The 2017 season's largest margin: Nebraska 28, Illinois 6. A 22-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2017 — The Correction
2017 is a losing-side chapter for Nebraska. The program metabolises it; the voice does not apologize.
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
Who carried it
- Tanner LeeQB3,143 passing yards
- Devine OzigboRB493 rushing yards
- Mikale WilbonRB379 rushing yards
- Tre BryantRB299 rushing yards
- Stanley Morgan Jr.WR986 receiving yards
- JD SpielmanWR830 receiving yards
- De'Mornay Pierson-ElWR623 receiving yards
- Chris WeberLB87 tackles
- Dedrick Young IIILB80 tackles
- Marcus NewbyLB55 tackles
- Ben StilleDL3.5 sacks
- Carlos DavisDL2.5 sacks
- Khalil DavisDL2 sacks
Season leaders, 2017.
The season's deepest loss: Nebraska 14, Ohio State 56. A 42-point margin the season is remembered by.
"Go Big Red"
2017 sits in Nebraska's crisis ledger. The program does not moralise it. The next season begins the day this one ended and the crisis chapter closes when the ledger does.