The 2023 season's largest margin: Nebraska 35, Northern Illinois 11. A 24-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2023 — The Correction
2023 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
- Heinrich HaarbergTE967 passing yards
- Chubba PurdyQB382 passing yards
- Anthony GrantRB413 rushing yards
- Emmett JohnsonRB411 rushing yards
- Billy KempWR310 receiving yards
- Thomas Fidone Jr.TE260 receiving yards
- Jaylen LloydWR237 receiving yards
- Isaac GiffordDB86 tackles
- Javin WrightLB51 tackles
- Omar BrownDB51 tackles
- Jimari ButlerDE5.5 sacks
- Luke ReimerLB5 sacks
- Nash HutmacherDL4.5 sacks
Season leaders, 2023.
The season's deepest loss: Nebraska 7, Michigan 45. A 38-point margin the season is remembered by.
"Go Big Red"
2023 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.