17
57	November 25, 1977	Norman	No. 3 Oklahoma	38	No. 11 Nebraska	7
58	November 11, 1978	Lincoln	No. 4 Nebraska	17	No. 1 Oklahoma	14
59	January 1, 1979	Miami	No. 4 Oklahoma	31	No. 6 Nebraska	24
60	November 24, 1979	Norman	No. 8 Oklahoma	17	No. 3 Nebraska	14
61	November 22, 1980	Lincoln	No. 9 Oklahoma	21	No. 4 Nebraska	17
62	November 21, 1981	Norman	No. 5 Nebraska	37	Oklahoma	14
63	November 26, 1982	Lincoln	No. 3 Nebraska	28	No. 11 Oklahoma	24
64	November 26, 1983	Norman	No. 1 Nebraska	28	Oklahoma	21
65	November 17, 1984	Lincoln	No. 4 Oklahoma	17	No. 1 Nebraska	7
66	November 23, 1985	Norman	No. 5 Oklahoma	27	No. 2 Nebraska	7
67	November 22, 1986	Lincoln	No. 3 Oklahoma	20	No. 5 Nebraska	17
68	November 21, 1987	Lincoln	No. 2 Oklahoma	17	No. 1 Nebraska	7
69	November 19, 1988	Norman	No. 7 Nebraska	7	No. 9 Oklahoma	3
70	November 18, 1989	Lincoln	No. 6 Nebraska	42	Oklahoma	25
71	November 23, 1990	Norman	Oklahoma	45	No. 10 Nebraska	10
72	November 29, 1991	Lincoln	No. 11 Nebraska	19	No. 19 Oklahoma	14
73	November 27, 1992	Norman	No. 12 Nebraska	33	Oklahoma	9
74	November 26, 1993	Lincoln	No. 2 Nebraska	21	No. 16 Oklahoma	7
75	November 25, 1994	Norman	No. 1 Nebraska	13	Oklahoma	3
76	November 24, 1995	Lincoln	No. 1 Nebraska	37	Oklahoma	0
77	November 2, 1996	Norman	No. 5 Nebraska	73	Oklahoma	21
78	November 1, 1997	Lincoln	No. 1 Nebraska	69	Oklahoma	7
79	October 28, 2000	Norman	No. 3 Oklahoma	31	No. 1 Nebraska	14
80	October 27, 2001	Lincoln	No. 3 Nebraska	20	No. 2 Oklahoma	10
81	November 13, 2004	Norman	No. 2 Oklahoma	30	Nebraska	3
82	October 29, 2005	Lincoln	Oklahoma	31	Nebraska	24
83	December 2, 2006	Kansas City	No. 8 Oklahoma	21	No. 19 Nebraska	7
84	November 1, 2008	Norman	No. 4 Oklahoma	62	Nebraska	28
85	November 7, 2009	Lincoln	Nebraska	10	No. 20 Oklahoma	3
86	December 4, 2010	Arlington	No. 9 Oklahoma	23	No. 13 Nebraska	20
87	September 18, 2021	Norman	No. 3 Oklahoma	23	Nebraska	16
88	September 17, 2022	Lincoln	No. 6 Oklahoma	49	Nebraska	14
89	September 15, 2029	Norman
90	September 14, 2030	Lincoln
Series: Oklahoma leads 47–38–3^[1]

References

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