Last year, but Rhule has wasted no time changing the NCAAF future odds narrative in 2024, producing the first bowl game since 2016. Nebraska has had two of the most productive offseasons in college football. Of course, the headliner was flipping 5-star QB recruit Dylan Raiola from the Georgia Bulldogs to Nebraska in 2024. Georgia is the best program in the sport. Thus, Nebraska earned serious bragging rights. Expectations have increased for Rhule’s program, and there is legitimate reason for optimism in 2025. The Big Red is Rising. But fans and gamblers want concrete results.
2025 SBG College Football Futures Nebraska Cornhuskers
| Odds to Win National Championship: | +12500 |
|---|---|
| Odds to Win Big Ten Championship: | +4000 |
| Over/Under Win Total: | 7.5 |
2025 Nebraska Cornhuskers Schedule
- Aug 28 vs. Cincinnati
- Sep 6 vs. Akron
- Sep 13 vs. HCU
- Sep 20 vs Michigan
- Sep 27 OFF
- Oct 4 vs. Michigan State
- Oct 11 at Maryland
- Oct 17 at Minnesota
- Oct 25 vs. Northwestern
- Nov 1 vs. USC
- Nov 8 at UCLA
- Nov 15 OFF
- Nov 22 at Penn State
- Nov 29 vs. Iowa
The Nebraska Cornhuskers enter the 2025 season with offshore bookmaker momentum and optimism. Matt Rhule did not produce a bowl game for the Nebraska Cornhuskers in his first season as head coach. In 2023, the Big Red needed only one win in its final four games to reach the postseason. Yet it failed.
Previously, in stops at Temple and Baylor, coach Matt Rhule’s teams had breakout seasons in his third year. The best 2025 college football futures news is that he is on a faster pace at Nebraska. The schedule seems favorable for momentum and bowl eligibility, if not a shot at the College Football Playoff. Consider that Nebraska’s last bowl trip was in 2016 until that misery ended in 2024.
At the beginning of 2025, the Nebraska Cornhuskers could be this year’s Indiana, and that’s a good thing. Still, we all have to do a bit of rolling back here. The talent level has been ramped up, but many of the best players are still very young and unproven. Yet this remains Nebraska, though, a program that came WAY too close to a total collapse over the second half of the season. It still has to prove it can land the close game plane regularly without crashing into the terminal. Also, it remains nowhere near the level of the star programs in the Big Ten.
Accordingly, 2025 offers the shot at a breakout campaign. Starting with a schedule that has no Ohio State or Oregon to deal with. There’s no Indiana, or, this year, this really matters, Illinois, either. Michigan, Iowa, and USC are home games, and there’s a week off before going to Penn State.
So the projected win total being set here comes with a caveat. The schedule is good enough for Nebraska to catch fire and win ten regular-season games. There’s a real, honest no-smoke-blowing chance the Huskers can get to the College Football Playoff as an at-large team. On the other hand, there’s also a chance that Nebraska still hasn’t quite fixed the program. Of major concern is a potentially crippling glitch and losses to USC, Iowa, Michigan State, Minnesota, and UCLA in painfully close thrillers.
Nebraska Cornhuskers Team History
Once upon a time, it seemed as though the Nebraska football program had always been good. Consider that it is because they had been. They won 10 or more games 26 times, had five unbeaten seasons, and claimed five national championships. They played in 51 bowl games in those 55 years. Additionally, the Big Red was also ranked in the top 25 of every AP poll from 1970 to 2001.